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Melody Carlson is the awarded writer of over two hundred books for children, teens and adults, with sales of over five million. Many of her titles appearing on the ECPA Bestsellers List.She is the author of several Christmas books, and also a few lovely Christian books for small children, including charming illustrated Baby’s First Book of Prayers, Her First Bible (for girls) and His first Bible (for boys). Her annual Christmas books are more and more popular every year. The most known are The Christmas Dog, The Christmas Bus, and Christmas at Harrington’s.She is also the author of many teen books, including a few novels called Amish fiction that will give us a different look at the culture and the dreams of those involved in the Amish life.Her most popular teen books are Just another girl, Anything but normal, Double Take, The Life at Kingston High series, The True Colors series and the Diary of a Teenage Girl series.As she said in an interview, Melody enjoy writing the non fiction for the women, and her book Dear Mom: Everything Your Teenage Daughter Wants You to Know But Will Never Tell You contains many advises for moms and daughters.She has also written several funny books intended for modern women (chic-lit), such as These boots were not made for walking and A Mile in My Flip-Flops.She is the winner of the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, the Rita Award (for her novel Homeward) and the Gold Medallion.

Melody was born on March 2, 1956th in San Francisco, California. She grew up in Springfield, Oregon and attended Springfield High School, and later the Lane Community College. Her parents were divorced when she was just three, because her father was alcoholic. Her mother cared about her and her sixteen months older sister. She early became independent and learned to look after herself.Melody is currently living in the district of Sisters, Oregon, with his wife and a yellow Labrador. Mother of two grown sons and grandmother of a little girl. She enjoys games with her granddaughter Anika, research of wild nature, and in biking, hiking, skiing, gardening and camping, that they started here when sons were small.

She was writing from an early age, articles, songs, poetry, but she seriously started to write in her thirties, first short stories and then novels.This creative lady and her husband Chris have turned the old bunk house in the writing studio. She also likes to write on the beach, and sometimes in her motor home on the road. In an interview she claimed that she writes very quickly and never writes two books at the same time.She adores reading and the books she loved in childhood were Little House on the Prairie, Anne of Green Gables, The Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird, as well as Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales The Brave Tin Soldier and The Little Mermaid.Her favorite writers – Rosamond Pilcher, Anne Tyler, and Elizabeth Berg – were her inspiration to start writing. She also likes the old classics, such as Jane Austen and Bronte sisters. Her writing covers a wide variety of genres. The topics covered in her books come from real life and range from those serious, such as schizophrenia (Finding Alice), and the death of family members (Angels in the Snow), to the lighter, such as house-flipping in the chic-lit book A Mile in My Flip-Flops.Melody Carlson belongs to the Bellevue Baptist Church and says that as a child she did not go to church, and that revealed her faith in God as the wild teenager. Today she is completely dedicated to her religion. Together with her husband, she serves on the Young Life adult committee in central Oregon, helping young people to find their way.

The True Colors Series

This popular series of books (twelve in total) is intended for a young audience. Topics include sexuality, drugs, alcohol, friendship, love, revenge, suicide, body image and eating disorders. Each book in the end includes questions for discussion.

Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely

The first book in the True Colors series and it was published in January 29th 2004 by Think Books (first published December 19th 2003). The basic theme is the painful loneliness and search for ways to overcome.This novel is about a very timid girl named Kara Hendricks. Her best friend is fun and open Jordan Ferguson. They know each other from their early age (kindergarten), but once they hit their sophomore year in high school, their relation changes and they are not as close friends as they were before.Jordan starts hanging out with the popular people (she is a cheerleader) and Kara is hanging with her totally different friends from the art club.Kara feels lonely and that all her world is empty without Jordan. Her days become dark blue till the moment she discovers something about herself she never knew before.In this novel the author teaches young people that they are never alone and that Jesus is their best friend.

Deep Green: Color Me Jealous

This is the second book in The True Color Series (Paperback-March 23, 2004), a story about love, friendship, forgiveness and faith.The main topic is about Jordan Ferguson and Shawna Frye, two good friends and cheerleaders. The problem begins when Shawna’s boyfriend Timothy, a very popular and handsome guy, leaves her and starts dating Jordan.Insulted and humiliated, Shawna becomes angry. She is ready to do anything to win Timothy back. Her revenge includes smearing Jordan’s reputation, destroying her social life, and even seducing her ex-boyfriend Tim. All this leads to a bitter high-school love triangle, until the moment when Kara Hendricks, Jordan ex-best friend, helps Jordan to let Jesus into her heart. At the end of the book, two girls, Jordan and Shawna, forgive to each other. Shawna tells Jordan that she would like to talk about letting God into her life too.

Movies

Melody Carlson’s book Finding Alice is in production as a Lifetime Television movie. Also, her Christmas at Harrington’s had been considered for a TV movie.

3 Responses to “Melody Carlson”

1. Leonard L. Dean: 2 years ago

   I just finish reading one of your books, Miracles of Marble Cove, Unexpected Treasures, it was great, I really enjoyed it, and I am a 82 year old man.
   What about the book, the Oregon Trail.
   Leonard Dean

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2. Barb Schmidt: 2 years ago

   What am I missing. Can’t find the book that follows Harbor Secrets (Book 1) Are there more books in this series?

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   • Graeme: 2 years ago

     Yes there is four. As per the list above it is Harbor Secrets, Riptide Rumors, Surf Smugglers, Turning Tide. It is the Legacy of Sunset Cove series.

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