When interviewed by Lola Sparks in Purple Pens, Kelly identified the following writers as having influenced her: The couple has five grown children now located in various parts of America. She is married to Martin Kelly, former Director of Theatre at Valley City State University, in Valley City, North Dakota, who is now retired. Kelly is a former staff features writer for the Valley City Times Record newspaper based in Valley City, North Dakota. In her varied professional career Kelly has worked as a ranger/historian with the National Park Service at Fort Laramie National Historic Site, and a ranger at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site a contract research historian for the State Historical Society of North Dakota and history instructor at university level. She completed a master's degree at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, in American history, with a focus on the Civil War and Indian Wars. She graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where she studied Latin American history.
The daughter of a Navy Officer, she grew up overseas or on one coast of the United States or the other. Since 2011, Kelly, who has a Mormon background, has written four historical romance novels that focus on the lives of young Mormon women: Borrowed Light, Enduring Light, My Loving Vigil Keeping, and Safe Passage.īorn in 1947, Carla Sue Kelly calls herself a navy brat. She also has a strong interest in the American West, which is reflected in her earliest published works and in her non-fiction. However, her regencies only reflect a part of her writing interests.
While many Regency romances feature soldiers returned from the Napoleonic Wars, several of Kelly's books include soldiers and sailors actively involved in the Peninsular campaign and in the naval blockade that prevented France from invading England, bringing this war to life in an unforgettable way.
Renowned for what she calls "dukeless" regencies, her stories often revolve around ordinary people solving their own problems. books they keep in their private collections, and accordingly they can be hard to find. Her books are what romance readers call "keepers," i.e. She is the author of over forty books and short stories. Career Achievement Award – Romantic Times, 1994-95Ĭarla Sue Kelly (born 1947) is an American writer in the Regency romance genre.
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