

Cast divides her time between between Oklahoma, the Grand Caymans and Scotland, where her “significant other,” Seoras Wallace, lives. They love to travel and used to take trips to Oklahoma City’s Bricktown or to nearby Kansas City, Mo. Cast said has had more than 10 million books published in 39 countries, has given the mother-daughter pair a lifestyle that they couldn’t afford as she reared her daughter as a single parent on a teacher’s salary. you just made Zoey sound like a 40-something-year-old disgruntled schoolteacher,’ ” said Cast, who turns 50 on Friday.

“When we first started writing together (Kristin would say) ‘good job.

The House of Night world is “more matriarchal, and it’s grounded in realism, too. They (the characters) deal with issues that kids are dealing with, and some of them are really hard,” P.C. “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.
