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Progress Across the Board
Think of this as my first quarterly check in of the year. I’m aware I never published a GDR (Goals, Dreams & Resolutions) list this year, but I can assure you there is one in existence. I designed my list … Continue reading
Posted in GDRs, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, chapbooks, Gatecrash, GDR's, Hunting Jack, London, Slick, Stella, Writing
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Embracing the Digital Age
Image: GuerrillaGeek.com Ok, so very suddenly I seem to have a lot of stuff on the go all at once. Not that this is a bad thing, but I’m wary of the fact that with so many plates spinning at … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Fiction, I.T., Music, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Websites, Writing
Tagged Baccara Burning, chapbook, digital, digital age, Editing, EP, Fiction, marketing, Music, novella, poems, Poetry, promotion, proofreading, publisher, Rachel Sermanni, rebranding, revision, self-publishing, Smashing Press, Stella, The Bothy Sessions, The Sky Project, work
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Piecing Together a Plot
Image: Row Three Workshop Over lunch, I wrote and posted the revised version of part 2 of the fourth exercise at the Advanced Dialogue workshop. I’ve edited in a sentence or two to subtly indicate where the antagonism is coming … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Scotland, Video, Writing
Tagged children, Citizens Theatre, dialogue, draft, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh councillors, Family, Fiction, Friday Vid, Glasgow, Indian meal, kids, Kilmarnock, Leith, Leith Walk, Men Should Weep, paranormal, performance poetry, play, plot, poems, Poetry, road works, Savvy Authors, spy thriller, Stella, The Sky Project, Theatre, tram works, trams, Video, workshop, Writing
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Summer Issue of the Ranfurly Review Launched
Image: Ranfurly-Review.co.uk I started my Sunday off, as ever, with a nice coffee and read of the paper in Costa Coffee in town overlooking Edinburgh Castle. I finally fond the perfect seat that allows for the best 3G reception, as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Day Job, Edinburgh, Leith, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Art, chapbooks, Costa Coffee, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Editing, Facebook, Fiction, newspaper, Poetry, Poetry Supoerhighway, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Reading, recorded poetry, Silly Poems for Wee eople Vol.3, Stella, Sunday morning, Trees for Life, Trevor Jones, websites, Writing
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A B.A.D. Week
Image: allgigs.co.uk One of Those Weeks It’s been one of those weeks. Unable to blog much due to travelling between cities, gigging and the compulsion to get BACCARA BURNING and GREENER finished, I was left little time to put any … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Freelance, Leith, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Travel, Writing
Tagged Big Audio Dynamite, competition, e-book, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, GDR's, gigs, Glasgow, Greggs, Leith, Man in the East, Mick Jones, Pie and a Pint, Stella, Thomson's Pub, travelling, Twitter, Writing
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Rewriting And Turning Over
Image: 123rf.com I spent most of yesterday lathering after-sun cream on my pink forehead and the back of my neck. I was positively glowing as I walked around Edinburgh in the morning and stopped for a coffee and pastry to … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Fiction, Photography, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged after-sun cream, BBC, coffee and pastry, coffee shop, e-books, Edinburgh, England, Fiction, Football, Gail Galbraith Photography, Kindle, markets, photographic studio, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, rain, Stella, Submissions, World Cup
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An Impending Conclusion
Image: Kiwi-Wing My royalty statement for sales of STELLA came in for the last quarter yesterday—nothing—zilch—not a single sale! In the entirety of my writing career this is most definitely a first. I’m sure it’s not a bad book, though … Continue reading
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 →