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In The Top Ten!
BEST AUTHORs OF 2025!
2026 is starting with a bang! Carolyn was just named one of the Top Ten Best Authors of 2025 by the Outstanding Creator Awards!
Fabulous Mystery Rising!
CHANTICLEER SOMERSET AWARDS
Benny and his family in THE MYSTERY FROM WAY BACK WHEN are rising in the Chanticleer Somerset Awards! So who left the baby on the steps of the church in 1944?
Firebird International Book Award
Cozy Mystery Category Winner!
ONCE UPON A SAFEHOUSE does it again! Another fine award for this story of a family that inherits a house in Argentina in 1963 but doesn't have any idea of its past history...
BEACH READ FESTIVAL
What a great beach read!
The story of a gal who wants a relaxing vacation and winds up on the same ship as a former coworker-from-Hell was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Beach Read Festival! Find out what happens in A COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN.
FIRST PLACE!
Digital books today literary awards
ONCE UPON A SAFEHOUSE does it again! It's received FIRST PLACE in the Digital Books Today Literary Awards! What kind of house did an American family inherit in Argentina?
Quadruple Whammy!
Chrysalis Awards
Four books were Finalists in the Chrysalis BREW Project Book of the Year Awards and two were Books of the Month! Woo-HOO!
Movin' On Up!
Short listed for the chanticleer goethe award
ONCE UPON A SAFEHOUSE has been moved up to the Short List for the Chanticleer Goethe Awards for Historical Fiction!
Mystery/Suspense Fiction FINALIST
Literary global book awards
Several blasts from the past are onboard what was supposed to be a relaxing cruise and a woman goes missing. Whodunit?
5 Books Are Named Top Picks!
Author shout book awards
Five books have been honored in the Author Shout Book Awards! TOP PICKS: Fate Can Toss A Boomerang, The Mystery From Way Back When, & The Final Comeuppance, and RECOMMENDED READS: A Commotion on the Ocean & The Teetotaler's Bar! Bottoms up!
OUTSTANDING CREATOR AWARDS CLASH OF CHAMPIONS
Fate can toss A boomerang wins again!
EIGHT new awards for FATE CAN TOSS A BOOMERANG!
American Writing Awards
BOOMERANG DOES IT AGAIN!
Yet another honor for FATE CAN TOSS A BOOMERANG, the story of the decent cop assigned to find his childhood tormentor's murderer! It's a Finalist in the American Writing Awards.
Chanticleer Somerset Awards Literary & Contemporary Fiction
On the long list!
The story of a mystery that began in 1944 and continued into the 1980s was just named to the Long List of the Chanticleer Somerset Awards! And the news it's on there arrived during the Christmas Season, too!
The New England Book Festival
HONORABLE MENTION!
Once Upon a Safehouse received an Honorable Mention accolade at the New England Book Festival! This new mystery is doing great!
The Chanticleer Goethe Awards
On the Long List!
ONCE UPON A SAFEHOUSE, set in the United States and Argentina in 1963, is on the Long List for the Chanticleer Goethe Awards for Late Historical Fiction! Way to go, Safehouse!
UPDATE
SHORT LISTED!
THE MYSTERY FROM WAY BACK WHEN is now Short Listed at the Chanticleer Mystery & Mayhem Awards. Stay tuned!