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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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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
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Books, Day Job, dental, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, gums, Harold Camping, Kat Ryder, manuscript, maternity, novella, pregnancy, Reading, revisions, submission, teeth, wisdom teeth, 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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As Busy as a Mosquito in a Nudist Colony
Image: Unknown Thanks to everyone who downloaded the latest iteration of my free ebook, SELEKTION, in yesterday’s Poetry Superhighway 24 Hour Free-For-All. I’m delighted to say that my ebook came in as the 2nd most popular with 75 downloads, only … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Freelance, I.T., Leith, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged eBooks, Fiction, Freelance, Gail Galbraith Photography, GDRs. writing, Leith, Malmaison, Photography, poems, Poetry Superhighway, revisions, Selektion, websites, wedding fair
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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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Growing Stronger
Image: SuperheroUniverse.com New Fiction I finish up the writing of my new short story yesterday morning. A Good Heart is the first full short story I’ve written for quite some while and it felt good. In a strange way it … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Books, crime fiction, eBooks, Fiction, Good Morning Nantwich, networking, novella, Phill Jupitus, Poetry, Reading, revisions, social network, The Guardian, Twitter, Writing
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A Fruitful Diversion
Image: Anders B. My weekend went nothing like I planned it. It all went wrong on Friday night and the crisis lasted until late last night, and yet – and YET – I still managed to have a highly productive, … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Leith, Music, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Animals, cappuccino, coffee chop, Corstorphnie, Costa, Desert Island Discs, eBooks, Edinburgh, Editing, Fiction, gardening, half marathon, hard drive, hardware, HDD, house chores, ideas, Leith, Music, notebook, PC, PC World, Photography, photography studio, poems, revisions, thoughts, Twitter, wedding, Windows, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
November, and Why It Rocks
November I love November. I love the shift from the unsettled weather of October, which can often have Scotland shivering under a bitter sky one minute then basking in warm sunshine the next. Technically, it’s classed as autumn, but it’s … Continue reading →