0 609  2 Comments on Tuesday 25 February 2025: Falling behind
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Tuesday 25 February 2025: Falling behind

I did a lot of work at the weekend on the editing job and I finished yesterday’s blog post on Sunday so I could schedule it and carry on with…

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Monday 24 February 2025: Publication day!

It’s publication day today for my SHORT STORY The Weather Can Be Murder, Wordsworth Short #36. This is a story I wrote as an assignment for the fantasy thriller workshop….

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Book Review: Murder at the Mill by T.A. Belshaw

Many thanks to the author for sending me an updated version of Murder at the Mill. This is a reboot of my original review as I’ve now been sent the…

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Friday 21 February 2025: Ebooks all backed up

I only managed my 3 chair exercises yesterday before going out to run my errand. At some point this week I’ve twisted my knee. I don’t know if I turned…

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Thursday 20 February 2025: Does Scruffy have a mate?

I’ve been very lax on the actual work front this week. I keep getting distracted by things that seem to be out of my control. For 2 days I’ve been…

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Wednesday 19 February 2025: A full day’s work?

I was up with the poet yesterday and I downloaded 2 free apps to help me with my move-my-body challenge. Okay, so there isn’t an official challenge, but it does…

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Tuesday 18 February 2025: Another proprietorial move

Over my first dirty cuppa of the morning I once again read a daily newspaper (on Readly). This does seem to be becoming an easy habit, which is good. Perhaps…

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Monday 17 February 2025: ‘Albatross! Albatross! Alabatross…’

I was up on time on Friday and I read a daily newspaper over my first dirty cup of tea of the day. I didn’t play any games and I…

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Friday 14 February 2025: Valentine’s Day!

It’s Valentine’s Day today and we have roses and cards in the house. We don’t have red (Lancaster) roses in our house, we have white, Yorkshire roses. (I’m married to…

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Thursday 13 February 2025: Home!

I thought I’d have time to write up and post a blog by late morning, but I’m a bit late again. On Tuesday I closed work down early as we…

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Wednesday 12 February 2025: Roadtrip

Image by Miriam Verheyden from Pixabay Monday was roadtrip time again. I didn’t post in detail about it before because of, you know, contents insurance. Or it being voided due…

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Tuesday 11 February 2025: Fog

I had a lot of problems last week trying to upload the latest 3 books I’m publishing to Google Play Books. It was always so easy before, but I think…

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Monday 10 February 2025: Publication day!

It’s publication day today for my VERY SHORT STORY Happy Valentine, Flash Fiction #12. This is a story I wrote a long time ago and it appeared in Flash Fiction…

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Friday 7 February 2025: A publishing day

Yesterday turned into a bit of a publishing day. I still have a few books to get out before I push the publishing side of things to one side, and…

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Thursday 6 February 2025: Short n sweet

How can it be Thursday already? So, I didn’t move into the living room in the end to do the client edit on Tuesday. I remembered (and saw) the reading…

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Wednesday 5 February 2025: Nice and steady

We’ve started this 16:8 eating thing and it’s taking a bit of getting used to. For the most part, I’ll be having 2 light meals and 1 main meal in…

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Tuesday 4 February 2025: A bit of a whirl

So, at the end of Wednesday last week, Fallen Angel decided it didn’t want to be written yet. I’d made a start on the first chapter and managed 401 words….

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Monday 3 February 2025: Hello February!

At the time of writing I was still up against the clock with Book 3 of the great novella challenge. It was looking good, though, and definitely achievable. Tune in…

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Friday 31 January 2025: January wrap-up!

I’m up against the clock today, and yesterday, so just the wrap-up today. January wrap-up! create graphic for Hello January ✔️ create graphic for January wrap-up ✔️ new word-count spreadsheet…

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Thursday 30 January 2025: Deadline days

It was our first deadline day of the year yesterday for 12 Stories in 12 Months on Deadlines for Writers. I’d finished a very rough draft of the 1,200-word story…

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Wednesday 29 January 2025: Rhythm

I didn’t write up Tuesday’s blog post until Tuesday morning, thanks to my procrastination on Monday. Once it was written, I posted it and shared it. Then I allowed myself…

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Tuesday 28 January 2025: Good weekend

I didn’t do any work at the weekend. That’s one reason it was a good one. It meant I wasn’t so behind on anything that I felt the need to…

0 562  2 Comments on Monday 27 January 2025: Publication day!
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Monday 27 January 2025: Publication day!

I’m so stupidly pleased with myself that I got Words Worth Reading Issue Two out before the end of January. It’s had a couple of false starts over the past…

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Friday 24 January 2025: Friday already – again!

So before I did actually call it a day on Wednesday, I contacted Support at Google Play Books. The techie there had a good look at everything and asked me…