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Tag Archives: manuscript
Visiting Friends and Family
Image: Ena Galbraith Visit to the Folks I was out and about over the weekend. I was through to see my folks on Friday night and then down south to see my mate. I drive down with my pal, Mikey, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Writing
Tagged 3 ebooks deal, bevy, Cecils, cooking, crime fiction, dinner, drinking, eBooks, foom, free, free ebooks, friends and family, home-cooked, Kindle, Little Chef, Living Leith, manuscript, mother, paranormal fiction, parents, Poetry, Submissions, thrillers, tradition
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The Illustrated ‘Silly Poems for Wee People’ Edges Closer
Image: Chas Stramash The temperature was almost at freezing yesterday on the way to the day job. As good a reason as any then, to stop off via the coffee shop and warm myself up. I thought I might use … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, eBooks, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Apple, bad weather, Blogging, eBooks, Editing, illustrated poems, illustrations, iMac, Leith, Living Leith, manuscript, poems, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, revisions, Scotland, Silly Poems for Wee People, temperature, The Sky Project, workload, Writing
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Baccara Burning Now Fully Drafted
Image: Business Marketing Tools Baccara Burning Missed my blog post yesterday but I have a very good reason: I ended up working long into the night on Monday and came away with a completed second draft of BACCARA BURNING. I … Continue reading
Phew! First Draft of New Crime Novel Written
Image: shirleyjacksonawards.org Haiku I think I mentioned it before, but if you missed it, clock over to the Trees for Life exhibition website and check out my Haiku. While there, why not also check out some of the fantastic paintings … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, charity exhibition, Coffee, coffee shop, crime, crime novel, Father's Day, Fiction, fire, Gatecrash, manuscript, newspaper, novel, online submissions, Ranfurly Review, sleeping in, submission manager, Submissions, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, Writing
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Slow Saturday
Image: English Passport My daughter is away for the weekend so I allowed myself the luxury of a lie in yesterday morning. The fact that I had partaken in a pub crawl around the Royal Mile and Grassmarket the evening … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Sport, Writing
Tagged booze, contest, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Editing, Football, Grassmarket, manuscript, poems, Poetry, Poetry Superhighway, rain, revisions, Royal Mile, Scottish League, Silly Poems for Kids, Sleep, SPL, Sport, St Mirren, storms, thunder, Weather
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From Glasgow to London
Image: TortureCare.org.uk Giggidy Did you like yesterday’s video? Hilarious wee cat, eh? I had a fun time at the Jamiroquai gig on Wednesday night with my sister—as is usually the case when we crack open a tinny and go to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Travel, Writing
Tagged chapbooks, Clapham Grand Theatre, crime fiction, doner kebab, eBooks, Glasgow, Greener is the Grass, Jamiroquai, Jay Kay, Kindle, live music, London, London International Ska Festival, manuscript, novella, Poetry, press releases, public transport, revisions, Scotrail, SECC, train, Twitter, Writing
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Hillsborough Disaster Memories
Image: BBCNews Remember the 96 22 years ago today, 96 people lost their lives in one of Britain’s worst football tragedies in what became known as The Hillsborough Disaster. They were died at Hillsborough Stadium in an F.A. Cup game between … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Editorial Comment, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Sport, Video, Writing
Tagged Amazon, British sport, eBooks, Editing, Football, Friday Vid, Hillsborough Stadium, Kindle, Liverpool, manuscript, Poetry Superhighway Free-For-All, Publishing and Marketing, revisions, Sheffield Wednesday, The Hillsborough Disaster, Twitter, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
No Camping Allowed
Image: NZTourMaps.com New Sub Ready Out of the desire to get back into the flow of things with something substantial, and out of a nagging feeling that I’d missed something, I read through the full manuscript for GREENER IS THE … Continue reading →