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Tag Archives: Theatre
Pop Up Theatre Comes to Leith
Image: Siege Perilous Mad at Marketing A rather hectic day as it turned out. The 3 Ebook Deal began to take off in the evening, with word of mouth actually having a visible effect on visits to the promo page, … Continue reading
Ranfurly Review 16 Now Available
Image: Ranfurly Review It feels like Friday. It feels like it should be Friday. Maybe getting an #FF this morning is what confused me, because for one glorious moment I hoped it was be Friday. Alas, it’s only Thursday. The … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, Books, bunny, CDs, DIY, ezine, Family, Fiction, Friday, genre fiction, Glasgow, House, hutch, iTunes, J.A. Konrath, Music, Origin, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, rabbit, Ranfurly Review, Reading, techno-thriller, Theatre, Thursday
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Masterplan
Image: Patrick Hoesly Saturday was a fun day. Up and out the house early but not to a coffee shop or anything like that, to Waverley train station and the 10am to Glasgow Queen Street. My target destination: St Mirren … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, I.T., Politics, Reading, Sport, Theatre, Travel
Tagged birthday party, Books, Edinburgh Playhouse, Football, General Election, government, Les Miserables, Paisley, Politics, Reading, SPL, St Mirren, Theatre, websites
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Macaroni Day
Image: noellium Pretty tired this morning. Not from being up extraordinarily late last night but from a very early start this morning. There’s a lot happening today ranging from training courses to writing and a fair bit of website work, … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged Assistant Editor, Coffee, Day Job, e-zine, Editing, egg & black pudding roll, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, frreelance writing, gig listings, Hairspray, Leith, live music, London, macaroni, musical, online magazine, plotting, Publishing and Marketing, Punk, Ranfurly Review, Scottish Parliament, Scruffy Dog Review, short story, Submissions, The Leither, The Vibrators, Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, webmaster, websites, work, Writing
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The Submission Discipline
Image: Umberto Salvagnin One of my things I decided to pay more attention to this year was keeping up the level of submissions I have out and ensuring they get turned around after a rejection as quickly as possible. It … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Theatre, Travel, Writing
Tagged Acceptance, advert, Coffee, Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, GDR's, Hairspray, London, lunch, marketing, musical, promotion, Publishing and Marketing, rejection, roast chicken, Sheffield, Submissions, Theatre, train, Video, Waverly Station, Writing, YouTube
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Designing The Promo Material
Image: Eternal Press/Colin Galbraith Shattered. I was up late last night doing the promotional artwork for my impending Stella marketing campaign. I’ve ordered a whole bunch of juicy stuff that I will be using to promote the book from one … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Day Job, Fiction, Freelance, Publishing and Marketing, Writing
Tagged competition, cover art, Day Job, design, e-book, Editing, flash fiction, freelance writing, gig review, Jean Michel Jarre, literature, marketing, Mods, News of the World, prizes, promotional material, publishnig, Quadrophenia, Reading, Stella, The Who, Theatre, Writing
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Saturday Morning On Sunday
Image: DDS I was kind of glad the weekend finished when it did. It was all over the place and at times not in the least enjoyable. Parts of it were, though, so they are the bits I’ll talk about. … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Freelance, I.T., Music, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Theatre
Tagged album chart, bad mood, black pudding supper, Books, e-books, Festival Theatre, Freelance, Gail Galbraith Photography, gig review, Irn-Bru, Madness, mobile phone, Netbook, News of the World, PC World, Photography, Publishing and Marketing, Quadrophenia, relegation, Samsung NC10, SPL, St Mirren, Stella, Theatre, UK music, Vodafone, wedding photography, weekend
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Culture Vultures
Image: http://www.mckellen.com I had a wonderful day off work yesterday (Wednesday). I met my mum off the bus from Glasgow and we had a wee day to ourselves, and as it turned out, one to remember. After a morning coffee … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Theatre
Tagged acting, Art, Dean Gallery, dining, Edinburgh, Family, Ian Mckellen, Kings Theatre, Le Sept, Patrick Stewart, play, restaurant, Samuel Beckett, sculptures, Theatre, Waiting for Godot
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A Small Tragedy
There was an email from the Scottish NaNoWriMo ML in my inbox this morning. I get them sporadically throughout the year, but they tend to increase in the lead up to November’s writing marathon. This particular email reminded me there … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Family, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Theatre, Writing
Tagged acting, actors, Animals, Books, death, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Editing, festival, Fiction, Food & Drink, GDR's, goldfish, Hunting Jack, NaNoWriMo, novels, pets, Steven Berkoff, Theatre, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
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 →