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Tag Archives: Book Festival
Lift Off at the West Port Book Festival
Image: GuerrillaGeek.com West Port Book Festival I nipped up to Peter Bell’s Books in West Port after the day job to collect my tickets for the West Port Book Festival that begins today. Over the next four days I’ll be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Book Festival, Books, chapbook, Cold War, Colin Firth, eBooks, Edinburgh, festival, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, John La Carré, Kathy Burke, Leith, literature, MI6, movie, Ocean Terminal, Orange Wednesday, Peter Bell's Book, Pizza Express, poems, Poetry, Reading, The Shore, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tom Hardy, Vue Cinema, West Port, West Port Book Festival, wpbf11
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Beer and Curry Medicine
Image: Curry Council Intensity Lull After the intensity of my blogging at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival, September feels quiet, low and almost uninteresting on the availability of things to write about. It’s a lull that happens each year; one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged 9/11, Animals, Bannerman's, beer, beer and curry, Book Festival, Books, change, contributors, curry, Day Job, dialoge workshop, Edinburgh, Editing, egotism, Leith, Malt and Hops, pets, Rab Howat Band, rabbit hutch, Rabbits, Raj Restaurant, Ranfurly Review, Reading, rejections, Submissions, The Shore, whisky, Writing
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New Characters and Old Friends
Image: MensMeditation I cannot believe how long this week is turning out. I’m sleeping again—always good when that happens—but I nearly tripped over my eye lids on my way to the day job yesterday morning—not so good—hate it when that … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Book Festival, Coffee, Day Job, dialogue, DIY, Edinburgh, friends, Holiday, insomnia, Madness, paint stripping, rain, Savvy Authors, Seton Sands, ska, Sleep, Writing, writing course
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Coming Down from the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: Horia Varlan So, the Edinburgh Book Festival is over and Charlotte Square has emptied of human life. Already it feels like another time as I adjust back into the normality of daily life: the day job, the writing, the … Continue reading
Day 16 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest It’s the penultimate day of the Edinburgh Book Festival. It’s all beginning to get reflective and a touch sad to realise that after today it will all be over for another year. That doesn’t mean for a moment, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Reading
Tagged bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Book Rambler, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Jacqueline Wilson, Joyce McWilliam, Liz Lochhead, Makar, Poetry, Reading, Rob Burdock, The Guardian, Tracey S. Rosenberg, writers
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Day 15 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
table style=float: left; border=0 width=170 tbody tr tdimg src=https://colingalbraith.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/eibf_colour_logo1.jpg alt=Day 15 at the Edinburgh Book Festival width=170 align=left //td /tr tr td align=centeremImage: EdBookFest/em/td /tr /tbody /table strongMelvyn Bragg/strong As one of a very small group of writers who attended … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh Book Festival, Reading, Writing
Tagged Adam Levin, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, CIA, City of Literature, Denise Mina, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, King James Bible, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Scheuer, Osama Bin Laden, Reading, Religion, terrorism, The Guardian, USA, writers
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Day 14 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest It was a nightmare Friday. Simply hellish. The only good bit of it came between 6am when I got out of my bed and 8am when a day job disaster took over everything for the rest of the … Continue reading
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