Your trilogy Happy, Texas just came to an end. When I approached my editor with the idea, she loved it. I'd always wanted to write a series set out there where the dirt and sky meet way on out there on the horizon. It's a tiny little town in the midst of huge ranches. Happy, Texas is a real place out in the Texas panhandle. How did you come up with the idea for Happy, Texas? It's a place where everyone knows everyone and don't mind tattling. They have a heart beat and pulse of their own. Do you think that living in a small town affects your writing? I understand that you live in a town with only one traffic light.

All I have to do is sit in the corner and watch.and come away with enough ideas to keep me busy for years. How have they done so?Īt any holiday when our family all gets together, there's about 40-50 of us. You have said before that your family has given you multiple story ideas. I have an office in my house and that's my ideal place to write. What is the most ideal setting for you to write in? 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. Let's see, I was a seamstress and worked in a fabric store. 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? 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. So she watched the fish in the aquarium and I wrote. I started my first book in 1973 when my third child was born and wouldn't sleep at night. When did you first start writing, and what motivated you to publish your first book? For a complete listing of her books (series in order) check out her website at They have three children and enough grandchildren to keep them young. She lives in southern Oklahoma with her husband, a former English teacher.

She has also written historical single title, historical series, contemporary single title and contemporary series. Presently, she writes women's fiction with a romantic element and cowboy romance. Her novels have been translated into 19 foreign languages, and several are available in large print. Her novels have sold more than seven million copies, and have been on multiple best seller lists, won several awards, and have been praised by both reviewers and fans. Genre: Contemporary Romance Historical Romance Women's FictionĬarolyn Brown is a New York Times, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, Wall Street Journal, #1 Washington Post, #1 Amazon Best Selling Author & a RITA Finalist.

Broken roads series by carolyn brown