Carrie Weaver
BornUnited States
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Period1999–present
GenreRomance

Carrie Weaver is an American author of contemporary romance novels.

Biography

After Weaver had children, she chose to quit her job as a claims adjuster to stay home with them. While the children napped, she began writing romance novels to entertain herself. In 1994, she attended her first writer's conference; the following year, she joined the Romance Writers of America. Her first novel sold in 1999, to Kensington Books.[1] The novel, Promises, Promises, was released in April 2000, and Kensington contracted her to write a novella for a July 2001 American Media MiniMag release. The MiniMag romance line was discontinued before the story was published.[2]

At the urging of Cathy McDavid, a fellow writer, Weaver signed to write a short story for the small press Elan Press. Her short story was included in their collection Romancing the Holidays.[2] In 2003, she began writing category romances in the Harlequin Superromance line. In 2007, she was chosen to write two novels in the new series partnering Harlequin and NASCAR.[1]

Weaver was nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award in 2004 for her novel The Second Sister.[3] In a review, Romantic Times gave The Second Sister their highest rating, noting the "realistic characters, strong emotion and an ending that is neither pat nor clichéd."[4]

In 2006, Weaver was a finalist in the Best Long Contemporary Romance category for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award.[5]

Bibliography

  • Promises, Promises (2000)
  • The Road to Echo Point (2003)
  • The Second Sister (2004)
  • Home for Christmas (2005)
  • The Secret Wife (2005)
  • Four Little Problems (2006)
  • Secrets in Texas (2006)
  • No Time to Lose (2007)
  • Temporary Nanny (2007)
  • A Chance Worth Taking (2007)

Omnibus

  • Second Sister / More Than A Cowboy (2004) (with Peggy Nicholson)

Collections

  • Romancing the Holidays, Vol. 1 (2001) (with Belmont Delange, Trudy Doolittle, Christine Eaton Jones, Su Kopil, Cathy McDavid, Deborah Shelley, Barbara White-Rayczek and Karen L. Williams)

References

  1. 1 2 "About Carrie Weaver". CarrieWeaver.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
  2. 1 2 "Small Press Spotlight". The Romance Reader. June 22, 2001. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
  3. ↑ "Author Profile: Carrie Weaver". RomanticTimes.Com. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
  4. ↑ Merrill, Christine (2004). "Book Review: The Second Sister". Romantic Times. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
  5. ↑ "2006 RITA AWard Finalists". Bookreporter.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
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