The blog tour continues and Olivia and I are having fun. Today Terry Ambrose features Olivia and me at his Mysteries with Characters blog site. Check in and learn more about what motivated me to start writing cozy mysteries and what keeps me at it. https://terryambrose.com/2021/08/oh-olivia-by-patricia-fry/
Christy, at Christy’s Cozy Corners posts a new book review here: https://christyscozycorners.com/2021/08/olivia-calico-cat-mystery-review/
In this review, again the issue of Oh! Olivia being a 
cliffhanger is raised. I’ve had readers downright angry with me for ending this book the way I did. I, however, did not consider this such an abrupt cliffhanger. The main story to me was what happened to all those people who disappeared years ago and why were their belongings being found in the cat colony. That mystery was solved at the end of the book. But one person was still missing under mysterious circumstances. She had been mentioned in the story a time or two. In the last chapter, Olivia finds a clue of a different kind, sending the search for that one person in a different direction—a purr-fect ending, I thought, and a subtle introduction into Book Two of the Calico Cat Mysteries, Where’s Olivia?
Note: I wish my new promo material had been completed before this blog tour. I sent several photos to the gal who sets up the tours, but unfortunately the same ones keep showing up on each site.
Oh, this is getting fun! I hope you read Olivia’s guest post yesterday at LiteraryAu. Revealing. Well, the main human character in the Calico Cat Mysteries, Parker, is on the spot today. Read about her life as an investigative writer and what she reveals about her feline sidekick, Olivia.
It’s unusual that I write a Sunday post, but I don’t want you to miss the interesting and fun post today on the blog tour. Visit 
Here’s another one of my guest posts posted at Dianne Ashcroft’s site, 
Today my blog tour which is designed to feature my brand new Calico Cat Mysteries series begins with three—count them—THREE blog stops. We’re promoting the two books in the new series—Oh! Olivia and Where’s Olivia? at Novels Alive 
We took a little trip recently—to help celebrate a wonderful woman’s 100th birthday. Wow!!! She’s the first centenarian I’ve ever known and how nice that she’s also a good friend. We’ve traveled together, walked many miles together, laughed together, and shared quite a lot. So traveling to be with her as she celebrates this monumental milestone was a must—even though it meant leaving Olivia and Sophie behind.
the house so the cats are safe and comfortable while we’re gone, creating a list of instructions—each cat is different, you know, and Olivia has never been left for more than 8 hours at a time. Even that is rare.
We’re so glad she has Sophie and that Sophie has Olivia. In our experience another cat offers comfort even when they aren’t particularly close. Cats develop relationships with other cats and other animals and those relationships seem to have degrees—similar to our own relationships. We like some people better than others. There are people we enjoy talking to, others we might want to travel with or walk with or cook with or just be in their company.
drove away, heart in throat. So how did it go? Evidently beautifully. I was able to get my usual cat sitter and her daughter (both animal people) to take care of our girls and they were marvelously successful. The first day they spent a few hours with the cats and that seemed to give Sophie and Olivia the confidence to trust them and they became 
more relaxed and even a little cordial when they came to check on them, feed them, and clean up after them.
and snuggling.
The year-long isolation is over. We can now invite vaccinated friends and family into the house. We had to wait until she was a year old, but we can now start socializing Olivia.
and visiting over the fence. She hears a car drive up and she’s eager to see who emerges and where they go. But she’s still a little on guard when someone comes into the house.
Let my twin great-grandbabies come to play and Olivia disappears, but if adults visit or older children, she is very curious. She’ll come into the living room and lay a distance away and watch and listen. Make a move and she stiffens, but she doesn’t leave. She’s too curious. I’ll hand the visitor a wand toy and often they can lure 
Olivia closer and Olivia will play, but make a move toward her and she retreats. She has allowed strangers to pet her a couple of times. We’re making progress. I’m hoping for her to become more relaxed around people and I think we’ll get there. It is just going to take time.
She has animal friends that she watches through the windows. She’ll run from window to window to follow a neighborhood cat around the yard. She adores watching birds at the feeder or nibbling on the cactus apples. And the squirrels delight her.
What do people give the grandmother/great-grandmother, elderly neighbor/friend for birthdays and other occasions? Plants and flowers. I love them, but as soon as I receive them I go to the internet and look that particular plant or flower up to find out, “Is this plant toxic to cats?” Almost always the answer is “Yes.” Darn it. So the gorgeous arrangement or potted plant is remanded to the outdoor deck.
they are highly toxic to cats. No problem, you say, for settled cats who are not interested in plants or flowers. But you bring in a kitten or a new older cat, whose habits are unknown, and you have to go on alert.
So which plants and flowers are safe around cats and kittens? Let’s start with flowers—yes, please: Safe, according the research, are roses, daisies, lilac, camellias, sunflowers, moth orchid and African violets, to name a 
few. Yay!!!
