Some of you will have noticed the Council Cats Gallery here at “News from Council Dimension”–our growing collection of cats (and the occasional bearded dragon) posing with The Alchemists’ Council in its various stages. A few of you have asked me to explain.
The first iteration of Council Cats came from my editor, Jennifer Hale, who returned to her work table one day after taking a break from my manuscript to discover this scene:
According to Jen, these cats–MONTY, ABBY, and PIPPA–do not get along. The manuscript appeared to have alchemically transformed their demeanours (at least for a few hours on this day in December 2014). Thus began the feline connection to the book.
Jen subsequently sent these three shots taken as the manuscript edits continued:
And these three on the day the book itself arrived in April 2016:
Meanwhile, via Twitter, writer Matthew Graybosch contacted me with this shot of his cat VIRGIL cosied up next to an Advance Reading Copy (attained from World Fantasy Con–apparently a favourite of black-hued felines):
Then, on the day the actual book arrived, Matthew updated with VIRGIL’s reaction (some sort of rebel-influenced howl):
This week, as new readers have begun to notice the gallery, I received two more pics to add to the growing collection:
SIMON (from Ontario)
And GOOSE (from British Columbia)
Fair warning: As GOOSE illustrates here, Simese cats tend to react quite enthusiastically to the Lapidarian honeycomb with which the book is infused. As it turns out, alchemical honey is much stronger than catnip.
If your cat sidles up to the The Alchemists’ Council, Tweet me a photo @cyntheamasson (#CouncilCats). In the meantime, I hope the book itself finds a loving home with both you and your cats.
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