Wingspan: What is your most memorable experience going on a book signing tour?Ĭarter: “It’s not a flattering story, but my favorite story is this one time I was touring with another author. If I can help somebody stay interested in reading, then that’s a good day’s work.”

Wingspan: What do you hope to accomplish at your book signing events and author visits at school?Ĭarter: “It’s just always really fun to connect with readers and hear their stories and find out what they like, what they’re into. You never know where inspiration is going to come from.” I thought how cool would it be to grow up in embassies all around the world. She mentioned that her son, who is in college, was thinking about going into foreign services, but she didn’t know how she felt about the idea of her grandchildren growing up in embassies around the world. For example the series that I am writing right now, which is called Embassy Row, the first book is All Fall Down, the second book is See How They Run, and it was inspired when I was talking to my librarian. Wingspan: What inspires you to write the stories you’ve written?Ĭarter: “Lots of different things.

Once I went up a half size, it was like this is what it is supposed to feel like.” It kind of felt like, I’ll use the analogy that it kind of felt like I was wearing shoes that were the wrong size. Wingspan: Why do you choose to write for the young adult audience primarily?Ĭarter: “My first two books were adult books, and I had fun writing them, but YA is just so much more fun. Up until that point, we were reading people like William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and it felt like if you weren’t a dead European, you couldn’t have written a book so it was really nice to find out that real people did that.” She lived nearby and that was the first time it ever occurred to me that people from Oklahoma could write books.

I read the book The Outsiders for the very first time and I realized and found out that she was from Oklahoma. Wingspan: When did you decide you wanted to be an author?Ĭarter: “Probably the idea first landed when I was in middle school. Before talking to fans at Barnes and Noble she sat down with Wingspan’s Rahmin Jawaid. Carter is the author of more than 20 books and has made numerous best-seller lists. One of the top YA authors in the country, Ally Carter spent Wednesday in Frisco talking to students in the school’s library before making an appearance at Barnes and Noble.

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