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Throwback Thursday – The Moody Blues Days Of Future Passed
Originally posted on The One & Only Elgon:
In 1972 something pretty unusual happened in music. An album released five years before was climbing the charts again, riding on the popularity of a song that had failed to chart in the US when it was released five years before. The album, Days of Future Passed…
10 Ways to Thank Your Favorite Indie Author at Christmas or Any Time
1. Mention their name/book when someone asks “What are you reading?” 2. Add their book(s) to Goodreads groups and lists. 3. Buy and give their books as gifts to people on your Christmas list. 4. Request your local library get their books. 5. If children/youth books, tell your child’s teacher/librarian/PTA about the books. 6. Suggest…
…serious plea for help… I need a Dummy’s Guide To An Author’s SENSIBLE Use Of Goodreads… all suggestions welcome…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…Dear Aunty Helpline… …by this time, I should know already how best to maximise my participation in Goodreads… but… but… I can do the Rubik Cube… I’m a wizz at Sudoko… yer quadratic equations?… no problem… speak a blethering tongueful of languages… easy… but figure out how an Author is supposed to…
…fine dining.. as ye’re (sum’times) allowed to have it…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…this ol’ Jurassic makes no secret of the fact that he LUVS good food… witness, a waistline prob’ly ‘a-hem’ inches tighter than it should be, and a weighing-scale marker sum’what higher than most GPs would recommend for an almost-iconic Author like me… my range of menu preference would do justice to…
…Authors… how good ‘plants’ enrich yer scribbling masterpieces…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…readers, by and large, are clever, intelligent folks… they can also often be dismissive of shoddy WURK from an Author, regardless of how vaunted that writer’s celebrity may be… the basic mystery novel, and much of crime stories will frequently hold wee ‘pointers’ toward the eventual denouement of the plot……
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 