Marisa Carroll
Marisa Carroll is the pen name of the award-winning
writing team of Carol Wagner and Marian L. Franz of
Deshler, Ohio. The sisters have published thirty romance
novels in the past fifteen years. Their publishing history
includes sales to Dell Publishing, and Woman's
World magazine. They now write exclusively for
Harlequin Books.
They are the recipients of several
industry awards including Romantic Times magazine's
Career Achievement Award for their highly acclaimed Saigon
Legacy Series published by Harlequin Books in 1991. They
were finalists in the Romance Writers of America's RITA
award competition for 1992, B. Dalton Bookseller's Best
Selling Superromance of 1992, 1996 and 1997 finalists in
the Virginia Romance Writer's Holt Medallion competition
and the 1997 Oklahoma Romance Writer's National Reader's
Choice Awards. In 1999 Romantic Times honored them as one
of the top storytellers of the year. Affair de
Coeur magazine's readers have nominated them to their
Top Ten Favorite Authors List.
In 1992 they were chosen by Harlequin Books to do one of a
series of six books to benefit Big Brothers/Big Sisters of
North America, an honor of which they are justly proud. In
February of 1993, Loveknot, the finale of the Tyler Series
appeared on Waldenbooks National Bestseller list. Also in
May of that year they were given an award by B. Dalton,
Bookseller for the best selling Superromance of 1992. In
1994 their short story Affair of the Heart was
included in Harlequin's My Valentine anthology, a USA
TODAY bestseller. In June 1994, Wedding Invitation
launched Harlequin's Weddings, Inc. series. In 1996 they
published the lead title in the Return to Tyler series.
Carol Wagner has been a committee chairman for the
national conference of Romance Writers of America four
times and is the recipient of the Region 2 Service Award
for 1995. Both sisters have been featured speakers at
writing seminars all over the country.
Carol and Marian were born and raised in Northwestern Ohio
pursuing careers in nursing, X-ray technology and the
business community before entering the writing field in
1982. Marian is employed at Bowling Green State University
in Bowling Green, Ohio. Carol is writing full time.
Log In to see more information about Marisa Carroll
Log in or register now!
Series
Books:At Any Cost, June 2010
Paperback
Into The Corner, February 2010
NASCAR
Mass Market Paperback
No Holds Barred, June 2009
NASCAR
Mass Market Paperback
Victory Lane, December 2008
Stories Set in the World of NASCAR
Mass Market Paperback
A NASCAR Holiday 3, November 2008
NASCAR
Mass Market Paperback
Forbidden Attraction, February 2008
Stories Set in the World of NASCAR
Paperback
Breaking All The Rules, September 2007
Mediterranean Nights
Mass Market Paperback
Her Summer Lover, February 2007
Miniseries: Hotel Marchand
Paperback
Marriage by Necessity, October 2005
#1305
Paperback
|