We owe huge thanks to all of our contributors and fans, and to their fascinating felines. We loved your stories about your cats and how they enrich your lives. We could only publish a small percentage of the stories that were submitted, but we read every single one and even the ones that do not appear in the book had an influence on what went into the final manuscript.
We owe special thanks to Susan M. Heim, who read the thousands of stories submitted for this book, selected the finalists, and organized them into chapters. Susan also came up with the fabulous idea of including fun facts about cats at the beginning of each story instead of our normal quotations. She did an amazing job finding the facts and pairing them with the stories.
Chicken Soup for the Soul’s VP and Assistant Publisher D’ette Corona worked with the contributors on any edits to their stories, and the whole publishing team deserves a hand, including editors Barbara LoMonaco and Kristiana Pastir, who proofread the final layout, our Director of Production, Victor Cataldo, and our graphic designer, Daniel Zaccari, who turned our manuscript into this beautiful book.
