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Rachel Rowlands, Editor & Author

Books

Cat café romances

published by hodder & stoughton
  • Snowed in at the Cat Café book cover
    Snowed in at the Cat Café
  • Cake Off at the Cat Café
    Cake Off at the Cat Café
  • First Dates at the Cat Café by Rachel Rowlands
    First Dates at the Cat Café
  • The Cat Café Book Club
    The Cat Café Book Club
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Nethervale series

self-published
  • The Darkest Curse
  • The Wicked Prince
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Rest peacefully, lovely Jesper. The second cat we' Rest peacefully, lovely Jesper. The second cat we've lost in six weeks. 😔 **Please do ignore this and scroll on by you're sensitive to pet loss/pet death** First, we lost the gorgeous stray my husband bonded with, Chunk, just before Christmas. And now we've had to say goodbye to beautiful Jesper. She was 16 years old and my husband's baby. He got her about 3 months into our relationship. She was a constant in our lives ever since. When my own cat Lily (second photo) became unwell, she lay with her daily and cleaned her. Later, when we brought Haru home, she bonded to a feisty kitten who ended up growing bigger than her. But Jesper had become very poorly and we had to let her go this week. I won't say much more as I believe so many moments in life are precious and should be private and cherished. I will say that, if you didn't know, I based one of the cat café's cats on her – Jess, the one who likes to nuzzle hair when it's freshly shampooed. She did that a lot. She was very sweet and was my husband's shadow. She liked to be carried around on his shoulders and wanted to be around him every second of the day. Her absence is palpable. She'll be so very missed. ❤️🙏
Snowed In at the Cat Café is now out in eight lang Snowed In at the Cat Café is now out in eight languages and nine territories outside the UK/US 🥹❤️ Look at how lovely all these editions look together! Do you have a favourite cover? I still remember the absolute whirlwind of selling this book in 2023, right before Christmas, and all the foreign deals that quickly came in after. I don't think it's something I'll ever forget! After enduring seven years of rejection while submitting my work at various stages, the sudden flurry of interest was intense and so exciting! All these editions remind me of how hard I worked to get here and how proud I am of this book! It really changed everything for me as an author. I'm so incredibly grateful to have my stories be read so widely, after many years thinking no one was interested in my work at all. What a true gift to be here. 🙏 💕🐱
Earlier this week, I received copies of the Quebec Earlier this week, I received copies of the Quebec French edition of Snowed In at the Cat Café, published by @saintjeanediteur. 🥰 I love the attention to detail on this cover – the slope indicating the café is on a hill, the lamp post outside, the baked goods in the windows! It's so cute and cosy. Snowed In is out in eight languages now (and nine territories around the world). I still can't believe it! It's such an enormous honor to have my words translated for readers all over the world. I can’t wait to receive author copies of some of the other translations! ❤️ #snowedinatthecatcafe #catcafeseries
We now have a winner from the prize draw last mont We now have a winner from the prize draw last month to have your cat's name featured in First Dates at the Cat Café... Nutmeg!! 🐱🐱 This lovely name will join Catpurrcino, and will be the name of the newest addition to the cat café. The @hodderbooks @hodderfiction team did an amazing job shortlisting some names from all your entries, and it was tough for me to choose the winner, but I just loved the name Nutmeg and thought it was so cosy and fitting for the café. ❤️ Congratulations to Nutmeg! 🥰 Hope you and your owner are excited to see your name in the series. #firstdatesatthecatcafe #catcafeseries
It snowed so there was only one thing to do on my It snowed so there was only one thing to do on my break from wading through new year emails... take pretty book pictures! 📚❄️ Haru does not like snow. Scroll for evidence. 😂 If she was a cat café cat, you'd find her snuggled indoors in the Cat Lounge pretending she wasn't snowed in at all. Far cosier that way.

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