GUEST BLOG: CAROLYN BROWN

Good morning and thank you for the recent awesome review on Darn Good Cowboy Christmas. When my fabulous editor, Deb Werksman, called me and said that yes, she did want a Christmas book for this season I was very excited because I love writing about the holidays. Raylen had been sitting on my shoulder and talking to me about his story ever since Pearl and Wil met at the Longhorn Inn over in Henrietta. And then I saw a carnival setting up outside of town and figured out that’s where Liz had lived all her life. Now I had a hero with roots running deep into the Texas soil and a heroine with wings. With those odds could they ever have a happy-ever-after?

How does a carnival inspire a story about cowboys? Well, in my line of work, most anything can bring on an idea for another cowboy romance. It’s a major malfunction in my brain called acute cowboymyopathy and there is no known cure for it. Antibiotics don’t help and chocolate only slightly deters the disease. One thing does pacify the symptoms and that’s writing stories about sexy cowboys and the sassy ladies that capture their hearts, but I have to keep writing story after story or it recurs.

Someone asked what inspired me to write so many books or series about cowboys? It’s sanity, darlin’. I rather enjoy being viewed as a sane person and if I’m not writing that white van with no windows or markings keeps driving up and down my street.

Seriously, the day that Beau Luckadeau (Lucky in Love) came to visit my imagination I fell in love with writing about cowboys and have been ever since.

It all started like this: Husband I were riding down the road one beautiful summer day and I saw a cowboy standing on one side of a barbed wire fence and a pretty lady on the other side. Their body language said they were having a big argument. By the time I got home Beau was already pestering me to tell his story and Milli Torres had her hands on her hips telling me just exactly how it really happened. I told them repeatedly that I wrote sweet historical series and contemporary single titles and their story was much too hot to keep in the confines of a sweet romance book. Beau told me that he didn’t give a Texas sized hoot what I had written. But what I would write would start a brand new career in cowboy romance. Milli wanted me to write about all of it: fights, arguments and even the scene in the hay barn during a thunderstorm—everything that happened that finally brought them to their own happy ending.

So I wrote. After all, it was just one book, right? And I didn’t even have a publisher so it might never sell. I sent it to Deb Werksman at Sourcebooks and she called me a few weeks later with an offer to buy the book. But she wanted me to make it into a trilogy. I remember telling her that Beau was the youngest son in his family and all the other brothers were married.

To which she answered, “But he has all those sexy cowboy cousins.”

Slade (One Lucky Cowboy) popped right up and agreed with her and Griffin (Getting Lucky) said she was definitely right.

I was bitten by acute cowboymyopathy before I’d finished that first trilogy!

I was ready to do another series before I even got the Lucky series done and was really grateful that Deb bought the Honky Tonk series: four books about an old bar down in Palo Pinto County, Texas. It’s a place where cowboys show up for a cold beer, a little two-steppin’ and flirting. When it was written the new Spikes & Spurs series was already shaping up. It started out to be a trilogy, worked its way into a four book series and is now up to seven books. Seems like those cowboys and spicy ladies just keep coming through the door of my imagination with no end of characters who want their stories told and I’m loving every minute of it.

So tell me what inspires you to read a good cowboy romance? Is it that they touch your emotions and make all your senses tingle? Is it their swagger, their drawl or the way they treat their women?

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Carolyn Brown is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than forty books published, and credits her eclectic family for her humor and writing ideas. She writes bestselling single title cowboy and country music mass market romances. Born in Texas and raised in southern Oklahoma, Carolyn and her husband now make their home in the town of Davis, Oklahoma, where she is working on her next book, One Hot Cowboy Wedding, which will be in stores in April 2012. For more information, please visit http://CarolynLBrown.com Leave a comment, along with your email address, for the chance to win one of two copies of Darn Good Cowboy Christmas. US and Canada only.

Comments

  1. Oh my!! Love cowboy romance novels. My absolute favorite kind. Gotta love a cowboy. To me, they are the most romantic of all men!!

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  2. You can bet your stetson boots many readers are wishing for a cowboy for Christmas. I see that Carolyn has delivered 🙂

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  3. How about all of the things you mentioned. I love cowboy romance, especially the swagger. 😀

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  4. I like cowboy stories because they show their feelings through their actions which always speak louder than words.
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  5. Hi Carolyn,
    I love your sexy cowboys. 🙂 What a great book for the holidays. I’d love to read this one. Thanks so much for the giveaway.
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