As Gwen, she is a winner of the WH Smith Literary Award for Fresh Talent in 1995 in the UK, and won a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award in 2008. Under other pen names, notably, Gwen Hunter, she writes action adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. She took a lesson and-after a bout of panic attacks from fear of drowning-discovered she loved the sport.įaith is one of the founders and a participant at the now defunct and archived an online writing forum geared to helping writers. Faith discovered whitewater paddling when she was researching her (Gwen Hunter) mystery book, Rapid Descent. She and her husband RV, traveling to whitewater rivers all over the Southeast.Īnd that leads Faith to kayaking – her very favorite sport. Her latest love is Japanese maples, and she has managed to collect over thirty in one year. She just received a boar skull, and the skull of a mountain lion (legally purchased from a US tannery) hit by a car in the wild. Many of her orchid pics are juxtaposed with bones and skulls -a fox, cat, dog, cow skull, goat, and deer skull, (that is, unfortunately, falling apart) and the jawbone of an ass. Pictures can be seen at her FaceBook page. Her favorite time of year is when several are blooming.

Though she doesn't have time for jewelry as much as she used to, Faith makes, wears, and sometimes gives away her jewelry as promo items to fans and as prizes in contests.

Croix, the Rogue Mage, and the main character of BloodStone, written by her pen name, Gwen Hunter. Jewelry-making was the occupation of two of her characters: Thorn St. Research led to her life’s passions – jewelry making, orchids, Japanese maples, bones, travel, white-water kayaking, and writing. Occasionally, she remembers to turn on Roomba (that she named Duma$$ because it fell down the stairs once.)įaith researches in great detail, and tries most everything her characters do. She does still make cold cereal and sandwiches. She gave up cooking for lent one year and the oven hasn’t been turned on since.

Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic alternate reality.įaith writes full-time, tries to keep house, and is a workaholic. Her Rogue Mage novels-Bloodring, Seraphs, Host, and the RPG Rogue Mage-feature Thorn St.

The Soulwood series is a dark-urban fantasy / paranormal police procedural /para-thriller series featuring Nell Nicholson Ingram, an earth magic user and Special gent of PsyLED. Jane is a full blooded Cherokee skinwalker and hunter of rogue-vampires in a world of weres, witches, vampires, and other supernats. Faith Hunter's Junkyard Cats novella series is available in Audible and eBook at this time.įaith's Jane Yellowrock series is a dark urban fantasy.

Blood Cross by Faith Hunter