Guy Gavriel Kay
The problem with being a reader, and one who visits bookstores often, is that you constantly discover new books and authors. When your reading pile is large, that can be a problem. However, the obvious benefit is that you get exposure to lets of (hopefully) good books. That being said, one author who I've heard of in passing a few times over the years but haven't read yet, is Guy Gavriel Kay. Tolkien fans may recognize the name, as he worked with Christopher Tolkien on a little book called The Silmarillion . Wiki p edia states: When Christopher Tolkien needed an assistant to edit his father J. R. R. Tolkien 's unpublished work, he chose Kay, then a student of philosophy at the University of Manitoba , whose parents were friends of Baillie Tolkien's parents. Kay moved to Oxford in 1974 to assist Tolkien in the editing of The Silmarillion . There he learnt a lot about writing and editing, and later admitted of Tolkien's influ...