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Tag Archives: Publishing and Marketing
February GDR Plan
Fiction * Review BACCARA BURNING * Complete polishing off GATECRASH * Send GATECRASH to beta readers * Submit and recycle short fiction returns – not done Poetry * Continue work on LONDON chapbook for spring release * Continue writing coffee … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, dreams, eBooks, Fiction, GDR's, Goals, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Resolutions, Writing
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January Review of Work
Fiction * Complete polishing off GATECRASH – not complete; still in progress * Send GATECRASH to beta readers – not done * Submit and recycle short fiction returns – not done Poetry * Publish SILLY POEMS FOR WEE PEOPLE on … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, dreams, eBooks, Fiction, GDR's, Goals, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Resolutions, Writing
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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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Tagged eBooks, free, Kindle, marketing, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, special offer
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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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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
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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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Sometimes it Pays to be Bold
<t able style=”float: left;” border=”0″ width=”170″> Image: Alliance Online A good day. A very good day. Workshop I worked through and revised the final exercise on the Advanced Dialogue course. The next stage will come after the course, so I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged advanced course, agents, author, birthday, dialogue, eating out, eBooks, emails, Friday Vid, GDR's, Newhaven, novella, pays to be bold, Peacock Inn, Publishing and Marketing, work review, workshop, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The Daily Mail and Amanda Knox
Image: Media Bistro The Daily Mail The now widely reported error of judgment by the Daily Mail, when it wrongly published that Amanda Knox had been found guilty by an Italian appeals court, has already fallen into the stuff of … Continue reading →