Carol Preflatish

  I don’t think I’ve ever written a “Year in Review” post before, so I thought I’d give it a shot. I laughed as I looked back through my datebook and see all the entries and reminders I wrote. Many, I have no idea what they mean. I started the year by setting my goal in the 2023 Goodreads Reading Challenge. I choose to try and read six books in 2023. That’s my usual goal and I've met that goal every year prior. I’ll post how I did at the end of this writing. I also had been itching to write a screenplay, but had no idea how to do it. Fortunately, early in the year, one of my publishers, and a screenwriter himself, Tony Acree held a screenwriting workshop near me and I took the opportunity to learn a new skill. I have to say I loved it. I learned so much in that one-day workshop. I was ready to start and am happy to say I adapted my first mystery book, Homecoming to Murder into my first screenplay in three months. I was ready to enter it into some screenwriting competitions. ...

I found out this week that my friend, fellow author, and book reviewer mentioned me in one of her latest videos, The "I" Tag , on her YouTube Channel, Sandy Says Read. I'm mentioned a little after the two-minute mark. After my first mystery novel, Homecoming to Murder , was released, Sandy reviewed it. What I didn't know until this week was she also reviewed the second book in the series, The Coin Collector . You can find the links to those videos below. Thank you, Sandy Lender.   The "I" Tag video:  https://youtu.be/nYjip6UbNTw?si=XvZlic4j76mnOJUV Homecoming to Murder review:  https://youtu.be/v4bt6nJMzNs?si=DmG0ujfENG8MAprq The Coin Collector: https://youtu.be/IBMIJRuysl4?si=p9UzHdnEc-m3xHW2 Take a look at Sandy's channel, she has some great videos on there.   Carol