Monday Mentions: Audio Kittens, Plush Pups & Writing Awesomeness
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Today I want to draw everyone’s attention to that big-a$$ banner at the top of the post–to get your name in the drawing, bloggers need to register to post about this very cool holiday book promo. I registered already. *s* Hey, who couldn’t use an extra $500 around the holidays?
I’ve got news! My book COMPLETE KITTEN CARE is now available as an audio book at Audible.com and I’m told will soon be available on iTunes and link to the Amazon Kindle version. Oh, and I narrated the book. Just in time for help with those holiday kittens…of course I hope y’all do everything right if you choose to adopt at this time of year. 
Also, I just read a delightful new book by a new author–I call it “Harry Potter with cat characters.” I love discovering great new reads, and although I don’t usually go for “talking cats” when they’re like humans with fur coats, this one really sucked me in. I’ve already invited Virginia to join CWA. You can check out my review of Apprentice Cat here.
Monday Mentions is the mash-up-day of all the neato-torpedo writer links and videos, pet schtuff and bling and writer-icity crappiocca collected over the past week. Check out the awesome links, below, and I’d love it if you’d post your own shout-outs about great books for the holidays in the comments section. Yes, this is permission to PIMP YOUR OWN/OTHERS WORK! Go for it!
WRITER-ICITY SCHTUFF
Password Scams some great info for everyone–but especially for evil-minded plot-driven writers. Hey, I’m going to use this!
Fundamentals Of A KickStarter Program we all need funding for our projects–but how to get crowd funding to work? Some tips here.
Is Amazon Killing Indie Publishing? insightful post, thanks to Diane Capri for sharing.
Amazon’s 2013 Breakout Novel Contest
Great Articles from ASJA for writers, of course. Lots to read here–thanks to Sally Bahner for the head’s up.
Writing Email Updates Fans Actually Read! another from Diane Capri (yes, you should be FB friending her!)
4 Ways Authors Sabotage Themselves on Facebook
Build Your Platform a review of a book on the subject that may prove helpful
Get Twitter Hashtags to Work For You and here’s another helpful article, thanks to Stacy Green Whisenand for the links
Best Biz Advice for Writers a roundup of AWESOME articles from Jane Friedman
PET-CENTRIC SCHTUFF
Dog Spotters a fun new app for iPad and iPhone that let’s you “collect” and learn about 200 dog breeds–if you enjoy bird watching, dog spotting will be the next new furry BIG THING! My colleague Caroline Coile had a paw in this creative fun hobby, check it out.
Pet Food Drive for the holidays . . . great endeavor. My church does this on the local level, providing our “soup kitchen” guests also with pet food for their furry companions–it frees up funds for other important items.
FreeKibble.com and FreeKibbleCat.com are more terrific venues for getting food to needy pets. Ellen DeGeneres is involved, of course, and the initiative will deliver 500,000 meals of all natural Halo Spot’s Stew to pets in need across the country.
Stephanie Piro’s Awesome Cat Cartoon Calendar is now available, you won’t want to miss this!
My colleague Cat Man Drew paints amazing cat works of art–Click the picture to check out his site for holiday gifts!
This video comes courtesy of Dakota’s Den blog and I just had to share!
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