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Wednesday 12 November 2025: More covers work

Yesterday morning began, bright and early again, with me first letting the puppy out and then feeding them both about an hour later. I had my dirty cuppa and read…

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Wednesday 6 August 2025: Catching up for last week

I’m way behind on the blog posts at the moment. I’ll try and keep them short and sweet so that I can catch up a bit. Last Tuesday By the…

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Wednesday 30 July 2025: Publication Day!

It’s publication day today for my BOOKAZINE Words Worth Reading: Issue Four.  I’m so happy I managed to get the July issue out while it was still July.  In this…

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Thursday 17 April 2025: Publication day!

It’s publication day today for Words Worth Reading Issue 3, my quarterly bookazine. This quarter the bookazine contains three brand-new and exclusive short stories: Elvis is Missing; The Battle of…

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Monday 14 April 2025: The bookazine is coming on

Oh my gosh, I got a lot done on Friday morning. I was up with the poet and making phone calls to do all sorts of things. Order our repeat…

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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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Thursday 23 January 2025: Slight change of plan

I had one of those nights where I wake up from a deep sleep with a solution I didn’t even know I was looking for.  I’d already decided that I…

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Thursday 16 January 2025: Keeping busy

Before I did anything else yesterday morning, I threw several buckets of warm, soapy water at the patio to clean up some of the trash the birds had left during…

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Monday 9 December 2024: Publication day!

Yes! It’s another publication day today. The City of Glasgow is another story I wrote for 12 Stories in 12 Months. We were given the prompt (1852) and the word-count…

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Tuesday 3 December 2024: Catching up

  Gosh, what a lot of catching up I have to do today…Where did I leave you? Oh yes, Wednesday… I didn’t feel very well on Wednesday. During Monday night…

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Monday 11 November 2024: Remembrance Day

The only thing I really worked on on Friday was The Secret of Whitehorse Farm. And even then it was only pre-writing. Everything else was on binder work in Scrivener…

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Monday 14 October 2024: Northern Lights

We had a late night on Thursday, binge watching something on Netflix. Fortunately, it meant we were still up to watch one of the apparently best ever shows of the…

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Wednesday 11 September 2024: WORDS WORTH READING Issue One out now!

It’s been a while since I made any promotional material. I forgot to do this for Monday’s post, forgot it yesterday, but remembered it today…(Well, I remembered it yesterday really,…

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Tuesday 27 August 2024: Working on the schedule

On Thursday night I went to bed with a good feeling: I didn’t have to get up to do any work for anyone else in the morning, only me. That…

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Monday 19 August 2024: More unexpected DIY

I spent most of Friday catching up with the proofreading job. I’d done my own proofreading, but now I had to consolidate mine with the author’s and the proofreader’s. It…

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Friday 16 August 2024: Up to my neck in pictures

Oh, my goodness! I’ve only gone and chosen an image by the founder of Pixabay himself! 😮 The day started quite well yesterday. The plan was to finally send out…

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Friday 9 August 2024: It’s NOT piracy – it’s deliberate 😕

After we got back from our tea the poet had some work to do, so while he did that I started to brainstorm my story for 12 STORIES IN 12…

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Friday 23 February 2024: Things picking up again

It started to rain during the night on Wednesday. I remember waking up and registering it and then going straight back to sleep. Instead of lying there listening to it!…

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Friday 5 January 2024: Running smoothly

Wednesday I didn’t get up on time on Wednesday thanks to the dog waking me up at 4:30am and me failing to get back to sleep until 10 minutes after…

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Thursday 4 January 2024: A new regime

While the new regime wasn’t supposed to start until Tuesday, I did actually do some work on Monday too. We’d already spent some time rearranging the office, and on Monday…

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Friday 29 December 2023: The bit in the middle

Did you have a lovely Christmas? Ours was very relaxed. We didn’t do any baking, but of course the poet still cooked us a rather splendid Christmas dinner. We had…

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Friday 8 December 2023: Forgive me while I work things out

The last two jobs I did on Tuesday were rearranging a lot of my files on the laptop into something that’s hopefully a bit more streamlined, and starting today’s blog…

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Wednesday 29 November 2023: The year has flown

And just like that, November was almost over. It’s my November wrap-up post tomorrow, so this is the last post before the December run. I can’t believe how quickly the…

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Wednesday 22 November 2023: Immersing myself in science fiction

The hedgehog returned on Tuesday night. I still thought it looked a bit small, so I asked the poet for his opinion, and he assured me that it’s a fully…