AWARD WINNING BOOKS BY CAROLYN SUMMER QUINN
Carolyn Summer Quinn, Author of TWELVE BOOKS and the WINNER
of TWENTY-FOUR BOOK AWARDS
for her cozy myteries for adults and her middle-grade children's books, knows how to write some pretty terrific stories!
Surprise, Surprise!
CLOUDY DOES IT AGAIN!
Cloudy has one a SEVENTH honor! It was named a Semi-Finalist in the Indies Today Awards! Carolyn Summer Quinn could not be prouder of this little cozy mystery.
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6th Honor for Cloudy with a chance of answers!
Carolyn started writing this mystery at the beginning of the lockdown, when it wasn't advisable to go outside, in the spirit of "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade." CLOUDY just chalked up another honor! It's a Finalist in the 2024 Maxy Awards - and it's the 6th award for CLOUDY! That's a lot of lemonade!
Hello, Readers! There's No Business Like SHOW Business...
Another win for the hollywood backlash Moon!
THE HOLLYWOOD BACKLASH MOON has earned a second award! Find out why when you read about the Hathaway family. They were wacky even BEFORE there was a murder...
Remember Operation Babylift?
A new literary titan gold book award winner!
It's 1975 when Belinda and her husband adopt two little Vietnamese girls from Operation Babylift. Why is a strange man following one of them?
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Another Literary titan gold book award winner!
Crazy Hollywood relatives, one murder, and a Nazi on the loose! What are they living under, some kind of a Hollywood backlash moon? An award-winning new mystery!
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FINALIST! KEEP YOUR sONGS IN YOUR HEART
The story of friends separated by World War II has just been named a Finailist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards! I'm so thrilled because this award is chosen by schoolchildren in the United Kingdom and it was the kids themselves who chose it as a finalist. BRAVO!
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ANOTHER FINE HONOR FOR CLOUDY!
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF ANSWERS just keeps on making readers - and awards judges - happy! Now the mystery of an endless cold case and the woman who still wants to solve it thirty-two years later has made to Semi-Finalist status in the Chanticleer International Book Awards in the Mystery and Mayhem Category!
Here's the Latest!
BEST HIstoricAL mystery of 2023!
VANISHED ON THE VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT was just named BEST HISTORICAL MYSTERY OF 2023 in the Australian Chrysalis BREW Fiction Excellence Awards! This is the best honor yet!
The Third Time is THE Charm for "A CHARM WIHTOUT A CHAIN!"
The cozy mystery that I wrote, inspired by having attended the same high school where my father taught Enlgish, just won a THIRD award - a Liteary Titan Gold Book Award! Somewhere I have a feeling my good old late father is SMILING!
A THIRD award for Backstabbed on Broadway!
BACKSTABBED ON BROADWAY, an edgy mystery set in the rather sleazy world of a theatrical back office, won a Firebird International Book Award, a Literary Titan Silver Book Award, and an Honorable Mention in the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards, Mystery category, too. Now who killed the crazy bossman?
Oh, the corruption that exists in the theater!
FOURTH AWARD FOR BACKSTABBED ON BROADWAY!
BACKSTABBED ON BROADAWAY has taken home another honor! The New England Book Festival has awarded it an Honorable Mention. Now what was that about the Broadway corruption?
Second award for a charm without a chain
It was only published on Halloween 2023 but already A CHARM WITHOUT A CHAIN has received two awards! T his latest one is from the International Firebird Book Awards. Why were two members of a high school faculty murdered?
A Fourth Award for CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF ANSWERS!
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF ANSWERS was just named a Finalist in the 2023 American Fiction Awards, Mystery/Suspense Cozy Mystery Category! The little story of a woman haunted by a cold case just keeps on winning. And by the way, this book would make a terrific movie!
A book set when the 1920s ROARED!
VANISHED ON THE VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT wins a literary titan sil
The story of the song and dance man whose daughter disappears from the backstage area of their theater just won a Literary Titan Silver Book Award!
CHARM Scores a Win!
First Award for a charm without a chain
A CHARM WITHOUT A CHAIN, the latest book by Carolyn Summer Quinn, just received an award. It won an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Reader Ready Awards.
The Final Comeuppance
THE FINAL COMeuppANCE WINS
THE FINAL COMEUPPANCE was the first mystery for adutls that Carolyn wrote and the first one to receive an award. It's the Winner of a Literary Titan Silver Book Award!
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AWARD-WINNING MIDDLE GRADE CHILDREN'S BOOKS
These two books are set in two different time periods but both feature gutsy little heroines. Kids love NOW AND FOREVERMORE ARABELLA and KEEP YOUR SONGS IN YOUR HEART.