I'll just slip away now, if that's okay...

[mmegaera]

bright_lilim quotes someone named Tanya on something called Larissa Bookish Life, asking the following question:

Think about all the authors you've ever wanted to meet, the conversations that could be had, and the dirt you could find out before everyone else. Okay, so you may have to serve up a couple of extra glasses of wine, but still, I think it would be worth the shot! Or maybe it's the unique, dynamic, and fantastically developed characters you wish could pop off the page and hang out with you for the evening! Whoever, or whatever, the case may be, I'm sure you have a list of "Need-To-Meets". I know I do!

Who would be your six dinner guests? Why?
Having trouble coming up with six? Can you at least think of one or two?

Never mind that I have been leery of Dinner Parties ever since Bujold's A Civil Campaign, there's a few authors and characters I'd like to have sit down at my table -- but being shy I hope they'd all just get along like a house afire and let me sit and observe.

1) I know I'm asking for trouble here, but I'd like to put Miles Vorkosigan on this list. Perhaps with
2) Ekaterin Vorkosigan to keep a lid on him [g]. Besides, she'd be fantastic to listen to if I could get her started on gardens.
3) And we'd have to keep Miles on the other end of the table from Ramses Emerson, but I think it would be worth the effort. Maybe I could borrow some of the Vorkosigan Armsmen for the purpose.
4) Elena Klovis, from The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey would have a lot of interesting things to say, I bet.
5) For authors, just because of her fabulous writing process blog, Patricia Wrede,
and
6) A character who is also a writer, Richard Castle, just because I bet he'd be really good company.

There, that ought to be enough conversations to keep any number of Dinner Parties going. Just please, don't let it turn out like that Dinner Party...