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Tag Archives: Family
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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Jo Nesbø Catches Scorsese’s Eye
Image: Jo Nesbø The Crime Fiction Crown I’m not in any way surprised to hear that Norwegian crime writer, Jo Nesbø, is to have one of his novels turned into a movie. Not only does this cement his reputation as … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged 3 book deal, advertising, Baccara Burning, beta readers, Books, cover art, crime fiction, criticism, eBooks, Facebook, Facebook Ads, Family, feedback, Fiction, Jo Nesbø, JT Lindroos, marketing, Newhaven, Norway, novels, Reading, revising, Slick, tartan noir, The Peacock Inn, Writing
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Book Sales and Rising
Image: Blogspot Get Over It I felt absolutely downtrodden going to the day job yesterday and it was all down to the thought of missing that blasted Arab Strab gig. It got stupid when people were tweeting they had a … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged Arab Strap, Baccara Burning, crime, dining out, dinner, drinks, ebook, eBooks, Editing, Family, Fiction, Friday Vid, friends, gig, Glasgow, Leith, meal, Music, Nice n Sleazy, paranormal, Poetry, revising, royalties, sales, Shed Seven, The First Big Weekend, Twitter, Video, Writing
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Culture in Glasgow
Image: Samantha Nicol It’s been some weekend! I started last Friday off with a very large and strong black coffee (apparently this is called an Americano in some places—places I now avoid) and a healthy and bountiful morning roll with … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Theatre, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Alishan Tandoori, Cafe Ludovic, Citizens Theatre, City of Literature, Clockwork Pub, culture, Culture in Glasgow, Dropbox, Edinburgh, Ena Lamont Stewart, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Indian meal, Literary Salon, Men Should Weep, Merchant City, Mount Florida, sisters, Sizzlers, Sloan's pub, The Sky Project, UNESCO, workshop, Writing
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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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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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Freedom from the Mundane 
Piecing Together a Plot
Image: Row Three Workshop Over lunch, I wrote and posted the revised version of part 2 of the fourth exercise at the Advanced Dialogue workshop. I’ve edited in a sentence or two to subtly indicate where the antagonism is coming … Continue reading →