These are authors I count on to deliver a good story every time. I am yet to be disappointed.
Jess
Okay, since narrowing down this list to just five authors is absolutely impossible, I’ll narrow it down to the authors of five of my fave series I’ve read this year:
Posted in Valerie Tibbs on November 29, 2011 by vtibbs
Valerie’s Top Five favorite authors. This is harder than I thought. I have more than five, so it’s hard to decide! Besides all of the IH ladies, here are my top five in no particular order:
Maya Banks
Janet Evanovich
Jaci Burton
Carly Phillips
Jill Shalvis
Mari’s Top Five favorite authors. I’m with Valerie. This is a damn tough question to answer. I’m not including the International Heat gals either, but I can assure you, they are at the very top of my list! So…here it goes:
This is a tough one. You saw my library and those are the books I’ve got left after Mr.C made me cull them when we moved to Singapore in 2007! Okay, let me take a look……
1) Nora Roberts – I have almost all her books. In fact I’m so close to a complete collection I can taste it. I love that she breaks one of the fundamental rules of writing and gets away with it. I want to be her when I grow up. Oh, and I have the movies they made of her books as well.
2) Brenda Novak – A recent discovery for me but I love a good romantic suspense story and Brenda does them so well. Her Last Stand series are a favorite but then I haven’t been disappointed by any of her books.
3) Linda Lael Miller – I absolutely LOVE her historical westerns. Her Springwater series was my first intro to Linda and I quickly moved on to her Primrose series followed by her McKettrick men. OMG! *fans self* And there’s her Stone Creek novels and Creed men……
4) Any author who writes a great contemporary. I love nothing better than losing myself in a great contemporary story whether it be a novel or novella. There’s nothing better than turning the pages, or tapping the screen, on a story so enthralling you forget all about the washing or what you’re cooking for dinner. There are some brilliant contemporary authors out there, Lori Foster, Susan Mallery, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, to name just a few.
5) I’ve got so many favorite authors that I can’t pick my top five so I’m cheating. (nobody point out #4!) My fifth choice is going to be books in general. I read across the sub genres of romance and to be honest it doesn’t matter whose name is on the copyright page. All I’m after is a great story, a few hours of time where I’m sucked into someone else’s life. Where I feel their joy, their sorrow, and every other emotion life brings until I hit those final pages of sweet satisfaction. Of course if the characters are getting ‘satisfaction‘ of another kind throughout the book even better.
So tell me, who are your top five authors? Any I might be interested in?
From now to the end of the year, we here at International Heat are going to share with you a list of our favourite things…
Bet none of you ever expected such a wholesome clip as the above appearing here, did you?
Anyways, to kick off the celebration of Our Favourite Things, this week is authors…
Lexxie’s Top Five Fav Authors
1/Stephen King (is anyone truly surprised by this? He is a master story teller. I can only wish I had one fiftieth of his skill)
2/Jennifer Crusie (no one writes rom-coms like Crusie. Irreverent, witty, cheeky and romantic. Love her)
3/Douglas Adams (sci-fi humour and absurd satire. There’s a whole paragraph in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that sums me up perfectly)
4/Karen Marie Moning (from her Fever series to her Highlander series, this woman knows how to spin a yarn. I think I lost a month of sleep when I discovered her. Seriously)
5/William Shakespeare (yeah yeah, roll your eyes, but remember, I was an English high school teacher for over a decade and spent many years studying English Lit. at university. And seriously, no one creates bad guys like Bill. No one.)
Jambrea’s Top Five
Can I just say…ditto? heehee Kidding. I do love Stephen King and I watched the movie Hitchhiker’s Guide but never read the book. Eek! Hope Lexxie doesn’t come after me with a bloody knife. (Edited by Lexxie: Right, that does it. Where’s my knife? Ah, there it is…)
1. Johanna Lindsay (I started off with her historical and then she did a couple futuristic books that I just fell in love with. When I first started reading it was mostly historical. I don’t read as much of that any more, but I did keep some of my Johanna Lindsay books.)
2. Robert Jordan (When I started reading the only thing I would pick up was romance, but someone told me to try the first Robert Jordan book and I was hooked on fantasy and the Wheel of Time series. He was such a brilliant author and his world building is well…out of this world. lol)
3. JR Ward (her vamps are AWESOME. I was happy I started the series late so I could devour these books. I can’t wait for the next one!)
4. J.L. Langley (She writes m/m and has 3 series. A Regency Sci-Fi that is AWESOME, a shifter series and a cowboy series. I re read these all the time and I know she’s about to release a new one soon! Can’t wait.)
5. Carol Lynne (She writes m/m as well and I want to live in Cattle Valley, a place Carol created. Of course her favorite of mine is Ghost of Alcatraz. I re read her all the as well. She has a new Cattle Valley coming out soon and I totally can’t wait.)
I could go on and on and on when it comes to authors. Amber Kell, TA Chase, Ethan Day, Damon Suede…and on and on. lol Um…yeah…I love to read. lol I was going to put Suzanne Brockmann on my list too, but I figure Jayne had her covered. lol Jayne turned me on (heeheee) to Brockmann and I’m very happy I listened.
