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Tag Archives: London
Hunting Jack Hits the Cyber-Shelves
My new novel, a tense thriller set in Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1995, was released yesterday by Blue Sea Publishing. HUNTING JACK is the story of a young Scottish lad brought up in London by his Aunt and Uncle after … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged book release, book trailer, crime novel, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hunting Jack, Jackie McCann, London, mailing list, release day, thriller
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Hunting Jack Cover Reveal
Attention! Here’s the new cover of my next novel, HUNTING JACK, out in February next year with the terrific Blue Sea Publishing. It’s a tense crime/thriller/gangster story set in Glasgow and Edinburgh and based on the Ice-Cream Wars of 1984. … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged Blue Sea Publishing, crime, Edinburgh, gangsters, Glasgow, Hunting Jack, ice-cream wars, London, new book, new novel, novel, publishing, thriller
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Progress Across the Board
Think of this as my first quarterly check in of the year. I’m aware I never published a GDR (Goals, Dreams & Resolutions) list this year, but I can assure you there is one in existence. I designed my list … Continue reading
Posted in GDRs, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, chapbooks, Gatecrash, GDR's, Hunting Jack, London, Slick, Stella, Writing
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London Burning
Image: Guardian London Burning So—I doubt we will be hearing the much voiced stereotypical line: “isn’t Scotland such a violent place” from any English people in the near future. I am this morning utterly enraged and saddened at the devastation … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Aidan Moffat, arson, Birmingham, Book Festival, Books, Bristol, Brixton, burning, Camden, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, Croydon, destruction, Ealing, EdBookFest, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, fires, gig, haiku, jail, Leeds, Liverpool, London, looting, Man in the East, Metropolitan Police, Nottingham, Poetry, prison, protesters, Reading, review, riots, shooting, Tottenham, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, violence, youth
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Building Up to the Edinburgh Book Festival
The Colin Galbraith Podcast is launched with episode 1: Building Up to the Edinburgh Book Festival. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Podcasts, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, bagpipes, Book Festival, Books, chapbook, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, coffee shop, Colin Galbraith Podcast, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Interview, London, newsletter, podcast, podcasting, Poetry, Reading, Rhodes, tartan, Tartan Shops
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Media and Marketing
Image: Diffusibility Friday is here thank goodness and it feels like it’s been a heck of a long week. The day job is responsible for these feelings of dragged out days, but outwith these shifts I’m making good progress on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Writing
Tagged Blogging, book jacket, Books, British Museum, chapbooks, cruise boat, Day Job, eBooks, Family, Friday Vid, front cover, intro music, London, marketing plan, media, media and marketing, newsletter, parents, podcasts, poems, Poetry, Poolside Poetry, Sprearmint Rhino, Thames, The Patter, Video
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Planning Out my Literary August
Image: EBF Today is an exciting day: the Edinburgh Book Festival tickets go on sale. The last think I wanted to do was sleep in and miss the 8:30am ticket office opening, the result being that I couldn’t get to … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Animals, Armed Forces Day, August, Book Festival, chapbook, Charlotte Square, cleaning, coffee shop, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Holiday, literary, London, planning, Poetry, rain, Red Arrows, Royal Mile, tropical fish tank, Writing
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Publishing Success in the Dublin Quarterly
Image: Stock The Dublin Quarterly I’ve had the honour of being published in the new issue of the Dublin Quarterly. My short story, REGRETS, now appears in the summer issue alongside some other fantastic authors, as well as one of … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Ally McCoist, Audioweb, Baccara Burning, Catatonia, chapbook, Chris Evans, Danny Baker, Dublin Quarterly, Euro 96, Fiction, Finsbury Park, Flowered Up, Football, Hammersmith, Keith Floyd, Kula Shaker, London, Madness, Madstock, Manic Street Preachers, Music, North London, novella, paranormal, Paul Gascoigne, poems, Poetry, published, short fiction, short story, Space, TFI Friday, Writing
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Such a Busy Life
Image: MailLife.co.uk Brunch I took my daughter out for a lazy brunch on Sunday. We spent a couple of hours up in town chatting and talking about, amongst other things, both our hopes for the future. We did all of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, book release, Books, booze, brunch, chapbook, daughter, Day Job, Devon Ellington, Edinburgh, Erasure, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, London, marketing, mobile phone, novel, Poetry, Reading, sister, West End Festival, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Scotland: The Safest Place in Britain
Image: Glasgow City Council A short entry today as I have been caught between needing to do things and life things getting in the way. So now I must fly like the wind, people, fly like the wind. London How … Continue reading →