Lolcat Spain for the win! Because that's one of the best shark-kitty poses I've seen in a while.

Thanks :) She's back to her old self, she is ...

That is a great icon. The Spain macro ain't bad either.

Thanks :)

may i please save the spainy pic to my desktop? id love to have it to look at during the day at work!

Help yourself, babe. And thanks :)

::does huge happy spainy dance:: oh this is awesome. yeah i know silly to get so excited, but it will be fun. really fun.

I, for one, enjoy the kittypics interspersed with writey stuff and gothy stuff and humor stuff and reviewy stuff. It's what makes your journal an interesting read. It's like a box of chocolates, to quote Forrest Gump. :)

Oh. Well. All right, then!
Thanks, and I'll try to keep the writing ... um ... mixed. Or chocolatey. Or whatever.

*puts on his Peril Sensitive Sunglasses*

Ok, the Spainky macro just made me splorfle coffee on my keyboard...

I need to find the newest book. But as soon as I get it will sign plz?

Oh, I think that can be arranged ...

Just thought I'd drop you a little note (in case you were unaware) but I ordered your book over the weekend and Amazon.com says it is .. that's right.. BACKORDERED! (I should have it in two weeks, though!)

Haha! Sweet, thanks :)

NP :)

I came across a lady, susanjacobson, that was a foster mom/adopter for a couple of cats, one Elmo and the other Scrunch, she set up LJ blogs for both cats.
scrunch_the_cat
elmo_the_cat

When is Spain going to start posting in her own blog?

She used to have one. But then I remembered -- "Oh yeah. I've got real life stuff to do." So I deleted it.

Looks like someone's a predator again.

Oh yes. She's back to her old self. Her tummy fuzz is even growing back; it's about a quarter of an inch long, and increasing every day, just in time for winter.

Yay, Spainyshark! Glad to see she's back to terrorising the monkeys. All is right with the world.

Oh, and re: books-- I actually picked up the new one Friday evening. Woe, for I read it in one sitting that night and now have no more to look forward to!!

Oh wow, thanks! And one sitting? It's not a hugely long door-stopper of a book, but still ... good gracious! Well, I hope you enjoyed it, and I'll um, keep writing ...

Oh, man, I'm a terrible bibliovore. And I read fast. So yeah. I started at. . .11 p.m. and finished around 3 a.m. And then I had nightmares about THINGS IN TUNNELS.

So yeah, it was very successful :) And I quite enjoyed it. Thank you for writing.

they burn with expressionism.

Got to love pretty cat eyes. Especially when they view you with some form of suspicion. In this case: "Is that string on your face and can I eat it?"

Eeeep! Watch out for that cat! It's gonna cuddle you!

You are really getting great photos! It's inherently hard to get photos of black animals that don't look like black blobs, and getting clear photos indoors of black animals without flash is real wizardry!

It's really all about the lighting - and I don't just mean the ambient lighting, though good ambient lighting is a huge help, but you can vastly improve the definition on what would otherwise be vaguely pet-shaped fuzzy black silhouette by messing around with the light levels in a decent graphic editing program like GIMP or Photoshop.

Ahh, the wonders of digital photography.

Yes, I do a fair amount of that. :-) But there's just so much you can post-process if your base photo isn't good!

Heh-- thanks. Really, it's just a matter of patience (re: taking a million shots and having one or two come out good), because heaven knows most of these pictures aren't very sharp or big.

I think it's just that she's got a lot of personality, and it rather shines through ;)

The remaining 20% is mostly comprised of

By "comprised" I think you mean "composed".

Or, if you prefer, by "is mostly comprised of" I think you mean "mostly comprises".

Aaaand ... this is what I meant the other day by never making typos/grammar mistakes in public once you've got a book out :)

Trust me, I also correct non-authors on this one. *) It's one of my big peeves.

I would love to see the Spainy calendar available someday...partly because she's just too personable for words, and partly because I think it's a fantastic idea to give back to the people who took such good care of her. With that in mind, I remember you wrote something awhile back about the image quality being too poor to "blow up" large enough for calendar pages. Maybe you wouldn't have to use the photos at such large sizes if you went with a different kind of layout. One of my favorite images of Spainy was one you posted last month I think titled "Dubious Cat senses Treachery". It had such a "haikuesque" feel to it...and I could see it written out in those ubiquitous magnetic poetry titles. Maybe doing something like this: http://www.flipdrive.com/file/54021b502b2ecf18fa778804daa9.jpg

would work? Just a thought, sometimes it's the caption as much as the photo that leaves me still laughing to myself the next day!