Astronaut Training and A Visit to the Farm

I'm getting a list of addresses of people together to send out notifications concerning my upcoming book signing and reading on the 20th of June at Twig Bookstore. My book, "Astronaut Training" is available in the Barnes & Noble bookstore near me. It felt a little bit comforting to walk into the store and see it on the self. I've revised the last drawing for the book, "A Visit to the Farm." It's still on track to be published early next month. Anybody out there know of a publisher that needs a book from a new author written for fourth or fifth graders? Adults, who have read it, have told me that it's a good read for them too. I'd like to get it widely distributed and get the second book rolling so I can get back to my full length science fiction books. I've finished sixth of them. Two are the first books in a trilogy. I need to get the third one written but it won't do me much good if I can't get the first one published. I don't know how far I should take the Cosmic Cat theme. Maybe I should start selling T-shirts and other items.

Books selling

Today was a small milestone. My book is not only in independent bookstores but I found it in the local Barnes & Noble. I've also got a book signing on the 20th of June in the Twig Bookstore here in San Antonio. I haven't completed my drawing I need to change in the new book, "A Visit to the Farm." I'm almost through with the corrections to the text. I may do things the hard way but I print out the entire book and read through it, marking my corrections in the book. They get typed in later.

A long day

It's been a long day today. I redrew one of the drawings for the book, "A Visit to the Farm, The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat." I'm still not happy with it. I plan on getting the book to the printer by the first of next month. I've got to make a number of telephone calls to the book stores selling the first book, "Astronaut Training." I'm trying to arrange a couple of more signings in the next few weeks. My wife and I are getting so overrun with things that we're putting some of them on ebay. It takes more time than I want to spend to do it. I've also got a few things on Craig's list. Anybody need a Gramophone?

A Visit to the Farm, The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat

I completed my last review (I'll probably do another one) before the book gets published. I have one more drawing to alter. The two kids in a hammock need bigger feet as the perspective looks wrong. Oh, well we can't all be perfect all of the time. I signed up to start twittering but probably won't keep it up. I'm more comfortable with blogging and using a few extra words. Has anybody read my book, "Astronaut Training, The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat?" I'd like to know, also if you have read it would you go onto Amazon and write a short review of it. The reviews help sell the book as other people will be able to tell what previous readers thought of the book. Hopefully, all good! I thought readers might like to see what part of the cover for, "A Visit to the Farm," looks like, or at least what I envision it looking like. It may change.

Update on Writing

Sometime I think that writing is a never ending story. I'm rereading and revising the second book in the Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat. I think I did the same thing last week, oh well. It seems that every time I look at it I find something that I would like to change. I also made the mistake of rereading another book (The Land of G'lop) that I wrote some time ago with the idea of expanding it. It's a book about a family of five witches and two wizards (warlocks?). They're all older and fight a lot after their mother the "queen" witch dies. I've killed one of the witches off and one brother which necessitates that the book be expanded. I've got a number of drawings of witches to do next. Anybody know of a good book to help me with my witch drawings? The drawings are all finished for the second book in the Cosmic Cat collection. Maybe I should have named the books "Cosmic Cat and his kids." Too late now. I've also updated my publishers web page--it still needs some more work but it will have to do (r-an-kenterprises.com). My web page is ronaldcthompson.com in case anybody is interested.

Astronaut Training, The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat

I placed some copies of my book in another book store today---The Twig Bookstore in San Antonio, Texas. I should have a book signing and reading for younger readers in a few weeks. I'm going back through a short book that I wrote hurriedly a few months ago. It's about an old witch with seven children: two boys and five girls. They're all magical but don't all get along. The mother dies and the girls attempt to get control of her magic wand and books. It's quite a struggle. Recent occurrences have brought me back to the story and I'm preparing to alter parts of it and expand it. If all goes well I'll be through with it in a couple of months. In the meantime I'll be publishing the second book in the Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat. As those of you who have been following my blog know the first book deals with a stray cat that is adopted by a couple of kids who train the him to be an astronaut.

Just a continuation

It's been awhile since my last posting. I don't have any valid excuse other than spending a fair amount of time writing and marketing my recent publication about a stray cat and two kids that train him to be an astronaut.