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Carole Nelson Douglas
Biography
LITERARY CHAMELEON: Have Genres, Will Travel
The author of sixty-one novels-—mainstream, mystery, thriller, fantasy, science fiction and women’s fiction—-Carole has been nominated for or won more than fifty writing awards. Many of her short stories have been reprinted in “Year’s Best” collections.
She holds RT Book Reviews magazine's Lifetime Achievement Awards for Versatility and Mystery writing. The magazine also honored her in its first “Pioneer of Publishing” awards.
Her New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes, launched the first mystery/suspense series to feature a Sherlockian woman protagonist, Irene Adler.
Carole also writes two bestselling series set in a Las Vegas worlds apart.
The alphabetically titled contemporary Midnight Louie, feline PI, mysteries are heading toward 27 entries with Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta now out. Carole calls them "cozy-noir." (“Remington Steele with two couples and a cat”... and an international terrorism subplot.) Louie's novels and short stories have snagged numerous Cat Writers’ Association Muse Medallion awards.
The action-packed Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, noir urban fantasies are set in a 2013 Vegas from Hell where werewolf and immortality mobs and demon drug lords wreak havoc.
Carole enjoys mixing adventure, mystery, fantasy, romance, humor and heart with satire and underlying social issues. As a journalist, she won many Newspaper Guild of the Twin Cities awards and an Honorable Mention in the national Catherine L. O’Brien Award (one of 10 in a field of 2,000), for an article on the destitute elderly.
In college, she was a finalist in Vogue magazine’s long-standing Prix de Paris writing competition for women college seniors (one of 12 in a national field of 2,000), once won by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
So, naturally, she's a vintage clothing fashionista who also collects homeless cats and dogs.
The author of sixty-one novels-—mainstream, mystery, thriller, fantasy, science fiction and women’s fiction—-Carole has been nominated for or won more than fifty writing awards. Many of her short stories have been reprinted in “Year’s Best” collections.
She holds RT Book Reviews magazine's Lifetime Achievement Awards for Versatility and Mystery writing. The magazine also honored her in its first “Pioneer of Publishing” awards.
Her New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes, launched the first mystery/suspense series to feature a Sherlockian woman protagonist, Irene Adler.
Carole also writes two bestselling series set in a Las Vegas worlds apart.
The alphabetically titled contemporary Midnight Louie, feline PI, mysteries are heading toward 27 entries with Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta now out. Carole calls them "cozy-noir." (“Remington Steele with two couples and a cat”... and an international terrorism subplot.) Louie's novels and short stories have snagged numerous Cat Writers’ Association Muse Medallion awards.
The action-packed Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, noir urban fantasies are set in a 2013 Vegas from Hell where werewolf and immortality mobs and demon drug lords wreak havoc.
Carole enjoys mixing adventure, mystery, fantasy, romance, humor and heart with satire and underlying social issues. As a journalist, she won many Newspaper Guild of the Twin Cities awards and an Honorable Mention in the national Catherine L. O’Brien Award (one of 10 in a field of 2,000), for an article on the destitute elderly.
In college, she was a finalist in Vogue magazine’s long-standing Prix de Paris writing competition for women college seniors (one of 12 in a national field of 2,000), once won by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
So, naturally, she's a vintage clothing fashionista who also collects homeless cats and dogs.
Where to find Carole Nelson Douglas online
Website: http://www.carolenelsondouglas.com
Twitter: @CNDouglasWriter
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/carolenelsondouglas
Blog: http://www.carolenelsondouglas.com/blog
Twitter: @CNDouglasWriter
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/carolenelsondouglas
Blog: http://www.carolenelsondouglas.com/blog
Where to buy in print
Books
RT Booklovers Presents: The Haunted West Volume 2
by Diana Gabaldon (foreword by), Virginia Henley, Eileen Dreyer, Carole Nelson Douglas, Erin McCarthy, Kathy Love, Elle J Rossi, InvokeBooks DebbyGrahl, Mathew Kaufman, Crystal Perkins, Leah Snow, & J. Piper Lee
Series: RT Booklovers Presents: The Haunted West.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 58,280.
Language:
English.
Published: November 12, 2018
by
Invoke Books.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General, Fiction » Romance » General
In this two volume collection, written especially for RT Booklovers Presents: The Haunted West, best-selling and award-winning authors take you on a time-traveling, spellbinding journey through America's sprawling West. Over twenty all new tales, both contemporary and historical, weave a web of mystery, the supernatural, and romance.
Romantic Times: Vegas - Volume 3
by InvokeBooks KathrynFalk, Tina Wainscott, Crystal Perkins, Amanda McIntyre, Hailey J. Bissell, Tina DeSalvo, Sabrina York, & Carole Nelson Douglas
Series: Romantic Times Vegas.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 58,730.
Language:
English.
Published: April 18, 2016
by
Invoke Books.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Romance » Short stories
The Excelsior Hotel and Casino. Built in Las Vegas in 1960 by mobster Louis “The Lip” LaFica.
For decades the towering hotel has been the subject of incredible stories and rumors that have kept it in the public eye the world around.
Why have so many lovers been mysteriously, magically, magnetically drawn to this magnificent edifice?