Memoirist Adrienne Martini reports that her cat, Trout, likes to warm his ‘tocks on her laptop; the can of compressed air in the corner of the photo, she explains, “is how I encourage Trout to stop sitting there.” I had the same problem with my GalleyCat Army officers, until I got one of those plastic stands that raises the back end of the compputer so that it rests on your desk at an angle. So now they just spread out over the rest of the desk and occasionally turn their heads to fix me with a stare of withering disapproval.
BookExpo America event director Lance Fensterman sends us a “totally unposed” photograph of Bob That Cat curled up with several good books. “This fits well with a long dream of mine and HarperCollins‘ Carl Lennertz to produce a cute cat calendar,” Fensterman confides. “I think I speak for both of us when I say
that the world cannot have enough of them.” We’ve got nearly enough photos to make it happen, but I’m still going to hang back and let those two chase their dream…at least until the end of 2008. If they haven’t got it together by then, we’re moving in, because I’ve got this idea I call “Cats on My Stuff” that I think’ll be huge.