A married NYC civil servant who retired after 33+ years with the same agency. We had two cats which had been the inspiration for my award winning children's book [early reader] entitled "A Lesson My Cat Taught Me," whose lesson is the acceptance of others for who they are and not what they are. I previously had a publisher when the book had originally been released in November 2007. When my contract didn't get renewed in February 2010 I decided to self-publish it and released this edition [paperback] in October of the same year. ON FEBRUARY 28 2014 - I finally released the KINDLE edition of my book. http://www.amazon.com/Lesson-My-Cat-T... I have two completed manuscripts waiting to be published which are a mini-series.