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Feaster's book-signing Dates!!
NEW PROJECT! We have started a birthday greetings
club! See the projects section for more details
Sharon Feaster has written
The Cat Who Companion! It has plot summaries, character lists, and
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About
The LJB Fan Club
The Unofficial LJB Fan Club was established
on April 20, 1998, with the creation of the Lilian Jackson Braun mailing
list. We are over 100 members strong and growing all the time! Most
of us have read most of her books and we are constanly coming up with new
ideas on how we can most honor Mrs. Braun. We are a great and friendly
bunch from all different walks of life and generally, we all love cats!
If you don't know why, better pick up a book :) We hope you would like
to become a Fan Club members as well but in order to join us, you'll have
to subscribe to the mailing list :)
The
Unofficial Lilian Jackson Braun Fan Club Forum!!
What Is It? -
Well, the Unofficial Lilian Jackson Braun Fan Club Forum is an alternate
way for Cat Who lovers to meet and exchange discussions. The difference
is that with this forum, the discussions are broken up by topic. There
is also a java or html-based chat application that can be used for live
online chatting! By becoming a member you can have a free webpage as well!
Also you can join in hundreds of other discussions and/or chats based on
your topic of interest.
How To Be A Member
- Firstly you MUST become a member of the club. Do that by subscribing
the mailing list. ,Secondly, you need to go to Delphi Forums and become
a member. Registering is easy and as soon as you are registered,
you have access to all the great services they provide. So..go to
http://www.delphi.com.
While you're at it, why don't you check out the Forum's Homepage? You can
find that http://www.delphi.com/lilian/
Meet
Our Members!
We have just started contributing to this site
and decided to post some of our member's profiles so that you can get to
know them a little better! So read about these great people
and if they have a page, go ahead and visit it and sign their book! They'd
really appreciate it! ;)
Alisa
-
28 years old, married, three cats, Kerlking, Bonnie and Figaro. Antique
dealer specializing in turn of the century art glass and art pottery.
Carol
56 years old, married, living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, retired
banker/nurse, likes to read, craft and walk.
Daribus -
(DARE-a-biss) 28 years old, married, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, likes
to write, read, crafts, desktop publishing, Lilian Jackson Braun mailing
list/fan club owner, has nine pet mice and two pet fish. Personal quote
is "Yeah, yeah, I know...life..get one..."
Eileen -
Resides in Virginia, USA, likes to read and surf the net. Personal quote
is "Don't flame me unless you know me"
Marjri
- Lives in Idaho, USA. Hobbies are READING, sewing, cross stitch, scrapbooking,
quilting,
beading, stickers, crostic puzzles,
recovery, Biblical study, pets and computer lists...LOL! Personal quotes
are The Secret of Inner Peace? A Short Attention Span! and Frank and Ernest
cartoon-Thaves. Pets are Lazer (tabby cat), Hannah (yellow lab), Nutmeg
and Griz (pet rats).
Martine -
From Tilburg, The Netherlands, Martine likes to read, surf the internet
and embroidering. Her favorite quote is "Honest criticism is hard to take,
particulary from a relative, a friend, an acquintance, or a stranger".
-Franklin P. James. She is a 23 yeard old library student and had
two mailing lists; one for Agatha Christie and the other for Ellis Peters.
You can subscribe to them by doing a search at www.onelist.com.
Melinda
- Residing in a small town near the Rocky
Mountains in Montana, USA, she is a computer technician/administrator and
mother of three. She has five cats named Bandito, Sheba, Little One,
Chewy and Bright Eyes. She likes reading about cats and her other favorite
authers are Carole Nelson Douglas and Rita Mae Brown, who both write with
cat story lines.
Peggy
-
Living
in North Carolina, USA, she enjoys reading, cross stitch and raising her
children. Her personal quote is "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew
their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run
and not be weary, and they shall walk and not be faint." (Isaiah 40:31)
Phyllis Lives
in Tennessee, USA. Her interests are: collecting from t-shirts to
the cat beanies, scented candles, perfumes, teas, compact discs,
Star Trek novels and of course The Cat Who books, new age music, classic
rock, oldies, seventies and soul..she says just about any kind of music
except opera and hard-core country. You can visit her webpage at http://www.gataiada.com/phyllis
Rainbow 30
years old from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Rainbow has two cats
named Puff and Calli and her interests include reading, cats and Xena.
Her favorite colour is purple, favorite food is chocolate and favorite
music is folk, celtic and pop. Her boyfriend's name is John and her personal
quote is "As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat!" You can visit her
webpage at http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~wy236
Sharon -
Sharon
is from Lucerne Valley, California, USA (high desert of SoCal), married
and has two sons, 15 and 19 years of age. She enjoys reading, traditional
music and rubberstamping, works as a hospice nurse and has a houseful of
pets; golden retriever named Samantha, yellow lab named Buddy, a mixed
named Max a white cat named Jean-Pierre and several fish, frogs, toads
and lizards.
Our
Current Projects
We have, through our discussions, come up with
some great ideas of projects to do, based on Mrs. Braun and her books.
Here is a brief summary of some of the projects we are working on:
Birthday
Fairy! Your
special birthday fairy will send you wonderful ascii art greetings AND
send a copy of your greeting to the mailing list so everyone knows that
it's your birthday! I got a huuuuge ascii art cake! There was enough
to go around :)
Book Club In
September, we started reading books and discussing them on a monthly basis.
We are all very excited about LJB's new book, The Cat Who Saw Stars, coming
out in January, 1999!
Cook Book - We
noticed that LJB is quite detailed when it comes to the culinary delights
enjoyed by all in Pickax, Moose County, 400 miles North of everywhere.
Recognizing food as a recurring theme in her books, we are now in the process
of creating a Cat Who Cookbook based on the foods mentioned in the books
TV Series
- If you are familiar with the books, then you were probably as surprised
as we were to find that none of LJB's books have been made into murder
mystery episodes on TV. This project is one I think will have a lasting
effect on us all and one I hold personally dear. We are working to have
the idea of books-turned-episodes granted by Mrs. Braun via her publisher.
Secret Pals
- This is another project that has been successful. Members get matched
with other members and no one knows who the other is. Each
month a gift is sent and each member announces the arrival of their gift,
its description and being sure to thank their secret pal. The next
secret pal program is starting soon!!
Fan Fiction
-
Our members like to speculate on the different possibilities that could
be in store for Qwilleran, Koko and Yum Yum and all the other characters.
So this project is a possibility. Keep checking back to see if we ended
up going ahead with it!
Picture This
- A while ago it was suggested that members give their artistic
sides a work-out. So maybe one of these days you will see some great paintings,
drawings or other forms of artistic work, depicting the towns of Pickax,
Mooseville, Indian Village, etc. Keep checking back!
Fan
Fiction
This is a new section and we should be in the
process of filling this section soon. Watch frequently for any new
additions!
About
Lilian Jackson Braun
| Lilian Jackson Braun was born in
1916. Even though Braun claims that her cats have never done anything extraordinary,
her fictional cats, Koko and Yum Yum, solve crimes and delight fans in
book after book. Braun says the reason for her success is that "people
are simply tired of all the blood. I write what is called the classic mystery."
She says that while "not all mystery fans may like cats, all cat-fanciers
seem to like mysteries. That makes for a large audience, since 26% of all
American households own 53.9 million cats between them." Braun was the
"Good Living" editor of The Detroit Free Press for 29 years. She is retired
from journalism and is currently writing mysteries full-time. She lives
with two Siamese cats and her husband, Earl Bettinger, in North Carolina.
The following article was published
in Beastly Murders:
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"Why Cats?
by Lilian Jackson Braun (Caseville,
ME)
It was never my intention to write about cats...
or to write mysteries. In fact, I knew nothing much about either of them,
apart
from an adolescent fascination with Baker Street.
Little did I know that my own Sherlock Holmes would be a cat, and my Doctor
Watson
would be a journalist with a large moustache that twitches when he
encounters foul play. Story-telling came to me naturally and early, and
I wisely wrote about things I know: Girl Scout camp-outs, high school baseball,
the eighteenth century French court. Strange to say, all my stories
had unhappy endings, and many tears were shed in my $15 typewriter, prompting
my mother to say, "Why don't you write something that makes you laugh?"
I tried, because I was brought up to believe that mother knows best, but
darned if I could think of anything funny! At that time I was unaware how
funny cats could be. When I was an adult with a husband and a career in
advertising and an apartment in a high-rise building with a view, I finally
acquired my first pet. He was a Siamese kitten whom I named Koko
after a character in "The Mikado," and the two of us were on the same wave
length. He obviously knew what I was thinking, and I seemed to know what
made him tick. Such was our empathy that it became usual for people to
call me part-cat, a remark I accepted as a compliment. magine my grief
when, at the age of two, Koko was killed in a fall from a tenth floor window!
Imagine my horror when neighbors told me he had been pushed! I began having
nightmares about members of my family falling from great heights, and I
knew I had to write about the episode in order to cope with my distress.
The result was a short story titled "The Sin of Madame Phloi," a
tale of crime and retribution told from the viewpoint of a Siamese cat.
It was published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and the editors asked
for more cat mysteries. Then a publisher asked for a mystery novel involving
a cat, and The Cat Who... series was initiated. Many cats have since
shared my life, providing inspiration and ideas, but it was the original
Koko who launched my fiction career, and The Cat Who... series is a memorial
to him. Naturally the hero of the books is a Siamese named Koko, short
for Kao K'o Kung, who is smarter than people -- or at least smarter than
the journalist with whom he lives. Koko is no supercat; he neither flies
nor drives a car no speaks English. He merely sniffs and scratches in the
right place at the right time, enabling Jim Qwilleran to uncover
clues. Mother was right. I laugh a lot while writing these catly spoofs.
As subjects for mysteries, cats are clever, funny, independent, subtle,
wily, profound, inscrutable and -- yes -- mysterious. And there are
no two alike. But if you're going to write about them, it helps to be part-cat."
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The
Cat Who Books Directory
Click On The Book/s You'd
Like To Know About (TCW=The Cat Who)
| TCW Could
Read Backwards, 1966 |
TCW Lived High,
1991 |
NEW!! TCW
Saw Stars, 1999 |
| TCW Ate Danish
Modern, 1967 |
TCW Knew A
Cardinal, 1991 |
OTHER WORKS |
| TCW Turned
On and Off, 1968 |
TCW Moved
A Mountain, 1992 |
Selected Writings
on Feminism and Socialism |
| TCW Saw Red, 1986 |
TCW Wasn't There,
1992 |
Mystery Cats |
| TCW Played Brahms,
1987 |
TCW Went
Into The Closet, 1993 |
Mystery Cats
III |
| TCW Played
Post Office,1987 |
TCW Came
To Breakfast, 1994 |
COMPILATIONS |
| TCW Knew
Shakespeare,1988 |
TCW Blew The
Whistle, 1994 |
TCW Had 14 Tales,
1988 |
| TCW Sniffed Glue,
1988 |
TCW Said Cheese,
1996 |
NEW!! The Cat Who...Companion |
| TCW Went
Undergound, 1989 |
TCW Tailed A
Thief, 1997 |
Three
Complete Novels... |
| TCW Talked
To Ghosts, 1990 |
TCW Sang For
The Birds,1998 |
Lilian Jackson
Braun, Three Novels |
The
LJB Webring!
So you're interested in the webring? Great!
Here's the deal. If you want to join the ring, you must first get
all the
necessary information, so click on the "join
the ring" section in the ring box. You will get all the information you
need there and if you need any further assistance
go ahead and email me!
But remember..in order to a part of this grat
fan club and participate in the discussions and projects, it is reccomended
that you also join the mailing list.
Want A Webring
Of Your Own?
Sharon
Feaster's Book-Signing Dates!
Here is a listing of the places and times that
the author of The Cat Who Companion, Dr. Sharon Feaster will be appearing
to sign your companion book! Go say hello to her from the LJB Fan
Club! Unfortunately there are no Canadian dates planned. Sorry!
And to give you a little nudge here's a Putnam/Penguin Books summary!
http://www.penguinputnam.com/clubppi/index.htm
BE SURE TO LEAF THROUGH ONE OF
THESE GREAT READS FROM BERKLEY PRIME CRIME!
Coming in November...
The Cat Who...Companion
Sharon A. Feaster
(0-425-16540-X) Berkley Prime
Crime
Finally, a complete guide to
Lilian Jackson Braun's New York Times bestselling Cat Who. . .mysteries!
Take a journey to Moose County and locate the important points in Downtown
Pickax; get to know Qwilleran, his youthful days, his likes and dislikes,
and the women in his life; meet "The Lady Who. . ." This fact-filled
companion will be a joy for fans of Lilian Jackson Braun's quirky feline
mysteries.
And be sure to test yourself
with "The Cat Who Quiz" in the features section of this newsletter!
Dec 5/98
Hastings
NW Loop, 281
Longview, Texas
4pm-6pm
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Dec 22/98
The Book Shelf
118 Pacolet St.
Tryon, North Carolina
1:30pm-3:30pm
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Dec 27/98
The Inn at Merridun
100 Merridun Place
Union, South Carolina
2pm-4pm
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Jan 03/99
Barnes and Noble
W.O.Ezell Blvd.
Spartanburg, South Carolina
3pm-4pm
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Fan
Pictures
We are hoping to get
our creative minds racing and come up with some great pictures to post
in this section. Drawings, painting, photography, whatever artwork
we can think of to depict our favorite towns and characters, you'll see
someday :)
Want
To Be A Club Member? Here's How
So you're interested in joining the Unofficial
Lilian Jackson Braun Fan Club! Excellent! By joining, you are able to participate
in all the great projects listed above as well as contribute to the make
up of this site. But ONLY if you're a member :) So join today to reap all
the great benefits and we'll be waitin' for ya!
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the LJB Mailing List!
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Fan
Quiz
So you think you're a true LJB lover, huh?
Well try these tough questions and see how good you are :) If you can't
handle the pressure, click here to get the answers
:)
| 01)What
is the name of Polly's sister-in-law? |
| 02)What is the name of the train
in TCW Blew The Whistle? |
| 03)What is the name of Qwilleran's
preferred beverage? |
| 04)Who is the feature editor
of the Daily Fluxion? |
| 05)What is the name of the popular
30-year-old restaurant off Main Street ? |
| 06)From where was a jar of change
stolen? |
| 07)What is the name of the great
food exhibition? |
| 08)Who is Qwill's housekeeper? |
| 09)What is the name of the column
that Qwill wrote? |
| 10)What is the name of the Klingenschoen
Foundation's legal representative? |
ANSWERS
| 01) Lynnette Duncan |
| 02) Engine No. 9 |
| 03) Squunk Water |
| 04) Arch Riker |
| 05) Lois's Luncheonette |
| 06) The Bridge Club |
| 07) The Great Food Explo |
| 08) Iris Cobb |
| 09) The Qwill Pen |
| 10) Hasslerich, Bennet and Barter |
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