Book Blast and Giveaway: Avalon by Vanessa Morgan

Welcome to my stop on the book blast for Avalon by Vanessa Morgan. This book blast was organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. On my stop, I have an excerpt from the book. There's also the blast wide giveaway for a chance to win a $10 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. Be sure to visit the other stops on the book blast for more content. Enjoy!

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Title: Avalon (French Version)

Author: Vanessa Morgan

Publication Date: September 28th 2022

Print Length: 139 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction Memoir

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Certains chats ont besoin de neuf vies pour faire une différence. Avalon n'en avait besoin que d'une.

De la plume de Vanessa Morgan, Avalon est l'histoire d'amour émouvante et unique entre une jeune fille et son chat turc de Van névrosé.

L'autrice détaille non sans humour la manière dont Avalon inspirait la terreur auprès des autres créatures qu’il approchait, dont il parvenait à faire fuir les rendez-vous galants de sa maîtresse en déployant des stratagèmes hors du commun et dont il lui rendait presque impossible de quitter la maison. Avalon était à ce point incorrigible que même le propriétaire d’appartement avait ordonné de s'en débarrasser. Mais sous les traits démoniaques d'Avalon, Vanessa reconnaissait ses propres défauts et insécurités, et comprenait qu'abandonner Avalon aurait été la pire chose à faire. Grâce à sa loyauté indéfectible, Avalon s'est transformé en un tendre félin et a même décroché un rôle important dans un film d'horreur. À son tour, Avalon s'est donné pour mission d'être présent pour sa compagnonne humaine.

Avalon est un recueil de souvenirs qui s’adresse à toutes les personnes qui ont déjà été obsessionnellement amoureuses d'un animal de compagnie.

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Some cats need nine lives to make a difference. Avalon only needed one.

From Amazon bestselling author Vanessa Morgan, Avalon is the heartwarming and once-in-a-lifetime love story of a girl and her neurotic Turkish Van cat.

With humor, the author details how Avalon made other creatures cringe in distress whenever he was around, how he threw her dates out by means of special techniques, and how he rendered it almost impossible for her to leave the house. Avalon was so incorrigible that even the landlord ordered to get rid of him. But beneath Avalon's demonic boisterousness, Vanessa recognized her own flaws and insecurities, and she understood that abandoning Avalon would be the worst she could do to him. Thanks to her unswerving loyalty, Avalon transformed into a tender feline and even landed a major role in a horror movie. In turn, Avalon made it his mission to be there for his human companion.

Avalon is a memoir for anyone who has ever been obsessively in love with a pet.

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EXCERPT:

Ignoring the neighbors’ cats had diminished Avalon's jealousy, but with four more beings in the apartment demanding my devotion, Avalon's reality was still a far cry from his personal utopia, and new pet peeves were routinely added to his usual problem-seeking behavior.

Small changes often caused major disturbances. When we removed a DVD from the cupboard, or put a pen on the living room table that he wasn’t used to seeing there, Avalon pitched himself near the problem area and vocalized his complaints as if he was a muezzin calling to prayer. He only stopped if the space returned back to normal.

Intelligent and calculating as he was, Avalon had also developed a technique to prevent Ballon and Tigris from using his litter boxes. Each time he heard the scratch scratch scratch in the litter, he settled into attack mode behind the bathroom wall, wiggled his behind, and leapt onto the other cat as soon as it emerged, making it jump. It worked every...single... time. Proud, Avalon walked away from the crime scene with his nose pointing airwards.

Borat, our guinea pig, was initially the best one off, but ended up the most miserable. What kept him safe at first was Avalon’s fear of rodents. Cats may be considered deadly predators, killing a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year in the United States alone, but whenever Borat had free range inside the apartment, Avalon went in a large circle around him, avoiding him at all cost.

Eventually, Avalon ferreted out a way to make Borat twinge in distress whenever he approached. It started when I taught Avalon not to throw up on the bed and carpets. Those lessons must have been meaningful, because Avalon didn’t vomit in those places anymore. Instead he aimed for the guinea pig's head. As soon as he felt a hairball mounting, Avalon ran as fast as he could toward Borat's cage, leaned in, and puked his heart out.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Vanessa Morgan is the editor of the movie reference guides When Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies with Killer Animals, Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies, and Evil Seeds: The Ultimate Movie Guide to Villainous Children. She also has had one cat book (Avalon) and four supernatural thrillers (Drowned Sorrow, The Strangers Outside, A Good Man, and Clowders) published. Three of her stories have been turned into movies. She has written for myriad Belgian magazines and newspapers and introduces movie screenings at several European film festivals. She is also a programmer for the Offscreen Film Festival in Belgium.

When she's not working on her latest book, you can find her reading, watching movies, eating out, or photographing felines for her blog Traveling Cats.

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GIVEAWAY:

Vanessa Morgan will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter. Good luck!

(All the Ups and Downs is not responsible for this giveaway, its entries, or the prize. Goddess Fish Promotions and the author assume all responsibility over this giveaway.)

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