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Tag Archives: Guardian
Day 9 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest The sun shone and the people came—that’s the picture to take from day 9, Sunday at the Edinburgh Book Festival. We sat around, we chatted, we bathed in the sun as it warmed our backs (and bald heads), … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Writing
Tagged A L Kennedy, Amanda Palmer, beers, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Canongate, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, culture, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Ford Prefect, Frank Skinner, Giulia I. Sandelewski, Google, Guardian, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Ian Rankin, Internet, Jamie Jauncey, JF Derry, John Mullan, Napster, Neil Gaiman, podcast, Reading, Robert Levine, Sean Fanning, summer, sun, sunshine, The Guardian, Weather, writers
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Stepping Back for a Good View
Image: David Dewar Rewards Aplenty Felt dreadful all day yesterday. The weekend’s lack of sleep through the work put in at all hours of the day eventually took its toll. From the moment I woke up I felt out of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Fiction, I.T., Writing
Tagged 42, Baccara Burning, computers, Day Job, Douglas Adams, edits, Facebook, Fiction, financial rewards, Guardian, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, manuscript, novella, overtime, Peter Gill, revisions, Twitter, Website, Writing
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Why I Write
Image: Burr Marketing In the end I never met my sister yesterday lunchtime—she lost her iPod at work in Glasgow and so never made the train to the Burg until several hours later. By that time I’d been into Leith … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Leith, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, Bijou Bistro, Coffee, doctors, Guardian, iPod, Leith, novella, paranormal, sister, Twitter, Writing
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A Bachelor’s Writing Life
Image: U-Handbag It’s a belter of a day outside. The sun is out, there’s no wind, and it puts me in mind to take a book out the back and read for the day. But there is work to be … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Interviews, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged 9/11, A-Listed, Biblio Paradise, black rose, Blazing Trailers, coffee and pastries, Day Job, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, Guardian, Interview, News of the World, pizza, Ranfurly Review, Rankin, Ray LaMontagne, Rose Street, Submissions, sunny, The Complaints, Twin Towers, Weather, William Boyd, Writing
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Coffee With Hamsun
Image: Guardian.co.uk Edinburgh was mobbed yesterday morning with various events on in the city all at once. Not only was it the second day of the Fringe Festival—the first Saturday therefore the first really busy day—but I saw several stag … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, Books, Coffee, dinner, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Guardian, Hamsun Centre, home, Knut Hamsun, movie, newspaper, Normay, Rabbits, Reading, shoes, Shopping, Writing
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Sinn Fein – Just Another Westminster Fraud Mob
Image: BBC Online The good thing about writing my blogs the following morning as opposed to the night before, is that I get to react faster to anything in the news that catches my eye. Even more so when a … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading
Tagged Animals, camera, competition, design, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Guardian, horse racing, IRA, laptops, marketing, MPs, Netbooks, news, newsletter, Northern Ireland, PC World, Photography, promotion, Rabbits, Sinn Fein, Telegraph, Tesco, Walking, Westminster
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The Specials, Beltane, and the Man In The East
Image: News of the World The last few days have been incredible. Fast moving, exciting, fulfilling, emotional – all of these and more. To begin, I have to return to the start of the week, but I don’t have much … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Glasgow, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged aches and pains, article, Beltane, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Elsepth Murray, Freelance, fry-up, GDR, gig, Glasgow, Guardian, Ludovics, News of the World, review, The Specials, Twitter, web hits, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Sarah Palin: American Ambassador
Image: The Periscope Post Sarah Palin is for Real Twitter throws up the most amazing things sometimes. Occasionally you pick up something someone has said and it totally connects, other times you feel like you want to throttle someone for … Continue reading →