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Tag Archives: Irvine Welsh
Day 13 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest It was kind of muggy over Edinburgh for the 13th day of the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday. Would it rain or wouldn’t it, the question was on everyone’s lips. I’d arranged a half day from my day job … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Glasgow, Reading, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Alexander Shannon, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, British Army, charity, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, criminals. organised crime, David Leslie, Devon Ellington, eBooks, EdBookFest, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, exhibition, GDR's, Glasgow, iMac, Irvine Welsh, James Robertson, Knockshinnoch, Louise Welsh, mining disaster, murder, Muriel Spark, Reading, Robert Louis Stevenson, Savvy Authors, Scotland, Scottishness, The Guardian, Trees for Life, underworld, William Burroughs, William McIlvanney, writers
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Interlude
Thank goodness I’m going on holiday tomorrow. Not only do I need to relax after the mayhem of another Blackpool weekend, but the stress of packing a couple of suitcases for two adults and pre-pubescent is more than anyone needs … Continue reading
A Successful, But Weird Day
I had the weirdest, gayest dream last night, which I’m not going into. Let’s just say I’ll never look at Irvine Welsh or a transsexual Thai person in the same way ever again. I suppose that’s what I get after … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Freelance, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Scotland, Travel, Writing
Tagged Amsterdam, chapbook, Day Job, Edinburgh, Editing, Editorial Comment, Fiction, freelance writing, Irvine Welsh, Jekyll and Hyde, novel, Poems for Pints, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, pubs, Ranfurly Review, Rick Lupert, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, St. Andrew Square, Submissions, Thailand, toilets, transsexual, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Sea Of Blue
I slept in this morning. It took me 20 minutes to leap out of bed like little Lester, get showered, dressed, download my emails, and leave the house. As I was walking round to the bus stop I felt myself … Continue reading →