Carol Preflatish

Things moved very fast since yesterday when the publisher of my backlist spicy romance, Mountain of Deception renewed my contract for that book. In doing so, she told me she also wanted to release it as an audio book. I thought it would take several days, if not weeks, before it would be available. Then, this morning she emailed me and said it was live. I'm very excited to now have my first audio book. You can download the book at https://apple.co/41Whgv6   If you've forgotten the plot of the book:  Tessa Cooper has taken a year long sabbatical from teaching English at an Illinois university to move to the mountains of Tennessee to write a mystery novel. She didn't intend on falling in love with the man building the garage behind her cabin, or find herself caught in the middle of something illegal with him. From all outward appearances, sexy Silas Newberry is a man with many secrets and Tessa is determined to find out what they are. When things start going in the wrong...

 2024 ended on a good note with, as noted in the previous post, my short screenplay, Summer Darkness winning the Gothamite Monthly Award for Best Short Script.  Enter February 2025 and more new awards. On February 16, 2025, my newest feature length screenplay, The Witch's Descendant received a Quarterfinal placement in the Wiki Screenplay contest.   Then, on February 27, I was notified that The Witch's Descendant was a Finalist in January's TMFF: The Monthly Film Festival.    Finally, also on February 27, the screenwriters web site Coverfly notified me that The Witch's Descendant was was now ranked in the top 39% of discoverable screenplays on their site. I've been working very hard to get a ranking on there and am very honored and happy to have made it.     If you're interested in my fiction books, I've been booking my appearances for 2025. You can see the updated list on the right side of this page.   Carol    

    I'm excited and honored to announce that my screenplay, Summer Darkness won the award for Best Original Short Film Script from the Gothamite Monthly Film Awards for December 2024. This is the second award that Summer Darkness has won. Carol

Like last year, I took part in Goodreads Reading Challenge. I increased the goal this year by trying to read eight books. I'll post how I did below. January 2024 started out on a bad note as I had to put my beloved cat down. She was a wonderful companion to me and I miss her. My goals for 2024 was to write, write, write, and boy did I.  In March, I took part in a screenplay pitch event online. Unfortunately, nothing came from it, but I received some great "likes" and comments from my screenwriting peers. On March 30, I took part in a booksigning at From the Ground Up Books in Lagrange, Kentucky with my sisters from the Derby Rotten Scoundrels, Jeanette Pope and Elaine Munsch. We all sold books and had a wonderful day. In April, Indiana was at the heart of the solar eclipse and I wasn't going to miss it. My town was only in the partial eclipse zone, so I took my camera, packed a lunch, and drove an hour north so I could experience the full eclipse. I was not disappoint...

I had such a wonderful time on The Star Chamber Show last night with Stephen Zimmer and Holly Marie Phillippe . Thank you to them for having me. If you missed it, the episode has been distributed to all these platforms: YouTube - https://youtu.be/-37NDxhmuWw?si=T3p7w9hORaLigJpx Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kbJV84YG095MiJYmKPhY2 iHeartRadio - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-the-star-chamber-show-179129714/ PodBean https://starchambershow.podbean.com/e/the-star-chamber-show-443-a-visit-with-carol-preflatish/ Thanks to everyone that tuned in last night.

  On December 18, 2024, I signed a three-book contract for a new series with 7th Star Press , The Coyote Canyon Mystery Series. The first book will be Exposure , with a tentative release date by mid-summer 2025.   Sheriff Sam Winslow, the youngest sheriff ever elected in Colorado, settles in his office for what he hopes will be a quiet Sunday night. Then, the 911 line starts ringing: Lost boy on Black Bear Mountain. With the temperature dropping, Sam works fast to deploy his deputies, the fire department, and the search and rescue teams to the mountain.   Fortunately, the boy is found, but a member of the search team finds a dead body at the bottom of a nearby cliff. Sam immediately starts the investigation, but it quickly gets complicated. The boy and his two friends eventually tell Sam they found thousands of dollars in an old silver mine on the mountain near where the body was found. With this news, the sheriff fears the boys’ lives are now in danger.    Befo...