Brooke Carter
@brookecarter.bsky.social
Author. Latest book: GHOST GIRL (Silver Birch Express Honour Book. ALA Rainbow List. NYPL Best Book.) Coming soon: GHOST GIRL 2: THE OTHER SIDE
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There are too many social apps. I cannot manage them all.
August 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
There are too many social apps. I cannot manage them all.
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COVER REVEAL!!! Spaceships, stars, mysterious energy fields, and Big Impressive Font! Check out the cover for my "Voyager meets DS9" inspired original space opera THE PHOTONIC EFFECT...which you can add on Goodreads right now! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
It's a COVER LAUNCH for New York Times bestselling author Mike Chen's new science fiction novel, THE PHOTONIC EFFECT!
Out in paperback April 2026, you can preorder your copy now!
Cover design by Ella Laytham
Cover illustration by @Tegnemaskin (Instagram)
Out in paperback April 2026, you can preorder your copy now!
Cover design by Ella Laytham
Cover illustration by @Tegnemaskin (Instagram)
June 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
COVER REVEAL!!! Spaceships, stars, mysterious energy fields, and Big Impressive Font! Check out the cover for my "Voyager meets DS9" inspired original space opera THE PHOTONIC EFFECT...which you can add on Goodreads right now! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
I was going to write a post declaring that “I HAVE NEWS” ( 👀 ) and it autocorrected to “I HAVE BEES”... Not true. Don’t have bees (sadly). But the news thing is real.
June 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I was going to write a post declaring that “I HAVE NEWS” ( 👀 ) and it autocorrected to “I HAVE BEES”... Not true. Don’t have bees (sadly). But the news thing is real.
I know I’m really making progress in a narrative when I start having conversations out loud with myself… in public. I sincerely hope I’m not the only writer to do this.
April 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I know I’m really making progress in a narrative when I start having conversations out loud with myself… in public. I sincerely hope I’m not the only writer to do this.
I’m at that stage of writing where I want to tune out the world and just immerse myself in this new dark daydream of a book.
April 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’m at that stage of writing where I want to tune out the world and just immerse myself in this new dark daydream of a book.
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Don't forget to pack an extra lunch for your existential dread today.
March 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Don't forget to pack an extra lunch for your existential dread today.
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It was the worst of times, it was the holy smokes how much worse are things gonna get of times.
February 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
It was the worst of times, it was the holy smokes how much worse are things gonna get of times.
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THEM: Hello, ho--
ME: NOT GREAT.
ME: NOT GREAT.
March 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
THEM: Hello, ho--
ME: NOT GREAT.
ME: NOT GREAT.
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I’ve only got myself to blame but where’s the fun in that?
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I’ve only got myself to blame but where’s the fun in that?
I’m trying to remember why I started writing in the first place, how it helped me find a light in the darkness, how a story is a living thing that can change the world.
March 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I’m trying to remember why I started writing in the first place, how it helped me find a light in the darkness, how a story is a living thing that can change the world.
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*puts on bathing suit and slowly lowers myself into a panicked kool aid man*
January 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
*puts on bathing suit and slowly lowers myself into a panicked kool aid man*
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can’t imagine being married to a poet, you’d be all how was your day and they’d be like i wandered lonely as a cloud
December 26, 2024 at 4:34 PM
can’t imagine being married to a poet, you’d be all how was your day and they’d be like i wandered lonely as a cloud
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Just cause I don’t have anything to say doesn’t mean I’m going to stop posting
May 29, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Just cause I don’t have anything to say doesn’t mean I’m going to stop posting
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No I'm not "going through it" I'm "always in it" and in fact "one with it"
January 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
No I'm not "going through it" I'm "always in it" and in fact "one with it"
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Aren’t you a little old to be experiencing joy
January 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Aren’t you a little old to be experiencing joy
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can’t rn i’m busy thinking about how mr mister gave people broken wings and then had the temerity to tell them to learn to fly again
January 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
can’t rn i’m busy thinking about how mr mister gave people broken wings and then had the temerity to tell them to learn to fly again
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You say "potato". I say "potato". Our inflections match. The algorithm assigns us to share Sleep Quadrant F-2301.
January 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
You say "potato". I say "potato". Our inflections match. The algorithm assigns us to share Sleep Quadrant F-2301.
Remembering when my little book THE UNBROKEN HEARTS CLUB came into the world in early 2019. My teen photographer character, Logan Imogen Flanagan, struggled with her explorations into love, but found healing through the club of broken-hearted people she photographed.
January 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Remembering when my little book THE UNBROKEN HEARTS CLUB came into the world in early 2019. My teen photographer character, Logan Imogen Flanagan, struggled with her explorations into love, but found healing through the club of broken-hearted people she photographed.
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Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my morning acorn cap full of dewdrops
January 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my morning acorn cap full of dewdrops
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[you find a mysterious charging port on your body]
oh no
[also it’s not usb-c]
OH NO
oh no
[also it’s not usb-c]
OH NO
December 5, 2024 at 1:56 PM
[you find a mysterious charging port on your body]
oh no
[also it’s not usb-c]
OH NO
oh no
[also it’s not usb-c]
OH NO
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To the guy who sold me this cloning machine, how do you live with yourself?
January 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
To the guy who sold me this cloning machine, how do you live with yourself?
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I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya
It’s a cold and it’s a broken “cowabunga”
December 22, 2024 at 11:27 PM
I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya
Very excited about the Forest of Reading Festival in May!
January 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Very excited about the Forest of Reading Festival in May!
It’s 2025 and I’m still fighting the urge to cut my own bangs.
January 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It’s 2025 and I’m still fighting the urge to cut my own bangs.