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Tag Archives: Blood Ties
Got To Stay Fighting Fit
Image: Max Talbot-Minkin Bit of a busy day today. The day job kept me on my toes but I got some editing work done on a couple of shorts I’ve written over lunch. I spent most of my evening catching … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Reading
Tagged Blood Ties, cold, Day Job, Editing, Fiction, health, novella, novels, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Submissions, Writing
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Solid Snowy Sunday
Image: Melle Plante It took around 20 minutes from waking up to remember that I sold Stella yesterday, and that it is going to be published. It’s a great feeling, and today when I actually signed the contract, I felt … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Blood Ties, Books, Fiction, novella, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, rugby, Scotland, Six Nations, snow, Stella, Wales, Weather, Website, Writing
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A Couple Of New Arrivals
Image: Dave Apple Laura and her pals never woke until later in the morning. Not surprising given the time they were up to last night. I eventually fell asleep around 1am, though it wasn’t easy. When I got up this … Continue reading
All The Fun Of The Fair
Image: clspeace Murder is a thought not often contemplated by the sane and the civilised, but it crossed my mind today. This probably only serves to prove my theory, that if you had to work with some of the wallies … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Blood Ties, Day Job, Fiction, Hunting Jack, Leith, murder, novels, Ocean Terminal, poems, Poetry, publishers, Starbucks, Submissions, Writing
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Wee Bobby
Image: WordRidden Back in the swing today; no dodgy tummy, no feel crappy, although still not much of an appetite but I can live with that for now. And an early start meant high levels of creativity, particularly since I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Poetry, Politics, Writing
Tagged Anita Govan, appetite, Blood Ties, deslexia, Fiction, fire, Graham Stringer MP, Greyfriar's Bobby, John Gray, Khushis, Labour, Liquid Room, novel, plotting, Poetry, Writing
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Thinking – A Lot Of Thinking
Image: Wonderlane I didn’t sleep much last night, my stomach still turning over in spasm and gurgles. I tried to eat some bread and consume a cup of tea about an hour before putting out my light last night, but … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Reading, Writing
Tagged AL Kennedy, articles, Blood Ties, blue hours, Books, chapbooks, dawn, Day, Day Job, dusk, Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, GDR's, ill, novel, poems, Poetry, Reading, Scruffy Dog Review, SDR, Sick, Writing
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A Wider Horizon
Image: nxb I don’t have that much to say from this weekend, other than I wasn’t feeling myself and I’m not sure why. I’m not depressed or anything clinical, just pissed off with certain things, which when it happens, affects … Continue reading
Freedom from the Mundane 
Facebook Farce
Image: Facebook So even if I wanted to close my Facebook account, now I can’t. And the rights to all the images I uploaded now belong to them, too? Can’t say I’m all that impressed with FB making the announcement … Continue reading →