Megan Whalen Turner fans, take note.

Shannon Hale fans, also take note.

From Shannon Hale and Megan Whalen Turner, a conversation (Part One):

I feel so prosaic talking about babies and vaccinations.  Do you ever feel like you should be more glamorous for your fans?  Do you worry about disappointing them by being too ordinary?  I always thought my favorite writers must *glow* or something.  Susan Cooper, I imagined floating through air.  Katherine Patterson especially should have a saint-like aura.  At least, they should wear flowing robes.  Capes maybe.  Authors ought to live in mysterious writerly places like Bali, or in a cabin in the Adirondacks.  I don't know about you but I am in suburbia here and I sometimes feel like I'm letting the side down.