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Pay day yesterday—lovely jubbly! I celebrated by getting a pizza for dinner. I’m such a big spender. I had a decent day overall but it wasn’t without incident.
I’ve had a right palaver getting all my pairs of glasses delivered and collected. The opticians rang yesterday morning to say my second pair had arrived. So [...]
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I took Tuesday morning off work for one reason or another. I worked from home but it was a bit of a drag having to go in at all through all the ice and snow come lunchtime. Such is the way, I suppose, but I discovered that Lothian Buses have made some New Year [...]
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I actually forgot to blog on Saturday morning. When I got up, I got tore into my “to-do” list for the day and stayed in the zone all day, and I just forgot to do it. When I first remembered it was mid-afternoon and I was lost in other work so I just left [...]
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Although I was on standby for my day job all weekend, which meant I couldn’t really leave the house and go far, it didn’t put a spoiler on my weekend at all. In fact, it was a weekend to remember.
After the exhausting shift I put in on Friday, I slept well into the [...]
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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 week before it launches to the end of the Book Festival in August.
I’ve got postcards, flyers, [...]
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The good thing about writing my blogs the following morning as opposed to the night before, is that I get to react faster to anything in the news that catches my eye. Even more so when a Sunday paper has held onto a juicy story to release it at the end of the [...]
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It’s finally here! The cover art for my new book has been decided, and the publishing process moves forward another step towards the big day.
I absolutely love the front cover for Stella. I think this version has everything I was looking for but could never have put into words beforehand.
The woman’s silhouette gives [...]
Fiction
* NANOWRIMO – Blood Ties – 50,000 words required by end of month (G1,G2,G3,D1,D2) – never completed; 37,073 words (74%) of Blood Ties
* Decide on short story possibilities from Muse output; edit and write (G1,G2,D1,D2) – complete; competition possibility for “Big Taff” story
* Submit Stella to selected markets (G1,G2,D1,D2) – complete
* Re-submit rejected/recalled short stories [...]
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Today is my last full post until Sunday night. Tomorrow when I leave the office I’ll be heading through to Glasgow on my way to a small village on the south coast of Spain. Naturally, I shall miss you all very much, and so by some small way of compensation, I’d like to announce [...]
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First half: reading and researching. I was up at the crack of dawn and sorted for the day before anyone else in the house was even on their penultimate roll over in bed. Laura had her pal staying overnight, but despite the house requiring fumigation after their “beautifying” party they were relatively quiet.
And [...]
Despite having to take a pain killer last night, I managed to trawl my way out of bed nice and early this morning. Before leaving for the day job, though, I had to take care of a few things before my lunchtime meeting with the new web client. I ran through and printed off copies [...]
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