Rachel Carter's Blog

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It's finally, finally spring. Why I moved to a state filled with ice and subzero temperatures, I'll never know. Regardless, I have two reasons to celebrate these days: the snow is slowly disappearing, and it's time for the Spring YA Scavenger Hunt. This is an event created by Colleen Houckas a way to give readers access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors and a chance to win some very amazingprizes.

Not only will you get exclusive content from authors (I made a SO CLOSE T...

Somehow it has been a full year since I moved back to Vermont, and almost three months since the final So Close to You book came out. Yeesh, time flies. Well, the good news is that it's time for the Fall 2014 YA Scavenger Hunt!This is an event created by Colleen Houckas a way to give readers access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors...and a chance to win some very amazingprizes.

Not only will you get exclusive content from authors (I'm sharing a deleted scene fromFind Me...

It's been a little over a week since FIND ME WHERE THE WATER ENDS came out. Can you believe it? I can't. It is very surreal to have the series be, well, over. But at the same time I'm soooo happy to share the final chapter with everyone - now I can finally talk about everything. Like, what was up with Wes, what happens to the Montauk Project, does Lydia get a happy ending, etc.

Speaking of which, if anyone has ANY Lydia/Wes/Montauk/Book 3 questions, please send them my way. Email me (rachelca...

LOOK WHAT I GOT.

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They are so pretty. Seriously. So. Pretty.

I love the sky, I love the hair, I love the deckled pages. And the book itself is black:

EEKK I LOVE IT.

Plus now I can finally do this:

And this:

And zomigod this:

I'm so excited. The book comes out in about a week - July 1st. Mark your calendars, pre-order, pre-order, start the series from the beginning, whatever! And if you still haven't read So Close to You, now's the time - the Kindle version is only $1.99!

All I w...

I cannot believe how fast this year is flying by - it's already time for the Spring 2014 YA Scavenger Hunt!This is an event created by Colleen Houckas a way to give readers access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors...and a chance to win some very amazingprizes.

Not only will you get exclusive content from authors (in my case, a very top secret scene from Find Me Where the Water Ends- the final book in my series, not out till July!) but you will also get a clue on each pa...

WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

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Yesterday I watched the Veronica Mars movie. And then I rewatched it. And rewatched it. And then maybe rewatched it. Then rewatched certain make-out-lift-up-by-the-ass-to-perfect-hipster-music scenes OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am a fangirl.

This comes as no surprise, I'm sure. In fact, I don't think I've met a single YA author who isn't a crazy-fan in one sense or another. We are consumed by stories, after all, and those epic, n...

YA Meets Kdrama is a weekly blog feature where 4 other writers/bloggers/readers and myself cast young adult novels as Korean dramas. Because we are obsessed. And awesome.

Here are some recent posts:

Katie M Stout casts Shiver

Christina at A Reader of Fictions casts Being Sloane Jacobs

I'm incredibly excited to be casting one of my favorite YAs this time around: Tithe by Holly Black.

Tithe was one of the first "modern" YAs I read, and definitely my first dark tale of faeries. I became obsesse...

This past week I rereadEva Ibbotson's A Countess Below Stairs,and I just knew I had to turn it into my next installment of YA Meets Kdrama.

I've made no secret of my enduring love for Ibbotson, and I think all of her books would make awesome Kdramas. A Countess Below Stairs is especially perfect: an attractive older man with power, a spunky girl down on her luck, an evil second lead who stands in the way of true love. Seriously, I just described the plot of every Kdrama ever.

In case you're...

I've spoken a little bit on this blog about my other jobs. Writing is my dream, my main focus, my future. What it is not, necessarily, is my bread winner. I don't know many writers who write just to make money, because the truth is that it's not a profession where you can hope to have a steady and long term flow of cash.

Don't get me wrong - this is not me complaining. I'm so excited to see SO CLOSE TO YOU on bookshelves that I still happy dance every time (it's getting very awkward for all m...