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Tag Archives: readers
Fighting Back Against the Fare Dodgers
Image: The List TIME Newsfeed summed it up perfectly: if you ever find yourself on a Scottish train without a ticket, don’t even think about trying to sneak a free ride. The video in this article (which has now caused … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Fiction, Scotland, Travel, Websites, Writing
Tagged Books, Christmas, Coffee, Day Job, eBooks, fare dodgers, feedback, Fiction, free, giveaway, Internet, novel, novella, online, readers, Reading, Scottish, Shopping, Slick, Time magazine, Time Newsfeed, trains, Website
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Paranormal Sequel to ‘Stella’ is Complete
Image: Eternal Press A lot of things came together at once yesterday, and huge strides forward are being made on everything I’ve got going at the moment. Everything is very good at the moment! Baccara Burning I finished the final … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Freelance, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Websites, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, chapbook, Compass Freelance, crime, driving school, ebook, Fiction, Freelance, freelance web designer, freelance writer, Hunting Jack, Jackie McCann, Leith, Living Leith, novella, paranormal, poems, Poetry, readers, thriller, web design, websites
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Time Out With Diane Parkin
Image: Diane Parkin: Night Crawler It is Easter 1996, and a young homosexual junkie has been murdered. His boyfriend is arrested and charged. Marcie Craig, local DJ and good friend of the prime suspect, knows he didn’t do it and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged authors, Books, Diane Parkin, Lulu, Night Crawler, Publishing and Marketing, readers, Reading, self-publishing, Writing
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Under The Surface Of The American Dream
Image: PC Pro I shaved! Boy, was it good. The floor of my office was covered in a scattering of hair clumps as my clippers took the growth from my skull and face in one easy swipe. It felt so … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Reading
Tagged American Dream, bald, cinema, critique, Facebook, hair, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Leith, Mark Zuckerberg, movie, novella, Ocean Terminal, proofing, readers, Reading, Sean Parker, shave, skin, The Social Network, Vue Cinema, Writing
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Who Ate All The Pie?
Image: Cyron A group of us from the office went out for lunch yesterday to Thomson’s Pub on Morrison Street. It’s a traditional Edinburgh bar with a very nice pint, but it’s also famous for one other thing—pies! People come … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged beef pie, Blogging, dentistry, Dominos, Edinburgh, feeders, glasses, pizza, readers, spectacles, Thomson's Pub, tooth operation, website stats, Writing
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Let The Festivities Commence
Image: DK Images Today is the day! The Edinburgh Book Festival begins in around 90 minutes (as I type this) and my excitement this morning is palpable. For readers, the book fest is a great thing—for writers, it is out … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Reading, Writing
Tagged book lovers, Books, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh Book Festival, readers, Reading, writers, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Hunting for Website Ideas
Image: Unknown I was a bit of a waste of space yesterday. I didn’t get much done in the morning at all, lunch was spent eating, and I was so lethargic come the evening, I switched tactics away from writing … Continue reading →