MEET HERMAN aka TATTLECAT

While waiting for more intermews to come in, Mom and I decided to intermew each other.

How old were you when you moved in with your family? Were you a rescue?

Not a rescue, I was a runaway. I loves to run, and so at 8 months old, I runned out of my house and kept running through the woods until I was good n lost. A very long time later...years probably!...I stumbled up a steep hill and saw a house that smelled like kittehs. And there was a little food on the front porch. So I ate it. It had spit on it, but at that time I wasn't pawticular cuz I was starvy. 

Anyway! I hung around, and this black and white kitteh tried to run me off cuz that was his job: to run off stray cats, as appointed by his boss, Moose, a tabby wif six toes. It was wintertime and very cold. My fur had gotten sticky and snarled and turned hard like a turtle shell. During a blizzard my future meowmy spotted me, called to me, and when I came, she took me inside the warm house n fed me. She also put me in a big cage in the kitchen cuz she didn't know if I...ya know...had an STD or sumthin. Then my future daddy came inside the house. I recognized him. He was wif that black and white kitteh who tried to run me off, and he threw a snowball at me, unknown to my future meowmy cuz if she had known, there would have been heck ta pay! She said to him, 'Meet James' and future daddy sez, 'He looks like a Herman.' So I became Herman James. I had to go to the vet where I wuz shaved nekked. But my new mom brought me home in a sweater and I've been happy wif her ever since.

Almost Famous

I always knew I would be famous. Dad said years ago I wuz destined for stardom.

On Sunday, March 4, 2012 I finally met my public. My mom, author Kimberley Dehn, had a book signing at the B.J. Chain Library in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

She had posters made up wif me promoting her book, and decided it was time for me to make a purrrsonal appearance.

I sat in Mom's lap while she chatted with buyers about her novel, Southern Exposure.

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Southern Exposure is a romantical novel about a Yankee heiress, Kat Hubbard, who is considered the red-hot chili pepper in her family of instant potato control freaks. Always out of step. Always out of favor.  On her wedding day, Kat learns her business barracuda brother used her as a bargaining chip to buy percentages of her fiancé’s company with each baby she pops out!  Furious to learn she’s been sold for a profit, Kat shoves a basketball under her gown and waltzes down the aisle to humiliate her family, then makes her getaway via her private yacht.  It doesn’t occur to her she can’t drive.

Dean Mickler is mayor of Potter’s Kiln, Georgia, a small town community of unemployed couch potatoes who let him carry the burden of keeping them out of financial hot water. He aspires to escape to Atlanta where a dream job awaits. Yet with the closing of the town’s only employer, he cannot leave P.K. teetering on the brink of economic disaster. To bring in revenue, he renovates his gristmill into a riverside restaurant, and is days away from escaping the chokehold his well-meaning townspeople have on him. Destiny has other plans.

When Kat rams her runaway yacht through Dean's restaurant and destroys P.K.’s last hope for survival, Dean is forced to use Kat in a last-ditched effort to save his hometown, at the risk of losing both his sanity and his heart.

Mom designed the book's cover. She takes a lot of fotoz and wanted a cover that was both eye-catching and intriguing. Be honest. You're dying to know what a red bra and jelly beans haz to do with the story. Didja see the shadow cleavage? I don't know what what da heck cleavage is, but Mom always points it out. While the cover gets a lot of notice and sales for Mom, she sez people think its erotica, which makes her cringe. She sez its a sweet romance, not a spicy one. After all, her daddy waz gonna read it, not to mention her mother-in-law, my Grammy!

Mom has won contests with her story and was also nominated for an EPIC award. I can't read but I hear people laughing while looking at the pages so I guess its real funny. Mom sez I don't haz much of a sense of humor so I don't know much about laughing. I know its got a pig named Junior Upchurch in it that threatens to steal all the attention since Mom loves pigs. It also haz a little girl named Stevie who everyone thinks is the true star of the story. Some say Stevie needs her own story.

It's available through Mom's website, www.kimberley-dehn.com linked to her publisher. Also at Amazon.com where you can get it for your Kindle...whatever that is. 

Anyway! Enough about Mom and her book. Back to me, my favorite subject!

There I waz, sitting in her lap, shedding all over her pretty outfit, while hoomans lined up to admire me and say hello. I got pets on my head. And a few little kids hugged me and one even kissed me!

Daddy waz there and said later he heard people talking about how amazing I behaved. So calm. So sweet. So...floofy! The librarian, Miz Suzanne, was very happy I chose her library to make my purrrsonal debut.

And so, here I am, back home. Bored. Daddy sez my head haz swelled and probably won't fit through the door if I make another public appearance.

I say...get a bigger door.