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Are you a reader who'd like to contact Crabby personally, or find out more about commenting on Cranky Fitness, or get listed on her blogroll?

Or do you have a product or service to promote, or a guest post to pitch, or an exciting partnership idea?

This is the place to come first so that Crabby doesn't ignore your email, delete your comment, or otherwise do something rude and thoughtless!

(Note: Crabby is actually just disorganized and busy, and not as mean as all this sounds. But instead of responding individually to the ginormous volume of PR missives and guest post queries, she would rather cherry-pick the good ones and spend time the rest of that time writing half-assed blog posts, coaching lovely clients over at her Life and Wellness Coaching practice, or mindlessly surfing the web for funny cartoons and pretending it is "health research").

To Reach Crabby by Email:

1. If you are promoting something, read the stuff below first to see if she will just delete your email unread.

2. Assemble her address. In an effort to avoid spam harvesting robots, let's make this as complicated as possible, shall we? Start with crabbymcslacker and then use the symbol for "at" and then note that she uses gmail which ends with dot com, and you should be all set.

If this is too confusing, leave a comment on a recent post admitting you couldn't follow this explanation and if you're not a spammer she will find you and help you.

General Blog Questions and Comments:


Comments are most welcome! Unless they're spam, Crabby reads and treasures ever single comment, because Cranky Fitness readers are awesome.  And in a new experiment, she is replying to individual comments pretty darn frequently! (Though not on giveaways, guest posts, or old posts). So you may want to check back in a few hours or days, or see if that little "subscribe by email" link at the bottom of the comment form works for you to let you know about comment replies. Also, you may want to try replying to other people's comments, and then Crabby will weigh in again too, and then, voila: a conversation! If you comment on a post more than a week old, it may take a while to appear as these are moderated.

Frequent commenters with somewhat health-related blogs that aren't too commercial may end up on the blogroll. People actually do click on blogroll post titles and click over to read what's on your mind. If you are a frequent commenter and Crabby has forgotten to include you, please send an email and you may find yourself on there.

Sadly, Crabby may not visit your blog and comment there more than very occasionally. She used to be better about making the blog rounds but got too lazy busy. And if your blog has a comment system that won't let her leave a name/URL outside of a particular blogging platform, she may bail because she's frequently logged in on her personal gmail account and don't want to bother signing out, sorry.

If you'd like to talk about something personal and feel to shy to leave it in a blog comment, feel free to use the email address above.

Promote Your Products or Service:

Advertising:  Surprisingly enough, Cranky Fitness gets a lot of traffic and has a pretty decent google page rank for such a scatterbrained health and fitness blog.

The blog accepts a limited number of text and banner ads, sometimes up front and sometimes sneakily inserted into old posts to target googlers rather than bother regular readers.  Crabby will also write sponsored posts.  She insists, however, on disclosing a sponsorship relationship if one exists though this can be done unobtrusively.

Email her for rates, as these change depending on demand and whim.  Be forewarned that ads are not as cheap as you'd think for such a sketchy looking blog, because Cranky Fitness is a happier place when it is relatively uncluttered. Also Crabby is mindful of page rank and doesn't want to f--ck too much with The Google.

Note: Not all products and services are a good match for Cranky Fitness readership so Crabby may not respond for example, to proposed ads featuring words like "colonic," "gaming," "miracle," or "manhood."

Guest Posts:

Cranky Fitness rarely runs guest posts anymore, so if you aren't either (a) already known to Crabby or (b) famous, she will probably not respond.  And yes, that does sound harsh, doesn't it? But for unknown reasons, the blog receives tons of guest post requests every day. If you are trying to get a post with links to your commercial site, consider sponsoring a post that Crabby writes or collaborates with you on! This is a great way to get your site noticed and linked to without pissing off regular readers.  But it ain't free.

Reviews and Giveaways:

Crabby likes free stuff, whether products or services...but writing reviews or hosting giveaways is time consuming.  So review inquiries may go unanswered unless you're pitching (a) something so revolutionary as to be downright shocking; (b) a relatively expensive product Crabby gets to keep or a service she could use; or (c) a giveaway prize blog readers would love to win that is either relatively valuable or, if not expensive, is going to be ponied up in sufficient quantity to be worth everyone's time. The best are combo review/giveaway promotions, 'cause then everyone is happy.

On giveaways, please be willing to ship directly to winners as Crabby hates going to the post office. If you're willing to send to non-U.S. winners (particularly Canadian) that gets extra special attention, because Crabby loves her Canadian readers.

Extraordinarily Greedy Wish List

If you or your client is offering any of the following in exchange for a review or other promotional consideration, Crabby will be especially happy to talk to you!

• High-end running, hiking or athletic shoes or clothing or gear.
• A bike, especially one like Crabby's beloved Giant road bike which broke her arm and got itself stolen twice but she still misses it.
• A Vita-Mix or other Fancy-Ass Blender because Crabby loves her smoothies.
• Other shiny high-end kitchen equipment to make healthy meal-prep as painless as possible.
• Neurofeedback equipment, as Crabby is trying to rewire her brain and could use more information on what exact sort of craziness is going on in there.
• Web Design, publicity, or marketing help.
• Personal training, personal chef, meal delivery, massage, or hypnotherapy services if you are located in San Diego CA or Provincetown MA.
• Virtual personal assistant services from wherever the hell you are.
• Sponsorship and travel/accommodation help to conferences, workshops, retreats, health spas, cruises, resorts, or active vacations.
• Software or games that are more than just cheap apps. 
• Electronic or photo/video gadgets that would make blogging easier, so Crabby can feel even guiltier about not blogging often enough.

Thanks so much for stopping by!