Teresa Garcia

Teresa Garcia (once Teresa Huddleston-Garcia) is a rural Northern California mountain woman living with her very creative autistic son now that her daughter has left the nest. In a household of artists, this puts supplies at a premium. She has health, intermittent mobility, and nerve pain issues that have made working difficult. Some even call her ornery about pushing herself.

She has divided her work body under two main names.

Teresa as Teresa Garcia writes mainly fantasy. Her works include poetry, short stories, and novels. She also narrates under this name as well as edits.

Any 18+ work is published as Amethyst Stormrider to prevent children from accidentally reading it.

She does other work underTeresa Amehana Garcia, focusing her illustration here, usually for children's books. She also likes to work with science fiction and fantasy, preferring anthropomorphic animals and other non-human creatures. She believes that there are too many stories already being told with human faces. She will not illustrate for anyone who refuses to give her an illustration credit.

She freelance writes quests and challenges for the online text and browser-based Dragon Hearts RPG. She volunteers time and runs the library program for Trotsdale and the Intersim System overseeing live and pre-recorded programs, although currently she is on hiatus due to health issues. She also is one of the administrators for the Nisa/Dreaming Twilight role-play group and helps develop the lore for their program.

Teresa illustrates through both THG StarDragon Publishing and as a freelancer with PenIt! Publications (as Teresa Amehana Garcia) as well as individual commission projects. She does freelance work as well in narration, editing, layout, and illustration in addition to being the owner/operator of THG StarDragon Publishing. Basically, she will freelance anything in her skill sets that will help out.

Her Patreon is a good place to find her, as well as her personal Linktree to find everything she is involved in.

Her parents always encouraged her writing and artistic talents but as with her academic pursuits for a time she let her motherhood duties overshadow any serious pursuit. In 2005, she decided to pick up the dream of writing and publishing a novel once more, having shelved that (and the "Shadow Chronicles" manuscript) in her early college years due to the time constraints of motherhood at the time. In 2006 she released to the public her first novel in the "Dragon Shaman" series, "Taming the Blowing Wind," and has since published a second book in the series and a poetry book.

Teresa likes to work with multicultural and coming-of-age issues, being of multiple racial and cultural descents herself. She also likes to work with spiritual factors, mythology, and folklore.

Currently, Teresa has several manuscripts to work on, such as her "Dragon Shaman" series of novels and her current favorite serialized story, "Selkies' Skins." She will not be returning to working on "The Shadow Chronicles," her stories of Terrah that interlace with "Dragon Shaman" and "Selkies' Skins" until she has BlowingWind and Kirsty to where they have grown into themselves.

She also writes short stories, and ran a competition to collect dragon stories from people of all ages, entitled "The Dragons' Beads: A Treasury." She had hoped to make it an annual contest, but there were not enough entries. Currently, she is publishing a weekly podcast, "Mythical Minstrelsy and Flash Fiction Fridays" on several platforms.

You can visit Teresa Garcia on her Patreon for behind-the-scenes information. Published also as Teresa Amehana Garcia, LadyRainStarDragon, Amehana Arashi, and Amethyst Stormrider.