The first royalty check from the first collection of Lightning's
Adventures on audio book was in the mail yesterday. I was very
surprised to find such a big envelope folded into my little work
mailbox, but it was really gratifying to see who this giant envelope was
from and with my name on it. It wasn't a big check, but it certainly
puts a bit toward Lightning's vet bill to help pay that down. Six
copies sold last quarter, with one of those in the UK, so it was really
neat to see which countries those copies went to. Hopefully those will
keep selling, as The Adventures of Lightning the Cat will help toward
keeping him supplied. I highly doubt that the books and audiobooks in
that line will ever totally cover his needs, but each purchase we're
looking at as a sign that somebody was interested enough.
This is
a good example to my daughter of how things can start to pay off when
sticking with them and keeping the ball rolling, so to speak. She can
remember when I was still working on the first novel actually published,
which especially sticks with her as working on it was concurrent with
her first year that she danced at the local Sun Dance as one of the
Buffalo Girls (yet another good experience for her).
Athena is
working at writing down some of the adventures that she has seen, for
the next set. We've decided that the next collection of three will be
co-authored, as some of his adventures we both see different parts of.
The next will likely deal with The Owl (that thing is huge) and possibly
the snake adventure (he used to walk her to school when we first came
here). She keeps getting sidetracked, which is why these two haven't
been written down sooner. I don't know when they will be combed through
and ready, but I've been waiting for a while for her to be ready to
finish the stuff that she'd wanted support writing.
It would be
kind of neat to get his stories done in children's picture book format
someday, since the main audience for him was intended as kids. For now
though, text only works. I have high school kids that ask me how to get
a copy so they can read even, which actually surprises me a bit but
also pleases me greatly.
Paperback: $4.99
Kindle: $0.99Audio: $6.95
Hm... I see Amazon hasn't linked them yet, so I've sent them a message asking them to do so.
Also available on Smashwords ($0.99) or search your favorite online bookstore as Smashwords distributes to many stores for me.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Musings on the arrival of the first check for The Adventures of Lightning the Cat: Collection One in audio
Teresa Garcia (or Teresa Amehana Garcia / Amehana Arashi) is a rural Northern California mountain woman. Art supplies are at premium in a house of artists. She has health, intermittent mobility, and nerve pain issues which she pushes through as well as possible, in order to complete her tasks. With a busy autistic son she does not always have enough time for her own projects, and her work projects often eclipse her own personal projects.
Teresa writes mainly fantasy. Her works include poetry, short stories, and novels. She also paints, narrates on ACX, illustrates, fiddles about with ASMR readings, Reiki Master, Priestess, and is open for commission. She writes challenges for the online browser based role play of Dragon Hearts (which don’t always get coded) and administrates for Dreaming Twilight in SL. She volunteers time as curator for on-line libraries overseeing live and pre-recorded programs. She also is one of the administrators for the Nisa/Dreaming Twilight role play group and helps develop the lore for their program. In addition she is the owner/operator of THG StarDragon Publishing and a co-owner of Dragon Hearts RPG.
Teresa writes mainly fantasy. Her works include poetry, short stories, and novels. She also paints, narrates on ACX, illustrates, fiddles about with ASMR readings, Reiki Master, Priestess, and is open for commission. She writes challenges for the online browser based role play of Dragon Hearts (which don’t always get coded) and administrates for Dreaming Twilight in SL. She volunteers time as curator for on-line libraries overseeing live and pre-recorded programs. She also is one of the administrators for the Nisa/Dreaming Twilight role play group and helps develop the lore for their program. In addition she is the owner/operator of THG StarDragon Publishing and a co-owner of Dragon Hearts RPG.
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