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Would you believe that after all the trials and tribulations of getting my new pair of glasses sorted they STILL aren’t ready? Yesterday morning when I went to collect them, although they did manage to get the lenses made with no errors, the manufacturers sent them back in the WRONG frames!
Just my luck [...]
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Scotland’s last minute loss to Wales at rugby on Saturday was a huge blow. For the first time in a long time Scotland played like a team that knew what they were doing. With no fear and renewed determination, they seemed to have picked up their game under the stewardship of Andy Robinson, and [...]
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The behaviour of Scottish people at bus stops is very strange. Every place I’ve lived in Scotland over the years, I’ve noticed different patterns of behaviour. Not as part of some grand scientific experiment you understand, but merely as a gentle observation from years of relying on public transport to ferry me around [...]
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Good day at work yesterday; busy, challenging, and one where some long-term results were finally realised. It’s the biggies that count most. I topped it off with a couple of pints of Guinness in Clark’s afterwards. Sorted.
Not much else done because the results I spoke of didn’t actually happen until between 7.30pm and [...]
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It’s definitely getting milder. The wearing of my bunnet is now becoming an unnecessary addition to my daily attire, although we’re not quite at the stage I can safely leave the house with it and risk freezing my napper to the bone. Still, it’s a sign that despite the snow two days [...]
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It was a fine Sunday to complete a full weekend of writing. For a Monday morning I feel oddly invigorated and somewhat charged, though the actual writing process over the last two days was pretty sore and uncomfortable.
After a bright and early start to my Sunday I was onto the page writing more on [...]
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I took a bit of a blow in the day job yesterday when some behind the scenes politics took some juicy work out of my remit. It was the kind of work that goes a long way to consideration for promotion, and helps to push you to the forefront of more senior work, [...]
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I had my busiest weekend so far at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Five authors, one seminar, reading, writing, and discussion, all added together to equal a great time.
My Saturday began at 5pm with a Granta Magazine sponsored seminar on the Art of Short Story Writing. James Lasdun, winner of the National Short Story Prize, [...]
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STELLA received a wonderful review from romance author, Ginger Simspon, over the weekend. This is the first official review of my new book and I’m delighted it was so good! Click here to read.
If you missed it, please pop over and have a read of my guest blog at Love, Romances & More, [...]
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After Tuesday night up late working on the promotional material for STELLA, then Wednesday’s late one for a theatre visit with my wife, tiredness played a big part in my day yesterday. The day job dragged and I realised in the midst of it all that the week was dragging too. I kept [...]
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The countdown has begun. I received confirmation yesterday morning that my new book, Stella, will be released by Eternal Press on 7th June, 2009 – one month today! Celebrations will soon begin all across the land, and the King and Queen of wherever will invite you to come and party for [...]
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The lamb pathia, pilau rice and nan bread I gorged on last night was still weighing heavily in my stomach when I got up this morning; I barely had room for my Italian coffee while checking my email and Tweets. Tweets, heh heh.
By half nine, though, my tummy was grumbling louder than [...]
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I woke up feeling a lot lighter on my feet and freer in my head after yesterday’s announcement. When I got stuck into preparing my GDR review for March I realised I had actually gotten through more than I realised, just not of the stuff I would rather have, but that will change.
There [...]
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I missed my blog post yesterday because I never got time to write it. Can you believe it? The little time I had to write I used for actual writing on Blood Ties and doing research for the next Stella novella.
I worked long hours on Monday, not getting home until half past seven. [...]
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