LAKELAND, Fla. — Victoria J. Saunders completely loves “chonky,” “floofy,” and “grompy” cats.
In actual fact, the Plant Metropolis writer and digital artist adores colourful plus-sized kitties a lot, she wrote and illustrated a best-selling hardcover image e-book about them.
Just lately a #1 cat e-book on Amazon, “The Chonky Alphabet” is her love letter(s) to fleshy felines, particularly her personal cat Mishka, who’s an authorized “unit.”
Do not know what a “unit” is? Simply open up this quirky alphabet e-book.
“U is for Unit,” mentioned Saunders, who goes by her married title, Vicky Smude, on Instagram. “To make use of that in a sentence: ‘That cat is an absolute unit.’ That means that is only a massive ol’ cat!”
Saunders mentioned that “Mishka’s vet described her as a potato. So I figured that was the edge to get her into chonkydom.”
“Chonky” is a part of the key on-line language of plump-pet house owners. That is the place Saunders discovered solace and smiles a number of years in the past when she was furloughed from her job as a — look forward to it — CAT scan tech in Lakeland.
“I beloved occurring [chonky cat sites],” she laughs. “I beloved the group, and everybody was simply so optimistic.”
So to raise her spirits, she began matching chonky phrases with chonky illustrations.
And the remainder is chonky historical past.
Within the e-book, the letter Z is for “Zoomies” (that’s, cats working round loopy quick), which Saunders had in human type when she found that “The Chonky Alphabet” hit No. 1 for cat books on Amazon.
“Oh, after I came upon, I positively had the Zoomies myself,” she mentioned. “However Mishka simply appeared aggravated with me.”
Saunders shall be signing “The Chonky Alphabet” on the Tipsy Bookworm in Plant Metropolis on August 6 from 2-Four p.m. The occasion is pet pleasant (in fact).
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