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…sum’thing they DID teach me at Harvard…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…nearly thirty years ago, the business group I worked with in the Far East decided my brain needed some retreading… the result was a place in the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard University Graduate School of Business in Boston… (how’s that for a neat bit of name-dropping, Mabel?)… the…
…Kristie K.S. Haigwood brings yeez her latest masterpiece… ‘Accepting The Moon’… have a wee peek…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…there’s nowt like a great cover page to draw yer eye toward a great book… my pal, Author, Kristie K.S.Haigwood nails it right here … if ye’re into vampire-y goodies, have a wee peek… ? Synopsis There is a new Alpha Wolf in town, and she is about to…
… ‘Hippocratic Oath’ versus ‘Hypocritical Oath’?… a few thoughts…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…those of yeez Lads and Lassies who follow this Blog will know that I normally eschew political, overtly argumentative, or outright ‘soap-boxing’… however, as is my wont, a wee body swerve on that is in order today… a few thoughts on watching the absurd human anguish caused of late by…
…treat yerselves to Author, Bridget Whelan’s great ‘BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING… free today on Goodreads…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…last December, this ol’Jurassic was delighted to pen a wee review piece for my pal Author, Bridget Whelan’s great ‘BACK TO CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL’… for emb’dy out there among yeez Lads and Lassies of Blog Land who wanna treat yourselves, it’s now FREE on Goodreads (sorry, no discount!)… goodreads.com/giveaway/show/ …a great…
…the ageless question for Authors…how long should yer book be?…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…as with most things to do with writing yer books, yeez’ll get as many different answers as the number of people yeez ask the question… what’s the ideal length of a novel?… for this ol’ Jurassic, it’s simple… yeez start the story… yeez tell the story… yeez finish the story……
… ‘trickle-up’ economics for all we Authors…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…unless yer name’s Lee Child or ye’re that wee Rowling lassie, chances are, as a quill-scraper, yeez have more than a passing fascination with the Amazon Author’s Sales pages… and now the Great God Amazon has introduced these fancy-coloured squiggly graphs showing yer daily sales and the individual markets where…
…I am to technological devices what square wheels are to a bicycle…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…if there were an Olympics candidate for ‘The-Totally-Challenged-With-Any-Kind-Of-Electronic-Gadget’, then I’m yer huckleberry… it’s a talent I became aware of at any early age… witness the initial Master Gallacher attempt to drill a hole in a kitchen wall with one of these impressive weapons, a small, but weighty, electric pneumatic-drill-lookalike thing… …the…
…an endangered species.. the Punster Par Excellence…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…the art of the well-placed, and even better, well-timed pun, accompanied with the throwaway panache to make the pun sound brilliant, is a talent given to very few… a few decades ago, when this ol’ Jurassic earned his coin in Her Britannic Majesty’s colony of Hong Kong, the court magistracy’s…
…yeez’ll have to call me back later, there’s not enuff people listening to me yet…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…one of the oldest computer and communications gadgetry Jurassics I may well be (I do a lap of honour every time my Mac lights up when I click on it), but there’s other folks who take it all a bit too far… today I made a short flight on business,…
…accepting gifts from the reviewing Gods… an Author’s perfect present…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…no self-respecting quill-scraper is embarrassed to admit the frisson of ecstasy yeez experience when an out-of-the-blue glowing review for yer WURK hits the Amazon and Goodreads pages… here’s what arrived on those review pages yesterday… LUV IT!… ..there are certain reviewers whose opinions I value so highly they are off…
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