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An Interview with Rachel Wells


Rachel Wells on writing for cat lovers, bonding with a fictional cat, and writing about love, kindness, and social points too.

A portrait of Rachel Wells with her cat and the cover of her book Alfie the Christmas Cat

By Zazie Todd PhD

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Alfie the Christmas Cat is the newest within the Sunday Occasions bestselling Alfie collection from creator Rachel Wells. Alfie and the residents of Edgar Highway are placing collectively a purr-fect festive present to lift cash for a homeless shelter when issues go wrong–and it is sabotage. Alfie the cat has to return to the rescue on this heartwarming ebook that is filled with the Christmas spirit. This ebook will delight cat lovers all over the place.

You may hear Rachel Wells speak concerning the ebook at Bark! Fest, the ebook pageant for animal lovers. She’s on a panel known as Our Bond with Cats with Sarah Chauncey, Sassafras Patterdale (Lowrey), and Rachel Wells

Alfie the Christmas Cat is obtainable from all good bookstores, together with by way of Bookshop (and Bookshop UK) which assist unbiased bookstores, in addition to my Amazon retailer.

Beneath, Rachel Wells solutions my questions concerning the ebook. 

 

Why did you write this ebook? 

I had been writing extra modern feminine fiction earlier than this however I’ve at all times beloved cats, and I used to be going by way of a frankly fairly troublesome time in my private life and wished to do one thing totally different, so Alfie The Doorstep Cat was born and it’s a collection – there are 7 books within the UK in whole.
 

What are the primary themes of your ebook?

Alfie is at all times based mostly on how cats may also help us and their function in our lives, however the themes are at all times about kindness, love, serving to others and in addition tackling some troublesome social points imagine it or not, all by way of the eyes of cats. For instance there’s a fundraiser for a homeless shelter on this. Principally Alfie helps everybody.
 

What stunned you when you had been writing the ebook?

I believe after I first began with Alfie, I assumed nobody would imagine it and would assume I’m barely nutty! Nevertheless, what’s stunned me most is how relatable Alfie was to me, and in addition to a lot of my readers. It was so beautiful to bond with this ‘fictional’ cat who was actually an amalgamation of all of the cats I’ve lived with over time.
 

Inform me one thing about your writing course of and the way it formed this ebook.

I don’t have a lot of a course of, I simply write. Nevertheless this can be a Christmas ebook and I wrote it in Springtime, so to get into the Christmas spirit I could have listened to Christmas songs and watched the odd Christmas movie!!

Who will particularly get pleasure from this ebook?

Anybody who loves cats I imagine. As a result of all my Alfie books are written for cat lovers by a cat lover.
 

What are you engaged on proper now? 

I’ve one other Alfie ebook to publish both later this 12 months or subsequent 12 months, and I’m now writing a Cosy Crime collection. It’s very totally different, though I’ve snuck a cat in there after all!

 

“All my Alfie books are written for cat lovers by a cat lover.”

 

The quote as immediately above plus the cover of the book Alfie the Christmas Cat by Rachel Wells

 

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