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Carter Roy

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San Diego, The United States

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http://www.carterroybooks.com

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Children's, Fantasy, Thriller

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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Bruce Coville
Rick Riordan
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Short Version: Carter Roy is the author of The Blood Guard and its sequels, as well as a forthcoming novel from Delacorte/Random House Children's Books. He lives in New York with his wife, a spiky cat, and far too many books.

In-Depth Version: Carter Roy has painted houses and worked on construction sites; waited tables and driven delivery trucks; been a stage hand for rock bands and a videographer on a cruise ship; worked as a line cook in a kitchen, a projectionist in a movie theater, and a rhetoric teacher at a university. He has been a reference librarian and a bookseller, edited hundreds of books for major publishers, and written award-winning short-stories for adult readers that appeared in a half-dozen journals and anthologies.
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Loved Blood Guard and Glass Gauntlet, so when will book number 3 be available, and do you have any working titles? Thanks!

Carter Roy I'm so glad you enjoyed the first two installments! Means a lot to me. (It can be lonely work, writing for an as-yet-unknown audience.) And thank you …moreI'm so glad you enjoyed the first two installments! Means a lot to me. (It can be lonely work, writing for an as-yet-unknown audience.) And thank you for the question—it helps spur on the work!

The plan as I understand it is to have book three out summer next year, though if I manage to hand it in earlier, the publisher may release it sooner. (There are all sorts of issues that affect their scheduling that have nothing to do with me.)

At any rate, I am in the midst of finishing book three now. The provisional title is THE [redacted] BRIDGE. (Why redacted? Because the particular adjective is telling and strange, and we want to save some mystery for later, no?) Suffice to say, a key moment in the story happens atop this here thing: http://www.irei.com/blog/wp-content/u...

(No idea whether Goodreads will allow a URL in an author answer, but why not try?)(less)

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What's so brilliant about your book is the way you grip the reader with each chapter. The twists and turns are great too. How do you maintain those elements of suspense and surprise? Do you plan them out before you start writing?

Carter Roy Thank you for the interesting (and flattering!) question—especially useful when tackling your own writing.

Some writers follow very detailed outlines, …moreThank you for the interesting (and flattering!) question—especially useful when tackling your own writing.

Some writers follow very detailed outlines, so that they know every beat of every chapter of the story before they ever set pen to paper. Others fly by the seat of their pants, making it up as they go along.

I use a mix of both methods. I outline in great detail before I start writing, so that I have good ideas about twists and surprises to come. But then, as I write, I also feel free to throw away what I've outlined if something better suggests itself, or if I start feeling that the pace of the storytelling is off-kilter somehow.

As an example, in the first book, Jack Dawkins finds a ... shocking way to short out the power in the sub-station at the end of the book. In the original outline, I had him create a simpler short, by grounding the electricity via some other means. Which, on reflection, was lazy on my part. And worse, lacked urgency. To save Sammy, he needed to do something radical. And voila, he almost seemed to suggest what that would be. I liked the new solution, and also, it provided for lots of humor—always a plus in my book.

For that matter, in the original outline, Sammy was not going to be a test subject, either. But somewhere along the way he ended up getting caught by the Bend Sinister, and one thing led to another.

It's great fun to come up with surprises along the way, but doing so is much easier if you've planned most of them out to begin with.(less)

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	The Blood Guard (The Blood Guard, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 1,886 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Gauntlet (The Blood Guard, #2) 4.27 avg rating — 724 ratings — published 2015 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eye of the Moon (Eye of the Moon, #1) by Ivan Obolensky (Goodreads Author), Carter Roy (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Vanessa Richardson (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.21 avg rating — 571 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blazing Bridge (The Blood Guard, #3) 4.42 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blood Guard by Roy, Carter (2014) Paperback 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rare Carter Roy THE BLOOD GUARD Audiobook MP3 CD SEALED [Hardcover] Carter Roy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Missing Three (Blood Guard) by Carter Roy (2017-03-02) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Glass Gauntlet (The Blood Guard Series) by Roy, Carter (August 18, 2015) Hardcover by Carter Roy (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Still another pass or two to make on the revised manuscript you see here, but book three is more or less finished! Final title still to be announced, as well as publication date, cover reveal, and more. But I always feel a mixture of relief and joy when I get to this point. Now all that remains to be done is the fine tuning.

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