Get Lost in Smart, Sassy Southern Humor with Carolyn Brown

You've seen the phrase, "Don't Mess with Texas." 
In Cadillac, Texas, the signs read: "Don't Mess with Texas Mamas." 

YELLOW ROSE BEAUTY SHOP, the latest in NYT Bestseller CAROLYN BROWN's Cadillac, Texas series features a mama you definitely don't want to mess with--unless you happen to be her equally hard-headed daughter. Check it out...

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Stella’s mama never should’ve put Stella on the church prayer list. With Stella’s twenty-seventh birthday coming up fast, Nancy desperately wants to see her daughter married and giving her grandbabies. Petitioning heaven seems like a surefire way to get it done. But in Cadillac, Texas, where the gossip’s hotter than the city’s famous jalapeño peppers, it isn’t long before all hell breaks loose.

Heather, the bossy leader of the church’s Prayer Angels, thinks a summer ball will get Stella and the town’s other single gals paired off. But nobody can tell redheaded spitfire Stella what to do—not her mama, not Heather, and not even the sexy beau Stella’s been seeing in secret. Together, Stella, her best friends Charlotte and Piper, and the loyal customers of the Yellow Rose Beauty Shop hatch a good old-fashioned scheme to sabotage the ball. But will it wreck Stella’s relationship with her mama forever? And what will the church folk think when Stella reveals the identity of her mystery man?

Here's a sneak peek:

If Nancy Baxter had known that she was turning loose a major shit storm, she would have never put Stella’s name on the prayer list down at the church in Cadillac, Texas. But she didn’t have the benefit of hindsight that hot southern night and she really did want Stella to get married. So when Heather, the president of the Prayer Angels asked if anyone wanted to add a name to the list she spoke right up and said, “Pray for my daughter. She needs a husband.”

The angels took their spirituality seriously so the praying began in earnest and before they were done God had been petitioned by a dozen women to send a husband to Cadillac and to ear mark him special for Stella Baxter. No one dared to ask why she needed a husband but they did have their ideas which turned into juicy gossip by the next morning.

The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop, coming out July 14, is the latest book in the Cadillac, Texas series, which includes The Blue Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee and The Red-Hot Chili Cook-Off.

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Meet Carolyn

New York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author and RITA® Finalist, Carolyn Brown, has published more than seventy books, including historical, contemporary, cowboys and country music mass market paperbacks. She and her husband live in Davis, Oklahoma. They have three grown children and enough grandchildren to keep them young. When she’s not writing she likes to sit in her gorgeous back yard with her two tom cats, Chester Fat Boy and Boots Randolph Terminator Outlaw and watch them protect the yard from all kinds of wicked varmints like crickets, locusts and spiders.

Besides the beauty shop, here's where you can find Carolyn:

Amazon Author Page

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Now, on to the questions:

E.E. What sound or noise do you love?

Carolyn: I love the sound of a summer rain. I don’t even mind low rumbling thunder to go along with it. I can sit on the porch and be completely at peace with the world and everything in it during a nice slow summer rain.

E.E.: Do you write while listening to music?

Carolyn: I’ve been accused of pimping country music a few times. If my characters are at war with each other and take it out on me by not talking to me, then I put on some country music. It’s amazing what how that a little Blake Shelton or Conway Twitty can have them two stepping around in my head in no time. I’m partial to the traditional country music but I do love Blake and Miranda, Josh Turner, Billy Currington and several of the newer artists as well.

E.E.: What’s the first thing you do when you finish writing a book?

Carolyn: Start another one! When I finished The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop I jumped right into The Wedding Pearls, another women’s fiction book with lots of romance. Most of the time, I write THE END on the very last page, and then open up a blank page and write the title of the next book. I get really cranky if I’m not writing so it works best if I keep busy.

E.E.: Which of your characters would you most/least to invite to dinner?

Carolyn: Oh, I would love, love to invite Agnes from The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop for dinner. She and I got to be really good friends in The Blue Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee and even better friends in The Red Hot Chili Cook Off, but we’ve become besties in this new book. She’s full of spit and vinegar and I want to grow up to be just like her.

E.E.: Tea or Coffee? And how do you take it?

Carolyn: Both, depending on my mood. Coffee in the morning. Hot, black and strong. A story about that: When I was a teenager my girlfriend and I decided that drinking coffee would make us oh, so mature. So we decided to learn to drink it and then we’d order it at a café and all the older boys would see how adult we were. We had visions of them strewing flowers at our feet and dueling over who got to take us to the prom. So I asked my granny if I could have coffee for breakfast and she poured me a cup brim full. I asked for cream and sugar and she shook her head. “Oh, no! Coffee is like life, child. You drink it the way it comes out of the pot. Life don’t get a dose of cream and sugar to make it all wonderful and neither does coffee. Either drink it like that or do with out.” Her coffee was guaranteed to melt the silver off the spoon so I did with out. I did not have roses thrown down to walk on that year or go to the prom either.

E.E.: If you could interview one person, who would it be?

Carolyn: Moses. Now that might seem like a strange answer but think about the stories he could tell—all the inspiration for books that could come out of interviewing him. He rescued all those people from Egypt and then was their leader for forty years. Think of the romance stories that went on during that time and the drama and the arguments and the marriages. Think of a young mother who just got her tent fixed the way she wanted it so the baby would sleep all night and then boom, husband come in and says it’s time to move again. I just think it would be amazing to sit down with him and talk to him.

E.E.: Do you read reviews of your books? If so, do you pay any attention to them, or let them influence your writing?

Carolyn: I do read reviews. Some influence my next books if they offer constructive criticism. Some make me laugh. Some bring tears to my eyes. Let me say right here that I truly appreciate every review, good or bad or anywhere in between, that my readers take time from their business schedule to write for one of my books. Readers are truly the wind beneath our wings and without them, we wouldn’t have a job. And I for one love my job so thank you to all my readers!

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