Omega Cat Press

Omega Cat Press Omega Cat Press was founded in the late 1980s. It notably published Alpha Gallery. Today it publishes the works of J and D R Oestreicher.

Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Historical novel)The dark side of California history. The Filipino immigrant exp...
09/08/2025

Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Historical novel)

The dark side of California history. The Filipino immigrant experience. From the Spanish-American War to farm laborers to World War II allies to anti-Asian sentiments in the 21st century, the US relationship with the Philippines has been difficult.

Over the centuries, immigrants came to California for work. There were the 19th-century Chinese who came for mining and railroad work. The Okies during the Depression for farm labor. Mexican guest-workers in the 1960s. This book is about the Filipino experience. Each Filipino generation faced its own challenges: “Manong Generation, the Watsonville riots, Stockton’s Little Manila, the Delano grape strike, the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr., and the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (coming-of-age novel)Four generations of fathers and sons. Francisco, Emil, Chris...
09/08/2025

Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (coming-of-age novel)

Four generations of fathers and sons. Francisco, Emil, Chris, Enzo. Each father wants his son to benefit from his experience. Each son wants to set off in his own direction. Each generation lives in a different society. How can they span the generation gap?

Francisco arrived in the United States in 1929, looking for a better life for himself and his family back in the Philippines. He faced racism and brutality and fought back as a farm labor organizer. His son, Emil, resented that his father was rarely home. He responded by being apolitical and choosing school and assimilation. He became an engineer. His son, Chris, felt secure enough to pursue his heritage and personal interests. He became a high school history teacher. His son, Enzo, is still in high school.

Lily Bloom hated that her mother stayed with her abusive father. At 23, she married neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid. His siste...
09/05/2025

Lily Bloom hated that her mother stayed with her abusive father. At 23, she married neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid. His sister Allysa was Lily’s best friend. Unfortunately, Ryle had a temper. Lily found herself in the same situation as her mother. Stay or go?

When Lily was 15, she fell in love with Atlas Corrigan. He lived in an abandoned house behind Lily in Plethora, Maine. When her violent father caught them together, he beat Atlas with a baseball bat. She went to college, and he joined the Marines. At 23, she took her inheritance to open a flower shop. Lily Blossom Bloom opened a flower shop in Boston. There she met Ryle and Allysa. She also ran into Atlas. She married Ryle and became pregnant before she realized that Ryle was abusive, like her father was. She loved the father of her child. What should she do?

When Maya was seventeen, she watched her boyfriend Frank murder her girlfriend Aubrey. She didn’t know how he did it, an...
09/01/2025

When Maya was seventeen, she watched her boyfriend Frank murder her girlfriend Aubrey. She didn’t know how he did it, and no one believed her. Seven years later, she saw him murder another girl, on video, on social media. She returned to her hometown (Pittsfield) in western Massachusetts to solve the mystery. Horror.

She met Frank in the library and soon came under his spell. She had a full-ride scholarship to Boston University with enrollment starting in a few weeks. She considered taking a gap year to be with Frank. After Franck murdered Aubrey, she left Pittsfield to enroll in BU. She returned seven years later after she saw a video online where Cristina Lewis died sitting across the table from Frank. From her experience with Aubrey, she knew she couldn’t accuse Frank without evidence.

Mika Moon was raised by Primrose, the matriarch of The Very Secret Society of Witches. The rule was that witches must li...
08/27/2025

Mika Moon was raised by Primrose, the matriarch of The Very Secret Society of Witches. The rule was that witches must live alone. Mika was in trouble when she agreed to teach the three young witches living together at Nowhere House. A cozy romance. Five stars.

Mika’s childhood provided everything except friends and love. All witches were orphans, and whenever any of her tutors or nannies got close to Mike, Primrose cleared their memory and sent them away. At Nowhere House, she broke all of Primrose’s rules. Regardless, she struggled to trust anyone. Can love at Nowhere House overcome Mika’s childhood insecurities and feelings of worthlessness?

Antonia struggles to find herself after her husband’s death. She stages an intervention to save her eldest sister. She a...
08/21/2025

Antonia struggles to find herself after her husband’s death. She stages an intervention to save her eldest sister. She aids undocumented Mario, a worker at her neighbor’s farm, in rescuing his fiancée from the coyotes. She is always asking, Who is the most important? A meditation on life after death.

Antonia was an English Literature professor and related her struggles to classic literature, particularly Tolstoy’s three questions: What is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? In her quest to find herself after her husband, Sam, dies, she returns to the second question and reminds herself that she is the most important person. She grapples with the forces around her not to get lost in the lives of others.

Two lost people: Tova Sullivan, 70, lost her only child, Erik, when he was 18. Cameron Cassmore, 30, was raised by his a...
08/14/2025

Two lost people: Tova Sullivan, 70, lost her only child, Erik, when he was 18. Cameron Cassmore, 30, was raised by his aunt and is searching for his father. Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, saves them. 6/5 stars.

Tova Sullivan lived in the house her Swedish father had built. By the time he finished the playroom in the attic, Tova and her brother Lars were too old. Tova’s grandchildren should have played there, but her son Erik mysteriously disappeared when he was 18. No grandchildren. She is the night cleaner at the aquarium to keep busy. At 70, she will sell the house and move into Charter Village Long-Term Care Center, where her brother lived until his death.

Cameron Cassmore was raised in California by his Aunt Jeanne. He’s been fired from every job he’d had. He’d never met his father, but a box of his mother’s things matched her with Simon Brinks, the rich developer. His father! He leaves California for Washington state to track down his deadbeat dad without any funds or a plan. To support himself, he takes a temp job as a night cleaner at the Sowell Bay Aquarium.

A complicated romantasy about a human princess, Homily, and a shapeshifting mass of gray flesh, Shesheshen [Mandarin for...
08/09/2025

A complicated romantasy about a human princess, Homily, and a shapeshifting mass of gray flesh, Shesheshen [Mandarin for Thank God]. 2025 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Homily’s mother, the Baroness, wants to kill the wyrm Shesheshen for cursing her family.

The story takes place in the city of Underlook on the isthmus between L’Etat Bon (The Good State) and the Engmars.

Shesheshen (谢谢神 or Thank God) was born in a nest of her father. At first, the nestlings survived by consuming their father, but as they grew, they turned to cannibalism. Shesheshen was the sole survivor. Her sole companion was a large blue bear that she named Blueberry. She was a shapeshifter comprised of a gray blob, who the humans called a wyrm and a monster. She could only be killed by poison with rosemary oil.

The wyrm cursed the Baroness Wulfyre’s family. The Baroness killed Shesheshen’s mother, and wears her mother’s teeth around her neck. The Baroness wants the wyrm killed to end the curse, and she wants the wyrm’s beating heart. Her children, oldest to youngest, are Catharsis (only son), Homily, Epigram, and Ode.

PJ wants to marry his high school sweetheart, whom he hasn’t seen in forty-five years. Ten-year-old Luna wants to find h...
08/01/2025

PJ wants to marry his high school sweetheart, whom he hasn’t seen in forty-five years. Ten-year-old Luna wants to find her biological father, a soap opera star. Pancakes, the orange cat, who can read and sense impending death, is along for the ride. Don’t miss this one.

PJ is an alcoholic, but when Fred invites him to be the best man at his wedding to PJ’s ex-wife, Ivy, PJ decides to become sober. When Fred and Ivy leave for a vacation to Alaska, PJ feels abandoned. Fortunately, PJ learns that his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, has been widowed. He decides to drive from Massachusetts to Arizona to marry “the one who got away.” Also, when the grandchildren of PJ’s estranged brother, Chip, become orphans, the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families gives PJ guardianship of Ollie and Luna, nine- and ten-year-old Irish twins. This is a comedy. Enjoy it.

What do you know? Banana companies are evil. Bananas are popular. Learn more… They are hard to grow and harder to breed....
07/28/2025

What do you know? Banana companies are evil. Bananas are popular. Learn more… They are hard to grow and harder to breed. They are sterile. Bananas are a staple food in Africa. The yellow ones in the store are Cavendish. All clones. All at risk. Learn more.

Once all the yellow (dessert) bananas were Gros Michel (Big Mike). They were delicious. They were easy to ship. They were perfect. However, they were vulnerable to Panama Disease. So they were over by Cavendish. Cavendish was second best, but it was resistant to Panama disease. However, Cavendish is now vulnerable to an evolved Panama disease and other banana threats. After 50-plus years of research, there is no replacement for Cavendish.

One of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels, not Poirot, not Marple, just a unique plot. Ten people were trapped on Sold...
07/24/2025

One of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels, not Poirot, not Marple, just a unique plot. Ten people were trapped on Soldier Island and murdered according to a nursery rhyme, with no murderer in sight. Classic. Other unique plots by Christie include: "Murder on the Orient Express” and “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.”

Isadora Morales attends Marian, a school for the super-rich. Her mom is a teacher, and her sister is wheelchair-bound. S...
07/20/2025

Isadora Morales attends Marian, a school for the super-rich. Her mom is a teacher, and her sister is wheelchair-bound. Seven friends attend a 1920s graduation party. She sneaks into Blaine’s room with a knife. In the morning, he is found stabbed to death.

Six rich friends and Izzy Morales have a 1920s high school graduation party at Ashwood Manor on Sparrow Island. The party goes well until Blaine Gilbert is found dead, stabbed multiple times. Detective Cates and consultant Pilar de Leon investigate. During the investigation, everyone is isolated on the island. (Compare this to Soldier Island in Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.) Five stars.

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