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Fighting Back Against the Fare Dodgers
Image: The List TIME Newsfeed summed it up perfectly: if you ever find yourself on a Scottish train without a ticket, don’t even think about trying to sneak a free ride. The video in this article (which has now caused … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Fiction, Scotland, Travel, Websites, Writing
Tagged Books, Christmas, Coffee, Day Job, eBooks, fare dodgers, feedback, Fiction, free, giveaway, Internet, novel, novella, online, readers, Reading, Scottish, Shopping, Slick, Time magazine, Time Newsfeed, trains, Website
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Researching the Paranormal
Image: The Sun Very tired yesterday. My eyes felt swollen in their sockets and I was unable to concentrate much for the early part of the day. I thought a good coffee would sort me out, but that just gave … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Poetry, Travel, Writing
Tagged 3 Ebook deal, adventures, Clayton Morris, Coffee, crime fiction, eBooks, Family Guy, Fiction, free, free books, free ebooks, Headache, Jim Harold, novella, paranormal, podcasts, Reading, Research, The Paranormal Report, thrillers, tired
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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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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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Day 11 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest A full day at the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday, but thanks to the late-night writing session the evening before, I slept in slightly and never arrived until shortly before 11am. On arriving, I collected my tickets from the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Poetry, Writing
Tagged BBC, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, Coffee, Costa, crime fiction, Czeslaw Milosz, Don Paterson, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Esther Freud, Freudian, Ian Rankin, Kirsty Wark, Linda Grant, Lucian Freud, media, Newsnight, Orange Prize, podcasting, Poetry, Poland, Press Pod, Reading, Rebus, Robyn Marsack, Scottish Poetry Library, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, The Guardian, The Review Show, writers
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Monday and Tuesday Review of the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: Colin Galbraith Apologies for yesterday, folks. This blog post is a day late due to the attention of a hacker at about 3:10am the night before last (Monday). It would appear that this technical challenged choob hacked into my … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Photography, Reading, Writing
Tagged Apple, Book Festival, Books, cancer, Celtic FC, Charlotte Square, Christopher Brookmyre, City of Literature, Coffee, Costa, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Bookshop, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Family, hacking, iMac, Internet, John Hartson, Julie Hill, meal, media accreditation, Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, Pat Nevin, Press Pod, Reading, sister, Spiegeltent, TGI Fridays, Tobias Wolff, William McIlvanney, yurt
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Phew! First Draft of New Crime Novel Written
Image: shirleyjacksonawards.org Haiku I think I mentioned it before, but if you missed it, clock over to the Trees for Life exhibition website and check out my Haiku. While there, why not also check out some of the fantastic paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, charity exhibition, Coffee, coffee shop, crime, crime novel, Father's Day, Fiction, fire, Gatecrash, manuscript, newspaper, novel, online submissions, Ranfurly Review, sleeping in, submission manager, Submissions, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, Writing
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To Catch a Creative Fire
Image: DemonMuse.com A lazy(ish) start to yesterday, but hey, I had a day away from the day job so I was going to do it all my way. And that meant lying in! Remember though, a lie in for me … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, Blogging, Books, Coffee, day off, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, flash fiction, haiku, NaNoWriMo, nature, novel, Poetry, Reading, short story, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, 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 →