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Finally, it is here. The 2010 Edinburgh International Book Festival will begin in a little under two hours, and in a little under three my first of over thirty events shall begin. Between today and August 30th, I’ll be treading the famous boards in the Charlotte Square village for all but four [...]
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T’was a day spent largely on my own. I cleaned and I tidied. I read a lot, I wrote some more, I walked and thought. I dined alone and I watched a movie alone. After two weeks living in the pocket of my family in Portugal, it was kinda nice actually.
AMERICA LIBRE is an [...]
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The first Saturday at home since I got back from Portugal and boy, did I make this one count. I headed into Edinburgh shortly after 9am and got to work.
First stop was the book shop, where I’d ordered AMERICA LIBRE by Raul Ramos, a recommendation for my holiday reading that never came through [...]
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At times, I had no clue what time of the day it was never mind the day of the week. And that was when the holiday hit its peak for me. This past year has been very busy on a personal and work level and so my main aim to be able to [...]
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I had a much more productive and pleasant trip up town yesterday morning. Just like the day before, I was up early but this time I took the chance of a quiet house to enjoy a slow breakfast in the garden and catch up with the latest news and my email. After enough time [...]
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I found myself on the bus going through Edinburgh at the unfeasibly early time of 6:30am yesterday morning. I was to spend the day working in an unfamiliar building on the other side of Edinburgh and it was one of my longest working spells in many a day. 12 hours without a lunch [...]
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My tickets for the Edinburgh Book Festival arrived yesterday, all 35 of them. Holding the bundle in my hand brought it home just how busy August is going to be. And of course, there’s still one very special event I’m hoping to be attending, news of which I should hear soon after July [...]
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I started to feel quite run down towards the end of last week and after my last blog post on Saturday felt really quite rubbish. So I downed tools and took a pit stop, a little time out for myself. I figured a day and a half downtime and cut off from the Internet [...]
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As mentioned previously, this is my final monthly plan of work for my writing year. When this set of GDRs began in January 2009 I was still running from January to December but came to realise how important the Edinburgh Book Festival was in my writing life; it’s a month of recharging, re-evaluating, [...]
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England got a taste of what it’s like to be Scottish yesterday: dramatic failure after a bunch of promises about what might and should have been.
Yes, England failed in the most Scottish of ways; they inflated their own self worth and never saw the juggernaut of reality coming their way. Germany walked over [...]
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Yesterday morning was all about one thing: the ticket launch for this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival. As you can see if you scroll down to yesterday’s post, I got all the tickets I was looking for. Will Self with Donald S Murray on the 30th was a late addition, and I also have Louise [...]
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Tickets for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival went on sale this morning. In fact, as I type this I’ve just closed down my browser after waiting patiently for a session, then tentatively working my through the Book Fest site to order all my tickets.
The phone lines have never provided me any luck and [...]
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I’ve decided what I’ll submit to the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust’s programme for reading slots at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival. I wanted it to be something punchy, engaging and would prove a good advert.
I had two stories immediately in mind. I was cut between LETTING GO, a sad story [...]
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It was back to work for me yesterday after a couple of hell-raising days off work. I was through in Glasgow on Tuesday and got back late on Wednesday afternoon, my mood one of cheery ridiculousness after a day out with my sister, a few beverages partaken, and a superb gig [...]
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