C.C. Coburn

C.C. Coburn wrote her first book when her doctor advised her to put her feet up for six weeks after breaking her foot. Heavily pregnant, she welcomed the excuse to work on a story that had been playing on the edges of her consciousness for years.

Six weeks later, she had a 100,000-word manuscript, a new baby and a thirst to write more. After trying several genres, she found herself writing romance and loving it. A keen traveler, she spends five months a year living in the Colorado Rockies, taking inspiration from her surroundings.

Her debut novel, Colorado Christmas from Harlequin American Romance, is set in a small but quirky Rocky Mountains township. It features an uptight lady judge, a naughty pig, a lovesick dog, a kid who wants a dad, an Aztec-red Cadillac series 62 complete with tail fins of extraordinary proportions, Christmas trees, a lot of snow and a hero to die for.

Married to the first man who asked her, she lives the other seven months of the year on Australia's sun-drenched Gold Coast with her husband, three children, three cats and a much-adored Labrador.