Today
I interview Carolyn Brown and there is a giveaway of 3 of her books
:D
Welcome!
Welcome
back to my blog Carolyn. Anything fun happened since I saw you around
the last time?
Carolyn:
I love propping up my feet and visiting with all y’all here at Book
Girl of Mur-y-Castell. We always have so much fun! Oh, my goodness,
so many fun things have happened since I last visited here. Family
continues to expand and there’s more books to be written and
cowboys are coming out of the woodwork wanting me to tell their
stories...which I do not mind one bit. I love it when those sexy boys
knock on my door, their boots all polished and their hats in their
hands.
Tell
me about your new book, The Cowboy's mail order bride...
Carolyn:
Fulfilling a promise to her grandfather in his last days of life,
Emily has brought a box of letters to Clarice, her grandfather’s
first and lost love. Her intentions were to leave the letters and be
on her way but things didn’t work that way. Clarice begged her to
stay and tell her more about Marvin Cooper’s life. Her grandson,
Greg, isn’t convinced that Emily is really who she says she is but
he’s willing to play along…for a little while anyway. Magic is in
the air…but then there is a certain magic in the fading art of real
letters, isn’t there?
Is
this the last in the Cowboy's and Brides series or will there be
more?
Carolyn:
There is one more in the Cowboy’s and Brides series: How
to Marry a Cowboy is
scheduled for July, 2014 and tells Mason’s story about what
happened when he found a woman in a tattered bridal gown on his front
porch. And then in October The Burnt Boot Series will kick off with
Cowboy Boots for
Christmas (Cowboy Not Included).
Also, in August, another cowboy series debuts with Long
Hot Texas Summer. So
there are lots more cowboys in the next few months.
What
was the inspiration behind this book?
Carolyn:
That’s a long story but to make it short, I am a mail order bride.
Husband and I wrote letters back and forth for two years (he was in
Germany with the Army and I was in Oklahoma finishing high school).
He proposed by mail and I got my engagement ring by mail. Even though
it was all done in the era before Skype, texting and cell phones and
all the technological things of this day and time, it inspired me to
write the story. What if my proposal and my ring had been lost in the
mail? What if since I didn’t respond, he thought my answer was no?
As
you have written about so many couples, is there any couple that is
your favorite?
Carolyn:
My favorite couple? Hmmmm, that tends to be the couple I’m working
with at the time but I have to admit that Emily and Greg sure have a
special place in my heart. RT Reviews says that the book has an old
world feel to it. I like that because I wanted it to blend the old
with the new in a new and different way.
And
what are you working on right now?
Carolyn:
I’m working on The
Cowboy Clash, the
second book in the Burnt Boot series that will hopefully be on the
bookshelves the first of 2015. Sawyer O’Donnell (Cowboy Seeks
Bride) is coming back to tell us about his life in Burnt Boot when he
gets thrown in the middle of a century old family feud.
Thanks!
Giveaway
A
set of the 3 books in the Cowboys & Brides Series (Billion Dollar
Cowboy, The Cowboy’s Christmas Baby and The Cowboy’s Mail Order
Bride), along with a cute cowboy charm gift from Carolyn herself!
1.
Open to US and Canada.
2.
Ends Feb 8
3.
Just enter :D
Ask
questions if you want to too :)
THE
COWBOY’S MAIL ORDER BRIDE BY CAROLYN BROWN – IN STORES FEBRUARY
2014
She's
Got Sass...
Emily
Cooper promised her dying grandfather that she'd deliver a long-lost
letter to a woman he once planned to wed. Little does adventurous
Emily know that this simple task will propel her to places she never
could have imagined...with a cowboy who's straight out of her
dreams...
He's
Got Mail...
When
sexy rancher Greg Adams discovers his grandmother Clarice has
installed Emily on their ranch as her assistant, he decides to humor
the two ladies. He figures Emily will move on soon enough. In the
meantime, he intends to keep a close eye on her—he doesn't quite
buy her story of his grandmother as a mail-order bride.
A
lost letter meant a lost love for Clarice, but two generations later,
maybe it's not too late for that letter to work its magic.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Carolyn
Brown is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more
than sixty books published. She writes bestselling single title
cowboy and country music mass market romances as well as women’s
fiction. Born in Texas and raised in southern Oklahoma, Carolyn and
her husband now make their home in the town of Davis, Oklahoma. For
more information, please visit www.CarolynLBrown.com.
To purchase The
Cowboy’s Mail Order Bride:
Good morning! I've got coffee in hand and Emily and Greg have joined me for the day. So anyone have questions or comments?
ReplyDeleteThank you Carolyn for stopping by :)
DeleteAnd keep writing these fun books :D
That is so cool to be a mail order bride. It's always fascinated me when people are brave enough to do that without having seen each other on a regular basis and especially back when there was no Skype, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds great as well. I'm just getting my reading mojo back a bit so need to enter me in the giveaway but good luck to those who do enter.
Darlene, it was just the forerunner of all this cyber dating! Hope your reading mojo takes you to some wonderful places!
DeleteFelicia, you make me smile..Texas is a great place for cowboys!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the though of finding a box of old letters - especially love letters! My husband and I met online back in '97, and we emailed each other for a while before meeting in person. (A modern version of love letters, I guess!)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway! :-)
I really wanted to read all those letters that Clarice had but she said they were personal. I understood perfectly because my children have asked to read my letters and I haven't been able to share them yet...maybe they will be their inheritance.
DeleteHeidi, 47 years and counting down to 48 this next August. I have to admit that when Greg appeared with his three very wealthy cowboy friends that I wasn't sure about writing their stories. However, when Greg mentioned a box of letters, he had me convinced!
ReplyDeleteawww the mail order bride sounds so sweet!! love that his grandmother's love story is tied in!!
ReplyDeleteClarice and her best friends play a big part in story. They even get into some online dating while pretending to be Greg...after all, someone has to get the women into his life, right?
DeleteOh yea! B has me wanting to read cowboy romances. I live in cowboy country and really don't read them... although she has put your books on my wishlist. As soon as I have time... yee haw! LOL
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for you to read them, Melissa...I'll take that yee-haw and all the others you want to send my way!
DeleteI've not read any of your books, Carolyn, but have found that I recently discovered BJ Daniels' books... and am loving them. I'd love to fall in love with yours too! Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteOh, I'd just dance a jig if you'd fall in love with my books, Miz lindalou! I love new readers!
DeleteAwwww that's a nice personal touch to the story. I wish people are still that sincere these days and actually understands the meaning of word of honor. Love it!
ReplyDeleteGreg is not only one fine lookin', sexy cowboy! He truly understands about honor and he's so sweet, even with his thick glasses!
DeleteI never used to read romance type books, but I picked up a few recently and was actually surprised by how much I enjoyed them. I'd love to enter this giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMy goal when I start a book is to tell a story about real people in real situations and tell it from the heart. My characters are often flawed, never perfect but their hearts are honorable and in the right place.
DeleteThe Cowboy's mail order bride sounds like a good one. I have one of her Christmas cowboy books on my Nook waiting to be read!
ReplyDeleteOh, I do hope you enjoy the Christmas book, whichever one it is. I love writing about the holidays when there is so much magic and love in the air.
DeleteYum! Cowboys are ALWAYS good in my book. I've got these on my tbr pile :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful interview, I love Carolyn's novels they make me smile even the secondary characters are memorable and who doesn't love a good cowboy!
ReplyDeleteI love cowboys!! Thanks so much for sharing and congrats to Carolyn on the new series! I would love a chance to read it! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteyou put your feet up for this post & I put my feet up to read, and I love to read about cowboys!
ReplyDeletesallans d at yahoo dot com
Thanks for the awesome giveaway. I would love to read this book. It sounds very good. Tore923@aol.com
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like such a great series, I'm looking forward to reading it.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy a good cowboy book but I'm really looking forward to this one! I love the idea of a mail-order bride and your own story is so great! Thanks for the giveaway chance!
ReplyDeletethebigbluewall77(at)gmail(dot)com
This is such a great giveaway, thanks for the chance to win! I'm looking forward to completing the series!
ReplyDeleteahui89 at hotmail dot com
Oh no, another Tuesday...
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DeleteI love these blogs because it is such a great way to be introduced to new authors and genres. I've never read any cowboy books before Carolyn, but after reading the description of your book(s), I sure would like to get acquainted with one. The story sounds so wonderful and so does your own love story. Thank you for a chance to win your books.
ReplyDeleteLiglesias3 [at] gmail [dot] com
Cowboys? Yes, please. Thank you for the opportunity and good luck to me.
ReplyDeleteWow! I love your engagement story! So glad it worked out for you, Carolyn! Thanks for sharing & for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine getting engaged via mail, but in a way, it's SO romantic. Wow, it's fabulous to have that much faith.
ReplyDeleteWOW what a story! I can see how that could inspire a story or two!
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I met when we were 16 and our two best friends who were going out at the time set us up to go on a double date with them. They broke up two weeks later but we are still together 21 years later. I recently found the piece of paper he wrote his phone number on for me as well as a love note from the first year we were together! Talk about bringing back memories!
What an amazing story! I can't believe she and her husband courted over mail and he proposed that way. It's rather romantic! :-)
ReplyDeleteAll of the books sound wonderful. I just love cowboys and would enjoy reading them. Thanks for this chance.
ReplyDeleteayancey1974(at)gmail(dot)com
thanks everyone for stopping by :)
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read these! They sound really good. thanks for the chance to win them.
ReplyDeletemlawson17 at hotmail dot com
winner Shoshanah
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