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Launching one book is a big occasion, but much-loved author Joy Cowley is about to unleash two - Greedy Cat's Christmas, and an adult novella called Blind Date.
She's launching them both in Featherston in the Wairarapa, where she now lives.
The large ginger feline Joy's been writing stories about for some 40 years meets his match in his latest outing:
"The plates were full. Oh, how delicious!
"A Christmas feast on fancy dishes!
"But Aunty said, "He's just a cat.
"He'll eat cat biscuits and that is that."
Blind Date meanwhile, sees 85-year-old Rose living in a rest home. She's lost most of her sight and desperately misses reading books. Then unexpectedly, she makes a connection with one of the male residents and comes to realise that it's never too late to live life to the full.
Lynn Freeman talks with Joy Cowley, and first asked her why she wrote Blind Date as a novella.
Joy Cowley's Blind Date and Greedy Cat's Christmas are both published by CopyPress. Joy will launch them on Saturday 10 December at Waimarie Eatery & Bar in Featherston.