Needing a change, she branched out and wrote a thriller, which she said she’ll never do again because, for her, it was too creepy. For the first fifteen years of her career she wrote romance, the early books of which were all historical, but later included contemporaries. Robyn has always written about strong women, no matter the period in which they live. When doctors instructed her to stay down and keep her feet up during a complicated pregnancy, her neighbor began bringing her ten paperbacks a week. Her husband worked long hours and often traveled. Because she found herself following Jim from base to base, Robyn never had a chance to pursue nursing. She married her high school sweetheart four weeks before he left for Air Force Officer’s Training School at the peak of the Vietnam War. Surprisingly, Robyn didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. The Hero, her September 2013 Thunder Point novel, debuted in the #1 position on seven national bestseller lists: USA Today, Publishers Weekly, New York Times Mass-market Fiction, New York Times eBook Fiction, New York Times Combined Print/eBook Fiction, the Wall Street Journal, and Bookscan.
Eleven of her books, including eight Thunder Point novels, have all earned the coveted #1 New York Times slot the first week on sale, with one book scoring two weeks on top the list. When Bring Me Home for Christmas, the 16th Virgin River novel, was released in November 2011, it debuted in the #1 slot not just on the New York Times roster, but also on the Barnes & Noble and Publishers Weekly lists as well.
But that was just the beginning of what has become an amazing career. Robyn Carr was first published in 1978, and it took her thirty years to make it to The New York Times bestseller List,” referring to 2007’s A Virgin River Christmas.
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