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- RT @The7Line: Our passports are ready, @MLB. Make it happen! @The7LineArmy with bells on. 1 week ago
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Tag Archives: sales
Book Sales and Rising
Image: Blogspot Get Over It I felt absolutely downtrodden going to the day job yesterday and it was all down to the thought of missing that blasted Arab Strab gig. It got stupid when people were tweeting they had a … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Video, Writing
Tagged Arab Strap, Baccara Burning, crime, dining out, dinner, drinks, ebook, eBooks, Editing, Family, Fiction, Friday Vid, friends, gig, Glasgow, Leith, meal, Music, Nice n Sleazy, paranormal, Poetry, revising, royalties, sales, Shed Seven, The First Big Weekend, Twitter, Video, Writing
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A Big Thanks
Image: vistamommy As is typical for an Easter Monday it rained all morning. No worries on my part because my holiday was officially over now and I was back to work, the beauty of that being it was now a … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Poetry, Politics, Publishing and Marketing, UK, Writing
Tagged blog, Blogging, chapbook, Concervative Party, David Cameron, Day Job, Easter Monday, General Election, Gordon Brown, Holiday, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Poetry, Politics, Publishing and Marketing, readership, sales, Scottish Nationalists, Starbucks, Tories
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Scrabble Addiction
Image: Patrick Easter We have here a brief interlude in my Christmas/New Year holidays. Freshly passed is the Christmas holidays, packed with fun, food and frolics, and beyond today we have a real break away from home to let our … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy
Tagged and Bevvy, Bevvy, Books, CDs, Christmas, drink, DVDs, Food, Drink and Bevvy, friends and family, Hogmanay, Holiday, Neay Year, Nintendo DS Lite, Only Fools and Horses, poor weather, presents, sales, scrabble, Shopping, snow, Trossachs, White Christmas
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Clockwise
Image: FMD Check me out today over at the blog of freelance writer, photo journalist, and long-time cyber buddy, Diane Parkin!!! I’ll be answering questions all day after what was a very different and interesting interview to do, so please … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Interviews, Publishing and Marketing, Reading
Tagged Amazon, Animals, author events, author page, blog tour, Blogging, Books, Cate Masters, competition, Day Job, Diane Parkin, e-book, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh Zoo, free stuf, Interview, marketing, penguins, promotion, Reading, sales, Stella, ticket sales, tickets, web cam
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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 →