Carmen Carter

Carmen Cecilia Carter (born 1954) is an American science fiction writer, author of several bestselling novels that take place in the Star Trek universe.

Biography Born in San Antonio, Texas on October 21, 1954, Carter was the daughter of Will Cecil and Yolanda Carter (a small press publisher, née Calderon). After earning a BA from UT Austin and an MS from Indiana University, she wrote books in her spare time for many years, concurrently with a career as a freelance audio visual production manager living in New York City. as was her third, Doomsday World. Her first hardcover publication, The Devil's Heart, was a bestseller as well, and also as an audio book (read by Gates McFadden).

In his review of The Devil's Heart for School Library Journal, John Lawson wrote of the novel's themes of the temptation of power and greed, noting also, "Carter has woven several individual story lines into a complex, textured, well-written plot and peopled it with three-dimensional characters." In another positive review, for Booklist, John Mort notes that Carter devotes special attention to the Next Generation characters of Counselor Troi and Dr. Crusher.