title: I Want a Cat: My Opinion Essay (The Read and Write Series) (Volume 2)
author:  Darcy Pattison 
description: 2016 Winner of the Muse Medallion - Series Illustrations from the Cat Writer's Association. Awarded to the illustrator, Ewa O'Neill.
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  # About the Author
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Darcy Burke is the USA Today Bestselling Author of sexy, emotional historical
  and contemporary romance. Darcy wrote her first book at age 11, a happily ever
  after about a swan addicted to magic and the female swan who loved him, with
  exceedingly poor illustrations. Join her [Reader Club](http://Reader%20Club)
  newsletter at
  [https://www.darcyburke.com/readerclub](https://www.darcyburke.com/readerclub).
  
  
  
  
  
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  A native Oregonian, Darcy lives on the edge of wine country with her guitar-
  strumming husband, incredibly talented artist daughter, and imaginative son
  who will almost certainly out-write her one day (that may be tomorrow).
  They’re a crazy cat family with two Bengal cats, a small, fame-seeking cat
  named after a fruit, an older rescue Maine Coon with attitude to spare, and a
  collection of neighbor cats who hang out on the deck and occasionally venture
  inside. Yo