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The Downside of Twitter
Image: Google I’ve talked at length about the benefits I’ve felt since taking up twittering: increased visibility, a widening of networking opportunities, marketability, etc., and I’ll continue to use the medium for all of those reasons, as well as the … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Editorial Comment, Publishing and Marketing, UK
Tagged 3 Ebook deal, Arab Strap, Books, charity, Chas Stramash, crime fiction, eBooks, exhibition, Fiction, novels, Poetry, rumours, social media, speculation, Tiger Tim, Tim Stevens, Trees for Life, Twitter
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Charity Begins at Home
Dodgy Belly I suspect it was the fish I had for lunch on Friday that did it, but for the afternoon, evening, and well into the weekend, I had a very dodgy tummy. No loss of appetite, but within a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Art, Bay City Rollers, brunch, bunnies, charity, crime, daughter, eBooks, Fiction, fundraiser, Kenny Herbert, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Nobby Clark, paranormal, PC World, Pets at Home, poems, Rabbits, raffle, revising, special offers, The Rab Howat Band, Trees for Life, wireless router, Writing
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Opening Night of the Trees for Life Charity Exhibition
Trees for Life I attended the official opening night of the Trees for Life charity exhibition last night. It was a very strange experience to see my own poetry framed and mounted on a wall in a gallery for people … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Leith, Music, Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged Art, Beasley Street, Blue Drill Hall, Caledonian Forest, charity, Edinburgh, Evidently Chickentown, exhibition, Friday Vid, gig, Japanese food, John Cooper Clarke, Kid Canaveral, King Creosote, Leith, Liquid Room, Lothian Road, Lydia Crow, Out of the Blue, Poetry, prose, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, Video, Wagamama, YouTube
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The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
Image: DofE.org The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme seems to have gained unfashionable status lately, and I’m not sure why. It’s a scheme that’s been running with the Duke of Edinburgh as Chairman since 1965, and can take participants up … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Editorial Comment, Poetry, Writing
Tagged bookshop, chapbooks, charity, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Edinburgh Award, Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, Duke of Edinburgh's Award, expedition, hospital, Johnstone, Leith, Poetry, Prince Philip, Silly Poems for Wee People, social skills, teenagers, Twitter, volunteering, Writing, youngsters, youth
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EBS Event: Alistair Darling
Image: The Guardian Alistair Darling Alistair Darling was in town last night to promote his new book, Back From the Brink, “a first-hand account of the (economic) crisis of 2007, and a fascinating view of life inside the Downing Street … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Interviews, Politics, Writing
Tagged Alistair Darling, author event, Back From the Brink, Blue Drill Hall, Books, Chancellor of the Exchequer, charity, Conservative, Downing Street, economic crash, economics, Edinburgh Bookshop, Eleanor Updale, exhibition, Fiction, Gordon Brown, John Cooper Clarke, Labour, Northern Rock, Poetry, Politics, RBS, short story, The Dublin Quarterly, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, workshop, Writing
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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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Day 13 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest It was kind of muggy over Edinburgh for the 13th day of the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday. Would it rain or wouldn’t it, the question was on everyone’s lips. I’d arranged a half day from my day job … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Glasgow, Reading, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Alexander Shannon, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, British Army, charity, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, criminals. organised crime, David Leslie, Devon Ellington, eBooks, EdBookFest, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, exhibition, GDR's, Glasgow, iMac, Irvine Welsh, James Robertson, Knockshinnoch, Louise Welsh, mining disaster, murder, Muriel Spark, Reading, Robert Louis Stevenson, Savvy Authors, Scotland, Scottishness, The Guardian, Trees for Life, underworld, William Burroughs, William McIlvanney, writers
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Scotland: The Safest Place in Britain
Image: Glasgow City Council A short entry today as I have been caught between needing to do things and life things getting in the way. So now I must fly like the wind, people, fly like the wind. London How … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Aidan Moffat, Book Festival, Books, charity, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, English, exhibition, Facebook, gig review, Glasgow Academy, haiku, Jim Devine, London, London communities, Man in the East, Manchester, Poetry, Reading, rioting, riots, safe, Scots, Toots and the Maytals, Trees for Life, violence
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Freedom from the Mundane 
An Evening at The SKY Project
Image: theskyproject.co.uk I think it’s safe to say that yesterday was one of the most rewarding days I’ve had as a writer. When I first picked up the pen in any serious kind of fashion, the last thing I ever … Continue reading →