Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 03, 2022

I don’t want to know what Rat’s muse is.

Rat and his mouse.

If you can’t take criticism, don’t publish. 90% of what you get is criticism, 5% praise, and 5% disinterest.

“They called my mother a WHAT?”

Write or wrong.

But Rat’s muse follows the reviews.

I don’t think that’s a tear, but…

Isn’t a lot of writing limited to tweets or comments, like this one?’

Didn’t read the first reviews because he wrote them. Anything after that though…

That look on his little rat face can’t be good. Or could it?

Look out world, there may be a “Rat Re-Rite”, say it 3 times really fast.

The only real issue with creating art is having people micromanage it while you’re trying to get the job done. True artists follow their instincts, they don’t try please people.

My favorite review of one of my titles was short but…well…odd: ‘Weirdly compelling’. Yes, right. That was…um…JUST what I was aiming for.

I have many PBS books…is there a new one perhaps?

Rat much more interested than he is willing to admit. I’m not surprised that Rat lied in order to save face. He does that a lot.

Paris should not have mentioned “admirable”!

You need a very thick skin to publish.

My sister is a stage actress and director. I once asked her what she thought about the review of one of her plays. She told me she never reads them. If you are concerned about what a reviewer is going to say, you get self conscious and your performance suffers. Her system must work, as she has won tons of awards.

Okay. So I lied…..

Rat has a muse? Who’s the lucky one?

Those are some bad chips…

NYT. This book makes a great replacement for the Sears & Roebuck catalog in an outhouse.

I find it odd that we have to appease random people on the internet we have never met and probably never will meet. Anything to stroke our egos, I guess.

Rat has entered his personal Twilight Zone. :)

i KNEW HE WAS LYING.

jUST LIKE i’VE NEVER BELIEVED MOVIE STARS WHO SAY THEY NEVER LOOK AT THE DAY’S “RUSHES”.

hOW CAN THEY not?

I bet Rat is busy looking for his Louisville Slugger right now…

Rat discovered Yahoo comments

Rat is gonna end up like that author who yelled at her fans for leaving ONLY 4-star reviews when she just KNOWS her book is a 5-star book, and called them entitled, ungrateful, spoiled, and all kinds of things

Rat, creative?

Online comments are a bit of a shock eh, Rat?

Honest criticism is hard to take…from almost anyone.

Rat is such a hypocrite! Not that that’s a surprise….

You’ve known Rat for how long, Goat?