Monday, January 16, 2012

About the Author: Ally Carter

Ally Carter was born and raised in Oklahoma. Her mother was a teacher and her father a farmer and rancher. She has one older sister. In high school, she was very active in a number of student organizations and graduated as co-valedictorian of her senior class. She then attended Oklahoma State University and Cornell University and worked for several years in the agricultural industry before writing full-time. Her first novel, Cheating at Solitaire was published in 2005. Then, she followed that up with her first novel for young adults, I’d Tell You I Love You but Then I’d Have to Kill You in April 2006. In the fall of that year she published the sequel to Solitaire, Learning to Play Gin. Her books have been published in more than twenty countries and have appeared on best-seller lists from the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Barnes and Noble, IndieBound, and Bookscan. She now lives in Oklahoma and works as a full-time writer. You can visit Ally Carter at allycarter.com Other books Ally Carter has written are Only the Good Spy Young, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have to Kill You, Uncommon Criminals, Learning to Play Gin, and Cheating at Solitaire. I think Ally Carter wrote this book because she has an interest in spying and mystery. I have read a few of her books and they all relate to spying and or mysteries. She said on her website that she was listening to a book on tape in the car and it was describing a situation where a boy had to steal food from the kitchen without waking his parents up. The line was, “I was a cat burglar in my own house…”. Right then she said that she knew she wanted to write a book about a girl named Kat who was a burglar. She had just finished writing another book in the Gallagher Girls series and was looking for a new, fresh, book to write. Also on Ally Carter's website, she said that part of her inspiration for this book was her love of con movies. She had always been fascinated by the bad guys who were actually the good guys and wanted to incorporate them into her novel about Kat.

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