Woot! I am SUPER excited to finally be able to talk about my new book!
Kimberly Pauley’s CAT GIRL’S DAY OFF, when a girl’s celebrity-addicted friends make her watch a viral Internet video, her secret “talent” to understand the language of cats catapults them into a celebrity kidnapping mystery with ties to Hollywood and Ferris Bueller’s Chicago, to Stacy Whitman at Tu Books, in a nice deal, for publication in Spring 2012, by Larry Kirshbaum at LJK Literary Management (World).
Yes, if you’ve been following me on Twitter, this is the book I wrote last year before we moved to London from Chicago. In fact, if you’ve been following me on Twitter and replying to my tweets, you may very well have influenced the book…
If you couldn’t tell from the title and the description, it is another funny book. 
Nat Ng is a girl who can talk to cats…in a family full of people with Talents like levitation and laser vision. Her Talent puts her — very unwillingly — right in the middle of a celebrity kidnapping plot, along with her two best friends. There’s some romance too and lots of snarky cats (seriously, if you’ve ever “owned” a cat, you can imagine what they would say, can’t you?).
I’ve already turned in one revised draft to my editor, Stacy, and I’m super excited. Can’t wait for everyone to meet Nat!
Fabulous news!!! I saw it in the PM deals and may have squealed a little bit.
Congrats!
Thanks! I am really excited!!
Congrats Kimberly! I for one am very, very excited for this. I interned at Lee & Low with Stacy recently, and this was one of the manuscripts I got to read. People are seriously in for a treat!
Aw, thanks! I hope people will like it. It’s not easily pigeonholed, I don’t think.
Congrats again.. My niece says crongrats and that she loves your work as well as her aunt (me) ..
Thanks, Shelley!
Awesome!! Looking forward to it!
Thanks, Tim!
i cant wait!!! im in love with ferris bueller, its my favorite movie ever haha congrats!
It is a great movie, isn’t it?? I love it too!
It’s so exciting to see this one on it’s way to publication! Can’t wait to see it in print! Btw, plenty of houses on the market if you decide to move back to Chi-town (and plenty more book inspiration, too).
Ha! *Our* house is still on the market! Don’t remind me!
BTW, you’re in the acknowledgments of this one!
My name in print! Now I really can’t wait!
Congrats! It sounds like a great book!
Thanks, Greg! (Fellow Tu Books Homie)
Congratulations on another book!!! That’s great news. Be sure to remind me when it is available in stores.
Thanks, Maryanne!
Hooray! A new book!
I am super excited! This is great news!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS!
Thanks, Taylor!
Dear Ms. Pauley, I believe you got me crazy and excited over a book that won’t be released until about in a year!!! Congratulations for successfully conjuring a crowd of ravenous readers willing to attack (buy and read) Cat Girl’s Day off. Also congratulations for sending the draft ♥:D ♥:D ♥:D ♥:D ♥!!! yay!!! Okay, so yeah. I guess that’s it for now. —— I had to struggle for years to find the perfect comedy author who dabbed her novels with the perfect amount romance and action. Thanks to you, Ms. Pauley, I’ve found the author I have been looking for for awhile now. ~S
Aw!!! Thanks, Samerau!