Ask the Author: C.C. Hunter
Answered Questions (17)
C.C. Hunter
Hi Lana,
I think I do remember you. I'm pretty sure the book you are talking about is, Fighting Back, the last novella about Kylie. It's the only C.C. Hunter book that is not in print. I hope this year to get it put in print. Sorry. If you are in Houston, today I'm have a signing at Katy Budget Book. I'll be signing with three other writers, Sophie Jordan, Mary Lindsey and a new author Cheyanne Young. It starts at 3 PM. It's a pizza party. Join us!
I think I do remember you. I'm pretty sure the book you are talking about is, Fighting Back, the last novella about Kylie. It's the only C.C. Hunter book that is not in print. I hope this year to get it put in print. Sorry. If you are in Houston, today I'm have a signing at Katy Budget Book. I'll be signing with three other writers, Sophie Jordan, Mary Lindsey and a new author Cheyanne Young. It starts at 3 PM. It's a pizza party. Join us!
C.C. Hunter
I sold the rights to CDS a while ago, and while they were working on a script for a movie?TV show, CDS was sold. Now, I don't know where it stands.
C.C. Hunter
I understand completely, but the business of writing is always changing. Writers have always complained about the market, the publishers, etc. My advice? Just write! Don't pay any attention to all that. Write the best book you can write. I literally have thousands of rejection letters. It didn't stop me. If it's what you are determined to do for a career, don't let anything stop you. I didn't, and I was told to give up over and over. Good luck!
C.C. Hunter
Actually, I wasn't writing young adult. I hadn't planned to write it. An editor read my Christie Craig books and loved my writing voice. She came to me and asked if I would write a YA series about a paranormal camp. I almost said not because I was afraid I would fail. I'm so glad I didn't say no!
C.C. Hunter
I wish. I actually sold movie rights to two different producers. The first one didn't find the financial backing to make it, so the rights were reverted back to me. The second one went out of business. It got so close the second time that they had found the writer for the script and I had to rewrite the ending of first book a little so it wouldn't have Lions and wild animals in it. I was so sad when I found out the project was canceled. But I hear this happens all the time with movie rights. Maybe it will still happen. I'm still hoping!
CC
CC
C.C. Hunter
On my website I actually have a test to see what species you are? Vampire? Witch? When I took my own test, it said I was a Fae. I'm a good listener and a little bit of an empath. But . . . while I would hate to have to drink blood, I would love to be able to fly like my vampires in Shadow Falls. Every now and then I have those flying dreams. When I wake up, I savor the feeling.
C.C. Hunter
Headcanon? I'm not one hundred percent sure what you mean. But I'm going to take a stab at it. When writing characters there's always part of me in them. Sometimes those parts include secrets. Some of them are more personal than others. When I wrote Miranda in the Shadow Falls series, I delved into how being dyslexic caused some of my insecurities. It brought back a lot of those old scars. Kylie's scars were different. She never felt as if she belonged. She hated being in the limelight. I was just like her. If people stared at me, I really wanted to become invisible. Leah in This Heart of Mine exposed a lot of my more recent scars. My husband's health and his transplant. When my husband read the book, he cried, because so much of it is exactly what we went through. And while I'm not what you would call a private person, I never spoke that much of the struggles we went through.
I hope that answers your question. Thanks!
CC
I hope that answers your question. Thanks!
CC
C.C. Hunter
I know some authors love to go to Starbucks to write. But if I went to Starbucks, I'd be easedropping on conversations and not writing. I have an office in my house. I usually write there. It's like this room means work and when I'm in this chair, I can focus more. I have a wrap around porch and sometimes I like to sit out there and work, but if a pretty bird flies by, I'm watching the bird, not my keyboard.
As for mood, in this room, I'm surrounded by books. My books, my friend's books and books that I want to read. Sometimes when I feel as if I've written myself in a corner, I will get in my hot tub to brainstorm. Some days I'm all wrinkled from staying in there too long.
I'm what I would call a pantser. Meaning, I write by the seat of my pants. I'm starting a new book right now, and I only had a few things worked out in my head when I sit down to start writing. But as I write, the story starts to flow.
I usually write about eight to ten hours a day. Yes, I'm a workaholic. It takes me around two to three months to write a book. Sometimes four. But because I also write romantic suspense books as Christie Craig, I try to write three to four books a year. This year I just finished the first book in another young adult series, about a girl who can see ghosts, The Mortician's Daughter. Which will be out October 31st. I just finished an adult romantic suspense book called, Don't Close your Eyes. And I'm starting on my new young adult book that I'm calling Plucked.
As for mood, in this room, I'm surrounded by books. My books, my friend's books and books that I want to read. Sometimes when I feel as if I've written myself in a corner, I will get in my hot tub to brainstorm. Some days I'm all wrinkled from staying in there too long.
I'm what I would call a pantser. Meaning, I write by the seat of my pants. I'm starting a new book right now, and I only had a few things worked out in my head when I sit down to start writing. But as I write, the story starts to flow.
I usually write about eight to ten hours a day. Yes, I'm a workaholic. It takes me around two to three months to write a book. Sometimes four. But because I also write romantic suspense books as Christie Craig, I try to write three to four books a year. This year I just finished the first book in another young adult series, about a girl who can see ghosts, The Mortician's Daughter. Which will be out October 31st. I just finished an adult romantic suspense book called, Don't Close your Eyes. And I'm starting on my new young adult book that I'm calling Plucked.
C.C. Hunter
I'd go to Charlotte's Web and I'd save her. Somehow I would save Charlotte!
C.C. Hunter
I will never say never. But right now it's not on my to-do list. I'm really hoping everyone will fall in love with Leah, and Riley, the heroines in my next two stories.
C.C. Hunter
No. I'm not a plotter. A lot of my creative process happens as I write. Honestly, when I first started Born at Midnight, I didn't know who, Army Dude" the ghost, was. I figured that out four or five chapters into the book.
C.C. Hunter
This is a hard question. When I was writing Derek, I was a Derek fan. When I was writing Lucas, I was a Lucas fan.
As for picking the guy Kylie ended up with? I know this sounds crazy, but I let Kylie pick. I really didn't know which one she'd choose.
I'm writing The Mortician's Daughter, and there's two guys in it, too. Right now I think I know who she'll end up with, but who knows . . . Riley might change her mind.
As for picking the guy Kylie ended up with? I know this sounds crazy, but I let Kylie pick. I really didn't know which one she'd choose.
I'm writing The Mortician's Daughter, and there's two guys in it, too. Right now I think I know who she'll end up with, but who knows . . . Riley might change her mind.
C.C. Hunter
Well, I read in several genres, but i have a few on list.
Everything Everything By Nicola Yoon
The Way it Hurts by Patty Blount.
If you find me By Emily Murdoch
Everything Everything By Nicola Yoon
The Way it Hurts by Patty Blount.
If you find me By Emily Murdoch
C.C. Hunter
I don't really believe in writer's block.
It goes back to my childhood. Yup, I come from the age we blame everything on our parents. However, Dad won’t threaten to disinherit me for this one. You see, my dad was a plumber. He got up every day and went to work. Never, not once, do I ever recall him saying, “I can not plumb today. I have plumber’s block.”
Now, don’t get me wrong, I know there were days he plumbed better than others. Days his job was crappy. (And I don’t mean he literally dealt with crap, but hey, he unclogged toilets.) And as a writer, I have days I write better than others, and days I question my ability to write even a grocery list.
But in the mood or not, I have to produce pages. Some days those pages sing, sometimes I think they are little "crappy" but I have to write. So I put butt in chair and stare at the screen until words flow.
It goes back to my childhood. Yup, I come from the age we blame everything on our parents. However, Dad won’t threaten to disinherit me for this one. You see, my dad was a plumber. He got up every day and went to work. Never, not once, do I ever recall him saying, “I can not plumb today. I have plumber’s block.”
Now, don’t get me wrong, I know there were days he plumbed better than others. Days his job was crappy. (And I don’t mean he literally dealt with crap, but hey, he unclogged toilets.) And as a writer, I have days I write better than others, and days I question my ability to write even a grocery list.
But in the mood or not, I have to produce pages. Some days those pages sing, sometimes I think they are little "crappy" but I have to write. So I put butt in chair and stare at the screen until words flow.
C.C. Hunter
Write. Read. A lot. Get other people, hopefully, writers, to read your work and offer constructive advise.
C.C. Hunter
I slip into my character's skin and think about the trouble they are in. Sometimes I will go sit in my hot tub and brainstorm.
C.C. Hunter
I have two new books releasing. I recently finished, This Heart of Mine, releasing 2-27-18. The book is about a Leah McKenzie who has a dying heart. It's a very emotional read about a girl who gets a heart transplant. It's a blend of emotion and romance. It has my humor, a hint of mystery and a pinch of the mystical.
In Oct. I have the first book in a three-book series, The Mortician's Daughter: One Foot in the Grave. Riley Smith's father is an alcoholic, her mother passed away, and she sees and helps dead people. Can her life get any crazier? Oh, yes it can.
In Oct. I have the first book in a three-book series, The Mortician's Daughter: One Foot in the Grave. Riley Smith's father is an alcoholic, her mother passed away, and she sees and helps dead people. Can her life get any crazier? Oh, yes it can.
About Goodreads Q&A
Ask and answer questions about books!
You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.
See Featured Authors Answering Questions
Learn more