Archive | November 6, 2014
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Cold comfort
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
It can be cold in London… damned cold… No, wait a minute…that’s the start of one of my favourite episodes of The Goon Show. *Thinks, I wonder if I can get it online…? (I sound like Bluebottle even to me at this point) Ah yes… now, can…
Sundials in the shade
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” ~Benjamin Franklin I have a very dear friend who made it his mission to make me blush. This was a gallant stance for him to take as it is not something…
The Absolute Indie
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
When I first decided to self-publish my books I had no intention of doing every little thing myself. I planned on paying for editing and formatting, and buying my cover designs. I had a rude awakening when I discovered that living in Zimbabwe, as I was at the time,…

Meet Guest Author Geoff Nelder
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
The ding of my inbox disrupted a well-deserved snooze. It was that master of the blogging arts, Chris Graham, with an invitation, a beseeching, for me to be guested on his blog. Does he think I have nothing better to do? He’s right. I am…

Two New, Free Ebooks: Writing 101 and 201
Originally posted on The Daily Post:
You may also be interested in our other free ebooks, (again, all are available in .pdf, .mobi, and .epub formats): 365 Writing Prompts — A New Writing Prompt for Every Day of the Year Photography 101 — The Fundamentals of Photography and Photoblogging Grow Your Traffic, Build Your Blog…
Who wants to be normal anyway? New book: ‘Conditions’ by Christoph Fischer
Originally posted on Just Olga:
Hi all: As you know I’m a bit busy writing but I promised you I would try and keep bringing you new books. Today I bring you the newest work by an author who has visited us before (and I’ve had the pleasure of reading one of his novels and…
‘Más allá del horizonte’. Inmigración y sus consecuencias. Novedad literaria
Originally posted on Just Olga:
Hola a todos: Como suelo hacer todos los viernes, os traigo un post sobre una novedad literaria. Una de las autoras que ha visitado mi blog con anterioridad, Purificación (Puri para sus amigos) Estarli, ha publicado recientemente una nueva novela que trata sobre un tema que sé le interesa mucho…
…Scots?… wha’s like us?… damn few, an’ they’re a’ deid…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…before yeez all go running off to the Berlitz Language School in search of translations for the header up there… it paraphrases into English (which, by the way is the ultimate foreign language for emb’dy else on the planet, but we’ll discuss that another day), simply as, ’Scots? who’s like…