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Launch Date Announced
Image: HimHo I could hardly keep my eyes open at the day job yesterday. I was so tired I just wanted to do my work quietly and without interruption. Unfortunately, my position doesn’t entail that to be possible so I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Websites, Writing
Tagged Amazon, chapbooks, coffee shop, eBooks, Edinburgh, grumpy, insomnia, Kindle, launch day, Leith, Lulu, Mac, media, pen name, poems, Poetry, Portobello, pseudonym, Sleep, Video, web development, Website, YouTube
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Dentistry Wonders
Image: Unknown Teef For my birthday last week, my mother-in-law bought me an electric toothbrush. I’d been meaning to get one for some time, ever since my dentist recommended it to me several visits ago. I finally charged the thing … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Editorial Comment, Freelance, Writing
Tagged A Biblio Paradise, Amazon, Blackpool, Books, Comedy Carpet, dental, dentistry, eBooks, electric toothbrush, essay, Frankie Howard, Kindle, Les Dawson, magical fiction, Morecambe and Wise, paranormal fiction, teeth, Tommy Cooper, Writing
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Changing Reading Habits Thanks to the Kindle
Image: Orionwell Reading Habits Hot on the heels of finishing the brilliant One Day, I started reading another novel, this time a JA Konrath book, an author I discovered while on holiday in Rhodes during the summer. I started Origin, … Continue reading
Hillsborough Disaster Memories
Image: BBCNews Remember the 96 22 years ago today, 96 people lost their lives in one of Britain’s worst football tragedies in what became known as The Hillsborough Disaster. They were died at Hillsborough Stadium in an F.A. Cup game between … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Editorial Comment, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Sport, Video, Writing
Tagged Amazon, British sport, eBooks, Editing, Football, Friday Vid, Hillsborough Stadium, Kindle, Liverpool, manuscript, Poetry Superhighway Free-For-All, Publishing and Marketing, revisions, Sheffield Wednesday, The Hillsborough Disaster, Twitter, Writing
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My Bucket List
Image: Don DeBold Wide Days Well, Wide Days didn’t quite happen for me last night, or at least the gigs didn’t anyway. It turns out there had been some form of massive cock up at their HQ with regards the evening … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Editorial Comment, Freelance, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Writing
Tagged Adam Ant, Amazon, Books, Bucket List, competition, eBooks, Friday Vid, gigs, Kindle, live music, Poetry, Rachel Sermanni, Reading, The Good, the Mad and the Lovely Posse, Twitter, Video, Wide Days, Withered Hand, Writing
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Books and Boudoir
Image: BoudoirPhotography.org.uk I had to work on day job tasks late into Tuesday night and then very early yesterday morning, so by the time it came time to leave yesterday, I was shattered. I saved the evening by grabbing a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Music, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Amazon, articles, Big Audio Dynamite, Blogging, Books, boudoir, Day Job, eBooks, Eternal Press, Gail Galbraith Photography, gig review, Kindle, Man in the East, Music, Poetry, poetry competitions, portrait photography, Rachel Sermanni, Sleep, Twitter, wedding photography, Wide Days, Withered Hand, work
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The Trouble with Hair
Image: partypants.co.uk Shaving I really should shave more often. Ideally I should shave my head and face twice per week, but in reality I’m lazy during the week when it comes to that kind of thing. The problem is this: … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Amazon, book selling, Books, e-books, e-commerce, Fiction, hair, iBooks, indie publishing, Internet sales, Kindle, men, Phill Jupitus, Poetry, selling, shaving, videos, website sales, YouTube
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New Issue of the Ranfurly Review
Image: Ranfurly Review Decaffeination Problems Last Friday, perhaps through some form on underlying grief, I managed to break the carafe on my coffee maker. The handle came away in my hand thus snapping the glass it was connected to when … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Amazon, Angus, Baccara Burning, carafe, Coffee, Coffee maker, e-zine, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, GDR's, How to Make Any Twit Fall in Love With You, iBooks, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, lit-mag, Louise Rennison, magazine, marketing, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Writing
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Reasons To Be Cheerful
Image: Elegant Chic Yesterday was the 14th anniversary of my first ever Madness gig at a London venue. I’d seen them before by then, but travelling to London to see the Magnificent 7 on their home turf is like going … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Sport, Writing
Tagged Amazon, anniversary, Books, critique, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust, England, Euro 96, Every Day Poets, Fiction, Finsbury Park, Football, Gail Galbraith Photography, Gazza, gigs, Kindle, London, Madness, Madstock, Music, novella, Photography, poems, Poetry, proofing, publications, rewriting, special offer, Sport, wedding photography, World Cup
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Freedom from the Mundane 
November, and Why It Rocks
November I love November. I love the shift from the unsettled weather of October, which can often have Scotland shivering under a bitter sky one minute then basking in warm sunshine the next. Technically, it’s classed as autumn, but it’s … Continue reading →