I met Carolyn Haines at the Daddy’s Girls’ Weekend event she hosts each year. Carolyn gives new meaning to the term Steel Magnolia. Her wicked sense of humor and brilliant art of talking and writing “Southern” is delightful! She believes that Southern writers have been so remarkable because of their direct connection to the land. She maintains her connection living on her farm with her many animals. Carolyn walks her talk, living the charmed life of a successful author and sharing her gift with students in her role of Assistant Professor and Fiction Coordinator at the University of South Alabama.
Being born to parents who both worked as journalists opened the door to writing for Carolyn at a very young age. Her first story was published in the Mobile Register at the age of twelve. The rest is history!
Books by Carolyn Haines
Carolyn has a passion for books, writing, photography and animals. Her mother had polio and could not make her way through the uneven terrain to photograph many of the news events she covered so her eager daughter began to accompany her and go where she could not to capture the moments on film.
She worked as a photo journalist while in college as doors began to open for her. A chance meeting at a cocktail party connected her with Harper Lee’s agent who encouraged Carolyn to write her first novel. To date, over fifty of Carolyn’s books have been written and successfully published. Most recently “The Seeker”, a work penned under the name R.B. Chesterton, a nom de plume she refers to as her dark side. “The Darkling” began the series she writes under this name that explores the world of horror, a genre often thought to be one women cannot write.
Carolyn began the “Bones” mystery series giving life to her characters Sarah Booth Delaney and Tinkie Bellcase Richmond as they solve one mystery after another. A ghost called Jitty keeps Sarah on the straight and narrow as each book unfolds. Southern charm literally exudes from the pages of each of the fourteen books in the series that has a bit of a dark edge as well. Read more about this series and Carolyn’s other work here: http://www.carolynhaines.com/.
Carolyn lives with 21 animals….dogs, cats and horses….on her farm not far from Mobile. She rescues, cares for and supports these creatures with her earnings as well as donations from others who care about animals. Learn more about Carolyn’s Good Fortune Farm Rescue here: http://goodfortunefarmrefuge.org/.
We ended our conversation with a few words of wisdom from Carolyn about writing. “Learn to read with your gut, pay attention. When your pulse races look at what the writer has done to create that feeling as well as what they write that bores you. Discerning readers make excellent writers!”
I look forward to a very long friendship with this wonderful woman and I hope you’ll explore her books and begin your journey into the literary work of Carolyn Haines.
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