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Vijaya Schartz
Girls With Guns, Romance With a Kick, and cats

My Real Cats  |  Cats in my books  |  Upcoming Cats  |  Cat Links


CATS  RULE  MY  WORLD

I am a proud cat lover and cat owner.  I love cats so much, there is a cat in every story I write.
It can be a werecat, a desert lion, a tiger, or a Siamese kitten, even an alien cat monster.
Here are some of my most recent real cats

Spunky

the latest addition to the family, born March 2009, adopted May 2009

Jasmine

the current queen of our household,
born Dec 2006, adopted from a no-kill shelter, after extensive surgery from being mauled by her previous family's dog

Geisha

my little companion of seventeen years.
She is  sorely missed.
April 1990 - February 2007

Dude

A declawed abandoned Highland Fold, who found his way into our home after Geisha passed away.  He was old and spent his last happy months with us in the spring and summer of 2007

 

King Cat

My husband's golden long hair cat.
When I moved in with my husband, King Cat and Geisha didn't get along at all. Even years later, they tolerated each other but never really bonded.  He was older and passed away in 2003

 

 

Now, here are the cats I wrote
about in my published stories, cat portrayed below each cover:

 

 

Chronicles of Kassouk - Book Three
BLACK JAGUAR
Coming November 2010 from Desert Breeze

The cat in that story is Diablo

Beauty the black panther belongs in
White Tiger
Where she is both friend and foe

 

Rascal is the red leopard in the Chronicles of Kassouk - Book Two
RED LEOPARD

The cat in A DESPERADO FOR CHRISTMAS  is a wild Mountain Lion encountered in the desert.


In Anaz-voohri, meet Dude,
Zack's Black Persian, obviously created
after a real cat, the real Dude

.

 

Felix  is Kaletaka's wild Bobcat
in my upcoming shape-shifter romantic story,

COYOTE GORGEOUS

The monster Bearcat belongs in
Lockdown - The Garrison

This one needs to be vanquished

 

Isis is Celene's Siamese cat
in RELICS
Unlike Geisha who inspired the cat character, Isis has a quick temper


 

 


Sasha is François' light Persian in
Ashes for the Elephant God

Adopted by Fabienne upon
her younger brother's death

 

 

Shadow is Jennifer's cat in
 Archangel Crusader
 and Archangel Checkmate
a playmate and soothing companion
in her darkest hour.

The new cats coming up in my next stories

 

In KICKING BOTS
 Dr. Melissa Campbell's kitten is a slick Blue Russian
named
Nanobot.
 

 

In SNATCHED, a time and space travel romantic adventure,
Zania has to face severalof these man killers
in an inhospitable alien Jungle

 

 

 

 

More Cats and more stories
coming soon

 

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All about cats and kittens

 

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