About Candace
Award-winning author Candace Carrabus’s stories are imbued with the irresistible wonder, mystery, and solace horses have brought to her life. If you like your books filled with powerful women, adventure, and romance, you’ll enjoy hers.
Horses have been a vital part of Candace’s life. After being diagnosed with scoliosis at age 11, she was strapped into an ugly and cumbersome back brace for 23 hours a day. She sought refuge at the barn where horses didn’t judge or poke fun, hoarding her time, wearing the brace for days without break so she could remove it long enough for a weekly riding lesson.
Those years, though often difficult, taught Candace the value of persistence, the healing power of believing in oneself, and how strength can be gained through kindness. Riding, grooming, or simply keeping company with horses helped develop Candace’s fearless creativity and sense of humor while providing the deep well from which her imagination springs. Over time, writing became as much of an obsession as riding.
Carrabus writes laugh-out-loud mystery fiction and out-of-this-world fantasy. Her novels include On the Buckle, Dream Horse Mystery #1 (“Fast-paced and enjoyable,” Reader’s Favorite) and Raver, The Horsecaller: Book One (“Packed full of adventure and intrigue,” The Literary Connoisseur). She revels in the natural world, and the Missouri farm she shares with her husband is a never-ending source of inspiration.
She boards her gelding, Remi, where there are plenty of other equines for him to play with and an indoor arena in which to ride. Although riding will always be high on the list, one of her greatest pleasures is sitting on the back deck, sipping tea, reading a good book, and watching the birds.
Candace’s philosophy, in brief :: (No, not in briefs, but that’s a nice image, thank you very much.)
We are all immigrants in spirit, with our minds, hearts, and souls being the final frontier. This is what happens to all my main characters–whether by choice or accident or design–they go somewhere else.
They immigrate.
At first, this change is external–physical. Over time, their journeys lead to a place of discovery and growth that is within each individual alone. The final frontier to which we all can go.
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Awards and such
Raver, The Horsecaller: Book One
First place, Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel, Oklahoma Writers Federation, 2003
First place, Paranormal, Toronto Romance Writers, 2005
On the Buckle, Dream Horse Mystery #1
Third place, Single Title Contemporary, Toronto Romance Writers, 2005
A Farmer at Last
Second place, Essay, Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, 2003
Woman
Third place, Poetry Unrhymed Short, Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, 2003
Unending Memory
Second place, Saturday Writers Poetry Contest
” . . . she’s a very good writer, very level-headed, with all the right expectations and professional patience, who can write in both the fantasy and the romance fields.” — Philip Martin, author/editor of The Writer’s Guide to Fantasy Literature.
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