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Christmas Headaches
Image: News.com.au I was into everything over the weekend—everything! Not only did I get through a ton of Christmas cleaning, DIY work, TV and gadget fixing, and writing work, but I also managed a Day Job Xmas bash, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged alcohol, bevy, birthday party, brunch, Chrimbo, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas headaches, Christmas tree, cleaning, Cloisters, coffee and pastries, computer games, curry, daughter, DIY, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, ereaders, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, free ebooks, Greener is the Grass, Indaba, Indian meal, Khushis, Kindle, Kobo, Mother-in-Law, novel, novella, pizza, pubs, Slick, South African food, summer reading, The Pear Tree, work, Writing, Xbox, Xmas
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Time is Tight and the Scotrail Fiasco Rumbles On
Image: FoxNoMad Tight with Time Things are starting to get tight with time and for once it’s NOT to do with the eternal battle between the day job and my writing career. This time, it’s Christmas versus DIY. The house … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day Job, eBooks, Family, Leith, Poetry, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged Art, art students, assault, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas presents, Christmas tree, decoration, DIY, eBooks, free ebooks, giveaway, home, House, illustrations, iMac, iPhone, Kamila Ratajczak, Leith, Leith School of Art, living room, loung, novels, Scotland, Scotrail, Silly Poems for Wee People, thrillers, ticket dodgers, time, time is tight, train, violence
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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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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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Writing Induced Insomnia
Image: Infoniac Insomnia I’ve been sleeping crappy these last few nights. It’s baffling given that I’ve been working my skinny white ass off and gone to bed knackered each night. I’ve no idea then, why it is I should be … Continue reading
Posted in Family, I.T., Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Animals, backup scheduled, Books, data backup, Devon Ellington, DIY, eBooks, exercise, GDR's, iMac, insomnia, Reading, sanding, Savvy Authors, Sleep, special offer, stripping, Tropical Fish, wallpaper, Windows, workshop, Writing, writing course
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The Party is Over
Image: VividLife The party is over; the fun’s all done! My hair has been truly let down and I have wound back down to zero. Three nights on the razz is more than enough for me anyway, but the end … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Writing
Tagged beer, Day Job, DIY, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, friends, GDR's, gigs, Glasgow, home improvement, Music, O2 Academy, party, pub crawl, reggae, Toots and the Maytals, Whighams, Writing
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Man About the House
Image: class-tv.co.uk Walkies I took the bus way, way out to the south side of Edinburgh yesterday morning, to Cameron Toll in fact, then started walking back into town. It’s a several mile treck but it was perfect walking weather: … Continue reading
Freedom from the Mundane 
Edinburgh Trams Fiasco Continues
Image: Winkled Weasle Little bit tired yesterday after being out so late on a school night for the Darling event. No worries though, as I stopped in at the coffee shop on the way to the day job to write … Continue reading →