Like her protagonist Shannon Kendricks, Cathy Parker is an attorney. She volunteered as a zoo keeper's aide for eight years and did have a very special beluga buddy, Mauyak, just as Shannon Kendricks has. As to encounters with alien children, as in the trilogy, she is not saying. She was also a radio and print journalist and once was the 'Jill of all trades' for a small satellite paper in Wyoming. She did everything from taking to the photos to writing the articles and op-ed pieces to helping with layout and hauling the newspapers through blizzards once a week. As a result, she saw lambs being born and went on a cattle drive and ate her first (and last) Rocky Mountain Oyster. She has seen mountain gorillas in the wild in Rwanda and orangutans in Borneo and even rocked an orphaned baby orangutan to sleep on her chest. She has volunteered with a chimpanzee sanctuary for former research subjects. So you can see where her heart lies. Currently she lives in Costa Rica with her black cat. All similarities between her cat and the trilogy's Narcissus are purely and probably coincidental.
On one side you see one view on my sister's place a half hour outside Missoula, Montana. On the other, you see an old ghost town, Garnet, which we visited up in the mountains about an hour from Missoula. Very pretty country. Reminded me a bit of the eastern slope of the Cascades and the western slope of the Rockies in Colorado. We also went mining for sapphires up on Gem Mountain. Addictive and fun. I found some tiny ones, nothing for the record books. Our animal sightings were limited to deer, but my sister has been visited by both a bear that took out her apple tree and a cougar that parked by her back sliding glass door. On my trip, I took a hiatus from editing my latest book, but I must get back to it today. I want to get it into shape as soon as possible to send along to the small publisher that was interested when I gave my pitch. I have heard back from two of my three beta readers and will work on that next. After I finish all my editing and before I submit, it will still need a professional edit. So much to do. But a beautiful respite.
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