Scott’s Bookstore
Welcome to my online bookstore, which lists books both for adults and younger readers — in print, ebook, audio, and any other formats currently available. If you’re interested only in my books for kids, please visit Rymadoon.com.
Wooden Bones
Genre: Fantasy
Suggested Reading Level: 9 years and up
Becoming a real boy was just the beginning. The untold story of Pinocchio, with a dark twist. Pino, as he’s come to be known after he became a real boy, has discovered that he has the power to bring puppets to life himself. [Learn more.]
Hardcover:
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The Man Who Made No Mistakes
Suggested Reading Level: 16 years and up
Genre: Fantasy| Short stories
What if you had the power to rewind time? Carter offers up eleven provocative tales that are sure to please his growing number of fans as well as win him new ones.
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The Care and Feeding of Rubber Chickens: A Novel
Genre: Young adult | General fiction
Suggested Reading Level: 16 years and up
Part buddy story, part road trip adventure, and part ruminations on the difference between love and infatuation, the book offers up a vivid portrait of a young man who blunders into a thousand-mile quest to tell the girl of his dreams how he really feels.
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Audio:
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A Tale of Two Giants
Genre: Fantasy
Suggested Reading Level: 9 years and up
They meet on a rainy night, penniless and alone, both of them without a friend in the world. He’s a giant, short for his kind, who doesn’t care about anyone or anything. She’s a stubborn girl who’s lost her mother — and is determined to get her back. Together they take on an empire.
Ebook:
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Drawing a Dark Way: A Fantasy Adventure
Suggested Reading Level: 9 years and up
Genre: Fantasy
When his sister is kidnapped by three black demon creatures with glowing white eyes and huge wings, Jason must pursue her into the dangerous world of Rymadoon to save her. It isn’t long before he discovers that in Rymadoon he’s not just great at drawing . . . He has the power to bring his drawings to life.
Electronic Edition:
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President Jock, Vice President Geek
Genre: Young Adult
Suggested Reading Level: 15 years and up
It was a simple plan. She would help him pass algebra. He would help her win the student election. What could go wrong? The result is the story of two mixed up teenagers struggling to find themselves and the craziest student election ever to hit the halls of Rexton High.
“Carter’s writing is on target.” – Publishers Weekly
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Audio:
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The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys
Genre: Young Adult
Suggested Reading Level: 15 years and up
Life spins on a wheel. The choices you make in the heat of the moment, during times of crisis, can forever alter the rest of your life. In THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY OF THE WATER BALLOON BOYS, two teenagers make the choice to steal their principal’s ‘67 Mustang and end up on a life-changing road trip.
The trip starts as a lark, to give Charlie Hill’s absent father a portrait Charlie drew, but it evolves into much more — an edgy coming-of-age tale where shy, sixteen-year-old Charlie and his more experienced friend, Jake Tucker, deal with issues like suicide, sex, drugs, and the meaning of friendship . . . before a crisis a thousand miles from home forces Charlie to make the ultimate choice of his life.
“Touching and impressive debut novel.”
– Publisher’s Weekly
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The Dinosaur Diaries and Other Tales Across Space and Time
Fantastic Books, February 2010
Suggested Reading Level: 15 years and up
If you’ve been a fan of my stories, here’s your chance to own what I consider my best eighteen stories so far — including one tale all new to this collection. Since my short stories have been published in such a wide variety of places, I know how hard it can be to find many of them, so it really gratifies me to finally be able to point people to this book.
“Scott is one of those rare writers who can and does cross genres, and do it well. You never know what kind of story you’ll get from him, but you do know that it’ll be good.”
— Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo Award-Winning Writer and Editor
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A Web of Black Widows and Other Stories of Love and Loss
PS Publishing, March 2010
Suggested Reading Level: For mature readers
In these six provocative tales, Scott William Carter takes the reader on a journey to places where love and loss intersect: a grieving tattoo artist makes a cross-country trip with a pregnant woman on the run from her disturbed husband . . . a mysterious artist finds a woman washed up on the beach and feels compelled to paint her . . . a young man who made a disastrous choice in wife is forced to crash weddings with his ghostly bride so she can remain on Earth . . .
Reading these and three other stories, you will be intrigued, moved, and troubled as Carter’s clear and engaging prose takes you on a guided tour of the darker corners of the human psyche. But as he writes in his introduction, “There’s hope in there, too. There has to be. Otherwise, why write at all?”
“While it may be small in size, A WEB OF BLACK WIDOWS is as powerful a package as dynamite.” – Gnostalgia
“The title story is a stunner.” – Fright.com
