Hello, 2012! The old year was par­tic­u­larly, um, chal­leng­ing for me, so I am happy to see it go. Not that it was all bad. Here are some of the big things that hap­pened in 2011 that I’m grate­ful for:

I drafted a new roman­tic com­edy script, “The Apology.”

My first screen­play, “Pack­age Deal, or The Blue Jay’s Egg” was a final­ist in the Sto­ryPros Awards and made it to the sec­ond round of the PAGE Awards.

My Austin house sold in a day.

I came back to Ten­nessee, where fam­ily and friends have made me welcome.

I found a great church home.

I released my first his­tor­i­cal mys­tery, Fortune’s Fool, which became a Kin­dle best­seller. It’s now avail­able in paper­back, too.

I moved into a fab­u­lous apart­ment I love.

I wrote the first draft for the next book in the Psy­chic Socialite Series, A Billy Sun­day Kind of Love, dur­ing NaNoWriMo.

That’s all pretty cool. And there’s other stuff, more mod­est, every­day accom­plish­ments that please me, so I can’t wait to see what the new year brings. Happy 2012, y’all!