Your Questions Part 4 and Reverse Q&A!

/ C. R. Hedgcock

Hello everyone! 🙂

It’s been a while since I did a Q&A post here (sorry about that). Many of you were intrigued by the idea of a reverse Q&A, where I ask you things I’m curious about. So after tackling a few of your questions, I’ll ask you some of my own!

 

1) Will the Predzels be in any future books?

I’m not sure yet. I haven’t planned to include them, but they may appear in a future story if they could help the main characters.

 

2) Did Sigurd get Gleym back?

Yes, definitely. 🙂 I love the fact that you remembered to ask about her!

 

3) Do we know what happened to Jigson’s parents?

Oh, I can’t wait for you to read Hunting in the Highlands! The answer is yes!

 

4) How much of the Hrein Orka in Iceland Intrigue is based on real science, and how much is fiction?

It’s mainly fiction … but who knows? Maybe there are principles of it that someone has yet to discover 😉

 

5) What is the significance of ‘Twelve Lemons’?

It’s a phrase with quite a personal meaning for Jigson and Detective Mortimer – otherwise it wouldn’t have guaranteed Jigson’s identity in Iceland Intrigue.

Is it part of a big mystery? Or is it something more innocuous? Will they spill the beans in Book 8? … Maybe!

 

6) When you wrote Hunting the Highlands did you plan out the whole book before you started writing?

Yes. I did make a careful plan so that the book would progress with logical structure and so I would know where the story was going – it had the potential to be quite confusing with characters splitting up and traipsing all over Scotland.

But the need to be flexible arose when I reached the end and realized that the climax was not right for the story … so a whole new ending had to be written!

Do you have burning questions for a future post? Send them via the contact page!

Now … here are my questions for you! 🙂

1. Who are your top 2 favourite male characters?

2. Who are your top 2 female characters?

3. Who is your favourite villain? (Miss Verton, Lewis Nickel, Bud Larone, Rolf/escaped convicts, Dainn, Herr Klaus, or someone else?)

4. Which is your favourite title in the series, and why?

5. Should one of the characters be in a relationship/courtship? Who and why? (I’m not promising anything by asking this 😉 I’m genuinely curious! 🙂 )

I look forward to finding out what you think! 🙂

4,874 thoughts on “Your Questions Part 4 and Reverse Q&A!”

  1. Sounds like we would all have a great time if we all got together! We all have at least one interest in common. Writing anyone?

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  2. It’s been two months since this was posted. Wouldn’t you say we’ve gone a little overboard??? 3K plus comments…….very impressive.

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  4. Wow, an all-new record! We haven’t commented in like…Two days! Oops guess I just ruined that huh, sorry.

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  5. I know everyone has done this already but I really don’t feel like going back and reading all the comments! Would anyone care to answer question number 4? I think I like “prisoners in the Pyrenees” best, It has always been my favorite though I am not completely sure why? The ending is soooooo sad!
    ~Sandrina

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  6. Anyone here, I’m just reminding y’all that you need to give Miss Hedgcock a 5-star review of EVERY book. Please do it. It will help her. Imagine if she could become a New York Times best seller.

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  8. Prisoners of the Pyrenees is my favourite one of the series. I love the plot so much, and all the neat inventions, and the way that we get to see a bit of the emotional side of some of the characters. Also, Briosa and Del Quira, (how do you spell that again) are very well rounded characters, and I loved reading about them. They have very interesting personalities. Actually, Del Quira reminds me a little bit of Dainn, just a bit colder. Anyone else think this?

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  10. Hi guys! I am still here. We have been dealing with alot of stuff recently. It’s been CRAZY at our house and painfully reminding that it is exactly that,our house not our real home. So anyway here is my favorite memory.
    *Note I refer to the people in this story as friends because they were at the time but I would no longer say that about them.*
    We were with friends cliff climbing in Colorado. “Come on” Jac cried as she raced forward lookingbackwards to see if the other kids were following her. They were thou not as fast. She ran around a corner and hid a moment later Joshua and Jaclyn came running around the corner as well. A moment later Luke and John were there as well. “Jac Bonner! I know you are hiding around here, I am in charge of all you kids. So come out right now!” Commanded Joshua. Jac stepped out from her hiding place smiling. “So who wants to go cliff climbing?” She asked. “Me!” Everyone screamed. “But you know we can’t only the adults are doing it today.” Joshua said. “I know the back way up the cliff they are scaling right now.” Jac said. “But it’s to steep!” Luke cried. “And besides we have no aquitment.” Joshua said shaking his head. “Oh fine you chickens have it your way.” Jac said then tagging Jaclyn she took off running. A few minutes later Joshua looked up “Hey were is Jac?” “I’m not sure, but it doesn’t matter she knows this place like the back of her hand she won’t get lost she probably just went back to the adults.” Luke replied.

    Menwhile at the backside of the cliff the adults were climbing Jac sat making a few final preporations for her climb. She mentally went over her list. Yes she was ready. She took a deep breath and began to climb.
    Jac smiled as she belly climbed across the top of the cliff. She poked her head over couple more feet to the right there perfect she smiled deviously. As she lay in wait for her victim to come a little closer she thought over her climb. It had been the hardest one of her life so far shed almost slipped twice. But somehow managed to pull herself to the top. She popped her head over again there just 6 feet away was her victim mrs. Daily climbing up the cliff. She leaned back then coming forward suddenly she propelled her head and shoulders over the edge of the cliff well catching on to the side with her hands and holding her self back with her feet. Boo! She yelled. Misses daily screamed and let go of the side of the cliff she began to fall before catching herself again. Everyone on the ground began screaming Jac’s mother fell to the ground and the father’s begins screaming at her to get back. Jac did so but she had seen enough to know that her trick had worked. She had personally seen Mrs. Daily age 10 years and her first winkles and grey hair had appeared. Jac’s father threw mrs. Daily a climbing harness and anchor. When Mrs Daily had recovered from her scare and finished the climb to top she anchored Jac in. Jac sat patiently for about 20 minutes before she lost all interest unanchored herself, and climbed back down the back side of the cliff.

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  13. My parents have been wanting me to get my licence, but I don’t like driving. I like playing around with ATVs once in awhile but other than that, the fastest thing I’ve driven (or rather ridden) myself is a horse.

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  14. I was wondering are any of you on Facebook? My Mom said she would make a chat group for us, that way we could talk about different things without friending anyone we don’t really know. Would any of you be interested if you are on Facebook?

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    • No problem. My dad used to have it, but then realised it took up too much of his time. But some things on Facebook can be really useful.

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      • My mom still has an account, but she only uses it for communicating with some people and she’s part of some groups that sell stuff here in Montana here. So for example through a Facebook group we found a free horse and will most likely be driving to pick it up tomorrow. It’s a six and a half hour drive with 7 kids in one car including a six-month-old who despises the car seat that should be fun not! LOL😂

      • That should be very fun. A few days ago we went to Tennessee for a revival. (We live in Archdale North Carolina.) All eight kids (Including two who hate car seats) in my family and three other friends of ours rode five hours through the night. We stayed on a resort near our preacher, his wife, son and his wife, and a few other church members who had come.

        We had to drive two more hours to the church. And back. The next morning, we drove the two hours there and stayed in the area. We drove back the next day and it was like eight hours of driving. When we got back we saw that we had left our keys in Tennessee. We had been using a rental van the entire time so we didn’t have keys for our van. Thankfully, we had spare keys at home for our van and the house. The only problem was that we didn’t have Dad’s car keys.

        We called the resort and they did end up finding the keys and sent them to us.

  18. I love the movie “Prince of Egypt” and all the songs in it, I also like “patterns of evidence” and “a case for Christ”. my favorite authors are CR Hedgcock (you might happen to of heard of her), John J Horn, Douglas Bond, Chuck Black, CS Lewis and Robert Elmer. I like sword fighting, most sports including football, tennis, rounders, cricket and tag rugby. I also like sketching, writing, doing things in my church, and being with people n the church.

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  20. What our everyone’s thoughts on Sigurd?
    Also, Kenleaf if you are still around do you mind if I publish your quote with something I added so it would look like this. “The right way is never easy, but it is always the right way.” ~Kenleaf

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  24. I think Sigurd defiantly has a deep and mysterious *sighs with delight and expectation* background. However, I don’t think he is related to Jigson. He seems to have a long connection with the RDC so….

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  26. Here’s one I made up. It’s more of a funny one for fellow writers:) And, maybe I’m not the only one who thought of this. “Don’t follow my trail of thought; I go off road”

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  28. Or, “The feeling of triumph and thankfulness of overcoming a sin, greatly outweighs the momentary pleasure and endless regret of committing it.”

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  29. I like reading quotes by naturally brilliant people. Such as…

    “We are too young to realise that certain things are impossible, so we will do them anyway.”
    -William Wilberforce

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  38. Or ” Without God our week would be,
    Sinday, Mournday, Tearsday, Wasteday, Thristday, Fightday and Shatterday. Remember days without God makes one weak.” ~ No idea

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  40. okay, you and Jac have put on ALOT of quotes! Hmmmmm……” Courage is being scared to death…but saddling up anyway”~John Wayne and “However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer.” I cant remember, and one of my favorites, “the past is history the future is a mystery but the present is a gift and that’s why we call it the present.” I cant remember

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      • Well, being an amateur historian, I will give you the life of Augustine in a nutshell and you can decide for yourself what to think of him.

        St. Augustine was an early church theologian (354-430). Because this was the early church, the “Catholic” church had not reached the differences of creed in the protestant church that we see today. In fact, lots of the christians in the early church after Constantine were catholic. Polycarp for example was martyred for being a christian and burned at the stake, but he was a bishop and is called a saint. Augustine was an atheist during his early life. His mother, Monica prayed for him continually that he would come to know the saviour. Meanwhile, Augustine was rising in fame and power as a gifted speaker and debater. He moved to Rome and abandoned his christian upbringing. While there, he taught rhetoric though most of his students did not pay. When the imperial court in Milan was desiring a rhetoric professor in the court, Augustine won the job and became on of the most influential men in the latin world. While there, God began to work on his heart, and through the gentle teachings of Bishop Ambrose of Milan, Augustine’s life was changed. When he was 31 he heard a voice say to him, “tolle, lege” Take up and read. The first thing he say was a bible, and he began to read in the book of Romans. The specific part he read was: Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof. This struck to Augustine’s heart. He had struggled, and continued to struggle with lust and pleasure. But as God continued His work in Augustine, the temptations were gradually fought against and put to death. In 386, Augustine became a christian. He wrote an account of his conversion called simply “Confessiones” Here is part of what he wrote:

        Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold,
        Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee.
        Thou was with me when I was not with Thee.
        Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness.
        Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness.
        Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace.
        For Thyself Thou hast made us,
        And restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease.
        Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new

        Augustine was baptised in April 387. He sold most of his property and gave the money to the poor.
        In 395, he became bishop of Hippo in Algeria, Africa. He became a famous preacher, and more than 350 of his sermons are preserved for us to read today. Throughout his life, he worked tirelessly to convert the people around him to christianity and was a great witness for the gospel. In being loved by the Saviour, he demonstrated that love to others and made a great impact in the world. To this day, he is considered on of the Church Fathers of the western world.

        Hope that was helpful!!!

      • That is very helpful. I never knew all that about him. What stands out to me is that he was baptized as an adult and Catholics only baptized babies. I’ll tell my dad.

        The only church then wasn’t the Catholics, though, from my research. The Anabaptist or Baptist date back to Christ. They were called Anabaptist (meaning rebaptizers) because they baptized adults even after they were as babies. The infant baptism they said was false because the baby couldn’t understand. The Catholics had erased as much history about the Anabaptist as possible so people would think they were the true church. They also burned Anabaptist at the stake, drowned them in rivers, and murdered them in other horrible ways. Thankfully, in later years people had found some of the history and stories preserved by ancestors of the Anabaptists.

        This is from my research. My dad knows a WHOLE lot more than me.

      • Oh yes, for sure. See, most Early Christians weren’t Catholic, but lot’s of Early Catholic’s were Christians.

  43. LOL speaking about quotes, I have a habit *sheepishly laughs and grins* of printing out every good quote I have read and pasting it to my room door. *Scratches her head* I guess I am going to need two doors now!

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    • Disturb us, Lord, when
      We are too pleased with ourselves,
      When our dreams have come true
      Because we dreamed too little,
      When we arrived safely
      Because we sailed too close to the shore.

      Disturb us, Lord, when
      With the abundance of things we possess
      We have lost our thirst
      For the waters of life;
      Having fallen in love with life,
      We have ceased to dream of eternity
      And in our efforts to build a new earth,
      We have allowed our vision
      Of the new Heaven to dim.

      Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
      To venture on wilder seas
      Where storms will show Your mastery;
      Where losing sight of land,
      We shall find the stars.

      We ask you to push back
      The horizons of our hopes;
      And to push back the future
      In strength, courage, hope, and love.

      This we ask in the name of our Captain,
      Who is Jesus Christ.

      One of the best prayers I ever hear, and one that touched me greatly.

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  45. Don’t you despise when you’re on a BFA theory roll and something majorly distractions you and you can’t remember what your idea was. I had a really cool idea regarding Sigurd then I looked up and my dog was having a seizure, and now I can’t remember my idea.

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    • Is your dog okay now, Jac? (That happens to me with my story writing though it’s usually forgetting as I’m walking from the shower to a sheet of paper or the computer. Ugh.)

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      • Yes, he is ok now thank you. He has some sort of allergy to something in his new dog food I’m not sure what. I know he has a grain allergy but this was grain free. We only got this because we’re we normally get ours quite selling it. So anyway we tried a new one and in the 30 hours he has had 8 sizures. But luckily I did scrouge on Google and find somewhere where they do sell our old one that you can order it. But it won’t be here for a few more days so we’re just going to have to feed him eggs and stuff. My my I have a picky dog.

      • I did put my basic idea up in the comments were we were talking about it, I just didn’t include the part I forgot. LOL

  50. I have a random question for everyone. I am trying to broaden my range of music I listen to, it seems like I pretty much have everything I listen to memorized. And I was like to listen to some different stuff but I’m not sure what to listen to. What are everyone’s favorite artists, songs, and albums?

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