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The time has come to send pep talk requests for NaNoWriMo 2010! But first, I ask you: Who do you want, more than anyone else, to pen a pep talk this year?

Here are the authors we’ve already received pep from in the past (and won’t be bothering again for a while):

Piers Anthony
Kelley Armstrong
Julianna Baggott
Lynda Barry
Gayle Brandeis
Meg Cabot
Peter Carey
Kristin Cashore
Janet Fitch
Jasper Fforde
Neil Gaiman
Sue Grafton
Sara Gruen
Brian Jacques
Maureen Johnson
Gail Carson Levine
Robin McKinley
Garth Nix
Naomi Novik
Katherine Paterson
Tamora Pierce
Philip Pullman
Deanna Raybourn
Tom Robbins
Jonathan Stroud

And here are the staff favorites that we‘re already planning to ask:

Nick Hornby
Holly Black
Jonathan Lethem
Susan Cooper
Michael Chabon
Kate DiCamillo
Dave Eggers
Anne Patchett
Jonathan Safran Foer
Anne Lamott
Louis de Bernieres
Lori Moore
Daniel Handler
Natalie Goldberg
Haruki Murakami
Mercedes Lackey
T.C. Boyle
Aimee Bender
Don DeLillo
Ben Marcus
Junot Diaz
Colum McCann
Chang-rae Lee
Zadie Smith

We can’t wait to see who you add to the list!