Ep 105: Exploring Mississippi with Author Carolyn Haines
Join us as we tour the US through books, one state at a time.
This week we are headed to Mississippi with author Carolyn Haines and her Sarah Booth Delaney mystery series. Our book of the week is Them Bones, a delightful mix of mystery, laughter, and the supernatural that leaves you feeling like you’re in Mississippi right alongside the characters.
Laugh along with Becki and Carolyn as they talk about Carolyn’s incredibly diverse writing career that has taken her from the bustling newsroom, where she once covered an armed robbery on horseback, to publishing over 80 novels. She has also gone undercover in a prison and danced the night away with some surprising partners. Don’t miss this fun interview!
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Meet Carolyn Haines
When I was growing up in the small town of Lucedale, Mississippi, I had big dreams. I wanted to be a cowgirl, a writer, and Nancy Drew. Life has surely thrown me more than a few twists, but dreams are hard to destroy. Today, I’m all three–sort of. Of course the only mysteries I solve are in Zinnia, Mississippi. And I have the help of Sarah Booth Delaney, Tinkie, Cece, Coleman, Millie and a host of other characters. They’ll be quick to tell you they do all the hard work–I’m just the writer.
Before I wrote fiction I worked for nearly a decade as a journalist. That experience has been invaluable as a writer. It was a fabulous life for a young woman, and I had some terrific adventures. I once covered an armed robbery on horseback and on another occasion had to climb a tree to cover a hostage situation in a graveyard. It’s a good thing I was a tomboy growing up.
Sarah Booth and Jitty came to me in tandem, arguing just as they do in the books. When such fully developed characters visit a writer, it’s truly a gift. I didn’t know Sarah Booth was a private investigator–in fact she didn’t either–until I’d started writing the book (Them Bones). Now, it’s become my challenge to give her interesting cases to solve.
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Exploring Mississippi with Author Carolyn Haines
In This Episode
We had so much fun chatting with Carolyn and here are some of the things we talked about:
- Her work as a journalist including an undercover assignment at a women’s prison
- Reading while at work at the local drugstore
- Her attempt at writing a romance
- Getting started at Harlequin Intrigue
- Writing 80 books and still going
- The inspiration for Jitty’s wardrobe
- and more!
Books Mentioned in this Episode
Them Bones
Summer of the Redeemers
Touched
The Darkling
Lights, Camera, Bones
Blue Christmas Bones
Mexican Gothic
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