Hanging on to it a little, are you? … There’s a trick to letting it go, in case you’re interested… You can’t try. Trying is a struggle and doing is an act. You can’t witness the act of trying, but you can see the results of doing. Trying brings on stress because not only do you have the problem, but now you have all this frustration with it not going away just because you want it to. It’s kind of like being told not to think of pink elephants- impossible. What you have to do is stop. You say to yourself, this is over for now. I’m done for now. Take your mind to another place and concentrate on that peaceful place. Deep breaths. Go limp. Put your mind in another state. It takes practice, but it gets easier, over time… My gramma used to say, you can only feel one feeling at a time. For example, you can’t feel trust and fear together. If you want to trust but you’re afraid, fear is still in charge. If you trusted, there wouldn’t be fear. She also used to say you have to listen to what you feel- feeling fear could be warning, right? ... Don’t make love to your problems- they’ll never give you back the satisfaction you give them. And, your troubles aren’t worth the paper they’re written on, but that doesn’t mean writing them down won’t help you get a fix on ‘em. And, God respects you when you work, but he loves you when you dance… she also used to say, ‘if Jesus walked the earth today, he wouldn’t be hanging out with Billy Graham. He’d be found with the drug addicts and prostitutes and the like.

She married her high school sweetheart just before he left for the US Air Force as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. Bibliography


Stand Alone Novels
Chelynne (1980)
Blue Falcon (1981)
Bellerose Bar (1982)
Braeswood Tapestry (1985)
The Troubadour's Romance (1985)
By Right of Arms (1986)
The Bellerose Bargain (1986)
The Everlasting Covenant (1987)
Tempted (1987)
Rogue's Lady (1988)
Informed Risk (1989)
Woman's Own (1990)
The Armstrong Women (1990)
Mind Tryst (1992)
The House on Olive Street (2000)
The Wedding Party (2002)
Blue Skies (2004)
Runaway Mistress (2005)
Never Too Late (2006)


Grace Valley
Deep in the Valley (2001)
Just Over the Mountain (2002)
Down by the River (2003)


Virgin River
Virgin River (2007)
Shelter Mountain (2007)
Whispering Rock (2007)
A Virgin River Christmas (2008)
Second Chance Pass (2009)
Temptation Ridge (2009)
Paradise Valley (2009)
Under the Christmas Tree (In the anthology That Holiday Feeling) (2009)
Forbidden Falls (2010)
Angel's Peak (2010)
Moonlight Road (2010)
Midnight Confessions (In the anthology Midnight Kiss) (2010)
Promise Canyon (2011)
Wild Man Creek (2011)
Harvest Moon (2011)
Bring Me Home for Christmas (2011)
Hidden Summit (2012)
Redwood Bend (2012)
Sunrise Point (2012)
My Kind of Christmas (October 23 2012)


Thunder Point
The Wanderer (March 26 2013)
The Newcomer (June 25 2013)
The Hero (August 27 2013)


Omnibus
To Mother with Love: Way Home / Backward Glance / So This Is Love (1993) (with Linda Howard and Cheryl Reavis)


Non fiction
Practical Tips for Writing Popular Fiction (1993)


Anthologies containing stories by Robyn Carr
David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination (1996)


Short stories
"Natasha's Bedroom" (1996). Robyn Carr is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of almost fifty novels including the critically acclaimed Virgin River novels.

Robyn Carr is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of almost fifty novels including the critically acclaimed Virgin River novels.