In honor of Nine Lives being chosen for the Bridgewater Book Fest Book Club’s July read, I thought I would expose my odd sense of humor and literary riddles that I peppered Nine Lives with to make it a more fun read. This will also help out anyone who has already read my novel and hoping this will give them one of those wonderful, “A ha!,” moments.
1) The character named Harold T. is a play-on-words to the word heretic or heresy.
2) The name of the funeral home in the beginning of the story is Morris’s Funeral Home, named aptly after Morris the Cat, from the TV commercial for 9 Lives cat food.
3) The name of the actual cat in the story is named, Attila. This was taken from a cartoon strip called Mother Goose & Grimm where the overstuffed, pet ball of fur of Mother Goose was named Attila. It was also the name given to a cat I had when I lived in Northern Virginia a few years back.
4) The neighborhood bar near the end of the story was called The Golden Serpent, mostly as a hint to my next novel, The 13th Sign which the mystery of the story alludes to a snake or serpent possibly real or mythical.
5) The idea for Nine Lives came from a similar accident the main character, Sam had when he was attacked by Attila in the story. My sister’s cat clawed the heck out of my hand when I was trying to rescue a bird out of the cat’s mouth.
6) Harold’s apartment number is 306 which, add the numbers together , they make 9 as in Nine Lives.
So, that’s it! Those are all the hidden, subliminal junk I could come up with for Nine Lives. Maybe not as earth shattering as you’d expected? What can I say? My high school guidance counselor didn’t think I would amount to much either.
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