Carolyn V. Hamilton is a multi-genre published author, workshop leader and Success Coach for Memoir Writers.  

She previously worked for over three decades as a marketing executive in the real world of Mad Men. In Las Vegas she owned her own advertising agency and later her own print communications company, Graphic Communications, Inc.

In this career she won numerous illustration and design awards plus the Las Vegas Community Achievement Award in Communications and was listed in

Who’s Who in the West

and

Distinguished Women of Southern Nevada.

She was the founding editor of the magazines

Nevada Woman

and

Adventuress Travel Magazine

. She is also an accomplished watercolor artist and associate member of the American Watercolor Society.  

A graduate of Antioch University Seattle, her other adventures have included two years as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Suriname and a stint—in her “younger days”—as a Playboy Bunny. When not traveling, she resides in Cuenca, Ecuador and Las Vegas, Nevada.  

Carolyn likes to say, “I reside on the planet, but I live online.”