Storyteller

Award Winning Filmmaker Releases First Novel in A Human Fairy Tale® Chronicle

About the Author

C. Jill Hefte’s passion is creating fairy tales about Human Fairies.

An artist in all possible ways, she is a dancer, sculptor, screenwriter, a first time novelist and a lover of life.

Clarissa Hedgestone and the Blood Moon is the first novel in her Clarissa Hedgestone Chronicle.

C. Jill lives in Carmel, California with her beloved Bichon Frise, Sophie Tu.

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More about the Author

For C. Jill Hefte creating and developing her own worlds is her passion. As a child, she loved entertaining the neighborhood children with her storytelling. She was also an avid reader and would read under her covers well into the night. Her imagination took over as she visualized each book in detail. It’s not surprising that she wrote her first play at ten years old.

Her first screenplay “Railroad Crossings” got her signed to the Harry Upland Agency in Hollywood—sharing her representation with Marty Scorsese and Robert De Niro among others.

Jill won a scholarship for screenwriting with the National Endowment of the Arts then wrote produced and directed the film short “A Given Moment” which took a Bronze award at the New York Film Festival.

An artist in all possible ways, C. Jill is a Cal Berkeley graduate and the first undergraduate to show her art pieces at the UC Berkeley Museum.

With an enthusiasm for life that is contagious, C. Jill took to performing arts and flourished. She is a retired professional dancer who still loves to dance.

The memory of her long-term writing partner, Frank Unruh, is always with her as is his advice to her before passing “Forget about original screenplays… Go write a novel then they’ll make it into a screenplay and you’ll get paid twice.

Clarissa Hedgestone and the Blood Moon is the first novel in her Clarissa Hedgestone Chronicle. C. Jill lives in Carmel, California with her beloved Bichon Frise, Sophie Tu.