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Marked for life by reading DRACULA at the age of twelve, Margaret L. Carter specializes in the literature of fantasy and the supernatural, particularly vampires. She received degrees in English from the College of William and Mary, the University of Hawaii, and the University of California. She is a 2000 Eppie Award winner in horror, and with her husband, retired Navy Captain Leslie Roy Carter, she coauthored a fantasy novel, WILD SORCERESS.

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Margaret L. Carter I would visit C. S. Lewis's Narnia -- during one of the tranquil periods in its history! -- to meet talking animals, attend a feast with the king or q…moreI would visit C. S. Lewis's Narnia -- during one of the tranquil periods in its history! -- to meet talking animals, attend a feast with the king or queen, and (I hope) get to have an encounter with Aslan.(less)
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Tentacles of Love

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Merry Twinness

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Summertide Echoes

My light paranormal romance novella "Summertide Echoes," set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, was published in July 2025. Friends to lovers and two ghosts!

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"I'm a huge horror wimp, but I love T. Kingfisher's Sworn Soldier novellas so much anyway that I snap them up immediately whenever a new one comes out. And this series is just getting better and better! This one involves horrors in a West Virginia coa" Read more of this review »
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Witches, Weres, a...: 5 star rated books 25 327 Oct 16, 2012 04:44PM  
Terry Pratchett
“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

C.S. Lewis
“But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

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Margaret Carter As much as I love physical bookstores, it was so often a frustrating experience to look for a book in a store and not find it. Especially backlist novels by long-established authors. Online, almost anything is available.


Janice So far, I have, but it looks like that there are certain books I can't get otherwise....oh, well. Have a great day.


Margaret Carter I don't know how I'd get along without it. :)


Janice Happy New Year, and I may join Amazon, in 2018.


Margaret Carter As I mentioned, they're not likely to be in used-book stores (except maybe the Harlequin novel, EMBRACING DARKNESS), but there are plenty on Amazon.


Janice Thank you much. I'll try it, and I make check some of the used bookstores. Have a great day.


Margaret Carter Alas, quite a few of my books are presently in limbo because two publishers closed. If you like "good guy vampires," I hope you might like my "Vanishing Breed" vampire universe. Best one to start with is DARK CHANGELING:

http://www.tinyurl.com/DarkChangeling

Here's the publisher that's rereleasing many of the books. The newest, CRIMSON DREAMS, is a vampire romance:

http://www.writers-exchange.com/Crims...

You won't find my books in actual bookstores, as they are all e-books; they were also released in print, but with the new publisher not having put them back into paperback yet, that's not an option now -- except that you might find used trade paperbacks online, but not in bookstores.

Amazon has lots of used copies of my one Harlequin vampire romance, EMBRACING DARKNESS.


message 3: by Janice (last edited Jun 27, 2017 04:29PM)

Janice I expect I will, as I love books about good guy/good gal shifters I guess I'll have to special order them. I don't recall seeing the in Barnes & Noble, which is the only non-used bookstore I've been able to get to lately. Have a great day.


Margaret Carter Thanks, I hope you will like some of them.


Janice Thank you for friending me. I haven't yet read any of your books, but I've been quite curious. Have a great day.


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