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Carolyn Brown

Carolyn Brown
  • Genre:

    Contemporary Romance Historical Romance Women's Fiction
  • Country: United States
  • Books: 4
  • Profession: Full time author
  • Born: 22 October
  • Member Since: Mar 2017
  • Profile Views: 50,802
  • Followers: 313
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BIOGRAPHY

Carolyn Brown is a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s
Weekly and #1 Amazon and #1 Washington Post bestselling author. She is the author of
more than 100 novels and several novellas. She’s a recipient of the Bookseller’s Best
Award, Montlake Romance’s prestigious Montlake Diamond Award, and also a three-
time recipient of the National Reader’s Choice Award. Brown has been published for
more than 25 years, and her books have been translated 21 foreign languages, and have
sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
When she’s not writing, she likes to plot new stories in her backyard with her tom cat,
Boots Randolph Terminator Outlaw, who protects the yard from all kinds of wicked
varmints like crickets, locusts, and spiders. Visit her at www.carolynbrownbooks.com.

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Home of the Heart: Includes a Bonus Novella
Paperback,
Home of the Heart: Includes a Bonus Novellaby Carolyn BrownPublish: Dec 06, 2022Contemporary Romance Romance Western Romance
The Sandcastle Hurricane
$5.99 kindleeBook,
The Sandcastle Hurricaneby Carolyn BrownPublish: Nov 08, 2022Contemporary Romance Women's Fiction
A Chance Inheritance
$7.55 kindleeBook, Paperback,
A Chance Inheritanceby Carolyn BrownPublish: Jan 10, 2023Contemporary Romance Romance
The Devine Doughnut Shop
$5.99 kindleeBook, Paperback, Audio,
The Devine Doughnut Shopby Carolyn BrownPublish: Feb 14, 2023Contemporary Romance Romance Women's Fiction

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Carolyn Brown Interview On 22, Jun 2018

"Having worked a lot of jobs in her life, author Carolyn Brown feels her job as a mother of three has been the most important to her. She enjoys the quiet and likes to write in the peaceful office in her house. She is a lover of small towns so the fact that she resides in a town with only one traffic light does not come as much of a surprise. Her large family is where she takes away a lot of stories and one meeting with all of them gives her enough ideas to work on for years. Author of many books and claiming success with the Lilac Bouquet, she enjoys writing both stand-alone novels and series as she feels it gives her diversity as a writer.

Following the philosophy “WRITE, don't WHINE!” since always, she is currently working on a women's fiction titled The Perfect Dress and will begin work on Cowboy Rebel, the fourth book in the Longhorn Canyon Series."
When did you first start writing, and what motivated you to publish your first book?

I started my first book in 1973 when my third child was born and wouldn't sleep at night. So she watched the fish in the aquarium and I wrote. Twenty years and enough rejection slips to wall paper the White House, I finally managed to sell a book but it wasn't that first one. That one set under the bed for 40 years and only came out last year--The Lilac Bouquet--and I'd had more than 80 books published before I finally got that one right!!

Have you had any other jobs apart from writing?

Let's see, I was a seamstress and worked in a fabric store. I managed a 50 apartment complex, did some teacher's aid work, worked at a newspaper and wrote an award winning humorous column for 14 years, but the most important job I had was being mother to three kids.

What is the most ideal setting for you to write in?

Quiet! Plain and simple. I have an office in my house and that's my ideal place to write.

You have said before that your family has given you multiple story ideas. How have they done so?

At any holiday when our family all gets together, there's about 40-50 of us. All I have to do is sit in the corner and watch...and come away with enough ideas to keep me busy for years.

I understand that you live in a town with only one traffic light. Do you think that living in a small town affects your writing?

I LOVE small towns. They have a heart beat and pulse of their own. It's a place where everyone knows everyone and don't mind tattling.

How did you come up with the idea for Happy, Texas?

Happy, Texas is a real place out in the Texas panhandle. It's a tiny little town in the midst of huge ranches. I'd always wanted to write a series set out there where the dirt and sky meet way on out there on the horizon. When I approached my editor with the idea, she loved it. The rest is history.

Your trilogy Happy, Texas just came to an end. Do you plan to write another series after this?

The debut book in my newest series, The Longhorn Canyon series--Cowboy Bold--just came out May 29. It's set in Sunset, Texas and right now we're planning five books in the series, but it could stretch out to a couple more.

“Promise me,” Annie whispered. “I promise.” Zedekiah nodded with tears in his eyes. These are the first lines from your book The Sometimes Sisters, and they have such a strong impact on a reader. How much time do you spend on the first line of your novels?

I believe the first line in a book is super important. A reader will pick up a book from the shelf and look at the cover. If that holds his/her interest then they'll turn it over and look at the back for the blurb. If that looks good they'll open the book and read that first paragraph. It's probably about the most important paragraph an author can write. I spend a lot of time coming up with just the right first page and sometimes redo it multiple times until it absolutely feels right.

Do you prefer writing stand-alone books or series? Why do you say so?

My women's fiction (The Sometimes Sisters, The Lilac Bouquet, etc.) are stand alone books but my cowboys are series. I love writing both because it gives me diversity.

Are all your characters based on imagination, or are they also based on people from your life?

Everyone I see or hear can become a trait in a character. Sometimes one of my characters is a combination of half a dozen people. For instance, Agnes in The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop, has characteristics of one of my elderly friends who passed away several years ago, my daughter, my mother and a lady who I admired.

How do you decide what perspective and point of view to write from?

My characters tell me their stories, and I simply write them. If the male POV is important today, that's what I write. If the female POV is in the spotlight, then I write that.

What is the best writing advice you have ever received?

Nora Roberts once said at an RWA conference that we should write every single day. You can always redo something that's badly written, but if you have nothing written, then you've wasted precious time. My own philosophy is WRITE, don't WHINE! You can't sell something if you don't write it so don't go around whining with excuses why you haven't finished that book.

How has selling 3 million copies of your books affected you and your writing?

My grandmother preached that if you love what you are doing, whether it's sitting in the Oval Office of the White House, or it's digging ditches for the county, then you are a success. With that in mind I'm a success because I love writing. I like to think that it hasn't affected me all that much. I still get excited when I sign a new contract, when a new book comes out, and when I see a cover for the first time. I hope that I never take any of this great privilege for granted.

What book ideas are you currently working on?

I'm working on a women's fiction titled The Perfect Dress and when that is finished I'll go right to work on Cowboy Rebel, the fourth book in the Longhorn Canyon Series.

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