How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity: A Guide to Financial Freedom

By Patricia Carlin

The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar “personalities” with revenue-generating multimedia brands—but only if you know how to cash in. With How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity, readers can unlock the secrets of grooming your kitty for success, creating a terrific viral video, managing your cat’s burgeoning stardom, and much more. Packed with practical tips and helpful diagrams, this indispensable resource shows how ordinary housecats can follow in the venerable pawprints of the Internet’s brightest stars.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Release date: Apr 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781594746840

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Reviews for How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity

[jules114 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity walks you though the processes of brainstorming, identifying your cat's unique traits, gathering footage, uploading footage, and promoting your new star. At it's core, it's a how-to guide, but it really goes above and beyond with the specificity and quality of its examples. Carlin uses a combo of matter-of-fact and audience-degrading tones to get her point across. Uncertain what kinds of cat personalities your pet might fall into? Carlin has several example tropes: sweet baby kitten, the daredevil, and even utterly bland are just a few--and these examples get your own wheels turning on what angle you could spin your cat on if he/she doesn't fit neatly into one of the ones Carlin provides. She also gives some tips to enhance your cat's persona--perhaps a new stage name or some props.The identification and brainstorming first section is a bucket of fun, but Carlin doesn't stop there. She gets right into the gritty details in the next chapter with how to capture your pet's hilarious behaviors on screen. (OK, she doesn't actually get super into the details of filming, but at least she extends some suggestions on how you can get there...though in the end, you kind of just have to be tech savvy already.) What equipment do you need? Should or how should you stage your cat's scenes? Will extras be necessary? If you haven't considered these questions yet, don't worry. Carlin has. With extremely detailed and exacting diagrams, she offers plenty of ways to get your cat started: roll of toilet paper, vase with impossibly small opening, baby, etc. The work (and the book) isn't done yet. Editing and uploading your video is a critical step that Carlin won't let you overlook. And she walks through some potential conflict areas in the future professional relationship between you and your cat.The book is visually engaging, and the images reflect the quality and humor in the writing. A fun read, How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity actually does work as a how-to book. If the cat I was caring for hadn't unexpectedly passed away (RIP Artie :(), we'd be on our way to stardom at this very moment.

[lmhtwb · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity is a plan to take your cat, find his/her special characteristics, and then market him/her to the world. Sounds impossible? Some cats and their owners have done just that. This book guides you through the process, step by step.I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The photo-illustrations are wonderful! This book kept me laughing from cover to cover. The plan it lays out might work, and not just for cats. (The actual marketing strategies are real -- just applied to cats on the internet!)While I don't think I'll try this with one of my cats, I do have friends who probably NEED this book! Good reading!!!

[memccauley6 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I read this book during my lunch hour – which in retrospect, was probably a mistake, because I almost spit out my food several times. (I feel like I still have a green bean wedged somewhere in my sinuses) So, read this hilarious cat “guide” with a pinch of salt, and no food or drink in your mouth. Chock full of funny charts and photos, the perfect gift for the crazy cat person in your life.

[judycroome_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Review by Shadow Croome, dictated to human slave Judy Croome: For any multi-talented cat, such as myself (one can't be honest and modest, now, can one?), this book is an essential addition to one's cat-a-library. Why should Grumpy Cat get all the celebrity status? "How to make your cat an Internet Celebrity" provides valuable advice for any cat/human slave wishing to break into the cut throat world of feline celebrity status. With chapters such as "clawing your way to the top" and "the world is your litter box" any ambitious cat can train his/her human in the finer details of managing a star-studded career as an internet celebrity. It's also easy to use with plenty of diagrams and simple tasks that any human slave should manage to understand. For any extraordinary cat wishing to fulfill his/her potential, I'd highly recommend that this book is left on your human's bed as soon as possible.

[carebear36 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I got this book for free from a relative so my expectations were not all that high. It was pretty funny overall with cute cat pictures and silly advice.The style is kind of early-Ellen-Degeneres with jokes that are slightly inappropriate, but extreme enough that you know it is meant to be a joke. However, some jokes I found to be in poor taste like cat suicide (I'm sorry; I've liked on this planet long enough to know that suicide is not a humorous topic).Also, the author misuses the term "negative reinforcement" (she really means "positive punishment"), which is a common error, but a big pet peeve of mine (thanks a lot BA in psychology; I knew you'd be good for something).Overall, a silly book. Not uncontrollable laughing kind of fun, but good enough to lift your mood on a bad day.

[kathywoodall · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

My family already think I'm nuts for living in a house with 4 cats. We decided we needed extra money so it just makes sense to make the cats earn their keep. The book gives great advice for dealing with different types of cats such as a complete moron (I have one of these), clinically insane and many others. There is even a section on how to even get your cat to behave during the shooting of video. Honestly after reading the book and doing exactly what I was told all 4 cats became bored and wandered off to take naps.

[aliceap-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

If you want a book that is BURSTING at the seams with funny then you're in luck because How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity is just the book for you. This book is an entrepreneur's dream how-to manual giving step-by-step instructions on how to utilize the gifts of that pesky cat that up until now only slept and destroyed villainous toilet paper rolls. Instead of bemoaning the fact that your cat seems to think her water bowl is possessed by a demon catch her (on tape!) giving it distrustful looks before knocking it flying with a paw. If your cat looks fetching in an ascot (meow!) make sure to grab footage of him strutting his stuff while looking extraordinarily stylish. This book has every tip for making a mint by harnessing the hidden talents of the feline in your life. (Also, the pictures and captions are FANTASTIC.)

[eclecticlibrarian_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Mildly amusing, and pretty much what you'd expect from a gift-bait book. Mine came from my parents, and I suspect there are few people who will purchase a copy for themselves.

[doggonelaura · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Another hilarious book from Quirk delivers advice about making your cat famous. Lots of great photos and comic suggestionz about how to take a video and/or photos of your cat, edit them, post them, and bring your cat the fame it deserves. Perhaps much of the advice is a little risky to your cat, or to you or your friends, but the author does point out the hazards of staging your awesome cat video. I enjoyed all the instructions, and I don’t even own a cat. I have two dogs, and while much of the information can be applied, let’s face it, cats are just funnier. This quick read is fun, and while mostly a joke, actually has some good guidance. I never did see information about how you actually make money—and the title doesn’t promise that—but that didn’t diminish my enjoyment of the jokes….

[runa_17 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The book was fine. It was funny at points, but seemed to try too hard at others. I am genuinely afraid that some people out there are going to take this as a serious how-to guide. If you're a cat lover and someone who is REALLY into cat memes, I guess borrow this from the library, but otherwise, it's really not worth it. Also, if you're writing a book with a cat loving audience, perhaps it is not the best venue for jokes about drowning cats? Maybe?

[mamcguire1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This pint-sized book is hilarious! The quality of the book itself is fantastic: nice, thick paper, high resolution photos of felines of all kinds, and knowledgeable diagrams on the process of making your cat famous. Read this book for a laugh and you won't be sorry.

[mizami-3 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

When I opened "How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity: A Guide to Financial Freedom", I wasn't quite sure what I'd find. I was pleasantly surprised by a parody of get-rich-quick schemes that is packed with tongue-in-cheek humor and never takes itself seriously. Full of pictures of actual cats being funny (I know, right?), colorful diagrams, and helpful suggestions (when using an infant as a prop to engage your cat, "Use a crawling-type baby for best results. The walking ones are just too difficult to work with"), this is definitely a book I'll leave out on the table (or perhaps bathroom shelf) for guests.

[sublunarie · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Great, funny parody. Great book to share with friends.