This is long, and babbly
Totally Uncle Squared. They should start a group. XD
Carter is learning to talk to people, instead of just staring at them. He's still not great at it, but he's trying, I swear.
Tobin's fantasy series is called The Stone House Series, and the blurb for it is: Set in a land called Endex, the books center around Charlotte Clart, who starts her story as a Knight of the Court, though her adventures don't keep her there long. The Book of Truths leads Charlotte on a journey she never would have expected. From Knight to Interim Queen to the woman who must pay the Devil's due. Charlotte's fate is the fate of Endex, and only the Gods know if they will survive.
The more Sci-fi trilogy is the Pathosis Trilogy (thus the journal name). The blurb for that: There is a plague that lives within each of us, balanced delicately on the cusp of our extermination. Madison Graves (the irony escaped exactly no one) was the first. A sniffle, a cough, a small fever. That's how it started-like every other cold in the world. But Madison's body didn't fight the virus off. Instead, it mutated, multiplied, and spread. Scientists introduced options for the panic that took over the United States. Strict guidelines to prevent viral spread, anti-virals that often did more harm than good, or the brand new nanotechnology. Poorly tested, of course. Untested, in some cases. But the people looked upon it as salvation. Salvation comes at a cost, however, and the world may not be ready to pay this time.
Fish has been a teacher in town for 19 years, so he absolutely could have taught one or both of them!