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This was without a doubt, the most epic month EVER! So many amazing authors, so much inspiration and almost too many laughs, my belly and cheeks were literally sore all month. Have a look through, read the posts, watch the videos and be prepared to learn about the awesomeness of these fabulous authors and how they earned their success. If you love writing and reading, you'll feel inspired and uplifted by these brilliant humans who shared their stories with us. I couldn't possibly be more grateful for this amazing opportunity and to be able to share this with you. I hope you enjoy it. Booktober 1st 2019 - Sandi Parsons Sandi Parsons is the author of Pepsi the Problem Puppy and The Mystery of the Sixty-Five Roses, She's an advocate for people living with chronic illness and disability and is pure awesomeness molded into the form of a human being. Booktober 2nd 2019 - Josh Langley Only watch this video if you want to feel inspired and uplifted! Josh has a wonderful sense of humour and a strong desire to help everyone of all ages fall in love with themselves and get out of their own way to start achieving their goals! He is awesome and this interview is full of fabulousness. Booktober 3rd 2019 - Carly FindlayIf you haven't read her book "Say Hello" yet, make sure you do! I love how raw, bold and honest Carly is, she's a true advocate for people living with disabilities and chronic illness and a fabulously inspirational writer too. Booktober 4th 2019 - Cristy Burne We laughed a lot during this interview! Cristy is extremely passionate about science and literature so she combines the two in her awesome stories that make it fun for kids to learn! She has a huge amount of wonderful advice for young writers too! Booktober 5th 2019 - Jeremy Lachlan I believe Jeremy Lachlan is a truly inspirational author because of his Book Jane Doe and the Cradle of All worlds and the protagonist Jane who is very relatable to young girls and a great role model, as she is strong, determined, persistent and will do anything to save her friends & family as well as all the worlds and I LOVE to see books with more strong female leads so young girls have characters they can look up to. Booktober 6th 2019 - Brooke Dunnell This was a very special interview for me as I have known Brooke for years and she is a wonderful mentor and truly inspirational writer! Booktober 7th 2019 - Lynette Noni Lynette Noni is a very inspirational author, she writes amazing mystery/fantasy/dystopian sci-fi books and they feature strong female & male leads which is great, as equality is very important and girls want to read about heroes who they can relate just as much as boys do! She also inspires the next generation of young writers through her workshops and meeting her fans at various events, I was lucky enough to meet her at an event after watching her talk about her writing and she was just so lovely and inspirational. Booktober 8th 2019 - Raathi Chota Raathi is the author of the Caught by The Bad Boys series! She published these at just 16 years old wow! She is also very kind and this video is full of inspiration and great advice for writers! Booktober 9th 2019 - Marlize Venter This was another very special interview for me because I have known Marlize for years and she is a beautiful human being! She has written and published 3 books which are all so different to each other and she has a lot of fab advice for writers too. Booktober 10th 2019 - Hannah Van Didden This interview was a lot of fun!! We may have laughed a little too much. What I love about Hannah’s short stories are how metaphorical and poetic they are. I’ve always been an extremely literal person, so her stories have helped me with this. Booktober 11th 2019 - Neal Shusterman Neal Shusterman is a truly inspirational author to me. He writes Dystopian Sci-fi and Cli-fi (climate fiction) and he incorporates such dark theories and concepts into his books such as the earth running out of water or what really happens to us when we die, but he does it in such in a fun and humorous way so you would expect them to be dark and scary but they are not. He also has strong female and male leads which is important! Booktober 12th 2019 - Graham Bebington As Graham lives in QLD we couldn’t do a face to face interview but he agreed to answer my questions via email, how cool is that! I loved reading all about his misadventures, where his inspiration comes from and of course, what his favourite flavour of ice-cream is! Booktober 13th 2019 - Holden Sheppard This video is hilarious! But also very deep. I had so much fun interviewing Holden and I love how open and real he is and that comes through in his awesome book too; Invisible Boys. Make sure you also check out my review of Invisible boys on my blog too! Booktober 14th 2019 - Rebecca Laffar-Smith Rebecca is a fabulous writer but also a wonderful advocate for other writers and people living with chronic mental and physical health conditions and disabilities. I've also been blessed enough to attend done of her writers workshops and I can't wait for the next one. Booktober 15th 2019 - Maya Angelou I feel like she needs no introduction... Inspirational, powerful, amazing woman! Booktober 16th 2019 - Nadia King Nadia is the author of Jenna’s truth and the soon to be published Claire Malone Changes The World. These are books that are full of heart and important life lessons but are fun to read! Booktober 17th 2019 - AJ Betts AJ is an extremely inspirational author to me because of her strong female & male leads who face diabolical challenges and overcome relatable issues as well as some crazy stuff that we all hope we'll never have to face. I love how it's impossible to not like her main characters in her books as you feel like you're on their journeys with them and just want them to be okay. I've been lucky enough to meet her a few times and attend one of her workshops too! I can't wait for the next one. Booktober 18th 2019 - Alison Evans Alison took some time out of their insanely busy schedule to answer my questions via email! How awesome are they!? Alison is the author of Highway bodies, which features many LGBTQ+ characters which I find AWESOME and inspiration because we need better representation in our literature of people who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community. They also have lots of fab advice for young writers and a bunch of awesome info. Booktober 19th 2019 - Norman Jorgensen I had a blast chatting with Norman! He's such a fabulous story teller but sadly we had to cut out half of the interview during editing as the original interview added up to nearly a whole hour! I will share the full interview another day, but for now, enjoy this one. Norman even tells us of the time he met Roald Dahl! Booktober 20th 2019 - Jackie French I didn’t get to interview Jackie sadly as she is insanely busy!!! but she still responded to my email and it just made my day as she is one of my favorite authors! she did send some books for the competitions and let me do a write up about her as well!!! How cool is that?! So please read my latest blog post to see how awesome Jackie French is. Booktober 21st 2019 - Alicia Tuckerman Alicia is such an awesome author I had a great time chatting with her and am so eager to share the interview!! I am incredibly inspired by her! She wrote the amazing book "If I tell you" which features a strong lesbian character growing up in the country and she is currently working on another book. I'm hoping Netflix will choose to turn her book into a movie so she can become rich and buy a miniature donkey and dress him up a sailor... she said I can come over and play with him so hurry up Netflix! Make the movie! Booktober 22nd 2019 - Bryce Courtenay Bryce wrote many amazing books and was an awesome author so I believe he deserves a spot on this list please check out the blog post to see how awesome he was. My personal fave of his in "The Power of One" Booktober 23rd 2019 - Mark Evans We had an incredible time chatting and joking around and I might be starting a podcast soon...apparently 😜 This interview was a lot of fun! Booktober 24th 2019 - Melissa Gijsbers Melissa's book "321 Done" was inspired by her two sons; her youngest boy has CFS and her oldest son has a gift for solving a rubix cube speedily and fundraising!! In this vid we chat about representation of kids with chronic illness in literature and heaps more. Booktober 25th 2019 - H.M. Waugh I was so lucky to be able to read her incredible debut novel; The Lost Stone of the Sky City, and interview Heather before the official book launch!! I’ve been itching to share this awesome interview with you guys but new I should wait until after the launch, so here it is 😊 Heather also has a passion for science and teaching kids through fun stories! Booktober 26th 2019 - Roald Dahl Roald Dahl has always been one of my favorite authors, I started reading his books at the age of four and it really sparked my passion for reading and writing. Booktober 27th 2019 - Jess Judd Jess definitely wins the prize for the most patient interviewee I’ve had!! The first time we did the whole interview I realised at the end that it didn’t record 😱 then the second time we did it I kept getting interrupted by a call on the computer 😂 Thank you so much Jess for your patience! Jess works at a radio station dedicated to reading bedtime stories to children who would otherwise miss out! How amazing is that!?! Booktober 28th 2019 - Maddie Godfrey Maddie is a beautiful soul, and a strong and amazing person! I had just the most wonderful time chatting with her about self acceptance, self identity, body positivity, ice cream and many more amazing topics. Booktober 29th 2019 - Rebecca Newman I love Rebecca's funny and quirky poetry and have to agree that odd socks are the best! I had a great time chatting with her we talked about poetry, the school magazine, writing advice and much more. Booktober 30th 2019 - Meg Caddy I felt like Meg and I really connected, we had a blast chatting about her Books, D&D, pirates, lizards and much more. I have also been very blessed with the opportunity to attend one of her writers workshops... it was EPIC! If you love writing and ever get the opportunity to attend one of her workshops just do it. Booktober 31st 2019 - Ask Imani You sent in the questions... I responded. Thanks everyone for sending in such awesome questions, I had fun thinking about them and learned a little about myself too.
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