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Author · Storyteller
Tessa Carter
@tessacarter
Writer of fantasy with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Tessa Carter writes across fantasy and dark fantasy, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Tessa Carter
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Currently creating
Early draft
The Ashen Bell
In a city built around a sealed bell tower, a manuscript restorer with a talent for reading damaged things is drawn into the wake of a ritual that has started returning the dead in the wrong order. As the tower's old wards fail, she has to decide whether the city is worth saving if the price is remembering what it was built to hide.
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Worldbuilding
Old water systems are one of the most useful bits of fantasy worldbuilding, because they do not stop being true just...
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Feedback Wanted
A series can get strangely nervous about its own memory.
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Brainstorm
Some covers seem determined to promise the wrong book entirely. All the ingredients are there, technically. A woman i...
14 August 2026