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Tag Archives: Selektion
Nice Day for Another Royal Wedding
Image: Brian Wilson [streetlifephotography.co.uk] The weather since I got back from Greece has been superb in Scotland. It’s been sunny and warm most days, which is as much of a surprise as it is welcome. Looking out my window to … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Book Festival, dinner, Duke of Rothesay, eBooks, EdBookFest, Family, Greece, Leith, marketing, Mike Tindall, newsletter, poems, Poetry, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Royal Wedding, Selektion, sunny, The Patter, The Queen, Weather, Zara Phillips
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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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In It For The Duration
Image: Burak Senyurt My goodness, yesterday was a loooooong day! I was in the day job for 7am and never got away until 6pm – on a FRIDAY! Quite ridiculous so it’s no wonder I slouched on the couch for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Books, competition, Day Job, ebook, free ebooks, marketing, Poetry Superhighway, PSH, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Rick Lupert, Selektion, The Edinburgh Bookshop, Twitter
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Like Ripples In A Pond
Image: Richard Freeman The Poetry Super Highway’s Annual E-Book Free-For-All was announced yesterday. Run by Rick Lupert, it’s a crazy project in which poetry e-books are produced and made freely available to all interested humans on Earth for a 24 … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, I.T., Poetry, Writing
Tagged article, Australia, Brick by Brick, computer, Day Job, e-book giveaway, e-books, Fiction, Freelance, gigs, Madness, PC upgrade, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, RAM, Rick Lupert, Scotland's Treasure, Scruffy Dog Review, Selektion, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.1, tour, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
The Coming Of Ska
Image: Me I’m feeling it increasingly difficult to think about anything else apart from Wednesday’s gig. I’ll keep the full spiel for tomorrow’s post, but from yesterday morning into last night I saw an increase of my excitement levels ten … Continue reading →