We’re on Christmas countdown. Are you ready? Do you at least have a valid list and a plan? If part of your plan is to find smidges and smidgens of time in which to chill, relax, crash, unwind, rest, I’d like to recommend a beautiful (and a little bit harrowing) holiday story to read. If you haven’t ready “A Picture-Purrfect Christmas” (number 13 in the Klepto Cat Mystery series), you have missed a good opportunity to try out the new Puffs Lotion Tissues. Yeah, most readers say they actually weep with feel-good emotion when reading this story.
It makes a great Christmas gift, too. If you want to get it by Christmas, however, you’d better order it from Amazon—they’re the fastest shippers in the country. You can get it in print or for Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Purrfect-Christmas-Klepto-Cat-Mystery/dp/0996673202/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481978622&sr=1-3&keywords=klepto+cat+mysteries
If you visit the Klepto Cat Mystery pages at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_2_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=klepto+cat+mysteries&sprefix=klepto+cat+m%2Caps%2C284&crid=36F3UIAJG6O5D you probably notice that all of the books have garnered huge percentages of 5-star reviews. I thank my readers for taking the time to tell others about Rags and all his human and kitty-cat friends. One comment I got a lot is, “I just wish you’d write faster—bring them out more often.” What author do you know or have you ever known who publishes 6 novels per year? That’s my record so far as a novelists—6 per year. Well, I wondered if I’d broken any records, so I decided to do a little research. According to what I found, I’m way behind some of the most prolific authors.
Barbara Cartland may be the most prolific, having produced 722 books and bringing them 
out every 40 days during her career. She holds the world record and is in the Guinness World Book of Records as having published 23 books in one year.
Charles Hamilton is estimated to have written 100,000,000 words in his lifetime—the equivalent of 1200 books.
I found authors who produced 1000, 2000, and even 4000 books in their lifetime, but most of them had a team of writers working with them—ghostwriters, such as Edward Stratemeyer, the head of the syndicate that produced the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series.
Well, I don’t think I’m going to wind up in the Guinness World Book of Records, nor will I break any records with my prolificacy. I think it’s important to have a life aside from your writing life. Besides, if you hole-up in your writing room all the time where will the inspiration for the storylines come from?
I’ll take them as soon as you write them and love too. Just keep them coming I love rags and the gang
Ms. Fry
I just finished reading your last book in the series, #20, a few minutes ago, having read all the previous in order (the best way to enjoy the adventures) starting just a month and a half ago. The Christmas story was indeed very special, if not my favorite.
I was addicted to Lillian Jackson Braun’s “The Cat Who…” mysteries, and was at a loss when they ended upon her passing. To discover your Klepto Cat mysteries rekindles my joy in cat mysteries, as the escapades, characters and settings are similar. But your stories have lots more cats! I highly recommend the Klepto Cat series to everyone who misses The Cat Who stories. (Were you paying homage to Ms. Braun when you featured a Siamese named Coco?)
I am thrilled to discover your wonderful blog to keep me entertained and enlightened until book #21 is published.
Merry Christmas from me, Jeepers Creepers, and Bebe
Hi Chaz and Kathy,
Thanks for the comments. So glad you are enjoying the stories. Before starting to write the Klepto Cat Mysteries, I’d only read one or two of Lillian Jackson Braun’s Cat Who books and enjoyed them. It was so long ago, and I don’t actually remember the stories or the theme–other than there was a cat involved. And I didn’t remember that her cat was named Coco, until I stumbled across that information recently. Ooops. And I thought I was being clever. I guess Coco for a cocoa-colored cat isn’t all that original.
Merry Christmas to you all–Jeepers Creepers and Bebe, too.
Patricia, Sophie and Lily (and of course, Rags)
Actually, Rags’s friend, the Siamese, is Koko, not Coco.
Patricia
Well, I got a couple things wrong, Ms. Fry:
Jim Qwilleran’s siamese was indeed spelled Koko (short for Kao K’o-Kung). Jim is the main character in Lilian Jackson Braun’s series—my second error was adding the extra “l” to her name.
It’s a fun series like yours, and if you ever want to read more of them, I’d begin at the beginning. Also like Klepto Cat, we follow the characters’ lives.
Once again, for anyone who longs for more “The Cat Who…” the void will be filled with “Klepto Cat.”
Thank you for the clarity.
Patricia