Our YouTube channel has been launched!

Visit Meowhausen & Friends on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA5HLq_OruPq5KfSEZNIkzA/featured

Talking animal stories, cat audiobook adventures, and other audiobook stories is what you will find on this channel.

Since 2009, we have worked on developing our fantasy world’s lore, history and heroes such as Meowhausen, the time-travelling Dine Lord in whose honour we named our channel.

So if you are in the mood for an instrumental tune, a talking cat story, audiobook adventure or a fun cat video, you’ve come to the right place. Our genre is fantasy fiction and our talking animal stories primarily take place on the magic animal world of Animus. Please watch the first episode to learn more here: http://bit.do/ani1

In the meantime, keep an ear out for our animal audible adventures, we will do our best to bring you one cute cat story after another!

Tales of Animus: Winning at Life (Book 3) is out!

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The book’s by-line reads:

‘Tis in times of peril—not blithe leisure,
That we truly find a hero’s measure.

As the saying goes, being a hero is not about being immune to fear—that’s ignorance, not heroism. Being a hero is about doing the right thing despite fear. Loyalty, keeping promises and preserving our integrity often requires a great deal of personal sacrifice and willpower. Throughout our lives we wonder whether these virtues are worth the hardship we put ourselves through for the privilege of being able to meet our own gaze in the mirror without doubt or regret. Our mentors tell us how we take for granted things others in the world are praying for and how what does not kill us strengthens us and builds character.

Many of the heroes in these stories are conflicted. They embark upon desperate journeys of self-discovery, in search for missing pieces of their souls. Although none of the protagonists are human, their inner-most struggles are easily-relatable to us, as we have all experienced disappointment, temptation, envy, rejection and other manifestations of fear. Simply put, this book takes you on exciting, bite-sized adventures, where you will witness flawed characters dream big, dig deep, rise to extraordinary challenges and do their best to prevail through their faith and ingenuity.

All of the stories are about someone accepting a challenge, succeeding and thereby growing or… avoiding hardship, succumbing to fear and thereby becoming diminished by hiding from the experience. These stories seek to kindle and amplify that spark of heroism that lives in every one of us.

Read the short description of each story here.

Meowhausen continues his adventures!

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Dear friends,

We are pleased to present the "Second Course" in the book series "The Fat Adventures of Baron Meowhausen" — A TASTE OF TONGUE-FU.

The book is available in Kindle format on Amazon and other greta electronic book distributors such as iBooks, Kobo, Smashwords and many more.

We hope you enjoy the read!

Read more here.

Animus Character Casting Competition Winter 2014 successfully ended!

Once again we organised a Character Casting Competition and one lucky winner would get a personalised story in one of our upcoming books!

CONGRATULATIONS to our glorious winners!

PRIZES:
1st place: NOMO (Jube Jube) (Courtney Ross) (196 votes) - Main character in a short story, published around Christmas 2015 AND a drawing of the winning pet (published here and sent via email)
2nd place: NEWALI (Julia Hayes) (194 votes) - Secondary character in short story, published around Christmas 2015 AND a signed copy of THE FAT ADVENTURES OF MEOWHAUSEN
3rd place: CLEO (Sylvie Bergeron) (183 votes) - A signed copy of THE FAT ADVENTURES OF MEOWHAUSEN

SPIRIT AWARDS:
As per our custom, we also selected a couple of winners from those who did not make the finals, as well. And since the competition was so extremely popular and all contestants worked so hard to get their pets noticed, we decided, this once, to take not just the top three finalists to Animus, but the top FOUR!
Surprise Award: THOREEN (Doreen Kimba)
Writer's Choice Award: SIMBA (Jane Hammond)
Illustrator's Choice Award: ABBY ROAD (Sandy Wuerch)

Our next competition will be held in spring 2015—so keep your eyes open!

You can see the Competition posts here:

First Round - Qualification and Top 7 on Likes

Final Round - Voting and Top 3 on Comments

The Winners

Meet Fabio

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Meet Fabio the cat — one of the real-world pets who won the Animus Characters' Casting Competition of April 2014 and who will be the hero of his own story!

Fabio’s alter ego on Animus, starts out life as a vain princeling. Although this Fabio refuses to follow in the paw-tracks of his belligerent father and become a warlord, he remains an aloof and narcissistic playboy. Eventually, he falls for an unusual girl and must learn the meanings of love and honour, to keep his young family safe from his father’s ever-waxing wrath.