GCCS Holiday Craft Fair

I'll be selling my books at the Greater Clark County Schools Holiday Craft Fair tomorrow, Saturday Sept 23 from 8 am - 3 pm. The Fetter Center is located on 10th Street, Jeffersonville across from Papa John's and White Castle. I hope to see you there.
 

 

My new web site coming soon

 

Welcome to my temporary main web site, otherwise known as my blog. If you recently tried to visit CarolPre.com, you would have found that it is no longer there. My web host recently changed and all the emails I received said I had to do nothing. What I found out today was that I still have my domain, but no web site. Bear with me while I rebuild my site with a new host. It's not going to be a quick build, so until then, check back here for any updates.

Remember the old "under construction" graphic we all saw when we first got on the internet?

Carol

 

Lagrange Book Fair

 

This weekend, I'll be at the Lagrange Book Fair at City Place, 112 First Ave in Lagrange, Kentucky. It will be held from 10 am - 4 pm. The location will be packed with authors selling their books.

I will be signing and selling all three of my Nathan Perry Mystery Series books, as well as one of my romances, Her Bluegrass Beau.

I hope to see you there.

Carol 

 

Best Screenplay Award

 

I am excited and honored to have received the Runner-up award for Best Screenplay - Long Format at the Imaginarium Convention on July 15, 2023. Thank goodness there are no photos of me crying my eyes out when I accepted it, as my emotions got the better of me. My winning screenplay was Homecoming to Murder, an adaption of my first mystery novel of the same name. 

Not only did I bring home that award, but unfortunately, I also brought home Covid. It was a mild case and I'm over it now, but this year's convention will be one I'll remember for long time.

Carol

Exposure - A Tease

 I'm only on chapter two of the first book in my new mystery series, but here's a short blurb, which may, or may not change as I get more into the project.

Three young boys witness the senseless murder of a hiker, then fear they're next because of what they found in an old copper mine. 

 Carol 📚

Screenplay Finalist

 

For those of you that read my previous blog post know that I recently took a dive into screenwriting. I'm excited to say that it has paid off (although, not financially yet). My script, adapted from my book, Homecoming to Murder, was selected as a finalist in the Imadjinn Awards Feature Length category. The winner will be announced at next month's Imaginarium Convention in July. 

Carol

Update: screenwriting and series writing

I haven’t posted on here since October, so I thought I should give everyone an update on what’s been going on in my world. If you don’t know me very well, I hate writing blog posts, and I mean HATE writing them. So, as Nike used to say, just do it.

 

I received some good feedback on my Nathan Perry Mystery Series, which is currently at three books. I had the fourth book about three-quarters of the way finished, but got bitten by the screenwriting bug. I’ve always wanted one of my books to be made into a movie. I even had a little interest from an agent on one of my romances, but eventually she passed.

I had no idea how to write a screenplay, or the money to pay someone to write it. Actually, I thought it was probably beyond my writing ability to do so. Then, Tony Acree, of Hydra Publications, held a free two-hour screenwriting workshop. Tony has had great success with his screenwriting. I figured what the heck, it was free and I might learn something. I loved it and was hooked from the very beginning. After that workshop, then reading two books on screenwriting, and downloading the writing software, I was ready to start. From February through May, I adapted the first Nathan Perry book, Homecoming to Murder into a feature length screenplay. I’d like to say it’s really good, but as my first attempt at this, it’s probably really bad. Only time will tell.

With the script being finished, I went back to working on book four in the NP series. What I found out was that as much as I love the characters of Mystic, Massachusetts, I was really tired of writing about them. I needed a longer break, or something new.

With that being said, I have started a new book. It’s a new location, new characters, and new murders.I’m excited about it. However, at the same time, I feel really guilty about having a Nathan Perry book so close to being finished and then setting it aside. I think what I might do is work on one book and when that gets stale, or I get blocked, I’ll work on the other book. I’ve never worked on two writing projects at the same time before, so this will definitely be a new experience for me. Wish me luck.

Here's a little tease for the new book.

 

Carol