Life is always interesting when you’re living in the “Bast”
lane. “Living in the Bast Lane ” is actually words on a button
a friend bought and gave to me at a science fiction convention a year ago. And
my black tabby cat is definitely a delight to have in our home—since September
2009.
Now I have been asked if my male black werepanther, Montsho,
in Dark Leopard Magic , my
sequel to Beast Magic, is
based off Bast. He’s not, and it’s not because she’s female either. No, that
might be more the black shorthair, Samhain; I had once, until he died at age
13. Though Montsho, is a composite of many things in my imagination. And no,
she wasn’t the inspiration of the black cat form my demon Familiar hero, Charun
took, when he came to Tina Epson, for the first time in my new print release, The Witch And The Familiar.
We saw her for the first time in a box with her four
sisters. My husband and I had just walked out of Petsmart, having looked at
stuff for dogs. Our Siberian husky, Indy, had died at age 16 ½ the past April and
we still couldn’t help looking at dog toys a few months later.
