Yes, today starts off the book launch party for my book, Dear Sparkle: Cat-to-Cat Advice from the World’s Foremost Feline Columnist!
For every copy of my book that you buy from Amazon, my human will donate one dollar to Winging Cat Rescue, a great organization that rescues kitties from the overfilled kill shelters in Georgia, and helps with spay and neutering too! This donation pledge will last from right now until 11:59 P.M. Sunday night, Pacific Time. The links on this page are to Amazon US, but you can get it at Amazon just about anywhere.
Here is the link to the Amazon UK website.
Here is the link to the Amazon Canada website.
Make sure you let us know that you have bought the book, so my human can keep count!
This is the main purpose of my party — to benefit Winging Cat Rescue… and have fun! But I must say, putting together this party has not been easy! For one thing, there was catering to deal with.
I had to taste test hors d’oeuvres too.
Plus I had to get everything together for the party favors and giveaways!
As you know, I am giving away bookmarks to anyone who comments on this post and says they want one — no postage necessary!
These are extra-special bookmarks because on the back, they have some Cat Rules for humans. I bet your humans don’t know some of them! Plus everyone who gets a book will get a personally PAWtographed book plate!
So if you buy my book, this is what I will send you! Only the book plate will be personalized!
Plus I am giving away a Deluxe Cat FURminator to one lucky commenter! All you have to do is add whether you want the FURminator in your comment. At the end of the weekend, I will use random.org to pick a winner! (If I have more than 100 entries, I will narrow it down by batches until I have one winner.)
Okay, now that all that is done, I just need to set up my book area. Picking the right spot is very important!
Here we go!
To recap:
- Buy a copy of Dear Sparkle: Cat-to-Cat Advice from the World’s Foremost Feline Columnist on Amazon (any Amazon website), and for each book sold, my human wil donate one dollar to Winging Cat Rescue. All you need to do is tell my human you bought one or more books.
- If you would like to donate to Winging Cat Rescue yourself, there is a Chipin widget on my right sidebar, right next to my Amazon book widget. They always need money to rescue kitties who are on death row at Georgia kill shelters, and even if you can only donate a dollar, it helps!
- Leave a comment on my blog and let me know if you want one of my special bookmarks, and I will send you one!
- If you bought a book, either this weekend or before this weekend, you are also entitled to a PAWtographed book plate, so make sure you mention that!
- Also in your comment, tell me if you would like to be entered in the contest to win the Deluxe FURminator — we have one to give away!
- The party lasts until 11:59 P.M. Sunday night, Pacific Time. After that, comments will be closed.
- Enjoy yourselves! And you are welcome to pass this party post along to any of your kitty-loving friends!
I will let you know the results of the donation pledge, and who won the FURminator, on Tuesday!
I just want to say congrats on your book! What a great accomplishment, Sparkle!
Have fun on your book tour, and may you sell many, many copies! 😉
Greetings Sparkle cat,
Dad has two books to read but promises me he will be getting your also, otherwise why request a bookmark. I asked him that I would also like to be entered also for the Furminator.
We both wish you the best of luck with your publication as dad knows what it feels like to have accomplished a book.
Warmest regards,
Miss Kitty and Egmont (dad)
Hey Sparkle!!! Thanks for the cool food!!! Mom wants to say thanks for the pill pockets!! They helped get Clemmie to take her pills!! Mom is going out of tome the end of this week!! So we will have to wait to get the book when she gets back! We don’t need a furminator cause we already have one!! Congratulations on all the Book sales!!
Your TX furiends,
We would love a bookmark with you on it. You are looking gorgeous as always and the hors d’oeuvres are delicious. We are having a great time, good to see so many of our friends are here.
Hi, Hope weez not too late. Our beans loves books. They could use a bookmark. Fanks
The castle cats
We would love to have a bookmark to match the book we won! Sparkle, your book has helped ENORMOUSLY with training our stunningly slow Humans.
We’d love a book mark. We bought our copy of Dear Sparkle a couple weeks ago from Amazon. Like everyone else we really enjoyed it.
Wow, Sparkle, it looks like your book party is a great success. We’re very excited for you. And you did a terrific job of preparing for this. Quite a lot of work for one kitty.
We’d love to have one of your bookmarks and to be entered for the deluxe furminator.
Hi Sparkle,
Thanks for a wonderful party – we just asked Mum to order our book from Amazon in the UK (it’s got fast postage to us ‘downunder’) so we’d love a bookmark and bookplate. We’ll pay postage if you like. Don’t enter us in the Furminator contest, ‘cos we’d love to see one of the other deserving kitties here win one.
Hugs
Gypsy & Tasha & Karen (Mum)
Oh, I’s also donated some $$$ from mine piggy bank to help.
Those Georgia kill shelters are really really really awful.
Those poor kitties don’t haf a chance.
Furry nice of you to help save precious kitties.
Love & Purrs Again,
KC
Hi Sparkle,
I just purchased two copies of each of your two books. One set is for a gift.
I can’t wait to get them, I will do a review.
Can I please please please haf purrsonalized pawtographs fur all four books?
And I’s loving this party. All mine brofurs and sisfurs are here.
Love & Purrs,
KC
Ordered my book yesterday and already have a super-cool bookmark! Congats on such a successful launch party, Sparkle!
Sparkle, I’m dealing with a bout of insomnia right now (it’s 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning) and even though I’m online for just a quick look, my precious little Zabrina has settled down for a long (she thinks) nap in my lap. She viewed the great pics of you setting up for your party (she especially like the taste testing idea), and now, she is as big a fan of Sparkle as I am. 🙂 She insisted I buy your book immediately (which I was going to do anyway, but I let her think this was her idea), so I’ve placed an order from Amazon. I would LOVE to receive one of your bookmarks, and a pawtographed bookplate for my book would be WONDERFUL. 🙂
Please enter me in the contest for the Furrminator. Ours is several years old but is still holding up fine, so I don’t need one myself…I would love to have one to donate to the wonderful organization, FURR (Feline Rescue and Rehome) here in Little Rock. They bring adoptable kitties (who are fostered in volunteer’s homes so they receive lots of TLC) to Petsmart every Sunday, and they could use a Furrminator to make the kitties look even prettier and handsomer than they already do. I believe you featured a FURR-rescued kitty on your blog a while back. The wonderful people at FURR would love to have a Furrminator donated by the famous and beautiful Sparkle! 🙂
The catered food looks, um, scrumptious!
I want a bookmark! I will place it in my china cabinet along with my other collectibles. 🙂
Congrats on your new book!! Wow, an author!
This is the coolest thing ever!
Congrats 🙂
Tracy
Hi Sparkle! This sure is a fun book party!! We just had our mom order your book from Amazon. We can’t wait to get it!!
We would love a bookmark, but we already have a furminator so you don’t need to enter us in that drawing.
We hope you sell lots of books so the Winging Cat Rescue gets lots of $$$!!
Oh, this is a great party Sparkle and it is really pawsome how you are helping the Winging Cat Rescue. We have your book all ready and just bought another copy today for a gift for kitty friends of ours. We’d love one of your bookmarks (and the book plate!) – we think our mom person could use the rule reminders! You don’t need to include us in the FURminator draw, none of us here have long furs to really need one.
-Pip, Smidgen, Minnie
Thank you so much for putting up the widget for donations for Winging Cat Rescue.
The furballs here cant wait for more storytime! bought both books again.
Just learned that spalding animal control will be most likely closing yet again for two weeks to sandblast the lousy paint job they did just last month and then repaint. all kitties will have to be rescued /adopted (or sadly pts) within five working days after the county officials vote this Monday evening so thank you Sparkle, your kind assistance is so important to helping save their lives.
Concats on your book and your party Sparkle!! You are such a talented and special kitty!
Oh yes, Please – a bookmark and a chance to win the Furminator! Thank you! Thank you!
Greetings, Sparkle! I just ordered both of your books, and I’d love to receive both a bookmark and a bookplate. I’d also like to enter the contest for the furminator. Thanks! And thanks so much for supporting WCR. They are a wonderful group who is making such a difference for the kitties.
Sparkle you are so generous to donate to the poor less fortunate kitties. You are indeed an inspiration for all to follow. Can I please have a bookmark?
Mom can’t buy it right now and I will have to wait, I want it so much 🙁
Mom says I can have a bookmark and enter in the furminator contest (they don’t sell them in Costa Rica so they are hard to find here)
Concatulations on the launch of your book, Sparkle. We’re going to try and order your book soon!
Thank you for such a wonderful party.
The publicist would love your book but she does not have any spare money right now.
I know she would like to win the furminater though if that is OK.
I hope you sell a lot of your books.
We would love to have a bookmark, Sparkle – and our mom promises to buy a book as soon as she gets some extra green papers! We already have a furminator from Romeo (we like it!) so no need to enter us for that.
Congratulations on your book launch, Sparkle! We’re glad it’s available from Amazon.ca and will order it as soon as we can! We hope you’re able to raise lots of money for Winging Cat Rescue!
We want a book mark and we’ll take a crack at the furminator contest!
What a great book party! We bought your book at our local Borders store awhile back but we’d love to have one of your bookmarks and a book plate! We won a Furminator awhile back too and we hate it so much we don’t need another one so we’ll pass on that!
PeeS: Our mommy is never fast enough to click on your post in that pink box so has to scroll back or hit ‘home’ and be ready to click super quick. Is there something we are doing wrong because it’s so fast for us?
I hate that slider! It is just some dumb thing that the web designer who made this template thought was cool. Web designers are not normal humans, that’s for sure. My human has tried to fix it to make it slower but she is never sure if she has done it. I keep telling her she should remove it completely.
I have one of your bookmarks! The woman got it for me with my own “Sparkle” ball!!! It was a very nice purple and Ichiro and I have fought over it.
This is a fantastic spread you have here!
I just went and ordered your book Sparkle and would love a bookmark so I don’t loose my place! We’ll pass on the furminator, we have one. Congratulations on the wonderful book launch!!!
Dear Sparkle,
My mama just bought us your book she promiced to read it to us as a bed time story We would love a book mark and to enter to win the fur emator. Mama said are keeps dispreating and re – appering in one my nest i like to hide stuff in nest then lay on them when on one looking my loot has included remotes digtial carma, toys under garments these are a faviort of mine
Lilly Lu
Hope you sell a ton of books today, Sparkle!
Ok I am going to sound like a TOTAL IDIOT right now but the links are for the UK and Canada….is there a link to buy the book for the US? I am interested in purchasing the book…I am probably being blind and stupid because I probably missed something!
Hi Caren, you can click on the photo of the book on top of my post (and there is a link on my book title right above it too), and there is also an Amazon widget to buy the book on the right hand sidebar (next to the Winging Cat Rescue Chipin Widget). Those are all Amazon U.S. links.
We would love a bookmark! We have a furminator, so we don’t need to be entered in that contest. We’re a little short on green papers right now ’cause of our V-E-T bills, but Mom plans on buying your book when we get straightened out.
The Florida Furkids and Angel Sniffie
Woo hoo! This is my first book launch party! My mom just woke up and is too sleepy yet to shop with me on Amazon, but it’s my goal to get her to buy me the book before the end of the weekend! And not that I want to be furminated, but my mom wants to be entered to win the furminator…sigh.
We already bought the book from Amazon if that counts. Also we would love a bookmark. That is so nice of you to mail all those out. Do we need to send you our addresses?? We already have a furminator so we will let someone else win that. They are great little tools. We also would like a PAWtographed book plate. That would be great.
This is such a good idea. We hope it is a big success.
Hey Sparkle, I just ordered your book!!! I’d love one of your bookmarks too please and to be entered in the draw for the furminator 🙂
You have been so busy, I hope the book launch is a great success!!
This is so exciting! I would love to have one of your bookmarks and I’ll see if I can get my mom to part with her green papers.
Sparkle… your book arrived from Amazon on Wednesday and I’ve read it already. I’m just about to post a review on Amazon and on my blog for it. It’s a great book. Love it! Concatulations on the launch of such a wonderful book. Max
I just read your review and it is PAWsome! If any of you want to see it, here is the link:
http://www.maxthequiltcat.com/2010/10/new-book-out-dear-sparkle.html