How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity is a fun, tongue-in-cheek guide that parodies get-rich-quick books while celebrating the brightest stars on the Internet: Cats.
For decades, we believed the keys to personal wealth were a college diploma and marketable job skills--but no more. Today, your best hope for financial security is literally right at your feet: We are talking about your cat.
The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar "personalities" and global multimedia brands--and the financial rewards are staggering. Some cats earn upwards of $100,000 every year. How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity leads readers through the process of discovering their cat's unique talents and gifts. Is he athletic? Theatrical? A daredevil? What are the best ways to exploit your cat's specfic personality? What are the secrets of creating a terrific viral video? How much should my cat demand for product endorsements? How do I extend my cat's fifteen minutes of fame? How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity answers all of these questions and many more. It's a delightful "self-help" book for cat-lovers of all ages.
The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar "personalities" and global multimedia brands--and the financial rewards are staggering. Some cats earn upwards of $100,000 every year. How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity leads readers through the process of discovering their cat's unique talents and gifts. Is he athletic? Theatrical? A daredevil? What are the best ways to exploit your cat's specfic personality? What are the secrets of creating a terrific viral video? How much should my cat demand for product endorsements? How do I extend my cat's fifteen minutes of fame? How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity answers all of these questions and many more. It's a delightful "self-help" book for cat-lovers of all ages.
PRAISE
“I need this manual. You probably do too.”—Examiner.com
“Highly entertaining and hilarious, with a bit of tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity is worth even the 15 minutes of fame your feline may warrant.”—Creator’s Syndicate
“This is an actually, seriously funny thing... a book that can make you literally do what the initials LOL originally meant.”—Austin Chronicle
“A hilarious guide to turning your feline into the next Maru.” —Washington Post Express
“This tongue in cheek guide to harnessing your pets powers for fame and fortune will provide hours of entertainment.”—Wishlisted
“If my purrsonal assistants had access to all the information in this marvelous book back when I started playing the piano all those years ago, I’m certain the road to my own internet fame would have had fewer bumps along the way. A must-read for anyone wishing to aid their favorite feline in becoming an internet celebrity.” - Nora The Piano Cat
“Patricia Carlin has taken a hot topic and turned it into state-of-the-art comedy. Even [people] who hate cats will find this one amusing.” —Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight
“For eons cats have been playful, inquisitive, empathetic, and all-around loving companions. And for eons man has thought, ‘Yeah, but what’s in it for me?’ But now with How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity,man and feline can join forces to achieve levels of stardom, merchandising, and unique resume additions heretofore unimagined, all so that one day you can achieve the obscene level of wealth necessary to use the word ‘summer’ as a verb.”—Francesco Marciuliano, I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Patricia Carlin is the author of How to Tell If Your Boyfriend Is the Antichrist (and If He Is, ShouldYou Break Up with Him?). She lives in Pennsylvania.
Dustin Fenstermacher is a photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Vice, Village Voice, New Jersey Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, and a litany of other publications.
