As part of my blog, The View From Here, I interview authors - the latest being two times Booker nominated Julian Barnes.

So at the moment I have no-one lined up and am pondering who to contact.

So flower smellers what authors would you like to see interviewed ( they have to be alive! )

Let me know ...

G'Day Mike

Oh what a question......
So many fav so little time..... :)
well apart from JK Rowlings herself.. whom I think is great role model and terrifc author.. being a huge HP Fan...
And the fact that I love Bryce Cortney...
But the one I would like to see is the Author Of the Thorn Birds, The First Man in Rome, An Indescent Obsession to name of a few Colleen McCullough... She is going blind ... from a disease and lives on Norflok Island Australia... a facinsating female author... which I thought would be interesting as you have interviewed a few blokes...

Thanks AC - hmm yes you're right I haven't interviewed any female authors. Will check out Colleen and heh maybe I'll approach JK you never now!

Mike if you get JK ROWLINGS I wnat in....
Serious I am as big a Harry Potter fan as i am Doctor who....
and the resident Expert in 3 states... 14 in the world to finish the 6th book and 134 to finish the 7....
yep I had no life.....
But I not kidding if you did......
I dont mind helping...
;)

Okay I will write to her and if I get the gig you can have one question that I'll put to her !

Stephen King....Mwhawwhawhawhaw!

I'd thought about Stephen King - One of his books "On Writing" really helped me start editing my own work - so I just might ask him ! Cheers Funkygirl :-)

Now that would be something...

The sky is the limit eh Mike!

O yeah !

I'd like to have interviewed Frank Herbert. To have come up with the Dune sequence and all the intricate quirks and politics of this universe spanning hundreds of thousands of years is surely one of the great literary feats of the 20th century. However he's not alive anymore.

I think to interview Neil Gaiman and/or Alexi Sayle would be interesting and highly entertaining. Both are informed, clever and very funny writers who have provided me some of my enjoyable reads. Charles Higson would also be fun but I'm only really interested in how he came up with the storyline in 'Getting rid of Mr Kitchen' simply the funniest novel I've ever read bar none.

I hope you do ask Stephen King for an interview. It never hurts to ask. Read 'On Writing' too, and it's a great book. The best book about the process of writing that's as much like a personal memoir as you could get!

Frank Herbert is an interesting choice Gareth although I can see why you'd pick him for his creation of a universe filled with politics. :)

FunkyGirl: Sent off a letter today - not sure if it will reach him - but heh - you never know!

Gareth - I really like Neil Gaiman's work - I'll put him down on the list to ask him in the future. Good suggestion.

Latest author to agree to be interviewed:

James Meek of The People's Act of Love which won the 2006 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, and the 2006 Ondaatje Prize.
His latest book, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent is out now.

Still waiting on JK !

Bugger...
Although she was in the Us over that law suit.... nasty business that ...
so I guess James Meek will do nicely... lol...
let me know when you publish...

Jostein Gaarder. His book, Sophie's World is the best..

Thanks nursarahanya I'll check him out. :-)

Arh well JK's agent said no to the interview - never mind sorry AC !

Argh no!
Mike that is a shame truly... I was getting ready to bombard you and show off with my Potter wisdom...
Thanks for trying... though..
sigh

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, Erma Bombeck, Watchman Nee, Charles M. Schulz, Mark Twain...you know all the dead people.

Salmon Rushide would be V cool Mike.

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