Today we sit down for a chat with Catalina “Cat” Amalia Miranda from author C.J. Shane’s Cat Miranda Mysteries.
What was your life like before your author started pulling your strings?
Sad really. My big brother died recently, and I’m still grieving.
What’s the one trait you like most about yourself?
I like to help people whenever I can.
What do you like least about yourself?
I don’t have enough self-confidence.
What is the strangest thing your author has had you do or had happen to you?
There was a plumbing leak in the art gallery. The plumber came, he moved that big painting “Kissed,” and he opened the wall to fix the leak. That’s when he found something really awful behind the painting. A dead body!
Do you argue with your author? If so, what do you argue about?
Yes, she wants to show her paintings in my art gallery and also do a public reading of her latest book. I told her no. I think she’s funny. My art gallery is imaginary. Her paintings and her books are real.
What is your greatest fear?
I’m really scared of that guy who made me his target. He attacked me during the Great Stair Climb race, and he threatened to kill me if I didn’t leave Bisbee immediately. Miles helped me.
What makes you happy?
Miles makes me happy. He’s English. He’s handsome and sweet and funny, and I really like him. Also, it makes me happy to be home in Bisbee again.
If you could rewrite a part of your story, what would it be? Why?
Yikes! I’m a graphic designer, and I run an art gallery. I don’t know anything about writing or rewriting.
Of the other characters in your book, which one bugs you the most? Why?
Jeremy Flores, my attorney. He’s a really good friend going all the way back to high school. Jeremy works way too hard. He does a lot of free work for poor people. He doesn’t get enough sleep, and he doesn’t get to spend enough time with his lovely wife. Maybe I can figure out a way to help him.
Of the other characters in your book, which one would you love to trade places with? Why?
I think I’d trade places with the librarian at our public library. She knows everyone, and she’s surrounded by books all day. I like books and I like people so that’s a great combination.
Tell us a little something about your author. Where can readers find her website/blog?
Shane is an artist and a writer, too. Every day she has this existential dilemma. Should she write or should she paint? You can see her art here and here, and learn about her books here, including the steamy romantic ones she writes under the pen name Aylen Ainsley.
What's next for you?
Shane tells me that Miles is returning to Bisbee soon. He’s going to help me solve a mystery that has to do with some land out west of town that my brother left me in his will. Also, I’m going to adopt a rescue dog – a big dog.
Kissed
A Cat Miranda Mystery, Book 1
Cat Miranda returns to her childhood home in Bisbee, Arizona, to take over her brother’s art gallery following his untimely death. On her first night home, an intruder breaks in. Cat quickly realizes that she is being targeted by a murderer with links to an 8-foot tall painting in the gallery titled “Kissed.” In her struggle to stay safe, Cat finds an ally in Miles Trevelyan, a charming visiting British scholar. The heat rises with more assaults on Cat and between Cat and Miles, too, as their feelings for each other grow. Can they discover what is behind the painting “Kissed” before Cat becomes the next victim? Kissed is a cozy mystery with a big spoonful of sweet romance in this Sonoran Desert Borderlands tale.
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