Tell Me Something Tuesday: Who Are Some of Your Favourite Authors?

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly discussion post on Rainy Day Ramblings, where the blog's owner Heidi discusses a wide range of topics from books to blogging. Weigh in and join the conversation by adding your thoughts in the comments. If you want to do your own post, grab the question and answer it on your blog.

Here is what is on deck this week:

WHO ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITE AUTHORS?

I have been known for reading any mystery Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson and Rex Stout ever wrote. Or, I'm still missing a few of them, but it's a goal of mine. (I do have the whole Christie collection though - I only need her Mary Westmacott books to make it complete). If we're talking about living and breathing authors though, I have three favourites - two of which I have discovered since I started blogging.

CHRISTOPHER PIKE. I basically got into book blogging because of his novel Remember Me - the very first YA book I read in my already mature age (I was around 30), and the one that started my love for afterlife stories. (Plus, you know, the very first review I wrote). He might not be the best writer who ever lived, but his stories (almost) never fail to capture me. They're weird, different, often kaleidoscopic - he's never afraid to mix genres and try odd, but ultimately tasteful recipes. Here's the blog page I dedicated to him, where I'm listing all his books and detailing my reasons for loving him so much.

B.C. JOHNSON. I've been shouting from rooftops about his debut book Deadgirl (and the subsequent series) since 2013. (...SO YOU HAVEN'T READ IT YET??? 😡 😜). He has published traditionally, then his publisher shut up shop and he's putting forth the last books in the series on his own. He also wrote the first installment in another series that I'm equally in love with. Don't let yourself get fooled by the indie thing - sometimes publishers can't see what's under their noses. They're afraid to take risks, lalala, you know the drill. Johnson's characters have a peculiar voice, and they're thrust into equally peculiar situations, and you gotta love them. Because there's no other way around them.

NOVA REN SUMA. The first book by her I read was The Walls Around Us, and I fell in love. Her stories are spellbinding, her prose poetical without being purple. She clearly has a thing for magical realism, but her characters - her girls - are so real you feel like you can touch them. You never know what to expect in her books, and still, when it happens, you feel like it's the only logical (so to speak) thing that could have happened. I am a fangirl when it comes to her, and I don't even need to read blurbs or reviews for her novels anymore. If she ever feels inclined to write adult books, or NA books, or animal books, or plant books, I'm so there for that.

Well, that's it for now. And if you're interested in participating, here is the TMST prompt list for the month of June:

• June 4th: Who are some of your favourite audiobook narrators?
• June 11th: Summer picks for 2019
• June 18th: Do you think Advanced Reading Copies are worth it?
• June 25th: How do you keep going when sometimes blogging feels like too much?

I'll be back for the meme on June 25th, but I'll make sure to read your answers for the ARC question (I don't really get ARCs anymore since Curiosity Quills went out of business, except for the random one I receive from "my" authors...), because it's an interesting one.

Now tell me something...do you have any auto-buy authors? or simply authors that you mean to read anything from one day?