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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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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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Visiting Friends and Family
Image: Ena Galbraith Visit to the Folks I was out and about over the weekend. I was through to see my folks on Friday night and then down south to see my mate. I drive down with my pal, Mikey, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Writing
Tagged 3 ebooks deal, bevy, Cecils, cooking, crime fiction, dinner, drinking, eBooks, foom, free, free ebooks, friends and family, home-cooked, Kindle, Little Chef, Living Leith, manuscript, mother, paranormal fiction, parents, Poetry, Submissions, thrillers, tradition
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The Future is Bright
Image: Unknown I had the entire day away from the day job yesterday and it was absolute bliss. Not that I used the time to laze about, oh no, I got off my arse and got wired into tying up … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged 3 Ebook deal, app, artist, breakfast, bright future, commission, cover art, Day Job, eating out, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, free, free ebooks, free novels, GDR's, Goals Dreams and Resolutions, illustrations, iPhone, Kids' Poems, Leith, Living Leith, Mac, marketing, newsletter, poems, Poetry, publisher, short fiction, Silly Poems for Wee People, Story Tracker, submission tracker, Submissions, Windows PC
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The CG Awards – My Best of 2011
Well here we are already, the end of another year. In only a coupe of days we shall slip noisily and cheerily from one year into another (I will, at least!), and then a new year shall dawn. 2012 holds … Continue reading →