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…(yet another) daft Amazon anti-Authors ROOL, #127(d), (amended)…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…this ol’ Jurassic may not be blessed with the monopoly of wee grey braincells in the publishing industry…. but I’ll bet yeez a pound to a penny my cranium houses more than the collective intelligence of the whizz-kid geniuses in the Amazon ROOLS and reg’lations division… fr’instance, about a year…
…and so it begins…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…it’s amazing what’s yeez can see and hear when yeez really look and listen long enuff… it all started with a small shrill cry of a wee birthing baby boy in a bed in a single-end city tenement… the warmth and comfort of a suckling mother, relieved the nine-month carry was over……
…not for the faint-hearted… Death by Eye-Kee-Ah…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…there’s sum’thing robustly fair in being ‘ungifted’ in certain things… this ol’ Jurassic prides himself in a proficiency in cerebral pursuits… splendidly superb at Sudoko… craftily creative with crosswords… magically meticulous in mental ‘rithmetic… persuasively polished in poetry… the activity for ‘that’ side of the brain is factory-ish… but, the…
…if yeez ever doubt that our wunnerful Authors family is global…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…part of my day job as a corporate restructuring trouble-shooter (no, not trouble-maker, Mabel) involves travelling to wherever my clients require me to be on the planet… currently, my coins, wristwatch, belt buckle and other metallic ornamentation about my body are regularly testing the security detection systems at Abu Dhabi…
…I want my readers’ noses deep in my writing business…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…yeez learn it early in life about interfering in others people’s affairs… having a meddle where yeez should be meddle-less… ‘keep yer nose out of my business’… is the more polite version of ‘feck off out of it, it’s got nowt to do with yeez’… as usual, I’m keen to…
My Time Travel Novel Has Arrived–Inherit the Past: A Bavarian Woods Mystery
Originally posted on Susan Finlay Writes:
It’s been a long time in the making, but my new novel is finally published. This book is a slight departure from my other books in that it’s science fiction. I still have a hard time thinking of myself as a science fiction author. To me, this book is…
…how the Internet caused the downfall of Constantinople…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…sum’thing stirs in the back of yer minds when yeez hark back to when yeez were school age… for ol’ Jurassics like me, it’s further back to go than most of yeez Lads and Lassies of Blog Land… we used to have wee games and pastimes yeez never hear of…
…mix an Authoress in Virginia with an Author in Thailand… and for sure, CHAOS IS COME AGAIN…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
? …the LUVLY Fiona Quinn ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? …not the LUVLY Fiona Quinn (…the sum’thing John Dolan) ? SG: Today in a departure from my normal format,…
…forget the Spice Girls… here’s the Indie Girls… coming to a Waterstones near you…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…great timing! … in consonance with my previous post about ‘Living the Dream,’ into my Guest Blog slot comes the fabulous news that four of our Indie Girls are all appearing together at Waterstones, Kensington… my pals, Lizzie Lamb, Adrienne Vaughan, June Kearns and Mags Cullingford, collectively known as the New Romantics,…
…Authors, it costs yeez NUTHIN to dream…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…the trusty Webster’s Dictionary offers several meanings for the WURD, ‘dream’… my favourites of the nouns for it are these: an aspiration… a goal… an aim… and in the active verb style: to form in the imagination… as a child (which I once was, Mabel, albeit about a hundred years ago), more time than I care to admit sum’times, was…
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