About
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Height: Somewhere between five-three and five-six. Weight: Shame on you for asking! Eyes: Sort of a grayish-hazel. Favorite color: Blue. No, purple. No. Okay, anything but mustard yellow. |
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Age: Old enough to know better, young enough to still act 10 feet tall and bullet proof. And regret it later.
Vehicle: I drive a 10 year old Chevy truck. I like to be able to haul things around.
Pets: Pomeranians, two as of today. Thinking about a puppy.
Marital status: Permanently attached to the Renaissance Man (Ren).
Clothing style: Sort of Bohemian gypsy-queen belly dancer meets Biker Chick. Lots of soft shimmery fabrics. Skirts and boots for the public, social events, and dinner with friends. Sandals in summer to show off red toenails. Wetsuit or shorts with all the proper PPEs for rafting. Jeans and tees on my day off. And lots of jewelry that I make myself.
Jewelry: Lots! I love natural things, like stone beads and shells, and I love copper beads and trinkets. I often give away stones at my signings.
Hobbies: Jewelry making, whitewater rafting, yoga, reading, weight lifting, writing — wait, that’s a job — and snuggling with my Renaissance Man. I also make it point to read every day, though for a writer, that’s much more like part of the job.
Friends: Yes! I wasn’t very good at making friends in school, though the ones I have are steadfast, like Joy, who is my very bestest pal since we were nine. But since I grew up — which happened sometime in the last decade — I have found more, new friends that I cherish. Kim Harrison, of course, and Misty Massey, and Tamar Myers and Mary and Marilyn, and Greg, and Mignon, and Fran Rizer. All these are writers. Hmmm. Is that a pattern starting to evolve?
Writing schedule: Five days a week, 5 to 10 pages a day, however long it takes to get that. If I get 30 pages done early in the week, I take a day off. Unless deadlines are near. Then I grind away. Like now, with the deadline for book three in the series very close!
Other job: Yes. For the health insurance. If you are thinking about being a writer, remember that all expenses in life are still yours. And that is really not fun. Sometimes I hate being a grownup.
Hair Color: matches my mood. Today I’m blonde.
On Being a Writer
My life is writing, creating worlds where none existed before. I love it, and I love the characters that spring to life fully formed. I love the justice that I can find in the pages of a book where none existed before. I’m not a talented person, but I reckon if God was going to give me one single talent, I’m REALLY glad it’s writing! I’ve been writing since tenth grade, and will stop the day they tumble me into a grave and cover me up. Hmmm.
On What I do on a Day Off
In spring, summer, and early fall, I try to get the Renaissance Man to go with me whitewater rafting or just take a lazy ride down the Catawba River. I have this old inflatable two-man kayak called a rubber ducky. Honest. That’s what it’s called. But it’s like 12 feet long and way too big for the bathtub.
In cooler temps, I think about driving to the beach. I live near Myrtle Beach. Well, it’s a four hour drive. But the Man and I have this old beat up RV, and we can jump in and drive down, spend the night in Mary’s driveway, and hit the surf as we please. I can write in the RV too, on the laptop, though I admit to preferring my PC to laptop writing. On the laptop, my thumbs hit the mouse on the keyboard and make strange things happen to large blocks of text.
And for a change of pace, LET’S HEAD TO THE MOUNTAINS!!!! I’m about four hours from the Appalachian Mountains, close to Mineral City (in its real incarnation), and only about six hours from some of the best two-man, rubber-ducky, white-water rafting in the world! WhooWhoo!
Faith Hunter — Bio
A native of Louisiana, Faith spent her early years on the bayou and rivers, learning survival skills and the womanly arts. She liked horses, dogs, fishing and crabbing much better than girly skills. Still does. A love of history and ancient writings excite her even more, perhaps because she can trace her own family tree back to William the Conqueror’s invasion of England in 1066, later to Sehoy III, an American Indian princess, and to the gens de couleur libre, the free men of color in New Orleans at the time of the War Between the States.
As a girl, she fell in love with fantasy and sifi, reading five books a week, and wishing she, “could write that great stuff.” Teachers in high school convinced her she could, and she’s been writing ever since, with a desire to see ultimate good fight and defeat ultimate evil, and humans as part of the battle.
Faith now shares her life with her Renaissance Man (Ren) and their dogs.
