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Tag Archives: The Complaints
Ian Rankin And The Live Book Festival Twitter Feed
Image: Twitter Before I get stuck into yesterday’s goings on at the Edinburgh Book Festival, I want to say a humongous thanks to everyone who has emailed and tweeted me to express their enjoyment of my book festival blogging and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Scotland, Writing
Tagged blind, blindness, Blogging, Bookfest Burnout, Candia McWilliam, chapbooks, crime writing, death, Doors Open, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edwin Morgan, Fringe Fantastic, Ian Rankin, Lin Anderson, live tweeting, Makar, poems, Poetry, Poolside Poetry, Rebus, run-down, social media, The Complaints, Twitter, What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness
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Focussing On What Matters
Image: RollingStone.com The weather held yesterday, but only just, teetering on the edge of a humidity-fuelled downpour for most of the day, threatening warm rain, which thankfully never came. Not that I would have noticed anyway, trapped in my large … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged best seller, Book Festival, crime author, crime writing, Day Job, Edinburgh, Fiction, GDR's, Ian Rankin, novelist, The Complaints, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
A Bachelor’s Writing Life
Image: U-Handbag It’s a belter of a day outside. The sun is out, there’s no wind, and it puts me in mind to take a book out the back and read for the day. But there is work to be … Continue reading →