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Rachel Carter

Rachel Carter

Rachel Carter grew up surrounded by trees and snow and mountains. She graduated from the University of Vermont and Columbia University, where she received her MFA in nonfiction writing. She is the author of the So Close to You series with Harperteen. These days you can find her working on her next novel in the woods of Vermont.

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Rachel Carter

Miscellany

Revolutionary Ideas for Independence Day Style

Between Poldark, Outlander, Turn: Washington's Spies, Sons of Liberty and the BBC miniseries Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, the colonial period is everywhere these days. And while we love the romance and epic storylines told through the eyes of soldiers, servants and time travelers, we’re becoming more than a little…
Rachel Carter
July 2, 2015
Fiction

Inspiring fictional heroines who look like real women

There is often an assumption while reading that the main characters are going to be thin. Unless otherwise stated, the reader is expected to picture a woman with slim legs, a man with a muscular frame. There might even be a chance that the female character will be “curvy”—which usually…
Rachel Carter
June 17, 2015
Fiction

Sense8 lovers, here are 3 novels to tease the mind

When exactly did Netflix become a trailblazer for new and inventive TV? It seems like only yesterday they were sending DVDs to your door for cheap, and now their high-quality shows and binge-model standard are changing the way we think about and consume television. Their newest offering is a dark…
Rachel Carter
June 10, 2015
Fiction

Was that gut-wrenching Outlander finale too much for you?

Outlander’s season finale aired on Saturday, and it was disturbing, to say the least. After leading up to a confrontation all season, Jamie is tortured and sexually assaulted at the hands of Black Jack Randall, and the show never once spares us from the excruciating details. It was difficult to…
Rachel Carter
June 3, 2015
Nonfiction

Micheline Nader says: Let the Dolphin Dance guide you

Conscious awareness is something that many of us only dream of—if we’ve heard of it at all. But that state of self-understanding seems closer than ever, thanks to Micheline Nader’s new book, The Dolphin’s Dance: Discover Yourself Through a Powerful 5 Step Journey into Conscious Awareness (Balboa Press, 2015). Her self-help…
Rachel Carter
June 1, 2015
Fiction

3 Mad Men fan theories we wish were in the finale

It’s always a little bittersweet when a show you watch has its series finale. On the one hand, you finally get to see exactly where the characters end up, and hopefully it’s more or less what you wished for. On the other, those final scenes also bring with them the…
Rachel Carter
May 18, 2015
Fiction

Elizabeth Berg imagines the life of George Sand in The Dream Lover

It’s difficult not to look back on the past as a black-and-white photograph: staid, colorless, and more conservative than our own time. “Each generation thinks it invented sex: each generation is totally mistaken,” author Robert Heinlein once famously wrote—and of course, he’s right. It’s difficult to picture bygone eras getting…
Rachel Carter
April 9, 2015

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