{"id":5583,"date":"2022-06-01T04:19:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2022-06-01T04:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:19:40","slug":"paws-up-for-wednesday-writing-about-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=5583","title":{"rendered":"Paws Up for Wednesday \u2013 Writing About Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"People ask me how I came to write about cats and how I come up with so many different plots. I mean here we are 64 books later\u2014each book containing multiple side plots to accompany the main one and I\u2019m still at it. Olivia\u2019s Book 8 is with the editor as I write this and I\u2019m spending hours each day fleshing out Book 58 of the Klepto Cat Mysteries.<\/p>\n

I started writing for publication when my girls \"\"were in junior high school back in 1973. I wrote articles for magazines. I had a few columns in magazines and a newspaper and I published a few books along the way. In 2012, with hundreds (maybe thousands) of published articles to my credit and \"\"somewhere around 40 books, I retired from nonfiction and wrote my first cozy mystery with cats\u2014a Klepto Cat Mystery, Catnapped<\/em><\/strong>, which was actually inspired by a true story. I\u2019m pleased and proud to say that I continue in my original goal as a writer–to inform, educate, and entertain readers through my Klepto Cat Mysteries and my Calico Cat Mysteries.<\/p>\n

It might interest you to know that in 2023 I\u2019ll celebrate 50 years as a published writer and author and probably with 110 total books to my credit. Do you know how many words that is? Well over five million.<\/p>\n

My grandchildren attempted to arrange a celebration for me when I hit 100 published books\u2014yeah, I have some wonderful grandkids\u2014but with the pandemic\u2026 Maybe it will happen someday\u2014when I hit 200 published books, perhaps or 100 cozy mysteries???<\/p>\n

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