Carola
Dunn
BBM: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
I was born and grew up in England. After university
(French and Russian), I set off around the world, but
only made it halfway (Fiji) before returning to the US
to marry a Californian. As we kept moving, I had lots
of part-time and temp jobs, from market research to
construction to writing definitions for a dictionary of
science and technology.
When in 1979 we at last bought a house, in Southern California, and my son
was settled at school, I needed to find a job. To postpone the search, I sat
down and wrote a Regency (being a Georgette Heyer fan). As I was lucky
enough to sell it, I went on writing, a total of 32 Regencies plus a dozen or so
novellas, 23 mysteries in my 1920s Daisy Dalrymple series, and 4 Cornish
mysteries, set in about 1970.
I now live in Oregon, but my son is still in SoCal. I have two grandchildren, so
I visit as often as I can. Yet almost all my books are set in England, so in a
way I've never left!
When I'm not writing, you'll find me reading, gardening, or playing the
recorder—everything from medieval to modern, or you won't find me because
I'm out walking the dog by the Willamette River.