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About the Author

Ms. Carter (she/her) is a writer, registered nurse, and 12-year BC survivor. She is originally from Pennsylvania, has lived and worked in Suffolk, England, and now battles the beltway in Northern Virginia. She draws on extensive European and American travels to add fine details to the characters who are yearning for their stories to be told. 

TC's recent credentials include articles in professional journals and presentations at national conferences. Her romance short story, BATTLEFIELDS, was selected for the Virginia Writers Club Journal and a poem placed first for the NVWC Golden Nib Award. Lately, she has been obsessing about writing historical romance novels with a women’s rights theme. 

Ms. Carter has a BSN, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, and an Emory University Certificate in Creative Writing.  She is a USAF Nurse Corps veteran. TC is also a member of local and national writers' groups, and is grateful to her critique partners and editor! When she is not writing, TC soaks in writing seminars and researches historical romance plots. Ms. Carter recharges in the gorgeous Shenandoah Mountains on hikes with her husband and their energetic rescue dog.

Request the introductory newsletter to learn more about all the fun historical novel research. Scroll down for more about the author's activities, promises to readers, and thoughts on a pen name.

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Promise of a Happily Ever After

My own promise to readers: I am sensitive to trigger warnings but know they cannot always be published ahead of book releases.  The focus is on the love story and not the politics of the time. This author will not shock you with graphic violence. Consent is sexy. You will not happen upon scenes involving rape, child abuse, or gory death. I can't stand "old-timey" humor at the expense of LGBTQ or minority communities, so that part of historical research will be left off. There will be no lightly dismissed miscarriage of a pregnancy or infertility. And, no animals will be harmed! Yes, people will behave badly. A hero must throw a well-deserved punch once in a while. A cornered heroine will give the villain a shove. Characters deep in thought will recall sad events that shaped their motivations. There is no way to know or avoid all the possible topics that could trigger a reader. But thankfully, in the romance genre, we will always travel together to the happily ever after.

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What's in a name? 

Selecting a pseudonym was not easy! As a pediatric nurse, I've been published professionally and wanted to keep my novel writer name separate. I thought up the tagline: Love the Truest Version of Yourself.  It is now trademarked by the USPTO.  The name came about as I noticed some of my favorite quotes had this recurring word. It jumped out at me from the page. Admittedly, some of my favorite literary quotes come from authors with a grumpy history.

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."--Ernest Hemingway

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."--Charles Dickens

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."--Henry David Thoreau

"As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was."--Arundhati Roy