This was the time she started becoming serious with her writing.īefore she went to law school, she had completed two manuscripts that she had submitted to an agent. Starting in 2006 while she was working at a law firm she looked at her husband at dinner and told him I need an exit plan. Once she got into college, she found that she loved studying the law but practicing it was another matter. As such, she decided to study law so that she would have a backup plan. Unlike most authors, Carrie knew that the odds of making it as an author were pretty slim. One question Carrie Ryan always gets asked is why she ended up a lawyer when she wanted to become an author so bad. It was in 2006 that she realized that young adult fiction was becoming very popular and this was just the nudge she needed. But it was not until several years later that she took the plunge and came to realize that she was also good at writing novels not necessarily in the romance genre. As soon as she read those words, she thought why not me too.įor some reason, she just thought that romance novels would be her thing when she became an author. To this day, she believes that she became a speed reader from flipping the pages of their books.Ĭarrie first thought she would become an author after listening to a romance author who said she became an author after thinking she could write after she finished reading a novel.
Ryan still remembers how she used to stay up late reading R.L.
As the youngest of three siblings she used to rifle through the bookshelves of her sisters and this is probably how she started reading romance while she was still very young. Growing up, Carrie Ryan used to read everything and anything that she could get her hands on. She has also collaborated with her husband in writing the “Map to Everywhere” series of novels. She currently lives with her lawyer/writer husband in Charlotte, North Carolina. With the novels in her debut series becoming so popular, “The Forest of Hands and Teeth” was optioned to be made into a major motion picture. Once she published that blockbuster novel, she has never looked back and now has more than a dozen novels across different series. Ryan published the “Forest of Hands and Teeth,” her debut novel that spawned her first series of novels in 2009. She would then go on to practice as a lawyer before she quit to become a full time author. The Greenville South Carolina raised author went to Williams College and then proceeded to earn her degree in law from the School of Law at Duke University. Carrie Ryan is a New York Times bestselling author of mystery, children’s fiction, and young adult fantasy.
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