How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity

How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity: A Guide to Financial Freedom by Patricia Carlin with
photography by Dustin Fenstermacher, 127 pages

Well, the gist of this book is right there in the title: it's all about the ways in which you can make your cat a viral video sensation. This short and ridiculously funny book goes through the different types of marketable cat (cute and sweet, lazy bum, and complete moron, for example) and the ways in which you can best exploit their traits. Along the way, we learn about the importance of the American Girl store to cat videos and how to make those videos show up in any Google keyword search (hint: it probably helps if you name your cat after a much-gossiped-about celebrity a la Lindsay Lohan).

This snarky book manages to skewer celebrity tabloids, cat owners, and the cat-obsessed internet without being mean about it. I highly recommend it as a source of humor, though not as a pet care book (which is where this one is cataloged).

P.S. The photos are great, though the photographer's name is a bit suspect. Fenstermacher? That's got to be a pseudonym.