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Colleen McCarty

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Born

in Tulsa , The United States

Website

http://www.colleen-mccarty.com

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Genre

Fiction, Suspense, Contemporary

Influences

Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, JoJo Moyes, J.K. Rowling, Gillian Fl ...more

Member Since

July 2013

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/colleen_mccarty

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I think I always knew I wanted to write, but kept trying to talk myself out of it. In college, I enrolled as an English major, but quickly switched when I realized I had no idea how I would make a living as an English major. I switched to something business-y.

I became an entrepreneur, opening two restaurants and a publishing company before my 28th birthday. But I always felt a tug. It wasn’t that I didn’t love helping people publish their books, and it wasn’t that I didn’t love marketing for my husband and I’s restaurant (Mod’s Coffee and Crepes, bee tee dubs)—there was just something missing.

When I would tell a story to a group of friends, or get really into a great book for example, I felt more alive. Something inside clicked on. So, eve ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 27 ratings · 10 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Mounting the Whale 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Many Names of Magdalena Cruz 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Fangirl

by Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)

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Why We Broke Up

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The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)

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Quotes by Colleen McCarty (?)

“I'm tired of being inside my head. I want to live out here, with you.”
― Colleen McCarty, Mounting the Whale

tags: get-out-of-your-head, love, obsessive, ocd, over-analyzing, over-thinking, relationships, together

72 likes

“Guys have a mental calendar of days in the week, and below the days are empty boxes. On days when they have sex, the box gets a checked. The check mark means all is good and right in the world. An empty box means...not that.”
― Colleen McCarty, Mounting the Whale

tags: approval, approval-of-others, emotional, guys, love, men, physical-attraction, relationships, sex

2 likes

“Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.”
― Colleen McCarty, Mounting the Whale

tags: books, fiction, finding-the-right-guy, good-relationship, in-love, love, relationships, worth-it

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Colleen’s Quotes

“Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.”
― Colleen McCarty, Mounting the Whale

tags: books, fiction, finding-the-right-guy, good-relationship, in-love, love, relationships, worth-it

1 likes

“I'm tired of being inside my head. I want to live out here, with you.”
― Colleen McCarty, Mounting the Whale

tags: get-out-of-your-head, love, obsessive, ocd, over-analyzing, over-thinking, relationships, together

72 likes

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

3617 likes