Dear Ally, How Do You Write a Book? by Ally Carter

The sequel to I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, titled Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy was released on October 2, 2007, in the United States. It was selected as a Texas Lone Star reading list book for 2007-2008. She then began her career as young-adult novelist with the Gallagher Girls series and later developed the Heist Society series along with various novellas based on these two series'.Ĭarter's first young-adult novel was I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You, the story of a girl who goes to a prestigious spy school and falls for a normal boy who has no idea who she really is. In her free time, she began her work as an author of two adult novels, Cheating at Solitaire, published on December 6, 2005, and Learning to Play Gin, which was subsequently released on November 7, 2006. at Cornell University for Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. Career Education and beginnings Ĭarter graduated with a degree in agricultural economics at Oklahoma State University in 1997 and earned her M.A. The last name 'Carter' was specifically selected so that her novels would be near those of her fellow adult fiction novelist Jennifer Crusie on bookstore and library shelves. Ally Carter in the Provo Library at a teen author meet and greet in 2019.Īlly Carter is the pen name of Sarah Leigh Fogleman (born January 1, 1974), an American author of young adult fiction and adult-fiction novels.Ĭarter chose the pen name 'Ally Carter' to distinguish the books she would write under that name from her other literary work.

Dear Ally, How Do You Write a Book? by Ally Carter