So, it's NaNo and I'm halfway done. I'm also very, very stresed. I pick up a Katie Macallister book that I've been wanting to read, Men in Kilts, just so you know. I figure it's cotton candy for the brain. Light, fluffy all the things a Katie is. Well, I got a little more than I bargained for: I got a dead cat right in the middle of the story.
What the hell?
Since when is a dead cat a plot device.
Why, amanda, you're probably thinking, come on it's just a cat (which is what the jackass formerly known as male protagonist says).
Just a cat.
If you want to kill off animals, fine, but don't do it in a book billed as, well it's not billed as anything. A quick search for a pull quote yields nothing. No surprise there, it's only a cat after all.
Maybe I'm just stressed. Or maybe I'm not. But a dead cat is never acceptable
