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Carrie-Anne is my pen name I've had for coming up on eighteen years this May, since I was thirteen years old. I was never too keen on my given name, since it's the most overused female name in history after only Mary. Yes, I did take my pen name from the song.
I just joined this forum a few days ago, after perusing it for awhile and deciding it would be a helpful place to join now that I'm finally seriously querying for one of my books. I started reading at three years old (first book was Grimm's Fairy Tales), starting writing at four years old (first of many picture books I wrote was called I and a Sunhat), and began writing text-only books (except for ephemeral illustrations of the characters) at about eleven. I was querying for two of my books about ten years ago, but I gave up too quickly and now am continuing to query till I sign with an agent and fulfill my dream since childhood of being a published writer.
I write historical fiction serials (four of them featuring the same characters and overlapping at certain points), at least one of which is YA, in addition to some futuristic/soft sci-fi YA books I've had on hiatus for awhile, and another project on hiatus, an alternative history of what it would have been like had the Romanovs not been assassinated and Aleksey had become the tsar as a young man. I write entirely 20th century historical fiction now, though I wrote mostly 19th century historical fiction as a preteen.
The book I'm querying now may need to be split into a trilogy since it ended up a bit longer than I'd expected (397,000 words), and was on a 16.5-year hiatus (caused by losing the first 100+ pages) until I went back to it from scratch in November. It's the growing-up story and eventual happy ending of the little girl whom I imagined could have been the girl who inspired the famous Four Seasons' song "Rag Doll."
I just joined this forum a few days ago, after perusing it for awhile and deciding it would be a helpful place to join now that I'm finally seriously querying for one of my books. I started reading at three years old (first book was Grimm's Fairy Tales), starting writing at four years old (first of many picture books I wrote was called I and a Sunhat), and began writing text-only books (except for ephemeral illustrations of the characters) at about eleven. I was querying for two of my books about ten years ago, but I gave up too quickly and now am continuing to query till I sign with an agent and fulfill my dream since childhood of being a published writer.
I write historical fiction serials (four of them featuring the same characters and overlapping at certain points), at least one of which is YA, in addition to some futuristic/soft sci-fi YA books I've had on hiatus for awhile, and another project on hiatus, an alternative history of what it would have been like had the Romanovs not been assassinated and Aleksey had become the tsar as a young man. I write entirely 20th century historical fiction now, though I wrote mostly 19th century historical fiction as a preteen.
The book I'm querying now may need to be split into a trilogy since it ended up a bit longer than I'd expected (397,000 words), and was on a 16.5-year hiatus (caused by losing the first 100+ pages) until I went back to it from scratch in November. It's the growing-up story and eventual happy ending of the little girl whom I imagined could have been the girl who inspired the famous Four Seasons' song "Rag Doll."