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“Dare To Want To Be” (VIDEO DIARY): in this new YouTube series we meet mother and daughter as they action their Brazen Bitch “diamond signature” leopard print design

Hello…

Welcome to book publisher, She And The Cat’s Mother, established in 2016 by Gwen Hullah and Ida Barker, a mother and daughter partnership (accompanied by their tabby cat, Purrdey who came voluntarily and stayed on purpose), based in the Victorian Spa town of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK

To-date, She And The Cat’s Mother have published over 13 original works (available at Amazon) genres include ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ children’s picturebook | 🎭 musicals | ℹ️ non-fiction | 📚 novels | 🎥 scripts | 🎶 songbook

Project 2024

🔴 12 months in the making and our She And The Cat’s Mother 2024 project, “Brazen Bitch” is actioned by way of a short-film titled, SELF-PUBLISHING HURTS. To view the film: click this YouTube link

🔴 In connection with this short-film, we reveal Shocking Self-Publishing Secrets within our FREE Brazen Bitch report via BrazenBitch.com – a website helping self-taught authorpreneurs (writers and book publishers) who work tirelessly from a shoe-string budget (but don’t want to let it show)!!

🔴 Quite unexpectedly our sideline of Brazen Bitch merchandise has proved to be rather popular – namely our leopard print design, which has been embraced by a wider audience

Wardrobe full of clothes and got nothing to wear?

For a little bit of beyondness, She And The Cat’s Mother have created a FUN original music video, titled: “The Leopard Print Song” to celebrate their diamond signature leopard print clothing at BrazenBitch.com

This music video is for women who, on any given day, year after year, find themselves returning to leopard print; because leopard print is fun, feisty and fabulous, and as we like to say at, She And The Cat’s Mother: “Be the brazen bitch you dare to want to be.”

Celebrating other authors

We share with you our inspiration for creating the campaign, Dress Like A Book Cover:

🔷 Authorship: It’s our way at, She And The Cat’s Mother of giving respect and praise to authors and their team-workers 🔷 To write a book in the first place, is like taking to a mammoth task, wherein dramatic situations are found and built on; bearing in mind, there are only 30-odd dramatic situations in being 🔷 The situation is not a story; it’s the plot building that has to be original. The author has to be (to sell) original in plot and treatment 🔷 A plot is rarely the result of inspiration 🔷 A plot is largely the result of hard graft 🔷 We at, She And The Cat’s Mother write as we speak and do;

🔴 Often, She And The Cat’s Mother are asked: “Where did the idea to DRESS LIKE A BOOK COVER come from?” Our answer: taking an over-view from World Book Day, whereby readers are encouraged to dress as their favourite character – we at, She And The Cat’s Mother were inspired to create DRESS LIKE A BOOK COVER campaign – whereby, each Wednesday, for twenty weeks, we uploaded a different companion look to go with the book we’d read 🔴 After all, when you buy a book, you are buying into two pieces of art: firstly, the text, and secondly, the book’s look 🔴 We chose to go “Back to Basics” doing more with less, by using what we already have in our wardrobe to create an out-fit, inspired by each book’s cover;

Diamond Days …

We cheer these authors to the echo, for taking the time to respond to She And The Cat’s Mother “Dress LIKE a Book Cover” companion looks to go with the books we’ve read and recommend within our books-of-the-month podcast series;

QUOTES:

🔷 “Amazing!”

– Colleen Hoover, for She And The Cat’s Mother interpretation of her book’s cover: thriller novel, Verity

🔷 “I’m OBSESSED with this. Thank you so much …”

– Elizabeth Day, for She And The Cat’s Mother interpretation of her book’s cover: suspense novel, Magpie

🔷 “Have to say I’m absolutely loving this ❤️️❤️️❤️️”

– Sheila O’Flanagan, for She And The Cat’s Mother interpretation of her book’s cover: self-discovery novel, Three Weddings and a Proposal

🔷 “Wow this is AMAZING 💝!!”

– Victoria James, for She And The Cat’s Mother interpretation of her book’s cover: memoir, Wine Girl

🎶 MASHUP by She And The Cat’s Mother

This music MASHUP was inspired by week 6 of She And The Cat’s Mother “Dress LIKE a Book Cover” challenge featuring (Joy Division / New Order / Monaco) musician, Peter Hook’s memoir, “Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club“

🔴 CLICK! here for MORE about She And The Cat’s Mother music MASHUP featuring MONACO’s “What Do You Want From Me?” song, with Ida’s “Mr and Ms’ery” including pictures // acknowledgements // list of MASHUP credits 🔴