birthday cakes and birthday books

Isn’t that just the prettiest cake? My Aunt Carroll, the Cake Whisperer, made it for Sophie and I for our Combo Birthday Bash this past weekend. The inside was fluffy, moist, and GREEN. She has a sense of humor, that Carroll does. We also had a chocolate chocolate cake (hey, it’s me we’re talking about here) and my Mom made her famous and amazing cheesecake. That’s right, THREE cakes, we know how to party over at the yurt. Here are Sophie and I making our wishes….

And Luc says,

“can we eat it yet?”

In addition to partying it up, I have had quite the memorable birthday as a result of this whole Toby Streams the Universe taking the free store by storm and then bouncing back up the charts as a paid book. I swear I can’t remember an isolated detail about the day of my birthday for years back—it’s all a pleasant, impressionistic swirl–but this birthday is mixed with selling 240 books in the last week (it’s slowing way down now, but still!), plus getting some lovely fan letters and reviews. I’m getting a repetitive use injury from hitting “refresh” on my computer. 240 isn’t going to break anyone’s bank, its peanuts, really, but it’s tres nice for me and even more I’m thrilled to hear back from so many people who enjoyed the book. Woo hoo! This makes me very happy.

SO, thank you so much to everyone who has bought a copy! If you read it and like it, tell your friends, your enemies, your mailman! Word of mouth is how Indie books get sold, it’s like magic fairy dust to an Indie author, makes us all starry eyed with gratitude. We probably even poot rainbows.

Anyway. I think I might do another freebie with Raine, maybe around the Spring Equinox. But I reckon that’s another post…