“I co-author with my daughter so our kids sound like kids. Cast’s years as a teacher (she retired a year and a half ago, after her series became popular), Cast knew the issues students faced, but she needed her daughter to make sure she captured a teen voice. She sets the books in Oklahoma: Zoey’s “regular” high school in the first book, “Marked,” was South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, where Cast taught for 15 years the House of Night finishing school for vampyres, as the Casts write the word, mirrors Tulsa’s Cascia Hall.īecause of P.C. and Kristin Cast’s seventh House of Night book, “Burned,” was released Tuesday.Throughout the seven books in the House of Night series, Cast weaves vampire lore with mythology and Cherokee spirituality, adds her own goddess - Nyx - and mixes in a dash of the angst and emotions that come with being a teenager. Co-written with her daughter, Kristin Cast of Tulsa, the New York Times-bestselling series written for young adults has tapped into demand for the paranormal that can be seen with the success of Stephanie Meyers’ “Twilight” series as well as of Cast’s friend Gena Showalter, who also grew up in Oklahoma.
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