
Yes.
It’s happening. I’m finally going to be an author! I can’t tell you how amazing it feels to know that all the blood (ketchup), sweat (salt), and tears (sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches) are finally paying off. Well, actually, I can tell you. It feels very amazing. No, let me rephrase: it feels very much amazing, a lot. Plus, I’m going to make very much amazing, a lot of money. But that’s not why I do what I do. The answer to that burning question (which every literary genius must ask themselves twice a day, every day, and have a New York Times Bestselling Author Mentor ask them every six months (and they better be ready to answer because if they haven’t been asking themselves twice a day, every day, they can bet their bottoms they will be thoroughly roasted by their mentor (mine is Clive Cussler (he’s a tyrant)))), “Why do I write?,” has an equally burning answer. But before we gather ‘round The Bonfire of Burning Answers, we must first gather The Kindling of Inspiration, which, of course, are located in The Forest of Subconscious – what’s that? You don’t care about any of this? You want to know what my book is about? Oh. Ok. It’s a children’s book called Can Cat Jump? It’s just pages and pages of drawings of Cat jumping, soaring through the air, and clawing my legs (he can, in fact, jump). Also, I haven’t actually written it yet. Nor do I have a publisher. But I am accepting pre-orders. Five bucks. If enough people give me five dollars I will write, illustrate, print, and ship Can Cat Jump? Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go eat very much amazing, a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.
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The cartoons are funny man.Cats would look cutest of all creatures if they jump
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Many congratulations! I have just Kindle published my first memoir much of which refers to cats, I thought I would feel more excited and I just feel overwhelmed. Good luck1
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I really only deserve pre-congratulations at this point. You, on the other hand, deserve the real deal! Congrats on self-publishing. Where can we check out your memoir?
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Thank you! This is the link to the book on Amazon US – http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Cairo-This-memoir-travelogue-ebook/dp/B015JFY1F0
If you read it (some may be able to borrow it) please give me a review. 🙂
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Fabulous! And you can have an amazing product line – Cat Mold-a-Rama machines, Cat Pez dispensers, animated Christmas lawn decor, and of course the humble t-shirt and mug offerings – because everyone can use another or hundredth mug.
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I love your ideas Dr. Sphinx. In fact, I am hereby pre-appointing you to Nailbails Mug Czar. We just need 49,998 more pre-orders and then I’ll be able to pay you a salary w/ benefits.
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WOW! I wonder if I can get my coworkers to call me ‘Czar’…I know my mom won’t.
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Will buy.
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Thank you! Our pre-order counter has just sky-rocketed to a grand total of 2!!!
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I love the idea..and to the question, “can a cat jump?” well,yes!
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Glad you like it! You are correct!
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You should market it as a colouring book for adults!
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What are you some sort of marketing genius?
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Hahaha! Funny you should ask – I am currently trialling and blogging about a long list of marketing gimmicks…time will tell if they’re genius or insane. They did get me up to #23 on the humor best seller list for, like, whole three hours.
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Sounds really interesting! Link?
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it’s on my blog http://anaspoke.com/
Here’s the link to the first one: http://anaspoke.com/2015/09/15/marketing-gimmick-1-spam-delicious-spam/
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This is fascinating! Really cool concept. Looking forward to reading more of your findings.
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I need this book in my life. Is one person giving you $5 enough people to make you write (erm draw) this book?
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Can Cat Jump?
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Yes!
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