Beth Carter, Author

head shots from ORA 2012 003 (2) After being a bank vice president and a hospital public relations director, Beth Carter shed her suits and heels to wave good-bye to corporate America. She doesn’t miss the eight o’clock meetings and now happily writes from home in her pj’s. While drinking copious amounts of coffee, she pens novels and children’s picture books.

Carter’s newest release, MIRACLE ON AISLE TWO, is a Christmas novella featuring a single mom who is fired two weeks before Christmas.

Her contemporary romance, SLEEPING WITH ELVIS, received a 2017 Raven Award for Favorite Contemporary runner-up by Uncaged Book Reviews. The author has always loved Elvis and went to his last concert two months before he passed away. After she attended a performance by an Elvis impersonator, a plot was born! She realized she could help bring the King’s legacy to a new generation through her fiction. Read the blurb here.

Carter’s double award-winning debut women’s fiction, THURSDAYS AT COCONUTS, received Best Women’s Fiction/Chick Lit by InD’Tale Magazine, as well as Best Debut Author by BTS Books in 2015. Coconuts will be a four-book series. Book 2, CHAOS AT COCONUTS, releases April 2018. The author’s women’s fiction is laced with humor, suspense, and romance. Tagline: Three BFFs, hippies, neurotic brides, and sexy bad-boy cops. What could go wrong? Read an excerpt here.

SANTA BABY, Carter’s holiday novelette, appears in an eight-author Christmas anthology, SIZZLE IN THE SNOW, by Soul Mate Publishing. SANTA BABY shows the struggle of a single mom, a Christmas baby, and an even hotter OB/GYN. Read the blurb here.

The author’s four children’s picture books include the popular WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE? THE MISSING KEY, SANTA’S SECRET and her newest, SOUR POWER.

Additionally, Carter has several short stories and poems published in five anthologies and her six-word memoirs appear in four collections alongside famous writers and celebrities. Most days you’ll find the author writing and sipping a skinny vanilla latte at Starbucks or possibly shopping at T.J. Maxx. She was born and raised in the Midwest and has adopted sunny Florida during the winter months. She has 25 years’ experience in marketing healthcare, banking, and green heat.