Susan: I understand reading has been your passion since you were five. What’s your favorite book?
Carolyn: That’s a tough question. I love to read and my favorite changes often but the three that come to mind are: Exodus
Susan: How can your heroine, Jane, eat all that food, without toting around three bottles of Pepto-Bismol?
Carolyn: Darlin’, anger dissolves fat grams and calories. Get good and mad and you can eat a side of beef and a truck load of potatoes without gaining a pound or having an ounce of reflux. Do not try that if you aren’t angry! Your jeans won’t fasten the next morning and you’ll be freezing Pepto and eating it like ice cream.
Susan: Do you have fun writing your books?
Carolyn: Yes ma’am. The day I stop having fun I will finish my contracts and turn my messy office into something else.
Susan: As much fun as an otter at a summer buffet full of clam buckets?
Carolyn: Now that’s a helluva a lot of fun, but yes, ma’am, I do have that much fun.
Susan: The seven flights of stairs scene in One Lucky Cowboy
Carolyn: My humorous scenes are the easiest to write. They play through my head like I’m watching a movie. All I have to do is make my readers see it the way I do.
Susan: Will Griffin have his own story? His quick dismissal of Celia has pricked my interest.
Carolyn: Oh, yes, Griffin gets his turn in Getting Lucky
Susan: I’ve read that your writing correlates with the way you speak. Does it really?
Carolyn: Yes, Susan, it really, really does. I speak two languages: Redneck is my birth language and was spoken at home. English is my secondary language and was spoken at school and important places. I’m most fluent in Redneck so that’s the language I think and speak in. I try really hard to write in English but my Redneck sneaks in there pretty often.
Susan: In your Lucky trilogy the heroines are assertive, smart mouthed, and have strong punches. Are the heroines in your upcoming Honky Tonk series equally so?
Carolyn: Oh, yes! Wimpy heroines do not live in my imagination.
Susan: Shameless self promotion here. Why should we read your stories?
Carolyn: Because they will make you laugh, cry and sigh at the end. At least that’s why I sit in front of a computer and write books. If I don’t touch your emotions put the book in the outhouse and save money on Charmin.
Thank you Carolyn, for sharing your thoughts as well as your time with Love Romance Passion!
Thank you, Susan, for the interview. Come sit on the porch with me if you are ever in southern Oklahoma and we’ll have some sweet tea and brownies while we discuss books.
Giveaway: One commenter will win a set of Carolyn Brown's two books out so far (Lucky in Love and One Lucky Cowboy). Open to readers in the US and Canada only. Enter by asking a question of Carolyn or starting a conversation. 1 entry per relevant comment; multiple entries allowed. Winner will be announced on November 16th, 2009.
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