By Tanya Carter
“No Accounting for Pagans”
Upcoming Release, Late 2026
What happens when a motorcycle gang moves into the neighborhood? This suspense story will be released as part of the Gold Bridges, Dark Rivers anthology, edited by Peter Hayes.
By Tanya Carter
Shelf Life
Work in Progress
A brutal attack on a local grocery store owner in the fictional town of Edison, Pennsylvania, sends shock waves through the community and tests the bonds that hold the town together. Long-held secrets are exposed, testing the character of many of the town’s residents, including the new Chief of Police, Jake Keenan; Lucas Harmon, a veteran who has moved back home to find some elusive peace; Jackson Wagner, a neurodivergent teenager; and Piper Jones, a young woman who is trying to keep her family organic farm alive while shelving her dream of a career in music. Through shifting points of view, the novel presents a town in flux that nevertheless defends its essential humanity against the mayhem that threatens it.
Anne Lamott suggests that the very best novels remind us of the ways in which we take care of one another.Tanya Carter’s novel, “Shelf Life,” does exactly this, and then some.
Literary Suspense Novelist
Tanya Carter
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
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Upcoming Projects
Work in Progress
Half Life
Suspense
It is fall in Edison, the season when the leaf peepers come to town and the Scout troops are hiking in the woods. Police Chief Jake Keenan is called to a grisly scene–an unidentified vagrant with his chest cavity torn open has been left in a shallow grave. Who is he, and who is leaving mutilated bodies in the Westmoreland County countryside?
My Writing Blog
Musings
Oh what a difference an acceptance letter makes!
Today I got my first acceptance letter, for a short story I submitted for an anthology. September has been a real slog at my day job. For those of you who know me through my place of employment, you know that recent organizational changes have made things difficult....
The Odyssey
The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan, is out this week. I love retellings of classic stories, and I love to go to epic movies. Sounds like a win for what to watch this weekend, right? But there is a hill I will die on, and that hill is that you can't get a...
Things are growing…
A while ago I shared here that while I hadn't written anything new in a while I was focusing on other creative pursuits--things like knitting and gardening. I am happy to report that while my garden has been thriving in the hot weather we've been having, so has my...
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