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Tag Archives: Kids’ Poems
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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Arab Strap Wound Me Right Up
Image: Tourdates.co.uk Arab Strap Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat managed to get my hopes up yet again last night, when more tickets for the Arab Strap gig at Nice n Sleazy’s were made available to the next 30 on the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, eBooks, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Aidan Moffat, Arab Strap, Benidorm, Blasted Heath, cover art, Dreaming, dreams, Fiction, ghosts, gig, Glasgow, illustrations, JT Lindroos, Kids' Poems, Malcolm Middleton, Music, Nice n Sleazy, nightmare, novel, Poetry, scanning, short fiction, thriller
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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
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Poetry, Politics, Scotland, Writing
Tagged America, Americans, Democrats, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, extremists, Guardian, IRA, Jihad, Kids' Poems, Leith, Mafioso, Muslim, notebook, Osama Bin Laden, Paul Auster, poems, Poetry, Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Scotland, Scottish Parliamentary election, The Red Notebook, Twitter, United Nations, USA, Writing
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There’s Not a Herd of Wild Horses…
Image: FindingDulcinea.com The weather couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to do on my walk through Edinburgh yesterday. One minute it was blowing a gale and threatening rain, the next it was calm and cloudy. It even went sunny and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged book marketing, book selling, Books, children's books, Coffee, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Bookshop, Fiction, Fringe Fantastic, Greener is the Grass, independent bookshop, Kids' Poems, novella, Poetry, Scotland, Scottish weather, Spoon Cafe, Twitter, Walking
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Illustrated Edition of ‘Silly Poems for Wee People’ Now Available
Image: Chas Stramash Silly Poems for Wee People (Illustrated) Yesterday saw the launch of the illustrated edition of my popular kids’ poetry book, SILLY POEMS FOR WEE PEOPLE. Published under my pseudonym, Chas Stramash, the book is 38 pages long … Continue reading →