Ask the Author: C.J. Hatch
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C.J. Hatch
I recently ended my publishing deal, which means Hurricane Ron is currently unavailable in paperback (I have a few copies at home if you want them). The e-reader version is still floating about, but I ask you avoid that edition until I find a new publisher for reasons that I will now explain.
This is not the end of the line. I am currently in talks with agents and publishers to find a new home for HR and the rest of the trilogy. I feel I owe it to the readers to represent this story line in the best possible light. It is my intention to find a publisher that can provide a quality product of which I can be proud, and one in which deserves to be read. Keep your eyes and ears open for updates, and if you know of other agents or publishers who would like to work with me, please let me know.
This is not the end of the line. I am currently in talks with agents and publishers to find a new home for HR and the rest of the trilogy. I feel I owe it to the readers to represent this story line in the best possible light. It is my intention to find a publisher that can provide a quality product of which I can be proud, and one in which deserves to be read. Keep your eyes and ears open for updates, and if you know of other agents or publishers who would like to work with me, please let me know.
C.J. Hatch
I'm a fan of the hours.
C.J. Hatch
Get some experiences under your belt, and write about them. Find any opportunity you can to get published - short stories, your school paper, whatever.
C.J. Hatch
Currently. I'm planning the second of the Hurricane Ron trilogy, but I have some short stories and a non-fiction story about some American heroes of the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive that I'd like to put together if I could get a publisher interested.
C.J. Hatch
I've tried just buckling down in front of the laptop, but when I do that I tend to do more editing and second guessing. I write when the bug hits me.
C.J. Hatch
Inspiration for Hurricane Ron came from a number of places, starting with a dream I had years ago which forms chapter two.
In developing the story of Ron on the run, I fell back on a news story I covered as a reporter in Alabama in which escaped cop-killer Mario Centobie was captured after weeks on the run. After looking into his eyes on the morning of his capture I had to wonder what those weeks spent slogging through the woods and swamps of Alabama were like for his and what he thought he would accomplish heading directly back to his estranged wife and child.
The rest is a combination of fantasy and my personal experiences as a reporter and as a military veteran.
In developing the story of Ron on the run, I fell back on a news story I covered as a reporter in Alabama in which escaped cop-killer Mario Centobie was captured after weeks on the run. After looking into his eyes on the morning of his capture I had to wonder what those weeks spent slogging through the woods and swamps of Alabama were like for his and what he thought he would accomplish heading directly back to his estranged wife and child.
The rest is a combination of fantasy and my personal experiences as a reporter and as a military veteran.
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