Carolyn Pizzuti is an American

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 of romance novels under the pen name

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 Carolyn Zane. She has also been published as Suzy Pizzuti.

Biography

Carolyn was born and raised in Southern California

Southern California

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. When she was five, her family moved to Oregon

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. Carolyn graduated from high school in 1976 in Silverton, Oregon

Silverton, Oregon

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 and enrolled at Oregon State University

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, where she majored in broadcast/speech communications. In 1978, she married her college sweetheart, Matt, and, in 1981, she graduated from OSU and moved to Portland

Portland, Oregon

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. Carolyn worked as a producer for local television commercials.

On their sixteenth wedding anniversary, Carolyn and her husband welcomed their first daughter, Madeline Alexa. A second daughter, Olivia RoseAnne, followed four years later. While her daughters were small, Zane wanted to find a career that she could follow from home. In March 1993 she finished her first romance novel, The Wife Next Door,which was soon purchased by Silhouette. Since then, Carolyn has had almost 30 novels published in the Silhouette category lines, with over one million copies in print worldwide. Her work has been reviewed multiple time in Romantic Times, which describes her work as "diverting," although sometimes "light on conflict." Her books are "strong on humor, snappy repartee and passionate moments."

Two of her novels have been inspirational romances, written under the pen name Suzy Pizzuti. These were released in 1998 and 1999.

Brubaker Brides Series

* Miss Prim's Untamable Cowboy (1997)

• His Brother's Intended Bride (1997)
• Cinderella's Secret Baby (1998)
• The Rich Gal's Rented Groom (1998)
• Johnny's Pregnant Bride (1999)
• The Millionaire's Waitress Wife (2000)
• Montana's Feisty Cowgirl (2000)
• Tex's Exasperating Heiress (2001)
• Carolina's Gone a Courting (2004)
• Georgia Gets Her Groom! (2004)
• Virginia's Getting Hitched (2004)

Novels

• Wife in Name Only (1994)
• The Wife Next Door (1994)
• The Baby Factor (1995)
• Unwilling Wife (1995)
• Weekend Wife (1995)
• Bachelor Blues (1995)
• How to Hook a Husband (And a Baby) (1996)
• Marriage in a Bottle (1996)
• Single in Seattle (1996)
• It's Raining Grooms (1997)
• Of Royal Blood (2002)
• Taking on Twins (2002)
• The Cinderella Inheritance (2003)

Omnibus

• The Family Factor (2002) (with Marie Ferrarella
  Marie Ferrarella
  Marie Ferrarella, née Rydzynski is a popular and prolific American writer of over 150 romance novels as Marie Ferrarella, which have been translated into at least seven languages...
  
  )
• The Bluest Eyes in Texas / Wife in Name Only (2002) (with Joan Johnston
  Joan Johnston
  Joan Johnston is a best-selling American author of over forty contemporary and historical romance novels.-Biography:...
  
  )
• A Colton Family Christmas (2002) (with Judy Christenberry, Linda Turner)
• Of Royal Blood / In Pursuit of a Princess (2003) (with Donna Clayton)
• The Coltons: Brides of Privilege (2004) (with Ruth Langan
  Ruth Langan
  Ruth Ryan Langan is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance...
  
  , Kasey Michaels)
• Stuck on You (2004) (with Cait London
  Cait London
  Lois Kleinsasser of German-Russian ancestry is a USA Today's bestselling American writer of over 45 romance novels since 1980 as Cait London. She also signed her novels as Cait Logan.-Biography:...
  
  , Wendy Rosnau)
• Three Weddings and a Giggle (2006) (with Karen Ball, Liz Curtis Higgs)

External links

• Official web site