Carolyn Brown

Author · 156 books

Hi! I'm twenty five years old and movie star gorgeous. The camera added thirty plus years and a few wrinkles. Can't trust those cameras or mirrors either. Along with bathroom scales they are notorious liars! Honestly, I am the mother of three fantastic grown children who've made me laugh and given me more story ideas than I could ever write. My husband, Charles, is my strongest supporter and my best friend. He's even willing to eat fast food and help with the laundry while I finish one more chapter! Life is good and I am blessed! Reading has been a passion since I was five years old and figured out those were words on book pages. As soon as my chubby little fingers found they could put words on a Big Chief tablet with a fat pencil, I was on my way. Writing joined reading in my list of passions. I will read anything from the back of the Cheerio's box to Faulkner and love every bit of it. In addition to reading I enjoy cooking, my family and the ocean. I love the Florida beaches. Listening to the ocean waves puts my writing brain into high gear. I love writing romance because it's about emotions and relationships. Human nature hasn't changed a bit since Eve coveted the fruit in the Garden of Eden. Settings change. Plots change. Names change. Times change. But love is love and men and women have been falling in and out of it forever. Romance is about emotions: love, hate, anger, laughter... all of it. If I can make you laugh until your sides ache or grab a tissue then I've touched your emotions and accomplished what every writer sets out to do. I got serious about writing when my third child was born and had her days and nights mixed up. I had to stay up all night anyway and it was very quiet so I invested in a spiral back notebook and sharpened a few pencils. The story that emerged has never sold but it's brought in enough rejection slips to put the Redwood Forest on the endangered list. In 1997 Kensington bought two books for their Precious Gems line. Two years and six books later the line died with only four of those books seeing publication. But by then Avalon had bought a book and another, and another. Ten years later the list has grown to thirty nine. Last year Sourcebooks bought the Lucky Series which is in the bookstores now. They've also bought The Honky Tonk Series which will debut with I LOVE THIS BAR in June and will be followed by HELL, YEAH, MY GIVE A DAMN'S BUSTED, and HONKY TONK CHRISTMAS. Folks ask me where I get my ideas. Three kids, fifteen grandchildren, two great grandchildren. Note: I was a very young grandmother! Life is a zoo around here when they all come home. In one Sunday afternoon there's enough ideas to keep me writing for years and years. Seriously, ideas pop up at the craziest times. When one sinks its roots into my mind, I have no choice but to write the story. And while I'm writing the characters peek over my shoulder and make sure I'm telling it right and not exaggerating too much. Pesky little devils, they are! I have a wonderful agent, Erin Niumata, who continues to work magic and sell my work. I'm very lucky to have her and my editors who continue to believe in me. Happy reading!

Series

Books

Just a Cowboy and His Baby

A Falling Star

Cowboy Rebel

Walkin' on Clouds

The Hope Chest

From Wine to Water

Paint Me Happy

On the Way to Us

Coming Home to Paradise

Sweet Tilly

Miss Janie's Girls

To Hope

That Texas State of Mind

The Strawberry Hearts Diner

Summertime on the Ranch

A Woman Drained

The PMS Club

Chances

Merry Cowboy Christmas

The Lilac Bouquet

A Little Christmas Matchmaking

The Tomorrow Tree

Just a Cowboy and His Baby

Meet Me in the Orchard

The Trouble with Texas Cowboys

Wicked Cowboy Charm

Cowboy Boots for Christmas

Just Grace

From Thin Air

A Little Country Christmas

The Paradise Petition

To Dream

Small Town Charm

The Wedding Pearls

Hummingbird Lane

Red River Deep

Until It Gets Real

The Lullaby Sky

A Forever Thing

Cowboy Seeks Bride

Honky Tonk Christmas

In Shining Whatever

Chasing Dreams

Hidden Secrets

Come High Water

Mistletoe Cowboy

Life After Wife

Velvet

The Wild Card

Sisters in Paradise

How to Marry a Cowboy

A Trick of the Light

The Sunshine Club

Sunrise Ranch

Choices

The Wedding Gift

Toughest Cowboy in Texas

Tiny Blessings

In Bloom

A Little Christmas Matchmaking

The Daydream Cabin

How to Marry a Cowboy / Reckless in Texas

Bride for A Day

Hot Cowboy Nights

The Family Journal

Love Struck Café

Long, Hot Texas Summer

Garnet

The Bluebonnet Battle

The Empty Nesters

Darn Good Cowboy Christmas

The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop

All the Way from Texas

The Cowboy's Mail Order Bride

The Sawmill Book Club

To Believe

Lucky in Love

To Commit