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Tag Archives: Portobello
Launch Date Announced
Image: HimHo I could hardly keep my eyes open at the day job yesterday. I was so tired I just wanted to do my work quietly and without interruption. Unfortunately, my position doesn’t entail that to be possible so I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Websites, Writing
Tagged Amazon, chapbooks, coffee shop, eBooks, Edinburgh, grumpy, insomnia, Kindle, launch day, Leith, Lulu, Mac, media, pen name, poems, Poetry, Portobello, pseudonym, Sleep, Video, web development, Website, YouTube
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A Day at the Portobello Book Festival
Image: portobellobookfestival.co.uk Nothing to Lose Yesterday’s trip to the seaside in the guise of the Portobello Book Festival, was both as enjoyable a day out as it was groundbreaking. Not only did I meet up with some other extremely talented … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged Allan Guthrie, author, Canongate Books, crime writer, Francis Bickmore, how to get published, literary agent, Marianne Paget, new writer, Portobello, Portobello Book Festival, Portobello Library, Porty, publishing advice and tips, Publishing and Marketing, publishing industry, Writing
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Hell Comes to Saturday
Image: paranormalknowledge.com A hellish start to Saturday, and an even more hellish end. There are no two ways about it. I knew I would be working at 6am for the day job, but it should only have taken half an … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh Book Festival, I.T., Poetry, Writing
Tagged chapbooks, Dad's Army, Dalriada, Day Job, Doug Johnstone, Editing, essay, Hell, hellish, Nasty Little Press, office, on-call, paranormal, pizza, poems, Poetry, Portobello, Portobello Book Festival, Porty, rain, Saturday, Writing
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A Trip to Porty
Image: Undiscovered Scotland Two Halves On the weather front, it was a weekend of two halves: on Saturday, Edinburgh was enshrouded with cloud apart for a brief part of the afternoon when the sun came out. It was warm and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Websites, Writing
Tagged book festivals, bookmarks, Books, boudoir, bus, business cards, characters, Coffee, coffee shop, crime fiction, design, driving school, Editing, essay, Fiction, fog, muggy, novella, Poetry, Portobello, Porty, Princes Street, promo, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, rain, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Silly Poems for Wee People, The Sky Project, thriller, tramworks, Weather, websites, Writing
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Looking Out At New Horizons
I stayed up late watching a film last night. It was so bad I can’t even remember what it was about now. Gail got home about 1am and spent a while telling me all about her day photographing a large … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Freelance, Poetry, Theatre, Travel
Tagged Family, Film & TV, Freelance, Fringe Fantastic, Holiday, Madness, movies, organising, Our House musical, Photography, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, Poolside Poetry, Portobello, Weather, Website, wedding
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Looks Like It’s Hell For Me, Folks!
Image: Boston.com I found myself wandering around Portobello yesterday mid-morning with my wife and father-in-law looking for a coffee shop. We’d gone out to buy floor tiles but the place wasn’t open yet, so we nipped into Portie for a … Continue reading →