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Some days feel like a battle, right?
But you can defeat that tablecloth.
You can scratch your cheek on the edge of the chair & squint at the camera.
You can hope even when hope seems a radical act.
Let’s make hope not a radical act.
xo Cloud the Kitten
Humans,
Cats never forget how magnificent we are even when we’re just sitting on a table.
Be like us.
Own your majesty.
Be emotionally honest. Demand your wants. Watch each others backs. Meow wildly.
Rise up & raise each other up. You can do this.
xo
Marsie & Cloud
Repeat after me: It is okay to have fun.
It is okay to have fun.
Joy is not a four-letter word.
*Double checks because my brain is still forming*
Yep, three letters.
Don’t let other people dictate your choices, your emotions, your you. You’re better than that.
xo
Cloud
I’m about to publish a super cool adult novel. Gasp! I know! Adult! That’s so …. grown-up?
I have a new book coming out!
Rosie Jones, small town reporter and single mom, is looking forward to her first quiet Maine winter with her young daughter, Lily. After a disastrous first marriage, she’s made a whole new life and new identities for her and her little girl. Rosie is more than ready for a winter of cookies, sledding, stories about planning board meetings, and trying not to fall in like with the local police sergeant, Seamus Kelley.
But after her car is tampered with and crashes into Sgt. Kelley’s cruiser during a blizzard, her quiet new world spirals out of control and back into the danger she thought she’d left behind. One of her new friends is murdered. She herself has been poisoned and she finds a list of anagrams on her dead friend’s floor.
As the killer strikes again, it’s obvious that the women of Bar Harbor aren’t safe. Despite the blizzard and her struggle to keep her new identity a secret, Rosie sets out to make sure no more women die. With the help of the handsome but injured Sgt. Kelley and the town’s firefighters, it’s up to Rosie to stop the murderer before he strikes again.
You can preorder it here. Please, please, preorder it.
So, um, please go buy it. I am being brave, but that means that despite all my reasons for doing this, I’m still terrified that nobody will buy it and I really, really love this book. A lot.
Sometimes the world seems a bit … much?
Hang onto love and friends. Let go of the stuff that keeps you from being strong. Hang on.
Hang on.
This world needs good. You are the good.
Also, please remember not to poop in the sink.
Cough.
Looking at you, kitten.
xo
Gabby Dog and Cloud the Kitten
This week’s Cooking With an Author – vegetarian recipes with a quirky, author twist is here. It’s all about hangover burritos. You do not have to be hungover or to ever have had alcohol to enjoy them.
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Good morning!
Today is a good day to explore, jump in a bucket, hang out there like a cat boss, and jump out when you’re ready.
It’s a good day to love, and to be love.
It’s a good day to be you.
You is pretty awesome.
You’ve got this.
xo
Cloud the Kitten
This week’s Cooking With an Author – vegetarian recipes with a quirky, author twist is here. It’s all about hangover burritos. You do not have to be hungover or to ever have had alcohol to enjoy them.
The Write. Submit. Support. format is designed to embrace all aspects of the literary life. This six-month course will offer structure and support not only to our writing lives but also to the roller coaster ride of submissions: whether that be submitting to agents or, if agented, weathering the submissions to editors. We will discuss passes that come in, submissions requests, feedback we aren’t sure about, where we are feeling directed to go in our writing lives, and more. Learn more here!
“Carrie’s feedback is specific, insightful and extremely helpful. She is truly invested in helping each of us move forward to make our manuscripts the best they can be.”
“Carrie just happens to be one of those rare cases of extreme talent and excellent coaching.”
Continue reading “Cloud the Kitten in a Bucket’s Thursday Inspiration and Some Links to Things”
Sometimes it’s hard to open your heart to life that feels different, but
that’s the best time to open your heart.
You get a cool soft place to rest your head & to just be.
Loving is just being.
Opening your heart? It’s not about taking or giving. It’s about being.
I want that for you.
Love,
Gabby Dog
Sometimes the ones you least expect to love you end up licking your face.
Lean into love.
You deserve it.
Love brings kindness. Kindness brings goodness. Goodness brings hope. Lean.
Xo
Cloud and Marsie
How does your heart survive sometimes?
I don’t know.
I’m just so glad that it does.
That we are in this world together.
It’s okay to rest.
It’s all okay. Do what you need to do to thrive.
I am rooting for you and your heart.
xo
Cloud the Kitten
