Author Interview : Callie Hart
We got the chance to interview Callie Hart for the upcoming blog tour of Book 4 in the Blood and Roses series, FALLEN. We were so super excited to ask some fun & different questions to hopefully make her think and entertain us too! Without further ado, here is our interview.
1. Do you read your reviews? Do you respond to them, good or bad? Do you have any advice on how to deal with the bad?
I absolutely read them! If I find I have an extra ten minutes to spare during a day, I’ll sometimes swing by and check out what people think of my new release. With anything so subjective as a person’s opinion, there are always negatives and positives. If I get a bad review, I will never respond to it. It’s not my place to respond. A review is someone’s opinion, and they are entitled to it as much as I am entitled to mine. Thankfully I live in a world where I get express myself and share a little bit of me with everyone else. I think it’s great that people occasionally don’t wanna pick up what I’m putting down. It means that they’re expressing themselves too. It’s very cliche to say this, but if everyone all liked the same things, the world would be a pretty dull predictable place. Long live variety!
2. If you didn’t like writing books, what would you do for a living?
Fighter Jet Pilot. Hands down.
3. What is the biggest lie you’ve ever told?
Psssshhhh, I refuse to tell.
4. What is something you want to accomplish before you die?
I want one of my books to be made into a film, and I want to work on it in some capacity. That would be a dream come true.
5. What literary character is most like you?
Oh boy! I’ve never read a book and thought, this person is ME! I honestly haven’t. That’s not what I’m thinking about when I read a book. I’m usually too lost in the story (if it’s a good one) to be making comparisons. I suppose I would LIKE to be like Katniss Everdeen–strong, self-sacrificing, brave…
6. What do you want your tombstone to say?
She did her best…
7. Is there one subject you would never write about as an author? What is it?
Tough one. My viewpoint on life is never say never. There might be subjects out there that I’d be cautious to write about, but I think if it’s well thought out and has a point to it, you can justify writing about anything. I don’t usually limit myself by saying I will never do something. It’s murphy’s law that a few years down the track I’d be writing about it and contradicting myself.
8. If you had a superpower, what would it be?
The power to heal. What better super human power is there? Being able to fly and walk through walls and be super strong would be awesome for sure, but if you had the ability to do absolutely anything then you can’t better than making sick people well again. That sounds really narcissistic. I definitely don’t want anyone out there thinking I want to be Jesus or anything like that. I just think that being a healer is a very valuable and honourable profession. Maybe that’s why I made Sloane a doctor in the Blood & Roses series–because I almost did want her to be a superhero in some respects. A character big enough and strong enough to counter balance Zeth as the biggest anti-hero ever.
9. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Hopefully still writing books. Good ones. Hopefully making good films out of them.
10. Just as your books inspire authors, what authors have inspired you to write?
J. R. R. Tolkien, Huraki Murakami, Charles Dickens, Kurt Vonnegut (obviously), Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy….
The list really is endless. We’d be here forever if I carry on.
