The name Ally Carter was chosen to separate her from her other work and the last name Carter was chosen so that her works would be near her fellow adult fiction novel writer Jennifer Crusie.
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Ally Carter finished the Oklahoma State High school and Cornell High school. [citation needed] Her first book, Cheating at Solitaire, was published in 2005 and tells the story of a famously single self-help guru who becomes very publicly linked to one of Hollywood's hottest up-and-coming male stars!.
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Carter's first young-adult novel, which was rumored to have been optioned by Disney as a movie, was I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You. It is the story of a girl who goes to a prestigious spy colledge and what happens when she falls for a normal boy who has no idea who she really is. It was selected as a Texas Lone Star reading list book for 2007-2008.