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Tag Archives: The Sky Project
The Illustrated ‘Silly Poems for Wee People’ Edges Closer
Image: Chas Stramash The temperature was almost at freezing yesterday on the way to the day job. As good a reason as any then, to stop off via the coffee shop and warm myself up. I thought I might use … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, eBooks, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged Apple, bad weather, Blogging, eBooks, Editing, illustrated poems, illustrations, iMac, Leith, Living Leith, manuscript, poems, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, revisions, Scotland, Silly Poems for Wee People, temperature, The Sky Project, workload, Writing
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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
Posted in eBooks, Editorial Comment, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Scotland, Websites, Writing
Tagged album, Allan Guthrie, Amazon, Anstruther, articles, Autumn, Baccara Burning, Blasted Heath, Books, bus pass, Chas Stramash, crime fiction, digitial publisher, dreams, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh book Festival Blog, Fiction, Fife, free stuff, Fruit Tree Foundation, full moon, GDR's, Goals, Hunting Jack, invitation, Jackie McCann, John Cooper Clarke, Kindle, Kyle MacRae, Lothian Buses, LP, marketing, Music, Northern Lights, November, podcast, Poetry, QR Codes, Reading, Resolutions, revisions, Scotland, shooting stars, special offers, Stella, The Sky Project, websites, winter, Writing, Yello
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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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The Daily Mail and Amanda Knox
Image: Media Bistro The Daily Mail The now widely reported error of judgment by the Daily Mail, when it wrongly published that Amanda Knox had been found guilty by an Italian appeals court, has already fallen into the stuff of … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Amanda Knox, bookmarks, Books, British, business cards, Daily Mail, essay, Fiction, freebies, journalism, magic, media, novella, paranormal, press, promo material, Publishing and Marketing, Raffaele Sollecito, Reading, reporting, stickers, The Sky Project, thriller
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A Trip to Porty
Image: Undiscovered Scotland Two Halves On the weather front, it was a weekend of two halves: on Saturday, Edinburgh was enshrouded with cloud apart for a brief part of the afternoon when the sun came out. It was warm and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Websites, Writing
Tagged book festivals, bookmarks, Books, boudoir, bus, business cards, characters, Coffee, coffee shop, crime fiction, design, driving school, Editing, essay, Fiction, fog, muggy, novella, Poetry, Portobello, Porty, Princes Street, promo, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, rain, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Silly Poems for Wee People, The Sky Project, thriller, tramworks, Weather, websites, Writing
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Culture in Glasgow
Image: Samantha Nicol It’s been some weekend! I started last Friday off with a very large and strong black coffee (apparently this is called an Americano in some places—places I now avoid) and a healthy and bountiful morning roll with … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Theatre, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Alishan Tandoori, Cafe Ludovic, Citizens Theatre, City of Literature, Clockwork Pub, culture, Culture in Glasgow, Dropbox, Edinburgh, Ena Lamont Stewart, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Indian meal, Literary Salon, Men Should Weep, Merchant City, Mount Florida, sisters, Sizzlers, Sloan's pub, The Sky Project, UNESCO, workshop, Writing
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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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Dreamworks
Image: Dreamworks Dream Resolve It was a weekend of squeezing; squeezing all that I could out of the time available and trying to get through as much as possible. There’s a lot going on, both on the writing front and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Alistair Darling, annual plan, CDs, charity, cooks, DIY, dreams, Dreamworks, eBooks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Bookshop, Eleanor Updale, exhibition, GDR, GDR's, iTunes, JA Konrath, Kindle, magazine, Music, Publishing and Marketing, Ranfurly Review, Reading, Savvy Authors, Simon van Booy, The Sky Project, Trees for Life, vinyl, work, workshop, Writing
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Revving Up The Writing Engine
Image: F1 Rewind Okay, so I’m back in the saddle and things are in a low gear, but I’m building up revs. It takes a fair amount of will power to get back into the swing of things properly after … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, eBooks, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Travel, Writing
Tagged Annabel Aidan, Assumption of Right, Auld Reekie, birthday party, Blogging, charity auction, coffee shop, Day Job, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Family, gigs, Holiday, Indian food, Interview, Leith, Music, niece, Raj Restaurant, Rhodes, Savvy Authors, The Shore, The Sky Project, tickets, Travel, Water of Leith, West End, Writing, Writing Magazine
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Freedom from the Mundane 
An Evening at The SKY Project
Image: theskyproject.co.uk I think it’s safe to say that yesterday was one of the most rewarding days I’ve had as a writer. When I first picked up the pen in any serious kind of fashion, the last thing I ever … Continue reading →