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Tag Archives: terrorism
Day 15 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
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Posted in Books, Edinburgh Book Festival, Reading, Writing
Tagged Adam Levin, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, CIA, City of Literature, Denise Mina, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, King James Bible, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Scheuer, Osama Bin Laden, Reading, Religion, terrorism, The Guardian, USA, writers
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Eight Years Down The Line
Image: Tim Pearce I remember it like yesterday. It was a normal working day until an email from a friend on a day off, arrived in my inbox: “A plane just hit the World Trade Centre.” Most of us thought … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Editorial Comment, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Poetry, Writing
Tagged 9/11, Animals, bunnies, death, editorial, Family, Fiction, mass murder, mourning, Rabbits, remembrance, terrorism, Twin Towers, websites, World Trade Centre, Writing
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Lockerbie Remembered
Image: Getty Images It was a night I’ll never forget. It was a night nobody in Scotland will ever forget. Twenty years ago today, Pan-Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747 carrying 259 people from Heathrow to JFK, was blown out … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Family, Fiction, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Christmas presents, Fiction, Freelance, Indian meal, Libya, Lockerbie, marriage, movies, NaNoWriMo, Pan-Am 103, Scotland, Scottish Borders, Submissions, terrorism, Writing
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My Latest Epiphany
Life imitates art in the saddest of ways sometimes. A young girl has died in a swimming pool while on a Mediterranean island, reflecting almost exactly the tragic event that I am currently writing about in my novel, . When … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Freelance, Politics, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged 9/11, Editing, Fiction, Freelance, Great Britain, Non-Fiction, novella, novels, Submissions, terrorism, United States, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
After Bin Laden
Image: Denise Gould Dead or Alive So, Bin Laden’s pan bread. I can’t say I’m not glad to see the back of the Al-Qaeda leader, the biggest threat to the security of the World since Hitler, but I’m a bit … Continue reading →