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Tag Archives: Poetry Super Highway
Grab My Books For Free Today Only!
Image: 1choice4yourstore.com I’ve been unable to blog the last few days. Guess why? I have discovered the source of the recent problems with my home PC’s Windows Operating System. It appears that under most conditions, running the disk defragmenter while … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Family, Film & TV, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged baking, cakes, cinema, computers, Ewan MacGregor, Family, flix, Football, Free e-books, Kim Cattrall, movies, PC, Pierce Brosnan, Poetry Super Highway, Roman Polansky, Scottish League, sister, SPL, St Mirren, The Ghost, Vista, Windows
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Done With One, Into Another
Image: Jacob Bøtter Early rise yesterday morning after a series of really weird dreams. Lost in on stormy ocean with Lenny Henry was one, friendship betrayal another and sex with a fictional character from The West Wing the other. I … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged chocolate, dreams, e-books, Easter, Easter Egg, Fiction, novella, Poetry Super Highway, The West Wing, Writing
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Proofs And Presses
Image: Colin Galbraith I’m shattered. My eyes hurt, my head is sore, I have that run down snivelly thing going on and I want to sleep for hours while at the same time go out and let my hair down. … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Interviews, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Sport
Tagged chapbook, Day Job, I.T, Philistine Press, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, rugby, Rugby Union, run-down, salary, Scotland versus England, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, Six Nations, stress, tired
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Runaway Steam Train
Image: Aussiegall Hope you all enjoyed yesterday with Michelle Miles – isn’t she a wonderfully spirited and entertaining author? Yesterday saw the temperature finally drop to more acceptable levels. Tuesday was cloudy but still extremely humid, but yesterday, thank goodness, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fiction, Poetry, Politics, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Amazon, book reviews, Books, Cancer Research, Derek Mackay MSP, e-books, Elspeth Murray, Evening Times, Fiction, Flip Flotsam, Lulu, Michelle Miles, novella, Paisley, Paolo Nutini, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Publishing and Marketing, short story, SNP, sponsorship, Submissions, Weather
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Bye Bye Ghoulnet
Image: Me Great news! GNHosting (aka Ghoulnet) has finally gone bust! In an email released yesterday morning the company said, “It is with deep sadness we have to inform you that for reasons beyond our control Ghoulnet Ltd has ceased … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Fiction, I.T., Poetry, Writing
Tagged album, bankrupt, bust, chapbooks, Dust Devil, e-books, Editing, Fiction, Ghoulnet, GNHosting, insolvency, Madness, out of business, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, single, The Liberty of Norton Folgate, TweetDeck, Twitter, UK2 Net, Video, web hosting, Writing
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Sunshine On Leith
Image: Juan Tello The weather could not have been nicer this weekend. From Saturday morning until Sunday night the sun shone, the sky was blue, and everyone seemed to get a lift from the summer-come-early weather. The last couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Freelance, Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, Books, CDs, chapbook, clients, coffee shop, domestic, e-books, e-zine, Edinburgh, Fopp, Freelance, Music, pets, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Publishing and Marketing, Rabbits, Ranfurly Review, sunshine, Walking, Weather, Website, Writing
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Weird Things Inside My Head
Image: Martin Kingsley I hope you all liked the interview with poet Sage Cohen in yesterday’s post. Hopefully it made a nice change from the norm, and I think you’ll agree it made for great reading. I’d like to thank … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, UK, Writing
Tagged 30, anniversary, Blogging, Camden Crawl, Camden Town, clouds, Day Job, e-books, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, Editing, Eternal Press, Fiction, London, Madness, moon, novella, poems, poet, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Sage Cohen, sky, Writing
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Honey On Soft Bread
Image: Dino Giordano The more I work on Greener is the Grass the more I’m not happy with the title. It’s crap, to put it mildly. It’s not reflective of the story and nor does it create the right emotional … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, I.T., Poetry, Sport, Writing
Tagged Aintree, Animals, Backspace, chapbooks, Day Job, e-books, Fiction, Grand National, Greener is the Grass, horse racing, newsletter, novella, poems, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Stella, Writing
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The Coming Of Ska
Image: Me I’m feeling it increasingly difficult to think about anything else apart from Wednesday’s gig. I’ll keep the full spiel for tomorrow’s post, but from yesterday morning into last night I saw an increase of my excitement levels ten … Continue reading →