He worked for a time managing online services for a number of newspapers and journals until he broke into writing in the 90's.
[1][2] His writing influences include Jack Williamson,[3] Stephen Goldin, David Gemmell, Bruce Sterling, Larry Niven and Michael Moorcock.
[6] Hunt's first fantasy novel, For the Crown and the Dragon, was published in 1994 after winning the WH Smith's New Talent Award.
His second novel, The Court of the Air, the first of Hunt's Jackelian series, was published by Harper Collins in 2007.
In 2011, Hunt was among 85 authors - which included Iain M Banks, Elizabeth Moon and Michael Moorcock - who wrote to the BBC's director general, Mark Thompson, attacking its "sneering" coverage of genre fiction on World Book Day.