Gabriella Herkert

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When I was a law student, I heard a story about a woman who left her fortune to her cat. On the surface, she seemed nuts. Then, I met her family and the world made sense again. I didn't know I would write about it then but I did put it in my journal. A few years later, when I decided to try to write a novel, I paged back through my journal to jump start my imagination and there it was—the perfect opening to a seemingly insane world. I took the story and added my personal experience. The only character in Catnapped! based on a real "person" is Flash.

I tried to write a...