Listen to ‘The Flying Woman’
Terrific kicked off in 2018 with the novel The Flying Woman. At long last, I’ve added an audiobook version.
Here’s the basic blurb:
Superheroes are supposed to be perfect. They’re also not supposed to exist, but one has recently emerged, in defiance of all known laws of physics. Miranda Thomas is hardly concerned with any of that. She’s focused on little else but her lifelong ambition of becoming a movie star … until she discovers a fatally wounded woman who seems much more than human.
This encounter gives Miranda an opportunity to become only the second superhero her world has ever known. But how can she become a perfect superhero when, for all her power, she’s only human?
It was fun to revisit a novel I wrote several years ago, and the timing worked out well; I was listening to the first book while writing and revising the final Terrific story. Full circle. While of course there are little bits and pieces I’d do differently in 2026 compared to 2018, I’m still happy with it. I enjoyed my own work, which I suppose is a good thing.
But with an audiobook, I can’t take all the credit. A talented narrator is key, and I was fortunate to find one.
These days, Amazon offers authors the option of adding a “virtual voice” to our books, but I never considered that for a second. I was a theatre major back in college, and I focused on playwriting. Listening to actors interpret and perform my scripts was a joy. It was never exactly what I envisioned, but it was usually better. Their creativity enhanced my own. Multiple heads are better than one head plus a robot.
I’ve experienced the same working with cover artists. Justin Burks has illustrated and designed each Terrific cover, including the Audible version of The Flying Woman shown above. Each time, I give him some basic ideas, and he comes back with far better ideas, and the final product far surpasses whatever I was picturing. At pretty much every convention or book festival, I receive compliments about his book covers.
And it’s the same idea here. Through the Audible audition process, I found Adrienne Stringfellow and quickly knew she was the right fit. Her performance brings each character to life, and the book is better off for her skill. I definitely needed to cast a real actor to voice this aspiring actor-turned-superhero. I’m glad I did.
Adrienne has narrated other audiobooks, so be sure to check those out as well.
Meanwhile, I’m polishing the final Terrific book, which will collect the current volume of serialized stories. It will be called The Green Shadow, and I hope to have it ready by the end of the summer. If you’ve been following along, the final storyline kicked off recently. More to come!
