back from the dead!
Boo! Right in time for Halloween, the Carter Roy Books website has returned! The old site—created but never finished by some hired guns...
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BLOOD GUARD a finalist for Connecticut's Nutmeg Award!
May happens to be the month of my birthday, and this year I received one of the best presents I could have hoped for—the news that The...
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BLOOD GUARD to be a Booktrust BookBuzz choice!
Happy news! THE BLOOD GUARD has been chosen as one of the BookTrust BookBuzz selections for this coming autumn. It’s a wonderful charity...
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So this happened.
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...
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BLOOD GUARD a finalist for Missouri’s Truman Readers’ Award!
Christmas has come early this year. How’s that, you ask? Because I just learned that The Blood Guard has snagged one of the dozen spots...
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revealed at last! What will not happen in the third blood guard novel
I confess: When a favorite series of books or movies are between installments, I troll the internet looking for clues about what will...
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librarians are my heroes
Believe me when I tell you this: a librarian saved my life. I was eight and a sweet kid despite an exceedingly grim home life. (Too...
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ICYMI: THE GLASS GAUNTLET IS IN STORES NOW!
What is the Glass Gauntlet? Is it a grueling aptitude test in which teens compete for an unbelievably large cash scholarship? Or is it a...
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Interviewed by Cyrus Webb on ConversationsLIVE
I was very fortunate this past week to be interviewed by arts stalwart Cyrus Webb on his popular radio podcast ConversationsLIVE. The...
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THE BLOOD GUARD wins the Northern Ireland Book Award!
As the last of these updates about the happy news of spring, I thought I would end with a reader’s award that The Blood Guard has...
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BLOOD GUARD a finalist for South Dakota’s YARP Award!
And the happy news just keeps rolling in! I just received notice that The Blood Guard has popped up on the South Dakota Library...
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BLOOD GUARD a finalist for the Maine Student Book Award!
I don’t want to boast, but I had a very good spring and early summer. (Okay, maybe I want to boast a tiny bit.) Chief among the reasons...
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BLOOD GUARD a finalist for the 2015-2016 Iowa Children’s Choice Award!
Yet another reason for my twitchy brimming-over-with-joy state these past several months was this grand good news: The Blood Guard has...
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BLOOD GUARD a finalist for Utah’s 2015-16 Beehive Book Award!
The third wonder of this spring was learning that The Blood Guard has been nominated for Utah’s 2015-16 Beehive Book Award. Like the Iowa...
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“All you speak of is real to me.”
If you’ve read any interviews with me, you may know of my love for the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was the creator not just of...
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Where is my website?
A very good question. If you are one of those blessed souls who visited carterroybooks.com sometime in the past, you’ll remember a...
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I Say Things to People: Interviews
One of the developments in publishing over the past decade is the rise of blogger reviewers—passionate readers who consume novels like...
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Interview on Entertainment Weekly (dot) com
How cool is this? (http://shelf-life.ew.com/2014/03/04/the-blood-guard-qa-excerpt/ )
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