Caroline Linden

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Caroline Linden
Pen nameCaroline Linden
Occupation Novelist
Nationality America
Period2005–present
Genre historical romance, contemporary romance
Notable awardsRITA award – Best Romance Novella
2012 I Love the Earl
Website
www.carolinelinden.com

Caroline Linden is an American author of historical and contemporary romance. She won Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romance Novella in 2012 for I Love the Earl, making it the first digital-first publication to win this award. Her books have been translated into eleven foreign languages. [1]

Historical romance literary genre

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Romance Writers of America (RWA) is a national non-profit genre writers association. It provides networking and support to individuals seriously pursuing a career in romance fiction and supports top authors such as Nora Roberts and Judith McNaught.

Contents

Biography

Linden grew up the daughter of a member of United States Air Force. She earned her undergraduate degree in math from Harvard University and worked doing actuarial coding for a financial services firm. She met her husband in the math department of Harvard. [1] [2] [3]

Harvard University Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with about 6,700 undergraduate students and about 15,250 postgraduate students. Established in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, clergyman John Harvard, Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning. Its history, influence, wealth, and academic reputation have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world. It has often been cited as the world's top university by most publishers.

After a brief stint in Miami, she returned to Boston with her family, which created a break in her computer programming career. She decided to try fiction writing one night when she had nothing to read and a new iMac. After spending five years on three manuscripts, her agent sold What A Woman Needs. [1] She likes writing books set in Regency England because it was "rich in intrigue and drama, with a major war, political upheaval, national scandals and spies, but it was also on the cusp of a new age of invention and scientific discovery. It was a good age for woman, historically speaking. It was also a beautiful age, with an emphasis on graceful architecture, landscaping and fashion—and that always makes a world more appealing." [3] [4]

She credits the original Star Wars trilogy as being a major influence, "The story-telling arc hits every button for me. It's got everything, from sword fights to romance to intrigue to secrets and sacrifice and a really hot pirate. Sorry, blockade runner. And the fate of the universe hangs on all these other storylines coming together. That moment at the end of Return of the Jedi, when Darth Vader is watching as the Emperor zaps Luke, and Luke cries out to him ... that pulls on everything from the series, that one pivotal scene that tips the plot into resolution." She tries to do the same for her books-- "make everything hang together and fit logically so that at the end, a reader can look back and say, 'Oh, now I see it all! Even that random little thing in Chapter Two turned out to play a part.'" [4]

Linden resides near Boston with her husband and two children. [1]

Bibliography

The Bow St. Agents: Spies in Love

  1. A View to a Kiss. February 2009
  2. For Your Arms Only. December 2009
  3. You Only Love Once. September 2010

The Reece Family

  1. What a Gentleman Wants. September 2006
  2. What a Rogue Desires. September 2007
  3. A Rake's Guide to Seduction. June 2008

Scandals

The Truth About the Duke

  1. I Love the Earl September 2011
  2. One Night in London. September 2011
  3. Blame It on Bath. March 2012
  4. The Way to a Duke's Heart. September 2012

Stand-alone works

Historical romance
Contemporary romance

Short stories and anthologies

Awards and reception

Linden has finaled twice in the RITA, for A View to a Kiss and Will You Be My Wi-Fi?. She has also received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "About Caroline Linden". Official Website of Caroline Linden. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ "About Caroline Linden". Fresh Fiction. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  3. 1 2 McLemore, Lily (June 1, 2015). "7 questions with . . . Caroline Linden". BookPage. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Lamb, Joyce (March 5, 2012). "Interview: Caroline Linden, author of 'Blame It on Bath'". USA Today. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ "The Daphne du Maurier Award FOR EXCELLENCE IN MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Past Winners" (PDF). RWA Mystery/Suspense Chapter. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ "myRWA : RITA Awards : RITA Winners". rwa.org. Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Award-Winning Books by Caroline Linden". FictionDB. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
Awards
Preceded by
Virginia Kantra 		Winner of the RITA Award
for Best Romance Novella
2012		Succeeded by
Eloisa James
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