BOO! hello there, Team Sauron, how you been? *hugs*
F: What’s your favorite book? Favorite author?
AUGH SO DIFFICULT. MUST. RESIST. URGE TO NAME. EVERYONE. EVER.
TOLKIEN OBVS.
Robert Graves. Marion Zimmer Bradley. Guy Gavriel Kay. I have a jones for historical fiction, y’see!
The Discworld series by Sir Terry Pratchett (GNU TERRY PRATCHETT) – in particular, Hogfather, Thud!, Night Watch.
The Earthsea Quartet, by Ursula Le Guin.
(Honourable mention: The Crystal Singer series, by Anne McCaffrey.)
Fic authors I look up to with breathless admiration: @themarchrabbit, @scarletjedi, @elenothar, @emilianadarling, enigmaticblue on AO3, @swearydroid, @copperbadge, icarus_chained, @yubiwamonogatari – okay I must stop or I shall be listing people FOREVER, believe me THIS LIST IS VERY VERY LONG. FOLLOWERS WHO SEE THIS? YOUR NAME IS PROBS HERE Y’KNOW.
G: What’s your least favorite book? Least favorite author?
Urgh. Um. Anne Rice, tbh. Stephanie Meyer also (an old work colleague lent me the first of her books, and I struggled through it, groaning and rolling my eyes the whole way.)
V: What do you listen to when you write?
I don’t, on the whole. I don’t listen to music as I write! I understand that this might be a bit odd? people have asked before. But I’m a muso IRL, and I have been trained to pay attention to music. It forces itself into the forefront of my brain rather than staying as background, it’s amazingly distracting!
THANK YOU BOO, ILU.
Aw Yiss 