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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."
 

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Howdy from the Peach State, Carrie-Anne. Welcome to the forums.
 

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Welcome to AW, Carrie-Anne.
 

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Don't forget to read the Newbie's Guide and enjoy AW


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Welcome to AW. Hope you enjoy your stay with us.
How do you like your popcorn?

If you go to the bottom of the page to the ‘forum jump’ you can scroll down and find all the areas of this place. Most of the SYW areas require the password of ….vista. A word to the wise, (50 posts), it would be a good idea to participate first in helping others before you think about posting your own work. After you have been around here for awhile, then post something of your own for help. Good luck.
 

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Hi there Carrie-Anne, and welcome to AW. I also write historical fiction, the kind that reminds of The Three Musketeers or The Scarlet Pimpernel. Already two titles in print, the other publication being a collection of short stories.


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Greetings and welcome to the watercooler :welcome:

Take a wander around the various forums, there's lots to see and lots to learn, and even some fun threads too. Come along and pop on over to the Newbie Pub (at the top of the Newbie forum) and say hi, there's plenty of friendly faces that you can chat with and lots of banter. There's also the Question of the Day threads at the top of the Newbie forum where you can answer random questions.

Don't forget to read the newbie guide, and if you want to know what all the buttons mean check out this thread.