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Tag Archives: CDs
Ranfurly Review 16 Now Available
Image: Ranfurly Review It feels like Friday. It feels like it should be Friday. Maybe getting an #FF this morning is what confused me, because for one glorious moment I hoped it was be Friday. Alas, it’s only Thursday. The … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, Books, bunny, CDs, DIY, ezine, Family, Fiction, Friday, genre fiction, Glasgow, House, hutch, iTunes, J.A. Konrath, Music, Origin, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, rabbit, Ranfurly Review, Reading, techno-thriller, Theatre, Thursday
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Dreamworks
Image: Dreamworks Dream Resolve It was a weekend of squeezing; squeezing all that I could out of the time available and trying to get through as much as possible. There’s a lot going on, both on the writing front and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Alistair Darling, annual plan, CDs, charity, cooks, DIY, dreams, Dreamworks, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Bookshop, Eleanor Updale, exhibition, GDR, GDR's, iTunes, JA Konrath, Kindle, magazine, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Savvy Authors, Simon van Booy, The Sky Project, Trees for Life, vinyl, work, workshop, Writing
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So That Was Christmas
Image: Getty Images It’s the gap between Christmas and New Year and all over Scotland people are gearing up for the big celebration. Very soon, we shall turn 2010 over to the bucket of history and make the leap into … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Reading, Writing
Tagged 2010, 2011, Apple, board games, Books, CDs, Charades, charity, Christmas, cinema, Duran Duran, DVDs, Facebook, Family, food and drink, gifts, ice, iPhone, iPod, James Bond, Just Giving, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Little Fockers, Marie Curie Cancer Care, New Year, Ocean Terminal, Pizza Hut, presents, Reading, Santa Claus, snow, Trivial Pursuit, Weather, Writing
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7 Days
Image: Kevin Dooley The first Saturday at home since I got back from Portugal and boy, did I make this one count. I headed into Edinburgh shortly after 9am and got to work. First stop was the book shop, where … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Music, Reading, Writing
Tagged America Libre, bags, Books, CDs, Charlotte Square, clothes, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Leith, Modest Mouse, movie, Music, novels, pizza, Raul Ramos, Reading, Writing
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Music + Books = Writing
Image: Kassy Miller Very slow day at work yesterday. Being so tired after such a relaxing time was always going to be tough to pick myself up from, but it was much harder than I envisaged. I struggled to remember … Continue reading
Scrabble Addiction
Image: Patrick Easter We have here a brief interlude in my Christmas/New Year holidays. Freshly passed is the Christmas holidays, packed with fun, food and frolics, and beyond today we have a real break away from home to let our … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged and Bevvy, Bevvy, Books, CDs, Christmas, drink, DVDs, Food, Drink and Bevvy, friends and family, Hogmanay, Holiday, Neay Year, Nintendo DS Lite, Only Fools and Horses, poor weather, presents, sales, scrabble, Shopping, snow, Trossachs, White Christmas
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Neglect
Image: zeon7 ne⋅glect [ni-glekt] –verb (used with object) 1- to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight. 2- to be remiss in the care or treatment of. 3- to omit, through indifference or carelessness. 4- to fail … Continue reading
My New Book ‘Stella’ Launched Today
Image: Eternal Press OFFICIAL NOTICE: STELLA is now an officially released book!! Wayhey! It’s been a few years in the coming but at last, finally, I have another major fiction publication to add to my literary C.V. Here’s hoping STELLA … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading
Tagged 5k run, book, book launch, book now available, buy Stella, Cancer Research, CDs, death, e-book, Eternal Press, friends, funeral, Glasgow Green, launch party, marketing, Music, new ideas, promotion, published, Stella
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Sunshine On Leith
Image: Juan Tello The weather could not have been nicer this weekend. From Saturday morning until Sunday night the sun shone, the sky was blue, and everyone seemed to get a lift from the summer-come-early weather. The last couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Freelance, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, Books, CDs, chapbook, clients, coffee shop, domestic, e-books, e-zine, Edinburgh, Fopp, Freelance, Music, pets, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Publishing and Marketing, Rabbits, Ranfurly Review, sunshine, Walking, Weather, Website, Writing
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Zoolook
Nice and cold this morning – perfect for listening to my new CD, a re-order of an album I had on cassette tape many years ago, but have not heard since. Zoolook was always my favourite Jean Michel Jarre album … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, Music, Reading, Writing
Tagged articles, CDs, creativity, Day Job, Devon Ellington, Fiction, Freelance, housework, ideas, Jean Michel Jarre, Muse Conference, Music, Scruffy Dog Review, Weather, workshops, Writing, Zoolook
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Freedom from the Mundane 