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Over the holidays, so many guests exclaimed that Miss Crankypants’ cats are overweight. One relative advised a weight-loss diet. Like that would work. Said relative doesn’t realize that the Cranky Cats dine at what is lovingly called “the bottomless bowl.” Another irritated the daylights out of Miss CP by intimating that perhaps SHE could join […]
Paladine the Tailless Miss Crankypants is standing in her kitchen, wondering why she came in here. She just knows it was to find something important! But for all her mental willpower, she cannot remember what it is.Meanwhile, there are fingerprints on the fridge!Now in Miss CP’s household the youngest person is way over the hill, […]
And no, we’re not talking about her waistline. Miss CP has been having SUCH a swell time (especially around the ankles, groan) that she’s going to look beyond the measly writing life and weigh in on regular old life. With a day job. You know, the one writers everywhere are trying to escape?It won’t be […]
One of Melchior’s henchmen When it comes to writing, Miss Crankypants is one of the proudest parents on the planet.Writers everywhere know the feeling. We nurture and discipline our baby writings. We feed them and we change their messy diapers. A LOT. We cheer even when they get homemade awards and we cry when they fail to get […]
Today Miss Crankypants finds herself wallowing with some other writers in Bad Review Land and boy, is the fur a’flyin’. Writers can’t just sympathize with one another over a one star rating. Noooo. They must endlessly debate the correct response to these mood-killing bombs. Writer A: So I get this horrible one star review over on Bookazon. […]
Miss Crankypants has never been prone to writer’s jealousy. After all, she knows that her stuff is far superior to any drivel other writers (even the clever ones) produce. But when AWARDS SEASON hits, the gloves come off. Miss CP is sure the award system in publishing is a lot like the football BCS playoffs. […]
Whether we want them or not, clever writers are everywhere. They’ve got the market cornered on the rest of us poor writing fools. Clever writers have the presence of mind to think ahead and build up their blog audience years in advance of their book’s release. They manage to place hundreds of magazine articles to […]