Rachel Wells on writing for cat lovers, bonding with a fictional cat, and writing about love, kindness, and social points too.
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Alfie the Christmas Cat is the newest within the Sunday Occasions bestselling Alfie collection from writer Rachel Wells. Alfie and the residents of Edgar Highway are placing collectively a purr-fect festive present to lift cash for a homeless shelter when issues go wrong–and it is sabotage. Alfie the cat has to come back to the rescue on this heartwarming e book that is stuffed with the Christmas spirit. This e book will delight cat lovers in all places.
You may hear Rachel Wells speak concerning the e book at Bark! Fest, the e book pageant for animal lovers. She’s on a panel known as Our Bond with Cats with Sarah Chauncey, Sassafras Patterdale (Lowrey), and Rachel Wells.
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Beneath, Rachel Wells solutions my questions concerning the e book.
Why did you write this e book?
I had been writing extra modern feminine fiction earlier than this however I’ve at all times cherished cats, and I used to be going via a frankly fairly troublesome time in my private life and wished to do one thing totally different, so Alfie The Doorstep Cat was born and it’s a collection – there are 7 books within the UK in complete.
What are the principle themes of your e book?
Alfie is at all times primarily based on how cats might help us and their position in our lives, however the themes are at all times about kindness, love, serving to others and likewise tackling some troublesome social points imagine it or not, all via the eyes of cats. For instance there’s a fundraiser for a homeless shelter on this. Principally Alfie helps everybody.
What stunned you whilst you had been writing the e book?
I feel after I first began with Alfie, I believed nobody would imagine it and would suppose I’m barely nutty! Nevertheless, what’s stunned me most is how relatable Alfie was to me, and likewise to a lot of my readers. It was so beautiful to bond with this ‘fictional’ cat who was actually an amalgamation of all of the cats I’ve lived with over time.
Inform me one thing about your writing course of and the way it formed this e book.
I don’t have a lot of a course of, I simply write. Nevertheless it is a Christmas e book and I wrote it in Springtime, so to get into the Christmas spirit I’ll have listened to Christmas songs and watched the odd Christmas movie!!
Who will particularly get pleasure from this e book?
Anybody who loves cats I imagine. As a result of all my Alfie books are written for cat lovers by a cat lover.
What are you engaged on proper now?
I’ve one other Alfie e book to publish both later this yr or subsequent yr, and I’m now writing a Cosy Crime collection. It’s very totally different, though I’ve snuck a cat in there after all!
“All my Alfie books are written for cat lovers by a cat lover.”
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