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V. C. Andrews in Flowers in the Attic

Author V. C. Andrews made a cameo appearance as a maid in the 1987 film adaptation of her novel, the first in the Dollanganger series. Andrews did not live to see the film, dying of breast cancer in December 1986.

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Robert J. Sawyer in FlashForward

Robert J. Sawyer’s 1999 novel FlashForward was adapted into the TV series of the same name which aired between September 2009 and May 2010. In the pilot episode Sawyer cameos as ‘Man on Cell Phone’ at the hospital.

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Walter Mosley in The Manchurian Candidate

Author Walter Mosley is best known for his series of novels featuring detective Easy Rawlins. In the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate he appears as Congressman Rawlins.

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Alissa Nutting in Made for Love

Author Alissa Nutting co-created the TV series Made for Love based on her 2017 novel of the same name. The show ran for two seasons before being cancelled by HBO Max. In the opening episode of season 2 Nutting appeared as Trish, a worker at tech company Gogol.

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Veronica Roth in Divergent

Roth appears about an hour into the 2014 film version of her novel. The film’s director Neil Burger told Hypable: “[The producers] came to me and they said, where would you want to put Veronica in the movie? And I was like, ‘I’ve got so much that I’m working on for that to be a big thing to think about.’ So I said, ‘How about we put her on the train for capture the flag?’ ‘No, no, she doesn’t want to be that present,’ not in a primadonna way, by the way. She’s just shy. ‘How about we give her a line where she says before they jump, ‘Get ready.” ‘No she doesn’t wanna have that.’ I said, ‘Okay, how about she’s the first one through the door at the top of the Hancock building when they run up the stairs to the zipline.'”

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Charlaine Harris in True Blood

Charlaine Harris made two appearances in the HBO series True Blood, which was based on her books collectively known as The Southern Vampire Mysteries. In the finale of season 2 she appears as a patron at  Merlotte's, and in the series finale credited as “infomercial sound mixer”.

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James Dashner in The Maze Runner

In 2012 author James Dashner tweeted that he would love to make a cameo in the film adaptation of his novel. He got his wish, appearing in a scene at the end of the film.

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Sara Shepard in Pretty Little Liars

Author Sara Shepard made two guest appearances in the series based on her books. In S1E7 she played a substitute teacher and in S5E24 she played a news analyst.

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Martin Amis in A High Wind in Jamaica

Future writer Martin Amis (the son of author Kingsley Amis) appeared as John Thornton in the 1965 film A High Wind in Jamaica, based on the 1929 novel by  Richard Hughes.

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Jay McInerney in Gossip Girl

Author Jay McInerney appeared in three episodes of Gossip Girl as author Jeremiah Harris who Dan Humphrey interns for.

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R. J. Palacio in Wonder

At the graduation ceremony at the end of the film,  R. J. Palacio, the author of the novel, can be seen sitting behind Nate (Owen Wilson).

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Cecily von Ziegesar in Gossip Girl

In the fourth season finale of Gossip Girl, Cecily von Ziegesar, the author of the books, appears as an alumna of Constance Billard-St. Jude's School who tells Serena  (Blake Lively) she has heard about her. Von Ziegesar told townandcountrymag.com that “I had to wear five-inch heels because Blake Lively is like six feet tall and I’m only five foot two.”

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Michael Bond in Paddington

In the 2014 film Paddington, Michael Bond, the author of the Paddington Bear books, makes a cameo appearance. Bond told BBC Radio 4's Front Row: "It was a night-time shoot - I am sitting in a restaurant on my own by the window when Paddington goes past in a black taxi. He's just arrived in London for the first time and is going back with the Browns to their house. I catch his eye as he goes past and raise a glass to him." Bond also mentioned that he had shot another scene for the film which was deleted.