Who is EelKat?

EelKat, also known as The Eel Kat and  Miss Citten The Eel Kat and Empress EelKat, is a black cat from Planet Ptarmagin, known for travelling the universe in search of rare Space Eels which she raises.

The name "The EelKat" means very simply the cat who keeps eels for pets.

She was the very first character I created in 1978, and was the main character of my very first book to be published "Friends Are Forever" 

That original book, published September 23, 1978, featured a Black Cat, a Silver Cat (named Lynxiana), a gold dog named Goldeene (who in later stories was rewritten to be a bird), a silver skinned Moray Eel MerMan known as The Silver Salamander (later dubbed "Etiole" by fans), and a flying 1911 Ford Model T, that was a space ship they flew in to find Space Eels. They lived in Black Tower Lighthouse which they called Space Dock 13.

The inspiration was a mix of:

* The Cat From Outer Space (Disney Movie)

* Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (another Disney movie)

* And a trip to a Marine Aquarium where I got to see Eels up close.

* And a trip to The Portland Headlight Lighthouse.

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In all of the stories written from 1978 until 2006, EelKat was the narrator and the stories were told "epistle style" in 1st person as letters written by her to her cousin Lynxiana.

In 2014, I phased out most of the old characters, who while they still appear in the series from time to time, they are n longer primary or main characters, as I switched to putting minor character Quaraun as the main character, and renamed the series from The Twighlight Manor series to The Quaraun series.

Meaning EelKat is no longer the narrator.

The series is no longer 1st person.

And the series is no longer childrens stories published in Highlights, Cricket, Friend, and other magazines where it was published throughout 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

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Why is the website url eelkat.com?

Because in 2013, at the time I changed the url from spacedock13 to eelkat.com I took the names of all the characters from my books and ran them through a keyword took that Google had at the time, and results showed that of all my characters eelkat and etiole were getting the most search traffic, with searches for eelkat ranking at over 10k a month and searches for etiole ranking at over 300k a month. The url etiole.com was not available, but eelkat.com was, so that became the url of the website.

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Are you EelKat?

No.

I'm not sure why people call me EelKat, because I have never called myself EelKat.

I think it resulted from the first editions of the books saying "by EelKat as told to Wendy Christie Allen", which in the 1970s was a common way to tell readers the story was 1st person point of view... an EXTREMELY RARE AND HAIGHLU OBSURE form of writing in fiction, at the time.

Today in the 2000s, most stories are written in 1st person, and so readers don't get a knee jerk when they see it anymore, so publishers no longer use "by CHARACTER NAME as told to AUTHOR NAME" anymore.

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