Goodbye 2021, hello 2022!

A new year is a good time to take a look back at the last year and make new goals for the coming. Here's a list of my author recap for 2021:

Published three books—two traditional published one (my first) self-published: August Blues, The Casserole Dish and Swiss Mistletoe and Macarons.
-was invited on two podcasts and one radio show
-Sewed eight quilt tops for charity
-went to my first Storymakers Conference
-was communication specialist for ^ conference
-won two Crowned Hearts of Excellence reviews for August Blues and The Casserole Dish
-earned one 5-star review for Swiss Mistletoe and Macarons from Long and Short Reviews.
-presented my first class at a conference for SMIAH
-went to my first Las Vegas 20booksto50k conference. Met some great writing friends
-won second place for Novella in BBB contest (Summer of Sundaes)
-took 318R from Dave Farland
-took a much needed vacation to Hawaii with the fam
-hit 4,446 on Amazon’s Kindle store with my self-published book The Casserole Dish

Things I'm looking forward to for 2022:
-presenting two classes at Storymakers Conference in May
-presenting two classes at Nebraska Writers Guild conference In April
-Wylder Bride release
-self-publishing a clean Biotech Billionaire trio
-self-publishing Late Bloomer
-Certainly Will Die (Bakers Dozen 2 mystery) publication
-writers retreat in February
(yes that's SIX new books new books for this year!)

Also, two awesome things that happened THIS WEEK:
Drum roll please....
The Swiss Mishap will be translated into Portuguese
AND...
I signed a contract for Wylder Bride to be an audiobook, narrated by Dawson McBride.

What were you proud of for 2021? What are you looking forward to in 2022?