| Awards | Blogs |
Interviews |
Carole Bellacera's work has appeared in magazines such as Woman's World,
The Star, Endless Vacation and The Washington Post. Her new
romantic suspense novel, East of the Sun, West of
the Moon, was released in hardcover by Forge Books in August 2000.
Her first novel, Border Crossings,
a hardcover published by Forge Books in May of 1999, was a 2000 RITA Award nominee
for Best Romantic Suspense and Best First Book, a nominee for the 2000 Virginia
Literary Award in Fiction. It was also a 2000 finalist in the Golden Quill award
and in the Aspen Gold Award and won 1st Place in the Volusia County 2000 Laurel
Wreath Award**. Her work has appeared in various anthologies such
as Kay Allenbaugh's Chocolate for a Woman's Heart, Chocolate for a Couples'
Heart and Chicken Soup for Couples. Carole (nee Foley) grew up in
Pittsboro, Indiana, and graduated from high school in 1971 at Pittsboro High.
Although she had dreams of becoming a novelist, she joined the
United States Air Force to see the world and became a medical technician, serving
assignments at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois and in Crete, Greece. It was in Crete
that she met her Italian- American husband, Frank Bellacera. In 1985, after a chance
meeting with Princess Di and Prince Charles at Andrews Air Force Base, Carole rediscovered
her love affair with the written word. Her first published story, "The Day Princess
Di Spoke to Me," appeared in the military magazine, Family. From that time
on, she never looked back. It took eleven years, but finally, with Border Crossings,
her dream of becoming a published novelist was realized.
Now a resident of Northern Virginia, Carole has been married to Frank, a retired
Air Force man, for twenty-six years, and is the proud mother of two grown children.
As a military wife, she has had the privilege of living in some wonderful places,
including Hawaii, Greece, Colorado and North Carolina. In addition to her writing
career, she has worked as a medical technician, a librarian, an executive secretary
and a receptionist for a member of Congress on Capitol Hill. When she's not writing,
her most favorite thing to do in the world is downhill skiing.
She considers Picabo Street her personal heroine, and if she wasn't a writer, she'd
love to be a ski racer.
SPOTLIGHT, her second
novel, was a 2000 RIO Nominee in the Dorothy Parker Award for Excellence in Fiction
(Best Romantic Suspense), a 2001 Holt Medallion Finalist for Best Mainstream Novel
and a 2001 Booksellers' Best Awards Finalist.
Awards
Nominee for the 2005 Kentucky Literary Awards
Romantic Times 2000 Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee - Best Contemporary Novel -
Border Crossings
2000 RITA Best First Book Finalist -Border Crossings
2000 RITA Best Romantic Suspense Finalist -
Border Crossings
Blogs
Visit Carole's
travel blog
Visit Carole's
MySpace page
Visit Carole's
blog
Read interviews with Carole
Fallen Angel Reviews