Danger in Cat World
In your most recent novel, Danger in Cat World, you've got a homicide detective who while trying to solve a murder, has to deal with the sudden appearance of several cats out of thin air. What inspired you to take a police procedural and mix it up with the supernatural?I love a good procedural book. And I've been reading non-fiction books and sources about quantum mechanics for several years, including Hugh Everett's Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics (aka the Many Worlds theory). The book is meant as a riff on parallel worlds, and the cats are a play on Schrodinger's cat. There is at least one cat in both worlds, and the grieving cat in A duplicates itself in B, one cat each hour, which makes universe B unstable and leads Shawn Danger to question his sanity. The entropy in Shawn's universe increases with each cat, so the longer Shawn (a homicide detective) takes to solve the murder, the more unstable his world becomes.To read more of this interview, visit everyreadthing.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/interview-nina-post/