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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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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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Changing Reading Habits Thanks to the Kindle
Image: Orionwell Reading Habits Hot on the heels of finishing the brilliant One Day, I started reading another novel, this time a JA Konrath book, an author I discovered while on holiday in Rhodes during the summer. I started Origin, … Continue reading
Setting Up Podcast Technology
Image: articalwiki.com Podcasting I had to be in the day job early doors yesterday so never got anything done prior to then, so I threw myself into getting the podcast software setup for the book festival project. I’m using a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, I.T., Writing
Tagged Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, debate, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, iPhone, iTunes, microphone, newsletter, podcast, Podpress, rain, Reading, Scottish weather, Story Shop, summer, The Patter, Twitter, Wordpress, XML feed
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New Issue of the Ranfurly Review
Image: Ranfurly Review Decaffeination Problems Last Friday, perhaps through some form on underlying grief, I managed to break the carafe on my coffee maker. The handle came away in my hand thus snapping the glass it was connected to when … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Amazon, Angus, Baccara Burning, carafe, Coffee, Coffee maker, e-zine, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, GDR's, How to Make Any Twit Fall in Love With You, iBooks, iPad, iPhone, Kindle, lit-mag, Louise Rennison, magazine, marketing, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Writing
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So That Was Christmas
Image: Getty Images It’s the gap between Christmas and New Year and all over Scotland people are gearing up for the big celebration. Very soon, we shall turn 2010 over to the bucket of history and make the leap into … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Reading, Writing
Tagged 2010, 2011, Apple, board games, Books, CDs, Charades, charity, Christmas, cinema, Duran Duran, DVDs, Facebook, Family, food and drink, gifts, ice, iPhone, iPod, James Bond, Just Giving, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Little Fockers, Marie Curie Cancer Care, New Year, Ocean Terminal, Pizza Hut, presents, Reading, Santa Claus, snow, Trivial Pursuit, Weather, Writing
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The Beauty In Sadness
Image: Robert Jaffe Photography An emotional Friday, and one I was glad to be finished with so I could get the weekend going and put it behind me. I was at the day job, as usual, in the morning, but … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Fiction, Photography, Poetry, Writing
Tagged AudioBoo, cremation, death, Editing, emotions, funeral, iPhone, limerick, manuscript, photgraphs, sadness, Warrison Crematorium, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
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 →