“She said, ‘Would it be like Kristin Cast and P.C. Now you gun it.”Īfter several more questions along the same line, she remembers, Cast came out of her office and said to her daughter, “How would you like to co-author these books with Mama – meaning, just make sure I use the right words?
I was trying to find a current word for drunk, and, another, time, the word for revving an engine. Kristin would be sitting out in the living room watching MTV, and I would literally shriek at her, ‘What do you call this?’ I remember two words in particular. Medical Center, right down the street from South,” she says. “I was living in a little condo by the B.A. But what I found when I started writing it was that my characters, my teenage characters, were talking with ’70s slang. I’d taught for 15 years, and I didn’t think I’d have any trouble with the teenage voice. “When I started writing it, I was still teaching at South. “Kristin is my editor on House of Night, and she has been from the very beginning,” Cast says. On the House of Night series, however, the collaboration is a bit more nuanced. as “a fun, witchy series set in the Midwest.” Kristin has become a bestselling author in her own right recently, she and her mother announced that they’re jointly writing a new trilogy called Salem County, described by P.C. The “us” and “we” are Cast and her daughter, Kristin, who shares credit on the House of Night novels. They are living up to their word, they are completely respecting the world, and they’re involving us every single step of the way.” And all I can say right now is that it’s progressing very, very nicely. “We’ve actually been in contact with them for months and months, since early in the year, and every single thing they said they were going to do, they’ve done. “From the first time we met with them, they listened to us,” Cast says. Their willingness to travel here at Cast’s request speaks to the mutual trust and respect between the producers and the author of their source material. She also showed them around town and made her case for shooting in the actual settings described in House of Night. CastĬast recently brought the two producers to Tulsa, where they joined her for a book-launching event. and Kristin Cast co-author the successful House of Night series. It’s a character in the series, irrevocably intertwined. “From the very beginning, I have been very consistent in saying I would like as much filming as possible done in Tulsa,” she says.” I have explained to them that Tulsa isn’t just a setting. It’s why things happen.”Ĭast says it’s important for the series to be shot in Tulsa, even though DCTV, the headquarters of producers Carmody and Cormican, is in Toronto, 1,200 miles away. And, of course, Cascia Hall is the setting for the House of Night.
“As anyone who follows the series knows, I use real places,” says Cast, who resides in the Pacific Northwest. These are fantasies, but to those who know Tulsa, many of the books’ scenes impart a real-world aura. The House of Night novels, phenomenally popular worldwide, chronicle the lives and adventures of young would-be vampires who attend the titular school, a kind of finishing academy that prepares students for the challenges of adult-vampire life. Most recently, they were behind the Netflix series Northern Rescue and the Disney Freeform series ShadowHunters. Its producers, Don Carmody and David Cormican, are industry veterans with many credits. Cast, a former English teacher at South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, into a live-action television series.
Plans are well underway to adapt the bestselling House of Night series by P.C. Now, nearly 40 years later, the chances are good it could happen again.
Before it was over, she’d seen an adaptation of that novel and two others – Tex and Rumble Fish – shot in the early ’80s in the very locales that provided the settings for her books. Hinton, who effectively created the young-adult genre with 1967’s The Outsiders. That’s exactly what happened in the early 1980s with S.E. The books draw attention from Hollywood and, eventually, filmmakers arrive in her hometown to make movies based on what she’s written. See if this sounds familiar: An author from Tulsa, going by her initials and last name, pens a wildly popular series of young-adult novels set in Oklahoma.
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