Featured Interview With C.C. Wall
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up in Orange County, California. I was raised on horror and mystery, watching everything from The Munsters to Murder She Wrote with my grandmother. My mom had Agatha Christie books all over the house as a kid and I would thumb through them. Ten Little Indians was my first dabble into the written mystery.
I live in Hollywood, California now. I spent the last ten years working in screenwriting and film. It has only been the last couple years that I really decided to be a full-time author. I home school my daughter and am a slave to my six year old, lap dog.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My dad always had books everywhere. He owned a used book store for a while when I was growing up. He had a lot of rare and first edition stuff that he would never let me touch. As I got older, I was able to, but I had to do it after I washed my hand throughly and made sure my shirt was clean. That gave me a weird outlook on books. They weren’t just books, they became special tomes that hand to be handled with great care.
I have always written as far back as I can remember. I would make up awful comic books and try to sell them to my friends at school. Then I would Xerox drawings of my characters and glue them to a shoebox and cut them out and try to sell them as action figures!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Right now, I have been reading a lot of Grant Stockbridge (Norvell Page) who wrote the 1930’s pulp classic, The Spider. It’s really exciting. I absolutely love it. I have also been reading a lot of the Nick Carter, Killmaster Spy Chillers from the 1960’s. Those are just sleazy James Bond type spy books. They are a lot of fun. I love mystery, horror and satire. Those are my favorites for sure.
What inspires my writing more than anything, I think are good televised serials, like Twin Peaks, Breaking Bad, Lost, things like that. That leave you with cliffhangers and that make you want to scream when the credits roll. That’s why I think I fell in love with writing serials.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I just finished the third season of Black Star Canyon, my mystery serial thriller. It’s about a small town that filled with secrets. The mayor of the town finds a corpse of a young woman on his property and that starts a chain of events that threaten to tear the whole town apart.
They come out in weekly episodes for 5 weeks, then I put out the complete season book and that usually comes with some extra material as well.
The next season starts June 2nd!
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