Which author would you love to have dinner with?
If I could have dinner with any author, I’d choose Stephen King. He’s such an interesting writer with a really quirky, off‑kilter taste in storytelling. His work is dark and twisted on the surface, full of ghosts and monsters, but underneath all of that there’s this very human, almost tender understanding of fear, grief, and ordinary people stuck in impossible situations. I love the way he takes a small, familiar world and slowly twists it until you suddenly realize you’re somewhere terrifying and you’re not even sure when the shift happened.
I wouldn’t want to copy his style, but I would love to learn from it. Over dinner, I’d want to ask him how he builds those winding, messed‑up plots that still feel grounded in real emotions, and how he balances horror with heart without losing his own light. I’d be curious about his process, how he keeps showing up to the page after all these years, and how he takes care of himself while spending so much time in such dark places. Mostly, I’d just want to listen to him talk about storytelling and see what might rub off on my own writing.
Kelly Dawn 
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