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Patricia Vander Meer: Artificially Yours: A Tale of Uncanny Animals

Patricia Vander Meer–Artificially Yours: A Tale of Uncanny Animals

Kalamazoo Public Library presents Writers Block, a forum where independently published local writers can tell the world about their work. This edition features Patricia Vander Meer, author of Artificially Yours: A Tale of Uncanny Animals.

About the Book: In this book, meet Professor Paul Van Mewuen, an eccentric scientist whose pet cat possesses inexplicably powerful abilities. A renowned researcher in animal robotics, the professor chose his life’s work in part in an attempt to explain his feline’s gifts. The story unfolds during the COVID-19 quarantine when society could most use extraordinary pets to reduce its collective angst. It opens with the world’s most advanced prototype canine robot having been stolen from the professor’s lab at a San Francisco university in a crime of revenge. Van Mewuen investigates the crime along with a Midwestern professor colleague, a spirited librarian, and a retired forensics specialist. A long-lost love of the professor also plays a key role, as does the professor’s uncanny cat and an unexpected animatronic robot source. This book will lead you into the AI realm of future possibilities but with warmth, suspense, romance, and a healthy dose of humor. We hope you enjoy it.

About the Author: Patricia Vander Meer is a retired academic librarian, author, and professor who resides in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She also leads a Kalamazoo Literacy Council book club for adult students of English as a second language. When she isn’t writing about uncanny animals or leading book club discussions, she loves spending time with her family at Lake Michigan. Patricia and co-author Tee Clarke have been friends since first grade. They lived on the same block on the outskirts of South Chicago. Tee is a creative writer and nature photographer in the beautiful city of Tucson, AZ, and previously taught at Columbia College in Chicago. The co-authors are both confirmed cat lovers.

Recorded 07/11/2024

Categories: Writers’ Block: Local Authors