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Hell Comes to Saturday
Image: paranormalknowledge.com A hellish start to Saturday, and an even more hellish end. There are no two ways about it. I knew I would be working at 6am for the day job, but it should only have taken half an … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh Book Festival, I.T., Poetry, Writing
Tagged chapbooks, Dad's Army, Dalriada, Day Job, Doug Johnstone, Editing, essay, Hell, hellish, Nasty Little Press, office, on-call, paranormal, pizza, poems, Poetry, Portobello, Portobello Book Festival, Porty, rain, Saturday, Writing
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A Thank You to Steve Jobs
Image: Unknown RIP Steve Jobs Woke up to the sad news that Steve Jobs died in the early hours of the morning. Shocking to hear it come through although not entirely unexpected; it was public knowledge he had been seriously … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Fiction, I.T., Poetry, Writing
Tagged Apple, Bill Gates, cancer, chapbook, crime, death, Duchess of Alba, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, essay, iMac, Indiana Jones, iPhone, iPod, magic, Microsoft, novella, pancreatic cancer, paranormal, poems, Poetry, Raiders ofthe Lost Ark, Savvy Authors, Steve Jobs, thriler, Windows, workshop, Writing
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The Daily Mail and Amanda Knox
Image: Media Bistro The Daily Mail The now widely reported error of judgment by the Daily Mail, when it wrongly published that Amanda Knox had been found guilty by an Italian appeals court, has already fallen into the stuff of … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Amanda Knox, bookmarks, Books, British, business cards, Daily Mail, essay, Fiction, freebies, journalism, magic, media, novella, paranormal, press, promo material, Publishing and Marketing, Raffaele Sollecito, Reading, reporting, stickers, The Sky Project, thriller
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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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Eye Of The Storm
Image: pursuitoftheholy If you missed the news, my poem, THE FINAL NAIL, was published yesterday over at Every Day Poets. Also published was an article I wrote for Devon Ellington’s magazine site A Biblio Paradise. Entitled, HALF WAY TO A … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Freelance, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged A Biblio Paradise, Books, essay, Every Day Poets, Fiction, networking, poem, Poetry, publications, Reading, the Pope, Twitter, Website, Writing
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Dentistry Wonders
Image: Unknown Teef For my birthday last week, my mother-in-law bought me an electric toothbrush. I’d been meaning to get one for some time, ever since my dentist recommended it to me several visits ago. I finally charged the thing … Continue reading →