Carolyn Crane

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Carolyn Crane
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Carolyn Crane at the Romance Writers of America Literacy Signing, July 22, 2015, New York, NY
Pen nameCarolyn Crane
OccupationWriter, Novelist
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Minnesota (BA)
Period2010 - present
Genre Urban fantasy Romantic suspense
Notable worksOff the Edge
Notable awardsRITA award – Best Romantic Suspense
2014 Off the Edge
Website
authorcarolyncrane.com

Carolyn Crane is an American author of the Disillusionists urban fantasy trilogy, as well as the Associates romantic suspense series. Her novel Off the Edge won a Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2014 for Best Romantic Suspense, making this the first self-published novel to win a RITA. [1]

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Biography

Crane grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and Milwaukee, attending Arrowhead High School in Wisconsin. [2] She studied English literature and earned her BA from the University of Minnesota in 1991 [1] [3] and currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two cats.

Crane cites reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander , Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, and Kelley Armstrong's Bitten in reinspiring her to write after getting her degree. [1]

Crane wrote two unpublished novels before she was picked up by agent Cameron McClure of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. In 2008, McClure sold the first two books of her new urban fantasy trilogy, The Disillusionists, to Bantam/Spectra, a division of Random House. Her debut novel, Mind Games, was released March 23, 2010. Due to low sales, Spectra announced that summer that it would not opt for the third book in the series. The third was sold to Samhain Publishing, Audible.com released all three titles on October 25, 2011, and the series was optioned for TV. [1]

Her first foray into self-publishing was collaborating with Meljean Brook and Jill Myles in the anthology Wild and Steamy, in which Crane had a novella "Kitten-tiger & the Monk" that was a part of the Disilluionists world. [1]

She indicated in an interview with SFF World that she has two new series in development. [2]

Bibliography

Disillusionist Trilogy

1. Mind Games . Spectra. March 2010 [2010]. ISBN   9780553592610.
2. Double Cross . Spectra. September 2010 [2010]. ISBN   9780553592627.
2.5 Kitten-tiger & the Monk. August 2011 [2011]. in the anthology Wild & Steamy and Novellas & Stories [4]
3. Head Rush. Samhain. December 2011 [2011]. ISBN   9781609286255.
3.5 Devil's Luck. February 2012 [2012].

Code of Shadows Series

0.5. Conjuring Max. March 2013 [2013]. ISBN   9780989461108. in the anthology Fire & Frost and Novellas & Stories
1. Mr. Real. October 2012 [2012]. ISBN   9780988313101.

The Associates Series

  1. Crane, Carolyn; Martin, Annika (April 2013) [2013]. Against the Dark. ISBN   9780988313118.
  2. Crane, Carolyn; Martin, Annika (December 2013) [2013]. Off the Edge. ISBN   9780988313125.
  3. Crane, Carolyn (July 2014) [2014]. Into the Shadows. ISBN   9780988313132.
  4. Crane, Carolyn (May 2015) [2015]. Behind the Mask. ISBN   9780988313163.

Novellas/Short Stories

Audio

  1. Against the Dark. Tantor. October 2014 [2014]. ISBN   9781494505622.
  2. Off the Edge. Tantor. November 2014 [2014]. ISBN   9781494555634.
  3. Into the Shadows. Tantor. December 2014 [2014]. ISBN   9781494505646.

Awards and reception

Critical reception to Crane's work has been positive, with Romantic Times giving the first two books in the Disillusionist Trilogy four and a half stars. [5] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Writers On Writing Featuring Carolyn Crane". rwa.org. Retrieved 2015-05-24.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. 1 2 Interview with Carolyn Crane SFF World
  3. ↑ "Winter 2010 Newsletter". University of Minnesota . Retrieved 2015-05-24.
  4. ↑ Brook, Meljean (2013). Novellas & Stories. Ottawa Public Library: CreateSpace Independent Publishing. pp. Table of Contents. ISBN   978-1484828137.
  5. ↑ Review: Mind Games Romantic Times
  6. ↑ Review: Double Cross Romantic Times
Awards
Preceded by Winner of the RITA Award
for Best Romantic Suspense
2014		Current holder
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