Today I am going to be interviewing members of the Seattle7Writers for nwbooklovers.org. The lineup is Garth Stein, Kevin O'Brien, Robert Dugoni, Jennie Shortridge, Kit Bakke, William Dietrich and Suzanne Selfors. Quite a crew, right? I'm really excited for this opportunity to sit down with so many amazing authors.
I'm sure upon looking at that list that many of you see at least one author you think is "squee" worthy. You know what I mean. The authors who make you giddy when you see they have a new book coming out. The ones that when you see they will be doing an event in your town, you immediately circle the date on your calendar.
Here at the store, we have a growing list of "squee" worthy authors: Jonathan Franzen, China Miéville, Erin Morgenstern, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Green (what is it with the "John's"?), Tamora Pierce, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and, well, you get the idea.
When I hear someone talk about an author he loves, I can't help but smile. That reader is as enamored with that author as most people seem to be with celebrities. Yet writers spend so much of their time OUT of the limelight. These are people who get jitters in front of crowds, who have hunkered down in their writing caves for hours on end, desperately trying to finish their books, who practically have to let their eyes get reacquainted with the sunlight. Yet, they've created something so amazing that readers are either awed to silence if they encounter their squee-worthy author, or end up blathering incoherently.
Authors are the understated celebrities (a concept that's substantially different than celebrity as author.) That's pretty darn cool
--Lindsey
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