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Hmmm...

Ingrid Law (Writer of Savvy, great children's book)

JK Rowling? (if you didn't get Stephen King, then she'll be impossible. D: But it's worth a try!)

Lemony Snicket (His pep talk would be EPIC.)

Eoin Coulter (Author of the Artemis Fowl series)

James Patterson

Gregory Maguire (writer of the famed 'Wicked'. o3o)

Trudi Canavan(Black Magician Trilogy and Age of the Five) or Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel Series)would be cool :)

One of my favorite fantasy writers!

I don't know if she's been mentioned and I'm not going to read through 300+ comments to find out but, Alice Sebold would be very nice.

Sad about the Stephen King turn-down, I've loved him since I was a teenager. I almost wish I didn't even know because now I'll just be thinking, "Aw, I want a King pep..." all of November.

Patricia Briggs! I got her to come and give our group a mini pep talk last November and she LOVES the idea of encouraging people to write a novel in a whole month.

Monte Cook.... a great author who also takes part in Nano each yr.

Ahh, I totally don't remember if I posted here yet or not - forgive me if I have or it's too late to put in suggestions :D

I suggest:

David Sedaris (I ALMOST told him about NaNoWriMo when I met him this summer, but my mind went black as soon as he said "Hi!". I kinda couldn't do anything but stutter.)
Holly Black
R.A. Salvatore
Gail Carson Levine
Tamora Pierce

Meg Rosoff! She wrote How I Live Now, which one
a bunch of awards* and is an utterly fantastic YA novel. It's not long, and it was her first, I think, too -- totally a NaNo inspiratoin.

*(here you go: Michael L. Printz Award, Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize, Branford Boase Award, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Publishers Weekly Flying Start Author, Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice, Kirkus Reviews Editor Choice Award, Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year, Horn Book Fanfare).

John Green
Ann Patchett
Douglas Coupland
Janny Wurtz
Steven Erikson
Katherine Kerr
Lindsey Davis

My husband occasionally scans the net looking for mentions of my name or my books and found this. Just wanted to say thanks for putting me in such good company!
Irene Hannon

I second David Sedaris, or maybe Dave Barry...:)

Elizabeth Hand

Caitlin Kiernan

Kim Harrison

Patricia Cornwell
John Green
Meg Cabot
Libba Bray
Patricia Cornwell
Nora Ephron

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett hardly need to be said, I suspect, so here's two slightly less well known and just as awesome fantasy authors:

Charles de Lint (he writes some of the best urban fantasy out there. Check out Memory and Dream, one of my favourite books ever)
Glen Cook (his Black Company series is one of the best I've read in a long time)

Kayla, you're in luck! One of those three has said 'yes'!

I would love to hear from John Green and/or Maureen Johnson. Some words from JK Rowling would also rock my world just a bit.

Eoin Colfer
Orson Scott Card
Cornelia Funke

:D

Malorie Blackman (Author of Noughts and Crosses, Knifes Edge, Checkmate, etc)
She's an inspiration and I know many people that follow her novels closely- her writing and characterisartion truly is incredible.

Other than that I think Eoin Colfer is a brilliant author, as well as JK Rowling (but what are the chances of that eh?)

Actually just thinking about it, JK Rowling was a briliant author but there are others that have written better pieces, but were not as lucky as her.

Thats just what I think (But seriously, Malorie Blackman is a genious and I would be SO inspired and would love the NaNoWriMo team forever if they got her to write a pep talk...
Thankyou! :)

SCOTT WESTERFELD!!!!! My favorite author of all time. I'd LOVE to hear a pep talk from him, that would be amazing!! He's so smart.

Rick Riordan!!!

JK Rowling, as many other people have mentioned ... haha :)

Cornelia Funke!!

Stephenie Meyer

Gail Carson Levine

Erin Hunter

If you could try to get at least Scott Westerfeld, that would be great. :D But could you also try the others from my list? Thanks!

A few of my favorites are Alice Hoffman, Sara Gruen (didn't her novel start out as a NaNoWriMo novel?), Jeffrey Archer, Jasper Fforde, Laurie R. King. And I second whoever said David and Leigh Eddings!

Malorie Blackman, J.K Rowling, S.E Hinton, Ted Dekker, Harper Lee, Dan Brown.

Anyone but Stephanie Meyer.

Jeanette Winterson! I'd love to get some pep out of her. :)

Or David Sedaris would be hilarious!

Stephen Fry!

With all the naming they got I guess Pratchett and Rowling are no longer necessary to mention.

But how about some people who originally did not write in English for a change (but are translated enough to be known). Foremost Ralf Isau and Cornelia Funke.

Suzanne Collins!!!!! Please!

—Thomas Pynchon (if the Simpsons can do it, NaNoWriMo can too!)
—Cormac McCarthy
—John Barth
—Haruki Murakami
—Dave Eggers
—Ray Bradbury

Wendy Mass would be good.

Many people have probably already offered this author, but I believe the reletively new but extremely liked author Patrick Rothfuss would do a wonderful job at being one of our peps! He is the author of "Name of the Wind", and soon to be "Wise Man's Fear"

Neil Gaiman
Christopher Moore
Terry Pratchett
Kim Harrison
Timothy Zahn
Simon Haynes

I second Holly Lisle. I'm doing her How To Think Sideways course and she's fantastic. She's an inspiration.

Dara Joy
J.R. Ward
Jean M. Auel

my votes in for
Bryan Davis,
Frank E. Peretti, and
Christopher & Allan Miller

I second Chuck Palhanuik!
And I see a lot of great authors have already been suggested. x3
Clive Barker would be a cool one to get, with his truly unique writing style.
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Stephen Fry

And I agree with above posters, No Stephanie Meyer, please?

Cassandra Clare, please!

Charles Stross! A Hugo-winning science fiction writer who's dabbled in the singularity, near-future panopticons, Lovecraftian spy horror, and alternate-history economies.

Dee Henderson and Irene Hannon! Maybe Stephenie Meyer too.

Oh, and I forgot Joss Whedon, JK Rowling, Melissa Marr, Cassandra Clare, Sarah Dessen and Jodi Picoult.

Shanna Swendson.

JK Rowling
Rick Riordan
Eion Colfer
Jay Asher
Lois Lowry
Stephenie Meyer
M.T. Anderson

Stephenie Meyer would be funny any other time, but I really would prefer if she was not trying to pep-talk me in the middle of NaNo. I would get a headache and feel angry, which would not help.

People I WOULD like to hear from (some of these may have already given pep talks because I have a horrible memory)- J. K. Rowling (why not shoot for the almost-impossible?), Robin McKinley, John Flanagan, Rick Riordan. And that's about it, since a lot of my favorite authors are dead. D:

How about Minal Hajratwala?
www.minalhajratwala.com

I am reading her debut book, Leaving India, and she rocks!!

Cassandra Clare
Robert Muchamore
Terry Pratchett
Jasper Fforde -Just read 'The Eyre Affair' and loved it!
J.K. Rowling
Debi Gliori
Lian Hearn - 'Across The Nightingale Floor' anyone?
Garth Nix
Ridley Pearson

Please, PLEASE no Stephenie Meyer. I've had enough of troubled vampires for one lifetime.

My vote goes with:

Diana Wynne Jones
John Green
Terry Pratchett
Sarah Dessen

I also second

Joss Whedon
Diana Wynne Jones
Eoin Colfer
David and Leigh Eddings!
Chuck Palanuik!

Terry Pratchett
Ursula Le Guin
JK Rowling
Margaret Atwood
Anne McCaffrey
Robin Hobb

Basically ANYONE but Stephenie Meyer

Orson Scott Card
Christopher Paolini
(Please, please, please) William Nicholson
J. K. Rowling
Rick Riordan

Ted Dekker
Cornelia Funke
Terry Brooks
Eoin Colfer
J.K. Rowling

David Mitchell
Terry Pratchett
Donna Tartt
Ann Patchett
Douglas Coupland
Janny Wurtz
Steven Erikson
Katherine Kerr
Lindsey Davis

Libba Bray
JK Rowling
Kate Bryan
LJ Smith
Definately NOT Stephenie Meyer

John Green! He's a new-ish realistic, young adult fiction author...his best-known (and award-winning) work is Looking for Alaska. I adore his books, especially Paper Towns, and he's pretty young - encouraging for all of us young'un NaNoers!

Also, Cassandra Clare (author of the Mortal Instruments series). :)