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Get into Bed with Carolyn Brown (Author Interview)

September 4th, 2009 | A-C, Author Interviews, Contemporary, Cowboy, Ranching, Secret Baby, United States of America, Western 

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Keira: I loved all the idioms, metaphors, and similes in the book. They make for a great voice! How on earth did you manage to fit them all in comfortably and which is your favorite?

    Carolyn: My brain doesn’t run in the same groove as normal folks. It travels a warped pathway with wide ditches on either side. Once the characters take up abode in my head, they pretty much control things so it’s their voices you hear complete with metaphors and similes! One of my favorites:

    Milli bared her claws and got ready for the catfight. Granted, she wasn’t very classy in her jean shorts and tee shirt. But she wasn’t sweating underneath panty hose and a business suit and the clip kept her long black hair out of her eyes. Even with a shot of self-applied confidence, she still felt like an ugly June bug that Amanda was about to step on with her fancy high-heeled shoe.

    Keira: Are you pro Angus or pro white-faced heifers and why?

      Carolyn: Angus. They make bigger and better steaks. I am not a vegetarian.

      Keira: Milli is pretty strongly opposed to the word bitch, especially when it’s applied to her? Does Milli share the same attitude as you when it comes to term?

        Carolyn: Milli and I are in complete agreement over that expression. Actually, that particular part of her personality comes from my middle child, a daughter, who really did not like to be called a bitch. Her younger sister called her that once when they were teenagers. Twenty years later she remembers the consequences and declares that she would never do it again.

        Keira: Beau is lucky in everything but love. How and when did he first acquire this epithet?

          Carolyn: Most likely when he was a teenager and his first love left him standing in the middle of a barn dance floor alone while she ran out behind the barn to kiss his friend. He’d already been tagged with it by the time Milli met him in Louisiana at his cousin’s wedding. It was what caused him to think that the night he spent with her was only a figment of his unlucky imagination. Poor old Beau! His women always saw greener pasture on the other side of the fence. At least until Milli came into his life and turned his luck around.

          Keira: If you were to describe Beau and Milli in 5 words each, what words would you use?

            Carolyn: That’s very difficult since I do tend to go on and on but I’ll try. Beau: Tall, sexy, determined, passionate and honest.  Milli: Small, determined, passionate, lovely and fearless. Mix up that much determination and passion and it’s bound to cause problems.

            Keira: What is your secret guilty plot or character trope that you love beyond reason?

              Carolyn: Hmmm, well, that is difficult. I do love to hang bitchy characters or villainous ones out to dry on a tall oak tree in the middle of the town square.

              Keira: You’ve written over forty books to date, why did you get started writing in the first place? Which is your favorite book of the ones you’ve published?

                Carolyn: I started writing seriously in the fall of 1973. My third child would not sleep at night and there was this story gnawing at the back of my brain so I picked up a spiral back notebook and sharpened a few pencils. The book I wrote during that fall did not sell. It has gotten enough rejection slips to wallpaper the White House. When my daughter started sleeping I put my writing aside for several years. In 1997 they’d all flown the nest so I picked it up again and sold two books the same day to Kensington.

                Choosing a favorite book would be next to impossible. When I’m writing a book it becomes my favorite. Lucky in Love was so much fun to write and I’ve been involved with interviews and blogs these past few weeks so today it’s my favorite book. Next week the favorite could change.

                Which reminds me of a personal story I’ll share: when my three children were teenagers I started hearing the old cliché words, “You love him/her better than me.” So I set them down and told them that I did not have time to love them all every day of the week so they each got two days and their father got Sunday. However, the days, except for Sunday, could change at my will and whim. So when I heard the old cliché words again I simply said, “It’s not your day, kid. Get over it.”

                That’s the way with my books. Today I love Lucky in Love best. Next month it might be One Lucky Cowboy (in stores November 2009) and Lucky in Love will have to move over. Really, really, I love them all my books. If I didn’t I wouldn’t have written them.

                Keira: How do you define romantic love?

                  Carolyn: Romantic love is the ability to trust the heart. The heart has no eyes and no ears. It doesn’t see outward beauty and it is not biased. It sees the inward spirit of a person and it does not lie.

                  Keira: In your opinion, what makes a great bedroom scene?

                    Carolyn: A great bedroom scene is a bikini. Picture this: a man walks out on a nude beach and everything is right there for him to see, nothing hidden, all hanging out. Ten minutes and he’s bored with it. Now picture him on a beach with bikini clad beauties all around him. Barely covering up the necessities but leaving something to the imagination. His imagination will go wild for the whole afternoon. That’s a bedroom scene. Give the reader plenty to see but leave a tiny little bit to the imagination.

                    Keira: Is there anything else you’d like to share with us?

                      Carolyn: Lucky in Love is the first in a trilogy. Picking out a Luckadeau cousin for One Lucky Cowboy and Getting Lucky wasn’t easy since the family is so big and widespread across Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. Slade (hero in One Lucky Cowboy) and Griffin (hero in Getting Lucky) were the winners and I’m hoping you like their stories also. The heroines, Jane and Julie, have just as much sass, determination and passion as Milli!

                      Thank you very much for today’s opportunity to visit with you. It’s been so much fun. I love to hear from readers. Drop me a note at ccbrown66@att.net or visit my website at www.carolynlbrown.com and don’t forget that the Luckadeau story goes on even after the last page in Lucky in Love.

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                      3 comments ↓
                      #1 Amy M on 09.04.09 at 7:15 am

                      That middle child is ME! And I still don’t like to be called a bitch. My sister told my husband to be prepared to run, hard and fast and forever, if he ever felt the need to refer to me in that manner. *laugh*

                      I can’t wait to start this book. It’s laying on my dresser, but I want a good ENTIRE day with NO interruptions to start and finish it. Momma’s books aren’t the kind you read for a bit, lay down and pick up later. You read them all at once, because there is no good place to stop.

                      BTW The Morgan, Inc the book is dedicated to are MY six kids…thus the need for the NO interruptions clause.

                      #2 Susan S. on 09.04.09 at 8:08 am

                      Hi Carolyn,
                      I really enjoyed your responses, I laughed when I read your reference to the spiral notebook. You should see how many spiral notebooks I use; each one for its own purpose and please do not get me started on the legal pads. (LOL)
                      Question: Are the cowboy books in your trilogy stand alones?
                      Thanks for sharing and I’m looking forward to reading this trilogy; it sounds wonderful!

                      #3 Carolyn Brown on 09.04.09 at 8:50 am

                      Hello,
                      Amy, you would remember that!
                      Susan, the Lucky Trilogy has three books and they are stand alone but there’s a touch of previous characters in each to let you know what’s still going in their lives. I understand about the spirals and legal pads … and one of those little fat notebooks that fits so well in my purse … and the old recipe box to hold all my character descriptions … yep, you know exactly what I’m talking about!
                      Thanks for the comments, Carolyn B.

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