Okay, I've been away. Life sometimes gets hectic but you're not interested in my lame excuses, right?

We (Beach Author Network) just completed our first charity-book selling-party event earlier this month and it was a great success. We earned and donated $1300 to Jason's House, providing summer vacation weeks for kids with cancer, along with their parents her on the Grand Strand. One of our authors, a very special lady has written a children's cat book and has had great success. It has been running joke between us and within the BAN authors that my next book was either going to have a cat on the cover or a cat within the story. During the Books to the Beat event June 1st, she told me I should write a cat mystery. I thought about that and did write one, 118 pages, 17 chapters later. Check out her book on Amazon.
Where's the Kitty by Darlene Eichler

I thought about calling it 'Who Killed My Cat?' but what parent or grandparent would buy it? I am targeting the 9 to 12 year crowd.

Now I'm considering toning it down and using a title something like, 'What Happened to Mister Twix?'

The Plot: An eleven year old girl named Lorrie, cat, Mister Twix vanishes from her bed during the middle of the night.  Bucky, a neighborhood friend and his visiting cousin, Elvis, open up a CSI (Cat Scene Investigation), questioning all the suspects (her dad, mother, sister, sister's boy friend, the neighborhood bully and the animal control officer, looking for clues, uncovering motives. What really happened to Mister Twix? Was he murdered, cat napped or worse? Here are the chapters.

Chapter 1 There is no Snooze Button on a Cat who Wants Breakfast

Chapter 2 They Call Me Mister Twix

Chapter 3 Catastrophic Consequences

Chapter 4 Cat Got Your Tongue

Chapter 5 Cat Scene Investigators

Chapter 5 Look What the Cat Dragged In 

Chapter 5 Grinning like the Cheshire Cat

Chapter 6 Let the Cat out of the Bag

Chapter 7 Cat’s in the Ladle

Chapter 8 Never Feed Your Cat Anything that Doesn't Match the Carpet

Chapter 9 Nervous as a Cat in a Room Full of Rocking Chairs

Chapter 10 Dogs Have Owners, Cats Have Staff

Chapter 11 Could Curiosity Have Killed the Cat

Chapter 12 If Only Cats Grew into Kittens

Chapter 13 Hey Diddle Diddle

Chapter 14 Never Try to Outstubborn a Cat

Chapter 15 To Play Cat and Mouse with a Dog

Chapter 16 The Cat's Pajamas

Chapter 17 The Cat’s Meow