Meow there. What is your name and your author’s name?
I am Soji, the long-dead spirrrit whose headstone lies at the back of my human companion’s garden. My authorrr is Mollie Hunt, and she is happy to see you again!
Wow, Meow! You’re a little scary, but I’m happy to see Mollie again, too.
What book(s) have you appeared in? Please list them and their genre.
Ghost Cat of Ocean Cove
Ghost Cat on the Midway
Ghost Cat at the Mystery Hotel
And now Ghost Cat and the Haunted House.
(I am the ghost cat.)
My authorrr calls them cozy parrranormal mysteries. I call them my lives’ tales.
Interesting. My author has a new series with a supernatural kitten who isn’t exactly a ghost. It’s complicated.
Please give information about your series.
It is called “The Tenth Life Series” as described below:
Septuagenarian Camelia Collins and her cat Blaze move to the Oregon Coast to fulfill a lifelong dream, but that dream becomes a nightmare when Camelia learns she has purchased a murder house. The former resident, reclusive businessman Jonathan Chamber, was brutally killed on the stoop, and the killer is still at large.
What’s more, Camelia discovers an ancient gravestone at the back of her garden belonging to a cat named Soji. Dead long ago, this seventh black kitten of a seventh black kitten now returns in corporeal form. Will Soji’s haunting help Camelia solve the murder mystery or send her screaming back to Portland?
Pawsome!
Are you based on a real cat such as your author’s? If so, please give further details.
I am not, though Mollie has known cat spirrrits in her life.
I see. Debbie has also know cat “spirrits,” too.
Can you share an excerpt from one of your books that features you in an important scene? If so, please include it.
I shall begin at the beginning:
GHOST CAT AND THE HAUNTED HOUSE
Chapter 1: The Ghost of Ida Jacks
The ghost cat twirled in the middle of the carpet. Around and around she went, not so much as a cat chasing her tail but a small, white tornado. Every so often she would slow to utter a single cryptic sentence: She is not what she seems. Then the whirling would begin again.
Camelia Collins watched the cat’s antics from her couch. When it started, she’d been concerned. She asked her little ghost cat companion what was wrong, what was bothering her but got no response. Soji was an enigma, an entity unto herself, and if she didn’t want to communicate in any other way than a macabre dance, there was nothing Camelia could do about it.
Still, the septuagenarian couldn’t quite manage to go about her usual business—not with a ghost cat whirling in her living room.
Camelia’s tuxedo cat Blaze also watched with fascination. A few times, he’d tried to catch that ghostly tail as it whipped past, but it was a doomed effort. Since Soji was in her noncorporeal form, he could no more touch her than touch a dream.
Camelia had grown accustomed to the odd behaviors of Soji, the cat spirit who unexpectedly accompanied her recent purchase of Love Cottage, but it had taken time. When she acquired the little coastal home with its name lettered in seashells on a driftwood plank out front, ‘ghost companion’ wasn’t mentioned in the contract. Even when she discovered the decades-old gravestone concealed at the back of her overgrown garden inscribed with the epitaph, Now Gone To Her Tenth Life, Beloved Soji, Camelia couldn’t have predicted it housed a very real, very feline spirit. That came later, as Soji began appearing to her, communicating with her. Camelia, who in her seventy years on the planet had seen, heard, and felt many things she couldn’t explain, was an accepting soul, and after some consideration, the presence of a ghost cat seemed to be just one more to add to the list.
Camelia was brought back from her musing by a claw piercing her thigh.
“Ouch, Blaze, dear.” She plucked the talon from her pant leg. “Please…”
Then she saw what had made the tuxie flinch. The ghost cat had stopped her twirling and stood as if frozen to the floor. Her ghost-white fur was raised, and her legs were spread. Her ears and whiskers lay flat against her head, and her red eyes flashed.
“She is not what she seems,” Soji repeated in that not-quite-real, not-quite-human voice of hers.
“Bewarrre, bewarrre!” she hissed through bared teeth. “Bewarrre the ghost of Ida Jacks—she is no ghost at all.”
A purrfect excerpt. Thanks for sharing.
What do you like most about your role in your authors’ books?
I enjoy unveiling new powers. I can be a typical black cat, then shift into a phantom and leap thrrrough walls. I come and go as I wish. Twice, my amazingness has saved my companion from death.
Very cool, Soji.
Are you a talking cat in your books or just a silent one like I am who just meows occasionally?
I talk when I please, but only an exceptional few can hearrr me.
Sounds good. In my Cobble Cove series, only the other pets and readers can know what I’m saying.
What advice would you give other cat characters?
Do not let crrrossing the Rainbow Brrridge stop you. You still have much to give, even if you be dead.
Very true.
Do you have any new books coming out? Please give dates and details.
After Ghost Cat and the Haunted House, Mollie will begin the next book, working title, Ghost Cat Attends a Séance. Something amazing will happen to me, but I cannot tell.
That sounds pawsome!
Are you and/or your author on social media? If so, please list your links.
You can find Mollie Hunt, Cat Writer on her blogsite: https://molliehuntcatwriter.com/
Follow Mollie’s Amazon Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/molliehunt
Facebook Author Page: http://www.facebook.com/MollieHuntCatWriter/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/molliehuntcatwriter/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7768987.Mollie_Hunt
Books2Read Universal Book Links: https://books2read.com/ap/8GJYBe/Mollie-Hunt
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Sign up for Mollie’s Extremely Informal Newsletter for all the latest cat and book news! http://eepurl.com/c0fOTn
Great! I will share all of those with my readers. Best whiskers to you and Mollie on your new release and your blog tour that I’m sharing below. Thanks so much for cat chatting with me from the beyond.
Ghost Cat and the Haunted House (A Tenth Life Cozy Mystery)
by Mollie Hunt
About Ghost Cat and the Haunted House
Ghost Cat and the Haunted House (A Tenth Life Cozy Mystery)
Cozy Cat Mystery
4th in Series
Setting – Ocean Cove, a fictitious town on the Oregon Coast
Independently Published
Print length : 277 pages
Publication date : June 30, 2026
Paperback
ISBN-13 : 979-8272313546
ASIN : B0H339K7DS
Digital
ASIN : B0GXNY458L
Ghost cat Soji draws Camelia into an age-old web of secrets when a body turns up in the long-abandoned house on the hill.
Decades ago, Ida Jacks died a tragic death in her old ancestral home. Since then, the place has stood empty, just another of Ocean Cove’s moldering landmarks. Now paranormal investigator Griffin Gage is about to change all that. But Gage’s plan is to contact dead Ida takes a tragic turn when, instead of a spirit, he finds a corpse.
Ghost cat Soji has been acting strange, trying to tell Camelia something, but what, the octogenarian cannot discern. Is it about Ida? The Jacks House? The murder? And why does her own cat Blaze keep disappearing to the guesthouse with no apparent means of transport?
Handsome Sheriff Jamie can’t figure it out, and neither can Camelia’s clairvoyant confidant Vera nor her very special friend Ellery. Camelia is on her own to uncover the killer, but can she solve the mysteries in time to save innocent lives, and maybe a ghost or two?
About Mollie Hunt
Cat Writer Mollie Hunt is the award-winning author of two cozy series: the Crazy Cat Lady Mysteries featuring a sixty-something cat shelter volunteer who finds more trouble than a cat in catnip, and the Tenth Life Paranormal Mysteries involving a ghost cat. Her Cat Seasons Sci-Fantasy Tetralogy presents extraordinary cats saving the world. She also released a COVID memoir she calls, “an ode to the very real and healing presence of cats.” Her cat health memoir, “Creating Comfort for Your Senior Cat: Stories, Poems, and Illustrations of Cats in Their Golden Years,” recently won a Certificate of Excellence from the Cat Writers’ Association.
Mollie’s cat writing has earned her various other honors, including CWA Muse Medallions and World’s Best Litter-ary Awards. She is the recipient of the prestigious Michael Brim Distinguished Service Award (CWA) and the Catalyst Council Connect to Care Award, celebrating a true story of the profound connection between a shelter cat and its adoptive pet parent. Her mystery, Cat’s Paw, was a CIBA Mystery & Mayhem Semi-finalist.
Mollie is on the Board of Directors for Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA) as well as being the librarian for the Cat Writers’ Association. Additionally, she is a member of Sisters in Crime, Willamette Writers, and the Oregon Writers Colony. Mollie lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and a varying number of cats. Like her cat lady character, she is a grateful shelter volunteer.
Short: Cat Writer Mollie Hunt is the award-winning author of two cozy mystery series and a sci-fantasy tetralogy. She has also published a COVID memoir and a cat health chronicle, both of which won recognition from the Cat Writers’ Association.
Mollie is a member of the Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA), Oregon Writers’ Colony, Sisters in Crime, the Cat Writers’ Association, and Willamette Writers. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and a varying number of cats. Like the cat lady character in one of her cozies, she is a grateful shelter volunteer.
Author Links
You can find Mollie Hunt, Cat Writer on her blogsite: https://molliehuntcatwriter.com/
Follow Mollie’s Amazon Page: www.amazon.com/author/molliehunt
Facebook Author Page: www.facebook.com/MollieHuntCatWriter/
Instagram: @molliehuntcatwriter
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7768987.Mollie_Hunt
Purchase Link – Amazon
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