2024-04-21 21:05
As I’ve previously reported on here, I was fascinated by the story of the Lincoln assassination as a ten-year-old in Mr. Michael Cohn’s fifth grade class at Victor Mravlag School… Read More
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2024-04-21 20:31
Take a look. Here’s the updated version of “The Book Show” that I first made a few months back. I altered it a bit in order to include the new release.
And by the wa… Read More
2024-04-19 12:52
This has been a wonderful week!
The first surprise I received was that my book, THE HOLLYWOOD BACKLASH MOON, the one about a crazy show business family, a murder, and a Nazi on the loose… Read More
2024-04-14 14:25
Hey, it works pretty well for me, folks!
Happy Sunday! Read More
2024-04-09 18:26
The whole time I was watching the mini-series PASSPORT TO FREEDOM I thought it was a brilliant work of fiction. I’ve never been so happy to find out I was wrong!
Aracy de C… Read More
2024-04-09 12:15
I just wanted to put this out there for any kids, or adults, who might be in a horrific situation where they are being bullied. It’s probably for no reason at all. If it is for a… Read More
2024-04-07 09:07
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles became one of my all-time favorite books when it was first published years ago, so I was delighted to hear it was being dramatized into a limited… Read More
2024-04-06 02:10
What’s the perfect ending to the day of the worst earthquake to hit NYC since 1900? Finding out I just won a Literary Titan Gold Book Award! What else?
I’ve got to tell you… Read More
2024-03-31 11:55
It was the first true crime case that captured my attention and it has never let go.
I was ten years old, in the fifth grade, when I first read a book about the assassination of Abraham L… Read More
2024-03-31 10:57
Oh, I just HAVE to ask!
I temporarily went to hideously run private school in Elizabeth, NJ. The headmaster in charge was one Mr. Morgan. He looked like Hermann Goering the Nazi and h… Read More
2024-03-20 09:14
It’s finally Springtime! Vernal equinox happened last night, shortly after eleven p.m. Today is the first full day of Spring, my favorite season.
This winter was colder than usu… Read More
2024-03-17 16:15
Charles Spencer, brother of the late Diana, has done the world an enormous favor, and I don’t say that as any sort of exaggeration. He’s done an amazingly good thing for hum… Read More
2024-03-12 20:02
Congratulations to all involved with the movie THE ZONE OF INTEREST. It just received an Oscar for Best International Film.
I just wanted to add one thing. Well, maybe two.
This… Read More
2024-03-10 10:03
THE PROGRAM on Netflix is outrageous.
Katherine Kubler, who was stuck in a “school” for “troubled teens” by her duped father and stepmother, along with severa… Read More
2024-02-24 12:45
What’s going on with Shopify?
Over the past four days I have received LITERALLY about 400 spam texts and spam email messages from various companies with websites located all ov… Read More
2024-02-18 08:25
A documentary about Disney’s newest cruise ship.
Everything Disney does is always unsurpassed. Magical. The best!
Their latest cruise ship, The Wish, is, of course, no excepti… Read More
2024-02-14 10:36
Happy Valentine’s Day! How is everybody going to celebrate?
For me, the answer to that one is easy. Today is Release Day for my latest cozy mystery, CHILD OF SECRETS F… Read More
2024-02-07 11:29
The “Secret Annexe” where Anne Frank and seven other people hid, trying to survive World War II, can be seen in the block right above the church in this photo.
It took me… Read More
2024-02-06 01:41
This week only, today, February 5, 2024, through February 11th, the eBook of CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF ANSWERS is available on a special discount of only $0.99. As they used to s… Read More
2024-02-03 02:32
Here comes my next cozy mystery, folks!
It’s called CHILD OF SECRETS FROM AFAR, and the story begins with the fall of Saigon, when so many orphans were being evacuted from Vietn… Read More
2024-01-29 10:12
Tee hee hee!
How you treat people becomes a part of their story. Authors have no problem telling it – and selling it!
It’s a point to ponder for bullies, if indeed… Read More
2024-01-28 16:24
Gypsy Rose Blanchard recently, on the left, and back when she was imprisoned by her own mother, on the right.
It’s no secret that I’ve written quite a lot about the entertaine… Read More
2024-01-23 05:28
In the midst of a very busy day at work along came an email from the Firebird Book Awards.
A CHARM WITHOUT A CHAIN just got its second award!
What fun it was to write this… Read More
2024-01-21 14:54
For my vacation this year I tried a new cruise line, MSC. The ship was called The Meraviglia, which means “wonder,” and it lived up to its name. This ship was just plai… Read More
2024-01-13 18:11
Some of my happiest memories are of being a child at St. Joseph the Carpenter Church in Roselle, New Jersey.
So when I saw a mention online of St. Joseph’s Indian School in Chambe… Read More
2024-01-09 22:09
Take a look, folks! A quick little preview of all nine of my books, all in one place. Enjoy!
I love making these little videos! Read More
2024-01-07 18:01
Well, at last, there is the beginning of some resolution to THE CURIOUS CASE OF NATALIA GRACE.
Natalia is the Ukrainian orphan with dwarfism whose adoptive parents, Michael and Kristi… Read More
2024-01-05 11:34
Available now!Greetings, folks! I’ve started the new year right with the publication of a brand new mystery, THE HOLLYWOOD BACKLASH MOON.
Here’s the synopsis:
What&rsq&hell…Read More
2023-12-23 20:13
If you have any interest in the JFK assassination case, listen to Rob Reiner and Soledad O’Brien’s new podcast. They are putting it all together in better ways than I’… Read More
2023-12-12 23:56
Today I chanced upon a terrific movie from Russia, SOLDIER BOY. It tells the true heartwarming story of Seryozha Aleshkov, a child caught in the crossfire of World War II.
The role… Read More
2023-12-02 11:31
“Coldwater Creek” sale, my FOOT!
Silly me. When I saw ads on Facebook for beautifully discounted “Coldwater Creek” items, I went and ordered three of them… Read More
2023-12-01 10:47
The Chrysalis BREW Fiction Excellence Awards chose my book, VANISHED ON THE VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT, as the Best Historical Mystery of 2023!
I’d like to say this to any aspiring auth… Read More
2023-11-18 19:49
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Oh, if only the noses of liars grew in real life like they do in the story of PINOCCHIO!
You know that old saying, “Trust…but… Read More
2023-11-10 01:40
Photo by Alex Quezada on Pexels.comI found this story in my email archive. I had submitted it for an article in a local newspaper many years ago that was hoping to print some work war… Read More
2023-10-30 17:28
Tired of getting emails that say your name was “on the list to receive” a government grant that you NEVER applied for in the first place?
Me too.
I get several messages… Read More
2023-10-29 14:25
Coming soon to a bookseller near you!
There’s a saying that authors should “write what you know.” It apparently makes for better writing and can give us amazing ideas a… Read More
2023-10-29 13:41
I just started to watch a documentary about the apprehension of an infamous New York City Mafioso, GET GOTTI. It’s on Netflix.
As you already know if you follow my blog, I try to n… Read More
2023-10-01 14:02
These are the awards I’ve gotten for the books that I write. They’re good books!
My first job in New York City couldn’t have been at a crazier organization.
I… Read More
2023-09-30 02:57
Today was one of the craziest weather days in New York City history. I got drenched straight through my raincoat, the clothes underneath the raincoat, and right through my socks and s… Read More
2023-09-24 12:53
Is this what those of us who live in New York City deserve?
I think it’s wonderful, on the one hand, that New York City is the host to so many terrific events, like the annual UN Me… Read More
2023-09-19 16:15
Everyone who knows me knows: I LOATHE DRUG ABUSERS!
I don’t even call them “drug abusers.” To me, they’re drug-scum, hyphenated. If someone does drugs, has… Read More
2023-09-02 22:57
My mystery set in the world of vaudeville in 1925 is a winner!
VANISHED ON THE VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT has won a LIterary Titan Silver Book Award. Woo-hoo!
The book tells the tale of song… Read More
2023-08-22 20:13
I’d like to recommend two excellent mystery series that are available on HBO MAX, or just plain MAX, as it now prefers to be called.
First up is ANNI THE HONEYMOON MURDER… Read More
2023-08-22 19:26
A few weeks ago I had the misfortune of visiting someone I thought was a “friend” who lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.
I am someone who never, ever got into the stupid… Read More
2023-08-22 18:39
I first came across this when I was in my first wonderful year at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. It was in a Readers Digest article that I read at my grandfather’s house. It&rsqu&hell…Read More
2023-07-25 13:25
Cops in hazmat suits have invaded Massapequa Park! Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.comIt’s wonderful that law enforcement has FINALLY managed to catch up with the Gilgo Beach Killer. DNA… Read More
2023-07-20 01:29
What a great surprise it was today to open my email and find out that my book, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF ANSWERS, received awards in two categories in in the International Firebird Book Aw… Read More
2023-07-10 11:15
The La Biancas, Leno and Rosemary, killed by Leslie Van Houten and the Manson “family.”
Here’s another abortion of justice.
Leslie Van Houten, a member of Charles… Read More
2023-07-08 11:11
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.comFor some reason the other day a story about the 1976 Chowchilla, California school bus kidnapping popped up as a suggestion for me to watch on YouTube… Read More
2023-06-19 17:07
The photo above is of Michael Barnett, the yeller, screamer – and liar – who adopted Natalia Grace, the child with dwarfism that he and his wife “decided” was an… Read More
2023-06-17 17:25
If you’ve never heard of a “cozy mystery” before, I can tell you exactly what it means. It’s a mystery book where there isn’t much violence and gore, there isn… Read More
2023-06-14 23:33
Once upon a time I had some pretty wild and crazy bosses. There was the drunk, the multiple choice substance abuser who threw furniture in the office, the 65-year-old self-proclaimed … Read More
2023-06-12 23:16
Does this look like “an adult” to you?
I watched THE CURIOUS CASE OF NATALIA GRACE on HBO Max several times this week. It’s absolutely one of the craziest stories I&rsq&hell…Read More
2023-06-11 21:42
Ladies and Gents, I’ve written a new cozy mystery called VANISHED ON THE VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT.
This story idea about a performer from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who reinvented h… Read More
2023-06-10 16:26
Ladies and Gents, I’ve written a new cozy mystery called VANISHED ON THE VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT.
This story idea about a performer from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who reinvented h… Read More
2023-05-02 21:52
Greetings!
I am delighted to announce that my book cover for BACKSTABBED ON BROADWAY is up for Cover of the Month on AllAuthor.com. I’m so proud of it because I picked out all of t… Read More
2023-04-22 11:32
Okay, this is just an idea that came into my head as I’ve been reading the Jim Marrs book, CROSSFIRE, regarding the assassination of JFK.
The book details LOADS of witnesses to… Read More
2023-04-20 22:10
I’ve been interested in the bizarre murder of President John F. Kennedy since the long-ago day, when I was twelve years old, that I found a book about it sitting in my father&rsquo… Read More
2023-03-18 16:31
(Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com)First they claimed Covid-19 came from bats and somehow spread to the city of Wuhan in China.
There was a problem with that theory. The bats in… Read More
2023-03-05 11:54
This week only, March 5-11, 2023: five of my books are FREE, repeat FREE, in eBook format on Smashwords! Go for it here and get them at the most reasonable cost of all tee hee: https://… Read More
2023-02-12 21:48
The scene of a vicious crime, Central Regional High School.
I’m not going to mince any words here. Central Regional High School in Bayville, NJ sounds like one DISGUSTING place to… Read More
2023-01-19 01:38
The photo is of missing girl Emanuela Orlandi.
GOOD NEWS! Due to the release of the Netflix documentary VATICAN GIRL, Pope Francis has ordered that the case of missing teenager Emanuela… Read More
2023-01-18 09:47
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF ANSWERS by Yours Sincerely, Little Me!My book, Cloudy with a Chance of Answers, is about a woman named Bethany who has been haunted, since 1988, by the cold case th… Read More
2023-01-12 17:49
Paparazzi are allowed to run amok in Britain. Photo by Brett Sayles on Pexels.comI am reading SPARE by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. I’ve also watched the Netflix documentary, HA… Read More
2023-01-03 21:35
I am delighted to announce that on January 1, 2023, my latest cozy myster was published and became available.
This is what it’s about:
Jasmine works for a talent agent so tyr… Read More
2022-12-23 16:51
Photo by Barry Plott on Pexels.comI’ve always been delighted to say that I graduated from Scotch Plains Fanwood High School in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. That school was great!
I&r&hell…Read More
2022-12-08 22:19
I was up at the crack of dawn today in order to start watching HARRY & MEGHAN on Netflix, and I have to say, it was well worth it.
The first three parts of the documentary were mu… Read More
2022-12-04 13:01
Many moons ago I attended a horrifically run private school where so many of the situations that went on simply made no logical sense. Some of the people who worked there were terrific… Read More
2022-11-17 11:00
It was the 1980s, and I was in sunny California.
I’d seen SWEENEY TODD on Broadway several times because it was such a terrific, if terrifying, musical, and because the themes w… Read More
2022-11-16 11:23
If you’re looking for good reads for middle grade girls, have I got two nice books for you!
KEEP YOUR SONGS IN YOUR HEART is about a big-hearted Seattle girl named Ruby whose ha… Read More
2022-10-23 11:08
VATICAN GIRL on Netflix. DISTURBING!
Just when you think it couldn’t be possible for any further craziness to be revealed about the Vatican, along comes a well-done documentary lik… Read More
2022-10-11 22:04
Angela Lansbury in THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
Angela Lansbury has been entertaining me for almost my whole life.
I remember when my father brought home two vinyl records as gifts for… Read More
2022-10-09 13:20
A must-read!
I was horrified, yet fascinated, when I saw the documentary of Jan Broberg’s kidnapping, ABDUCTED IN PLAIN SIGHT, on Netflix. Recently a new mini-series called A FRIEN… Read More
2022-10-09 01:22
657 Boulevard, Westfield, NJ. The house “guarded” by a self-appointed nutcase called “The Watcher.”
Now THIS is a case and a half if ever there was one!
The ho… Read More
2022-10-05 09:12
It’s probably “a suburban thing” because I’ve never seen it while living in New York City in the past 35 wonderful years.
I’ll be blunt. I can’t stan… Read More
2022-10-04 12:02
Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.comI’ve got to wonder.
Several times over the years I have tried to find out more information about one of the schools I attended. It was atrocious, to… Read More
2022-09-29 14:52
I’d like to give a resounding shout out to Vista Create! I was able to make all of these little promotional posts very easily by using their wonderful website. Vista Create, you are… Read More
2022-09-27 12:30
It’s official! My new mystery, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF ANSWERS, is already available as an eBook on most eBook sites including Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The print book ve… Read More
2022-09-26 22:31
Cloudy with a Chance of Answers. A reading experience you’ll never forget!If you think YOUR family is dysfunctional just wait until you “meet” this one!
I started to wr… Read More
2022-09-08 20:55
I’m one of the people who didn’t complain back when the lockdown started. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I’d had a string of terrible, unsatisfying day jobs, and several of t… Read More
2022-08-02 14:53
THE FINAL COMEUPPANCE, by me, Carolyn Summer QuinnHere it is, folks!
Here it is, WORLD!
Here’s my new mystery book, THE FINAL COMEUPPANCE!
It’s set in a world I on… Read More
2022-07-26 00:04
Big corporations get a bad rep, but small companies and non-profits run by autocrats can be even worse!
SPECIAL NOTE: I originally posted this in November 2014, right before taking a new… Read More
2022-07-13 11:09
The Texas School Book Depository in Dallas.
Yesterday I watched an intriguing documentary called THE ASSASSINATION AND MRS. PAINE.
Mrs. Ruth Paine, for anyone who doesn’t kn… Read More
2022-06-13 09:33
The Gay Men’s Chorus sings MAME in a tribute to Angela Lansbury, but why wasn’t she there?Angela Lansbury fans around the world are concerned. It’s all over Twitter… Read More
2022-06-12 12:26
The FABULOUS Angela Lansbury and the cast of GYPSY, 1974. The photo is from my own collection.Tonight’s the night: Angela Lansbury will be receiving a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award!… Read More
2022-06-08 07:06
My mother, father and me, on a ship called the Nordic Prince, circa 1990 or so.That’s my parents and me in a photo taken on a cruise ship on or about 1990.
And I hadn’t seen… Read More
2022-04-19 14:01
You know what I always find really annoying? It’s when diehard Broadway fans of one star’s performance can’t handle the thought of a subsequent star having a chance to shi… Read More
2022-03-30 12:19
Did Chris Rock know that Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, had a medical condition when he made fun of her for it?
Even if he didn’t, he knows it now. The entire world k… Read More
2022-03-23 16:16
Private schools: where everything isn’t always what you’d think. Photo by Marcus Aurelius on Pexels.comI spent most of my Middle School years at a private prep day school in Eli… Read More
2022-03-22 21:40
Renee Zellweger excels in this new series.Good God, can looks ever be deceiving!
THE THING ABOUT PAM is a new series on Hulu and NBC that is based on the true story of criminal sociopath… Read More
2022-03-05 14:17
Amanda Seyfried, left, plays con artist Elizabeth Holmes, right, in THE DROPOUT. What a good series!I just began watching the first three installments of THE DROPOUT on Hulu, and also check… Read More
2022-02-16 23:06
Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell in the photo the Prince claimed was “doctored.” Photo credit: Virginia Roberts Giuffre.Whoa, boy, what a royal mess!
As… Read More
2022-02-08 14:38
BELFAST the movie is up for Best Picture!I’ve never been to Northern Ireland but since it’s where one half of my father’s family hails from I was very happy to see the movi… Read More
2022-02-02 00:53
The Betrayal of Anne Frank, the book I could hardly wait to read, just left me shaking my head.
I had been following the investigation into this cold case for quite some time and was… Read More
2021-12-23 18:48
BEING THE RICARDOS. I’ve been looking forward to seeing BEING THE RICARDOS for quite some time. It became available on Amazon Prime this week and I’m not disappointed. I&rsquo&hell…Read More
2021-12-23 18:09
Photo by Rodolfo Clix on Pexels.comI’ve kept my mouth shut for quite some time about Covid and the anti-vaxxers, but that’s changing right now.
My opinion of the anti-vaxxer… Read More
2021-11-23 15:16
PROCESSION is a powerful and unusual documentary about a hideous subject: the abuse of children by Catholic Church clergy.
To start with the viewer finds out that 230 priests in the K… Read More
2021-11-03 22:24
Worth watching: IMPEACHMENT. But oh my God…!
After watching an appalling documentary on the Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton situation, which left me staggered by the activities o… Read More
2021-10-28 14:21
Nice suit – but is this right for every woman?Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.comYesterday I saw a post on LinkedIn by someone I don’t know called Ellie Middleton w… Read More
2021-10-24 10:29
If you’re looking for a terrific streaming series to watch, I recommend ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING. It’s a sparklingly good show available on Hulu.
It’s not just a go… Read More
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