Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I’ve Met

This week’s prompt is about authors I’ve met, and let’s see… there’s been quite a few, since I’ve been to cons, but let’s stick to the ones that felt important at the time or have really stuck in my head! Robin Hobb. She did a reading in the local Waterstones when I was a teenager, and me and my mother were reading her books at the time. Of course we went, and asked questions after the reading. Alastair Reynolds. I got my sister back into reading by letting her try Century Rain, sitting on the floor in my room next to the shelves. She whipped right through it and has read it many a time since! So when I saw he was doing a signing in Cardiff, and my sister was around, of course I dragged her there — and though she was very shy, did manage to help her go up and talk to him. Jo Walton. Back in the days of Livejournal, we followed each other, and she was very kind and encouraging, and we’ve hung out on a few occasions when she was in Wales (when I still lived there) or at a convention I…