Featured Interview With Allistar Banks
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Allistar Banks is a prolific author, having published five books in the last two years called A Colorful Balloon Ride, Lenny the Lizard and His Green Scarf, Spring Brings Summer, Girl Rise, and Cracking the Happy Weight Code. She was born and raised in McCormick, South Carolina. Ms. Banks is a graduate of Lander University in Greenwood, SC and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications in 2013. She has been featured in the Index-Journal, The Press and Banner, McCormick Messenger, Lander University’s magazine, and interviewed on WZLA 92.9FM. She is now honored to be on a future broadcast with the CBS Sunday Morning Show for her children’s book called A Colorful Balloon Ride, which teaches one to five-year-old’s their colors by using objects of carnival food and nature on Mary and Emily’s hot air balloon ride around the County Fair with Mr. John. She is best known for children’s and young adult fiction books that teach new concepts and emotional development. Besides writing, she enjoys reading romance and family drama, hiking, spending time with family and friends, doing yoga and Pilates, pet sitting, and playing with her dog Sylvia.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was in the fourth grade when I realized my fascination for writing books and that’s when I wrote my first picture book called The Wizard and the Magic Pond where a wizard named Henry learned to his powers for good and not for evil.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Dorothea Benton Frank, Nicholas Sparks, Meg Cabot, and Jodi Picoult.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book Cracking the Happy Weight Code is about a young teen girl named Alli Billings who is inspired from my own healthy lifestyle journey and how I developed a healthy relationship with food. Alli struggles and overcomes issues with body image, weight, low self-esteem, and low confidence by prayers, scriptures, portion control, the proper amount of exercise, and much more. In my book, I have provided healthy recipes for people to cook and eat.
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