LAKELAND, Florida. – Victoria J. Saunders is very fond of “gnarled”, “fluffy” and “grouchy” cats.
In fact, the Plant City author and digital artist loves plus-size colorful kittens so much that she wrote and illustrated a best-selling hardcover book about them.
No. 1 cat book on Amazon lately. “Chunky alphabet” this is her love letter(s) to meaty cats, especially her own cat Mishka, who is a certified “squad”.
Don’t know what a “unit” is? Just open this fancy alphabet.
“You are for the Unit,” Saunders said. who goes by her married name Vicky Smood on Instagram. “Use it in a sentence: ‘This cat is an absolute unit.’ That means it’s just a big old cat!”
Saunders said that “Mishka’s veterinarian described her as a potato. So I figured it was the threshold to turn her into chunks.”
“Chunky” is part of the secret online language of chubby pet owners. That’s where Saunders found comfort and smiles a few years ago when she was fired from her job as – wait – a CT scan technician in Lakeland.
“I liked to continue [chonky cat sites]she laughs. “I loved the community and everyone was so positive.”
Therefore, to cheer herself up, she began to combine trite words with trite illustrations.
And everything else is a banal story.
In the book, the Z stands for “Zoomies” (meaning cats that run at incredible speeds), which Saunders had in human form when she discovered that the hit “The Chonky Alphabet” No. 1 for cat books on Amazon.
“Oh, when I found out, I definitely had Zoomies,” she said. “But Mishka looked annoyed at me.”
Saunders to sign “The Chonky Alphabet” for drunken bookworm in Plant City on August 6 from 2 pm to 4 pm The event is pet-friendly (of course).
