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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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A Trip to Porty
Image: Undiscovered Scotland Two Halves On the weather front, it was a weekend of two halves: on Saturday, Edinburgh was enshrouded with cloud apart for a brief part of the afternoon when the sun came out. It was warm and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Websites, Writing
Tagged book festivals, bookmarks, Books, boudoir, bus, business cards, characters, Coffee, coffee shop, crime fiction, design, driving school, Editing, essay, Fiction, fog, muggy, novella, Poetry, Portobello, Porty, Princes Street, promo, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, rain, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Silly Poems for Wee People, The Sky Project, thriller, tramworks, Weather, websites, Writing
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Building Up to the Edinburgh Book Festival
The Colin Galbraith Podcast is launched with episode 1: Building Up to the Edinburgh Book Festival. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Podcasts, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, bagpipes, Book Festival, Books, chapbook, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, coffee shop, Colin Galbraith Podcast, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Interview, London, newsletter, podcast, podcasting, Poetry, Reading, Rhodes, tartan, Tartan Shops
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Scotland’s Royal Wedding
Image: Colin Galbraith Yesterday’s Royal Wedding kind of took over everything for me, quite in a way I never expected it too. Sometimes, it’s days like that, which make living in Edinburgh so worthwhile. I was in a coffee shop … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Photography, Scotland
Tagged Canongate Kirk, coffee shop, Duke of Edinburgh, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, haiku, Millers Arts, Monarch, Prince of Wales, Prince William, Royal Mile, Royal Wedding, Scotland, The Queen, Union Flags, Wills and Kate
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Revving Up The Writing Engine
Image: F1 Rewind Okay, so I’m back in the saddle and things are in a low gear, but I’m building up revs. It takes a fair amount of will power to get back into the swing of things properly after … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Travel, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, Auld Reekie, birthday party, Blogging, charity auction, coffee shop, Day Job, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Family, gigs, Holiday, Indian food, Interview, Leith, Music, niece, Raj Restaurant, Rhodes, Savvy Authors, The Shore, The Sky Project, tickets, Travel, Water of Leith, West End, Writing, Writing Magazine
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Planning Out my Literary August
Image: EBF Today is an exciting day: the Edinburgh Book Festival tickets go on sale. The last think I wanted to do was sleep in and miss the 8:30am ticket office opening, the result being that I couldn’t get to … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Animals, Armed Forces Day, August, Book Festival, chapbook, Charlotte Square, cleaning, coffee shop, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Holiday, literary, London, planning, Poetry, rain, Red Arrows, Royal Mile, tropical fish tank, Writing
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A Scottish Summer Solstice
Image: The Herald Summer Solstice Today is the Summer Solstice. In astronomical terms it’s when the sun’s apparent position in the sky reaches its northernmost extreme, and appears to come to a standstill before reversing in direction. In Scottish terms … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Scotland, Writing
Tagged awakening, Baccara Burning, coffee shop, crime fiction, Day Job, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Fiction, Gatecrash, Glastonbury, notebook, novel, novella, paranormal fiction, plotting, Scotland, Stonehenge, summer solstice, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The Edinburgh City of Literature Story Shop and Men
Image: JA Cosgrove The Edinburgh City of Literature Story Shop I’m not one to cast unfounded accusations or remarks—I’m the kind of guy who likes to gather evidence when building a case first—but yesterday I raised an eyebrow at something … Continue reading →