Noah asked Stefan Bachmann:

I recently finished your book 'The Peculiar' and I really liked it! When I found out you started writing it when you were 16 I was like, "Wow, that's incredible!!!" I LOVE reading! I always love it when I take a chance on a book and it is great! I also play the piano, and I love that too! Okay, now to the question(s)! :) What writer ( if any) inspired you to write books? Who is your favourite author?

Stefan Bachmann Yay, thanks for reading! :D I'm glad you liked TP. I think a lot of different writers made me love stories and want to write my own, but there was definitely one who got the ball rolling for me. I remember being ten or eleven and hearing about a homeschooled teenager in Montana who wrote a dragon fantasy book and became a bestselling author at 18 and I was like "I'm homeschooled! I like fantasy books! I'M TOTALLY QUALIFIED FOR THIS!"

So, that was Christopher Paolini. He's great. It wasn't his books that inspired me so much as the fact that he did what he did at a young age and was super successful. I definitely think he paved the way for a lot of young writers to have the confidence to pursue publishing in the 2000's.

Favorite authors would be JRR Tolkien, Philip Reeve, the Brontë Sisters, Leo Tolstoy, Catherine Fisher, Lemony Snicket. A billion others... So, so many. :)

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