Another hectic day! Off to the grocery store with both kids to get things I missed yesterday. We were in a rush to drop Tanner off at home after he had his shots and get to the movie. But we finished the reading program for the school, though we’ll continue to read a book daily. We finished two badges for Daisy GS, but need to finish one more book for the reading summer badge. We’re donating some more books to the library today and hopefully they have some prizes left for the summer reading program there. I didn’t learn about it until last week, but she’d already read 30 books this summer, so she met the 10 book requirement. Plus HEB grocery store has a summer reading program so she earned a book that should be coming in the mail any day now.
They’re back! So off we go on our wild adventures.
I did manage to work on 4 chapters in Alpha Wolf Need Not Apply. It’s being re-released next year so need to proof it. Up to chapter 5 and hope to get to 10 by bedtime.
Have a royal day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
The whole family loves to read and that helps the kids to love to read. So for the summer, I’ve been working on science, social studies, spelling words, math, and reading with my granddaughter. Of course 2-year-old brother repeats everything we say and looks at the science pages as we’re talking about them, repeats spelling words, knows most of his colors, and so he’s learning too. Besides daily swims and other stuff. But today, we’re going to the library and then roller skating with her friends.
She has a bingo card where she’s supposed to do a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of reading, We’re nearly done with the reading for all the blocks and she’ll get some kind of mention on the school board when she starts 1st grade in August, but we’re also working on a reading Girl Scout patch. She has to go to the library to read one book, read about a famous person–she’ll be reading about a shark lady who studies sharks in the ocean, read a recipe and make a meal (have to figure out what we’ll do for that one), draw a picture about a book she’s read, and write a story. And then she’ll have all her reading requirements done for the school one for the whole bingo card. She’s just finishing up reading a book for the Girl Scout badge. But we’ll be reading everyday for the rest of the summer even after she’s finished both the bingo card and her reading badge requirements.
Okay, I’m off to get chores done before she arrives.
I have some good news too though–Alpha Wolf Need Not Apply is going to be reissued. Woohoo! 🙂 <3
Have a terrific day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Little one will be here shortly. We had a really wild storm last night! We’re supposed to have storms all day today starting around 11. That’s always a far out guesstimate. In reality? We have no idea. Maybe earlier. Maybe later. I was going to take baby to the grocery store yesterday but he was yawning and rubbing his eyes first thing, so no time after he took his nap and we had to pick up my granddaughter. So we might try today. It’s supposed to rain all week.
Hope you all have a grand day! I’m enjoying the rain. It gives me an excuse to work on writing and not go out and weed the garden. lol
It feels like 32 this morning. I’m teaching my granddaughter to read. She doesn’t want to learn, but I keep telling her that if she wants to learn how to do fun projects–she needs to learn to read so she can read the directions. We’re making You*Niverse jewelry today also and she’s painting some drink coasters. But she’s also been doing a bunch of workbook pages–she just opens up her books and starts to work on them! So that’s been fun.
I am up to 23K on the book and approved the Dawn of the Jaguar narration. On the book, I changed my idea of where I want to go with it, so I spent most of the day revising it to go with the new idea, but I still managed to get word count.
So yesterday, I finished the audio book uploads to Voices. Now I have 30 up there. Yay! I was looking at my statements for January, and I have some titles that paid themselves off, and some that may never be in the black. I’m hoping with library sales, some will begin to show some more sales and whittle away at the cost of narration. I’m talking about getting maybe 59 to 67 cents a month. Not anything more than that for some of the titles. Not a huge income. For some of the titles, maybe $7 a month. In my kids’ lifetime they may see the ones in the red paid off! Or the grandkids’ time! It’s not so much the narrator, I have the same great narrator for several stories. It’s more the genre. So maybe they’ll get more reads at the library.
When I was a kid, and later of course, I LOVED to read. I would be swept away in the world of books. I wrote stories too, told stories orally with my girlfriend, and just loved to go to garage sales, the only way I could get a book to keep for my own. I remember my mom asking me if I would read a series of books I wanted more than once, and I said, “Yes!” and I did. I hated going to the dentist, but the only highlight was they had Highlights for kids and it didn’t matter that millions of kids had abused it, or circled all the hidden objects, I devoured all the stories until I had to visit the dreaded dentist.
I asked my mom if she would get them for me, and finally she did for a couple of years. I just loved them. Once a month I would get a new magazine and I would read it from beginning to end in a sitting. It wasn’t until I was a teen that we started going to a library. But before that, I ate up all the books at the school library I could get my hands on. I remember being told I could only check out so many books at a time at the school library. I could get more at the regular library, but my mom didn’t want me to have that many at home because I probably couldn’t read all of them. But I could. And more.
We didn’t have advanced classes in anything, but we had to read all our school material and then once we were done, and did all the testing for it, we could spend time in the library for that English class period. I would whip through the books, do all my tests, and spend the rest of the semester in the library. That was the life.
So when I got a coupon in the mail to sign up for a Highlight’s magazine for my granddaughter–they have them for 3-6 year olds too–I did. And when that magazine comes in at the first of the month, we sit down and devour that whole magazine in one sitting. They have cool craft ideas, and one of them was to make a peanut butter, birdseed pine cone for the birds. So I had all the ingredients, pine cones all over the yard, peanut butter, and a bag of birdseed I feed the birds with–and squirrels and dogs, since they’re always eating it if I’m not after them about it.
What a mess. But it was fun, then it was fun seeing all the goldfinches and chickadees and cardinals and even the blue jays come down to eat off them. And of course the squirrels, who immediately had to have something to drink. And my dogs were in on the act, which goes without saying.
a lady in a medieval gown sitting on a stone and reading a book
They also have a craft where you create a dragon, I think, from tissue paper and such. I’ll have to look at it, but we’ll do that. And one for food. Bug food made of tomatoes and black olives and cucumbers. I don’t have the cucumbers, or cream cheese or anything, but maybe I can come up with something. I do have the antennas–chives, growing in the house, so we could come up with our very own version. I stuck antennas in her mashed potatoes and that was a start and got a laugh!
She told me she wanted her tomato. And I was like, yes! Finally, she wants a tomato. So I brought her an orange tomato, I only have the small orange ones and she frowns at me. “No, I want the white one.” Now I’m puzzled. Then I realized what she was saying! Potatoes! I was cooking them and they weren’t done. “Potatoes!” I said. “Yes, potatoes!” Like that’s what she had said all along.
Okay, it’s back to the real world of adult stuff for me. I guess I’ll work on the deadline book edits for Monday, then Saving the White Cougar final proofing after that, since the actual book isn’t coming out until several months from now. I’m still wracking my brain for a billionaire story. I see him running along the beach. I see her rescuing him. But I need more than that. lol
Okay, little one is coming here today, ordered a set of Dick and Jane books to help her read. She loves to read to herself and I read to her all the time. But I was so excited when I was little to learn how to read on my own using the Dick and Jane books. Some things are timeless. They arrived yesterday so today we do more reading/learning. I’ve worked with her on some beginner Dr. Seuss books also.
Turned in edits on the Wolf Wears Plaid and managed to reach 74K on Red Wolf last night. Need 6K more to make word count, so should have that soon. Hopefully, and then just finishing up the story, and that will probably make it about 90K.
Took my walk mucho early this morning. It’s getting hotter, muggy, muggy, muggy, and we’re under flash flood warnings through Saturday, so I figure I’d better get it done.
Well, I was so busy trying to plant some hibiscus this morning while it was cool out and before it got hot, I totally forgot to blog.
I had picked up 4 of them at Home Depot. They only had 1 gallon size braided ones. I like them better because they’re easier to plant! I picked up one for my daughter for Mother’s Day.
Okay, I’m back to writing. I had to figure out who the parents were in Red Wolf and how they fit into the story.
Jan Nakutis: “When I was 40 I had this tattoo done on my ankle with the plan that when I was old and in my rocking chair I could look down and still feel like I could howl at the moon. Well, I’m 71 now, not anywhere near a rocking chair and I’m still howling at the moon 🌕.
All your books help keep me that way. “
Lizzy LaBare: “I honestly can’t tell you which series I enjoyed more… I am leaning towards the werewolves. Thank you so much for sharing them with us. I am still trying to get over the fact that my dream man/wolf lives in another woman’s head…lol”
I asked my readers if I could share their quotes on my blog today. It’s all about readers. They make my day!
Thanks to my blog readers and my book readers for making my year!
I am only 600 words behind today after being 11,000 words behind, so hope to finish that up along with my 2,000 words, and more, if I can come up with some ideas. I had thoughts last night when I was trying to sleep at 3 a.m. Now, if I could only remember them!
Have a wonderful, magical day and believe in your dreams!
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“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
We had no hope for rain ever, in a million years. I know. Because I looked at the weather report. And it said so. No rain forever and ever and ever. And it rained!!!
So I’m happy.
Have a great Monday!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
