The Word Guild 2026 Awards
Manuscript shortlisted for The 2026 Word Awards: God Quest: God Discovered in Everyday Places by Carolin M. Paradis. Continue Reading →
Author Archives: Carolin M. Paradis
Page Turner Awards Update
Hello Dear Readers, Last year, I was chosen as a 2025 Page Turner Awards Finalist for my manuscript God Quest: God Discovered in Everyday Places. This year, I am thrilled Continue Reading →
Page Turner Awards 2026 Update: Simply Betty
Dear Readers, What a surprise! I stumbled upon a rare writer’s award contest for unpublished, incomplete manuscripts. The surprise, however, was not the award category but the judges feedback on Continue Reading →
Dead End Disappointment
It was 6:00 o’clock Saturday evening. With headphones secured on my head, and my computer fired up and tuned into You Tube, I was ready. My daughter bustled making dinner Continue Reading →
The 2024 Word Guild Award’s Update
Yesterday evening, and delayed by a week, The 2024 Word Guild’s Annual Awards announced the winners. Another deserving author, Susanne Dobbin, won for her book Raising the Dead in the category Continue Reading →
“God Quest: God Discovered in Everyday Places” short listed!
Good news, dear readers! I am excited to share that my manuscript “God Quest: God Discovered in Everyday Places” was short listed for The Word Guild 2024 Annual Awards under Continue Reading →
Desert Destination
Making my way along a carpeted hallway, I admired the bucolic prints of warm-hearted country scenes adorning the walls between suites. Moving at a brisk pace so as not to Continue Reading →
Desert Guilt
The burden of my choice weighed heavily. An impulse decision to help an aged friend had landed me in a desert landscape riddled with desert guilt. My insides gnawed. I Continue Reading →
Desert Drive
Before leaving Montreal for a desert drive to Toronto, we stopped by a Jean Coutu to fill Pam’s rehab hospital prescription (refer backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/2024/03/17/desert-luck/). The diversion to a pharmacy was Continue Reading →
Desert Luck
“Okay, I got lucky. Humber Heights has a room. At least we have one good thing happening in this pandemic.” It was desert luck (refer backstory: https://carolinmparadis.com/2024/03/10/desert-decision/). My cousin Sue, Continue Reading →