Kindling the Cat-Seventh Life

Sometime last winter a publisher agreed to republish my first novel-The Bachelor's Cat. Then a few months later, they changed their mind. I would have been disappointed but when they told me, I was so sick that I was scarcely there and books seemed about as far away as stars.

But I'm feeling better now and I'd love for the poor little Bachelor's Cat to have another life. It's already had six: the first edition, a paperback, an audio book (we called it book-on-tape back then) and a translation in spanish, german and italian. We won't count the movie rights sales, even though it was fun to fantasize about who would play which roles. So life number seven is as a Kindle book.
The Bachelor's Cat is a story about a guy who gets out of his own way and finds love. The cat in the story is an enabler, but it's really a story about our ability to step outside of our stupidest selves, go in orbit for a bit and then see things from a completely different angle.
My friend Bonnie asks me if my drive to get things published (and my mania for acorns) has something to do with immortality. I told her that it had to do with accomplishment and the sweet feeling thereof. But now I think she had it at least half-right: it has to do with mortality, tick-tock and all that.

Anyway, here's a link to The Bachelor's Cat, seventh life