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name: Carol M. Cram
about: Carol M. Cram is the author of four novels including her latest "Love Among the Recipes", a contemporary novel set in Paris. "Loaded with wit and charm, Cram's ... fabulous jaunt through the City of Light will leave readers breathless and longing for more from Cram. - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)Cram has also written three award-winning historical novels about women in the arts. "The Towers of Tuscany" was published by Lake Union Publishing in 2014. The novel was awarded the Chaucer Award (Chanticleer Reviews) for best historical fiction and Editor's Choice by the Historical Novel Review. "The Towers of Tuscany" tells the story of a woman painter in fourteenth century Italy. "A Woman of Note" was published in 2015 by Lake Union Publis Carol M. Cram is the author of four novels including her latest "Love Among the Recipes", a contemporary novel set in Paris. "Loaded with wit and charm, Cram's ... fabulous jaunt through the City of Light will leave readers breathless and longing for more from Cram. - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)Cram has also written three award-winning historical novels about women in the arts. "The Towers of Tuscany" was published by Lake Union Publishing in 2014. The novel was awarded the Chaucer Award (Chanticleer Reviews) for best historical fiction and Editor's Choice by the Historical Novel Review. "The Towers of Tuscany" tells the story of a woman painter in fourteenth century Italy. "A Woman of Note" was published in 2015 by Lake Union Publishing and was awarded the Goethe Award for Best in Category (Chanticleer Reviews) and Editor's Choice by the Historical Novel Society. The novel is set in Vienna in the 1830s and tells the story of a woman composer. Carol's third novel, "A Muse of Fire" (Kindle Books &amp; New Arcadia Publishing 2018) received a Bronze for Best Historical Fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards and the Goethe Award for Best in Category. Set in 1809 in London, the novel delves into the riotous world of early 19th Century theater. Carol is also the author of the travel memoir "Pastel &amp; Pen: Travels in Europe" (New Arcadia Publishing, 2018)--a fun and heart-warming series of vignettes about her family's travels in Europe. The book is illustrated by her husband, Canadian painter Gregg Simpson. In addition to writing fiction, Carol has enjoyed a great career as an educator, teaching at Capilano University in North Vancouver for over twenty years and authoring fifty-plus bestselling textbooks on business communications and software applications for Cengage Learning. She holds an MA in Drama from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Carol is currently focusing as much of her attention as she can spare between walks in the woods on writing historical novels with an arts twist. She and her husband, painter Gregg Simpson, share a life on beautiful Bowen Island near Vancouver, Canada. ...more