Sadly and suddenly Anne Rice and bell hooks have left us. Who will be the third writer to die? My fellow scribblers, make a guess. Whoever “wins” by naming the next author to pass will win a lovely prize package sent anywhere. Unless I die. Then you get jack shit.
"At a Toronto appearance in October 2009, Munro indicated that she had received treatment for cancer and for a heart condition requiring coronary-artery bypass surgery.[38] "
I just love you.......so much. I think you are my twin from a different uterus lmao...I can't and won't because I know who I'd pick and you probably can guess but I can't ever speak that into existence. Just as long as it's not me, or my will is now going say Chuck has to finish my book as MY ghost writer ..............
Stephen King. I don't want to be correct but I had such a strange dream about it a few days ago I feel I had to throw his name into the pool. But you are seriously not allowed to win this contest, I expressly forbid it! (I would be so lost... I'm enjoying the hell out of these posts, writing again finally, and Greener Pastures during this particularly trying time. Every time I check my email and see your name there I get to crawl up out of the depression hole just a bit. Thank you for that.)
Apparently there's a tiktok thing telling (/warning?) kids to make tomorrow 'national do violence at school day' and I work in a school...I don't want to tempt fate here so my guess can be Billy Collins. If I'm lucky I'll be wrong about both things
It could possibly be me. As Karie-Anne Vincable as I am I just got a job offer to ride around Manhattan on an Ebike. And I'm seriously considering it cuz it will move me near my brother...........I can't think of a cooler way to go actually. What would be my prize if I take one for the team via Ebike,?????
Dean Koontz.
George RR Martin
James Patterson- if he isn’t a damn robot by now lol.
Just Wikipediad Alice Munro, I'm going with her:
"At a Toronto appearance in October 2009, Munro indicated that she had received treatment for cancer and for a heart condition requiring coronary-artery bypass surgery.[38] "
Chuck Palahniuk!! Yes. The boy dared give the man his own name.
Danielle Steele
R.L. Stine comes to mind.
Chuck, don't you fucking dare think about you winning this contest. :|
Noam Chompsky is unfortunately getting up there in age. I hope I am wrong in this game.
Cormac McCarthy
Joan Didion seems to fit the trend . . .
J. K Rowling *shrugs*
George R. R. Martin
Then Brandon Sanderson jumps in to finish
Alice A. Munro, not hoping.
J. M. Coetzee
Margaret Atwood.
I just love you.......so much. I think you are my twin from a different uterus lmao...I can't and won't because I know who I'd pick and you probably can guess but I can't ever speak that into existence. Just as long as it's not me, or my will is now going say Chuck has to finish my book as MY ghost writer ..............
I do not want it to be—my favorite book of all time is The Thief of Always—but isn’t Clive Barker having health issues?
Thomas Pynchon ?
Stephen King? I feel dirty just thinking it. It's your assignment though.
Richard Dawkins
Stephen King. I don't want to be correct but I had such a strange dream about it a few days ago I feel I had to throw his name into the pool. But you are seriously not allowed to win this contest, I expressly forbid it! (I would be so lost... I'm enjoying the hell out of these posts, writing again finally, and Greener Pastures during this particularly trying time. Every time I check my email and see your name there I get to crawl up out of the depression hole just a bit. Thank you for that.)
Daneille Steel!
Can I pick Margaret Mitchell actually.......
James Patterson (I hope)
Or Bentley Little
John Grisham
Apparently there's a tiktok thing telling (/warning?) kids to make tomorrow 'national do violence at school day' and I work in a school...I don't want to tempt fate here so my guess can be Billy Collins. If I'm lucky I'll be wrong about both things
Clive Barker, hope I lose.
Don DeLillo or Gordon Lish :-/
Stephen King
Delillo
John Barth
Ooh me me me pick me
Oh god, I don't wanna win this bet haha
How about Joyce Carol Oates? Do you remember that picture she took of her foot after it came in contact with poison oak or poison ivy? https://www.self.com/story/joyce-carol-oates-foot-hiking-in-sandals
I think she made a rash decision.
Tim Curry
Kenneth Anger, he’s a nonagenarian and this type of deal kind of deserves his presence.
Nick Cave
Roger Angell. I need to win.
Robin Dalton.
Naomi Replansky
Geneviève Callerot
This is a fucked up contest. But put me down for Jimmy Carter.
Alice Walker
Have you ever noticed that when an author dies...all their books go back on the bestsellers list?
It could possibly be me. As Karie-Anne Vincable as I am I just got a job offer to ride around Manhattan on an Ebike. And I'm seriously considering it cuz it will move me near my brother...........I can't think of a cooler way to go actually. What would be my prize if I take one for the team via Ebike,?????
George Takei and William Shatner
Michael Moorcock. Which would be sad and also quite traumatic for newsreaders.
Okay, if we're going to include poets we must consider the sad possibility of Edna O'Brien.
Dean Koontz!