Yes, I know it’s been a while. Well, what do you expect? I’m Creator and Sole Writer of a new weekly series for AXN SciFi which goes to air in fairly short order across the Central European region. I’ve had my work cut out, writing scripts. We’re pretty confident it will roll out to other countries before too long, but in the meantime, I’m searching for a publisher for my children’s book, The Wild Cats of Piran; which, incidentally, would also make for, I think, an enchanting animated film.
This is the mood trailer for my book, The Wild Cats of Piran. They’re a colony of smart and generally courageous if also sometimes rather lazy feral cats that live in a small seaside town in Slovenia. Facing out onto the Adriatic Sea, Piran is a kind of miniature ‘Slovenian Venice’. It is a serene, almost forgotten place — at least in the eyes of most humans. Every day, the wild cats work the tables of the restaurants along the seafront promenade, hunting for scraps; and the pickings are rich. There’s one nasty, cat-hating Maitre’D to contend with, but the wild cats toy with him. Life is good in Piran.
In the animal realm, and in the sphere of the supernatural, things are rather different. No one needs be more aware of that than Felicia, who is the Queen of the wild cat colony. In the summer which our story begins, she is presented with a perfect storm of troubles, for there are strange forces at work in this genteel town. For one thing, Piran’s rats have become mysteriously evolved lately, and are mobilizing under their leader, the sinister ‘General Rat’. As well as the newly formed rat army, there is an Alsatian dog and worse, meddling and incompetent humans to deal with. There is a near death encounter with the local thug after which one of the gang is kidnapped. A vengeful Maitre’D with a meat cleaver is on the warpath. Even the relationship which the cats have with the town’s ghosts begins to change. In short, the life the wild cats know and cherish, and which Felicia has fought so hard to defend, is under threat from all sides.
Can Felicia hold her clan together, against all odds, or is their idyllic way of life doomed to extinction? The answers, some of them anyway, are in the first of three sets of nine tales bound to please literary cat lovers of all ages…




