Author Nicole Hunter Featured In Online Interview at TheBookInsider.com

Nicole Hunter is a summa cum laude graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, where she received the A.W. "Bud" Collins Jr. Creative Writing Prize. Born April 17, 1959, and raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Hunter has lived in New Haven, CT, and rural Washington State, and now resides near Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, two sons, and two cats. Nicole Hunter is a contributing member of the National Association for Poetry Therapy and a member of the Poets' and Writers' League of Greater Cleveland. She has worked in the publishing industry since 1989, as a secretary, an editor, a writer, and currently as a senior creative consultant. Visit Nicole at www.nicolehunterbooks.com

(PRWEB) April 10, 2005 -- TheBookInsider: What did you like to read when you were a little girl?

Nicole Hunter:
Fairy tales (which terrified me).
Greek mythology (enchanted me).
Biographies (fascinated me).
Nancy Drew mysteries (addicted me).

TheBookInsider: When did you first know you wanted to be a writer?

Nicole Hunter: I never wanted "to be a writer"; I just liked to write. At 10, I wrote a 50-page novel called "Night of Wonder" about a girl who time-travels to seven places in her sleep one night - from the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock all the way to an otherworldly future on Mars. I still remember the books last line: "It was all just a dream...or was it?" Envision me 35 years ago hunt-and-pecking the manuscript on my fathers manual typewriter.

TheBookInsider: Who and/or what have been your biggest influences and why?

Nicole Hunter: People are my biggest influences. I talk to everyone everywhere I go. People love to tell their stories and I love to listen to them.

Also - about a year ago, I discovered my Micmac Indian heritage. This has been a giant influence of inner peace for me, because at last I understand myself. My maternal great-great-grandmothers people were the Micmacs of Nova Scotia. The Micmacs are amazing storytellers and innovators with language and poetry. Theyre known for their great love of their children, and are deeply spiritual people. As a nation and as individuals, the Micmacs have suffered and survived; they search and see a spiritual purpose in all things. And this is who I am.

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