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Like a River in Spate
Image: TheHindu.com Coffee Shop Chronicles Yesterday represented the only day this week I’ll get the chance to write into my notebook and enjoy a coffee before I hit the day job. Today, and for the rest of this week, I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, I.T., Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Books, coffee shop, competition, crafting, eBooks, Fiction, flash fiction, giveaway, Hunting Jack, Kindle, London, Moleskine, Music, notebook, Reading, Scottish music, shaping, Twitter, Vic Galloway, websites, Writing
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Best Pals
Image: LifeSound.com Breakfast Bonding As you can probably tell from yesterday’s blog post (There’s Not a Heard of Wild Horses… ), my weekend was an absolute belter before Sunday even got under way. After all the excitement that was Saturday, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry
Tagged coffee shop, competition, Daddy-Daughter Day, Domino's pizza, eBooks, Family, free books, Garden, gardening, pizza, Reading, summer, Sunday breakfast, sunshine, Twitter
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In It For The Duration
Image: Burak Senyurt My goodness, yesterday was a loooooong day! I was in the day job for 7am and never got away until 6pm – on a FRIDAY! Quite ridiculous so it’s no wonder I slouched on the couch for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Books, competition, Day Job, ebook, free ebooks, marketing, Poetry Superhighway, PSH, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Rick Lupert, Selektion, The Edinburgh Bookshop, Twitter
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Back On Track
Image: Paolo Camera PCs and Macs My PC rebuild is now complete. From installation of the new hard drive to being back up and running, the total time it took was only a couple of hours. Not bad. I’m now … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Editorial Comment, I.T., Music, Publishing and Marketing, Sport
Tagged 360 tour, Bono, competition, computers, eBooks, Grand National, HDD, horse racing, iMac, Kindle, Mac, PC, rock music, Rupert Murdoch, software, technology, Twitter, U2
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My Bucket List
Image: Don DeBold Wide Days Well, Wide Days didn’t quite happen for me last night, or at least the gigs didn’t anyway. It turns out there had been some form of massive cock up at their HQ with regards the evening … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Editorial Comment, Freelance, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Writing
Tagged Adam Ant, Amazon, Books, Bucket List, competition, eBooks, Friday Vid, gigs, Kindle, live music, Poetry, Rachel Sermanni, Reading, The Good, the Mad and the Lovely Posse, Twitter, Video, Wide Days, Withered Hand, Writing
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The Kindle Experiment
Image: Windell Oskay Greener is the Grass I’ve not given up on BACCARA BURNING yesterday morning while working on the final polishing up of GREENER IS THE GRASS, the world felt normal again. I felt like I was a writer … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, Calibre Ebook Management, chapbooks, competition, eBooks, Editing, Fiction, Fringe Fantastic, Greener is the Grass, Hunting Jack, Kindle, manuscripts, Poetry, poolside, revisions, self-publishing, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, Twitter, Writing
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Analysing One’s Writing Self
Image: DefeatDragons.com Writing Baccara Thanks Kristin and Devon for your comments and advice in yesterday’s blog post. After the day job, I went home via a coffee shop and sat and thought about what you both said, and about BACCARA … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Leith, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, Blogging, Books, cartoons, competition, crime, Doonesbury, eBooks, Fiction, GDR's, Greener is the Grass, Hunting Jack, justice system, manuscripts, novella, Scottish justice, Twitter, violence in Scotland, Writing
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Writing: Like Shitting a Brick Sideways
Image: Middlesextimber.co.uk Slow Weekend I took most of the weekend to myself. I took my time, relaxed, let my substantially depleted hair down, and got through some choice work in the progress. It wasn’t without its pain, as you will … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged competition, eBooks, Family, free books, GDR's, Greece, holidays, prizes, Rhodes, summer, Twitter, vacation, Writing
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Free Ebooks on Twitter
Image: MadrasGeek.com I’m fast approaching my 1000th Twitter follower, and as a show of thanks, not to mention a heightened sense that there’s a marketing opportunity somewhere in here, I’m giving away all my published books as e-books to whoever … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged competition, eBooks, fake falling, GDR's, Holiday, Kolymbia, Rhodes, summer, Twitter, vacation, Video, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Death by Digital
Image: DigitalAssetManagement.org.uk So, what d’you think of the new blog look? Not bad, eh? I’m very pleased with it. I fancied a new look, something quirkier and different. I particularly like the flash drive as the search bar! You know … Continue reading →