The best caption for this photo of Val-kyttie, the shop manager at our bookstore, wins a free book! We’ll accommodate your reading preference from bookstore stock, or give you a copy of mine coming out in October, as you prefer.
Please put your caption in the comments. Deadline Monday, June 18th at noon.
Photo taken by our brilliant local photographer, Elissa Powers.
Her work is viewable on Facebook as elp6n.
Wendy Welch: Books, Yarn, Cats, Opioids 
Lap needed for best reading experience.
And never sit on a book that isn’t well-written. It is beneath you….
Please buy a book but leave my sock alone.
So many books and not enough lives to read em all.
Eat your heart out, Baker and Taylor cats!
We entered her in the Baker and Taylor “cats in bookstores” contest, but haven’t heard back ….
Old Jedi Mind Trick: This is not the sock you are looking for!
Pay no attention to the blue sock. It’s only a red herring.
Get Out! I can tell by your tone of voice you are saying ”their” when you mean ”they’re” and there is no hope for you. Get Out Of My Shoppe!
Yes, she is a grammar nazi, for sure.
A book? Yawn…I wonder who will play me the movie?
Hmmm…that was saying ” play me in the movie?”
She’s holding out for Charlise Therzon….
And the bookstore cat began to fade. All, that is, except her nose.
Val-kyttie grinned, James!
Well, the bookstore is a wonderland. Isn’t it?
No, you craft-crazy bitch, you are not going to cut the toe out of that sock and make a “cute little turtleneck sweater” for me!
I’ll admit that this is one of my personal favorites, but the decision of the judges is final! (I have, however, begun to think about where the cut the hole….)
Books to the right of me,
Books to the left of me,
Books in front of me
I dallied and blunder’d;
Storm’d at with paw and tail,
Boldly they grow and swell,
Into the claws of wrath,
Under the writer’s spell
I read the six hundred.
Val-kyttie purred with appreciation over this one.
Sock puppets are beneath me . . . but if you would like to load up an intruder kitten or two in there, be my guest.
You are giving her ideas….
Can’t you see I’m up to my kitty armpits in books, here? I don’t have time for your shenanigans! I have work to do, lady!
Ha!
This… is my library. I invite you to… DON’T MESS UP MY DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM! Just… just any books you read, leave on the counter. I’ll have Jeeves replace them.
I think I might be her Jeeves…