He’s so cute and he looks like the Neko Atsume cat Pickles… I wonder if the content of the book is at least okay.
*clicks on Look Inside preview*
…oh.
R'Shara
7 years ago
He looks like he’s trying to drown himself out of shame.
Decca
7 years ago
That’s the best photo they had of their cat? No photo of the face, the cute little eyes, maybe playing with something. Nope, just a cat face down in a food bowl.
Our house cat Turbo, my sis’s cat at Mom’s birthday Sunday, the black alley cat with white chest patch that mooches off the neighborhood. Just when I think have a cute cat pose, they move between shutter press and picture grab (“Mew, mew, thought you had me, silly human!”)
It takes patience to get a keepable cat photo. Which is why this is on Lousy Book Covers. They may adore their cat, but they needed to use a critical eye before hitting “publish” to a public whose first view of their beloved furry is this.
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PosRein: the internet is packed with full face big eye adorable cat photos but this is what most people owned by cats actually see of their masters.
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PS: if anybody needs a good photo of a cat for a fictional story, I’m sure we can come up with some kind of an arrangement. Just a heads up, my models prefer to be compensated in cat food.
I am the author of this book and this was the first photo taken of him! yes he is cute. Have any of you so called ‘critics’ researched the story behind, the story? Bet not! Well I am visually impaired and in a wheelchair, Pickles is now 14 and registered as my guide cat. Still think it’s rubbish. You have a go then!!
Ooh, you got us — nothing like quotes around ‘critics’ to put us in our places!
Kim, listen carefully: If you expected potential readers to research the story behind the story in order to appreciate your cover, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG.
And your immediate declaration of being visually impaired and in a wheelchair is a pathetic attempt to hide amateur-level skills behind “victimhood cred.” You have now surrendered all claim at being taken seriously.
I was ready to give this a pass, thinking…well, at least somebody rescued a cat, and maybe the story will inspire someone else…until I read that Pickles sob, is…FICTIONAL!! Fictional? They tugged at my heartstrings, and Pickles doesn’t even exist? Sheesh.
I remember having this impression, too. I think I got it from the copyright page, which says:
“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.”
While I’m here I feel obligated to ask why Pickles is eating his Forever Family.
As an example, you might look at how a similar situation was handled in Making the Rounds With Oscar, David Dosa, 2010. The copyright page doesn’t say that the book is either fact or fiction, but there is a “Note to the Reader” (which, unfortunately, doesn’t show in the Look Inside, at least for me) that explains a bit about Oscar, and that “for narrative purposes I have made some changes that depart from actual events,” and then goes on to briefly describe them.
Pickles is a fictional cat?
Awwww
Hmmm
If we’re fictional here ….
Maybe we don’t see Pickle’s face for an unspeakable reason.
Maybe, like Brown Jenkin, Pickles is a witch’s familiar and has a human face!
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He’s so cute and he looks like the Neko Atsume cat Pickles… I wonder if the content of the book is at least okay.
*clicks on Look Inside preview*
…oh.
He looks like he’s trying to drown himself out of shame.
That’s the best photo they had of their cat? No photo of the face, the cute little eyes, maybe playing with something. Nope, just a cat face down in a food bowl.
Our house cat Turbo, my sis’s cat at Mom’s birthday Sunday, the black alley cat with white chest patch that mooches off the neighborhood. Just when I think have a cute cat pose, they move between shutter press and picture grab (“Mew, mew, thought you had me, silly human!”)
It takes patience to get a keepable cat photo. Which is why this is on Lousy Book Covers. They may adore their cat, but they needed to use a critical eye before hitting “publish” to a public whose first view of their beloved furry is this.
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PosRein: the internet is packed with full face big eye adorable cat photos but this is what most people owned by cats actually see of their masters.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f3RUzl86G8
I have two small dogs and my sister has an undetermined number of cats. This is typically what we see.
@ Naaman
Well, at least it’s not a photo of the cat squatting in the kitty litter doing its bizness! 🙂
(…Maybe for the sequel?)
Then the cat would be making pickles. Little brown cat pickles.
Bull. I have three cats and between my sister’s phone and mine, we have hundreds of good photos. This is of the eldest one: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/3n0prwfu002qcd9/AAAUQd47f0yty8Yo_m51bRAOa and any would make a decent cover (even more so if I took the time to cut out the background). This is the middle one: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/ss836k3nkdha0d8/AACxhhyfOJTaThim7m16Y2zKa and the youngest one: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/adpiw0t13wy43xu/AABKthjkXjf62CNMO4RX3u5xa .
Now let someone tell me you can’t take decent photos of your cats. Imagine if they were taken with a pro camera and proper lighting.
Oh, here’s also a stray I’ve been feeding: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/fl8m1t75lf4qns0/AADRFRT3g38rxCWVfMHVRUTJa . Random strays: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/w3keqhxcmzcg4lf/AAA_9l8xcB_tj1f67YIpxOHJa
Oh, and here’s one especially for James: https://www.dropbox.com/sc/3vp59px43jrkzkg/AADziD7BwAda-rWhZO23AvVPa
PS: if anybody needs a good photo of a cat for a fictional story, I’m sure we can come up with some kind of an arrangement. Just a heads up, my models prefer to be compensated in cat food.
I am the author of this book and this was the first photo taken of him! yes he is cute. Have any of you so called ‘critics’ researched the story behind, the story? Bet not! Well I am visually impaired and in a wheelchair, Pickles is now 14 and registered as my guide cat. Still think it’s rubbish. You have a go then!!
Ooh, you got us — nothing like quotes around ‘critics’ to put us in our places!
Kim, listen carefully: If you expected potential readers to research the story behind the story in order to appreciate your cover, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG.
And your immediate declaration of being visually impaired and in a wheelchair is a pathetic attempt to hide amateur-level skills behind “victimhood cred.” You have now surrendered all claim at being taken seriously.
I was ready to give this a pass, thinking…well, at least somebody rescued a cat, and maybe the story will inspire someone else…until I read that Pickles sob, is…FICTIONAL!! Fictional? They tugged at my heartstrings, and Pickles doesn’t even exist? Sheesh.
I don’t know who told you he doesn’t exist.
The fact that the book is being marketed under “literature & fiction,” which is not where NON-fictional stuff is shown.
I remember having this impression, too. I think I got it from the copyright page, which says:
“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.”
While I’m here I feel obligated to ask why Pickles is eating his Forever Family.
As an example, you might look at how a similar situation was handled in Making the Rounds With Oscar, David Dosa, 2010. The copyright page doesn’t say that the book is either fact or fiction, but there is a “Note to the Reader” (which, unfortunately, doesn’t show in the Look Inside, at least for me) that explains a bit about Oscar, and that “for narrative purposes I have made some changes that depart from actual events,” and then goes on to briefly describe them.
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Rounds-Oscar-Extraordinary-Ordinary/dp/1401310435/
Pickles is a fictional cat?
Awwww
Hmmm
If we’re fictional here ….
Maybe we don’t see Pickle’s face for an unspeakable reason.
Maybe, like Brown Jenkin, Pickles is a witch’s familiar and has a human face!