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…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…
…reading the book before seeing the movie…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…I reckon most movie scriptwriters will tell yeez it’s difficult to capture on screen exactly an Author’s masterpiece… making films is a craft in and of itself… and all yeez good Lads and Lassies of Blog Land appreciate that sculpting a novel has its own myriad nuances, particularly in the…
…may whatever God you have, be with you, Paul Gascoigne… and thank you, Harry Redknapp…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
..a wee serious post…I’ll do this once, and once only… like many others who LUV the great game of football, I’m more than saddened to see the continued mental and physical turmoil that Paul Gascoigne is suffering… but more than that, I feel intensely for the guy inside fighting all…
…no, Mabel, I’m NOT a self-publishing guru… but sum’things I do, actually WURK… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…some of yeez out there are really, really nice people… about six months ago, I threw some ideas together about how this ol’ Jurassic handles bits of the mysteries of SOSYAL NETWURKIN and published it on the Great God Amazon Kindle as SELF-PUBLISHING STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL SALES… now yeez are…
…seems like I still have the capacity to get into trouble… I’m glad to say… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…‘act yer age’ is a term I just can’t accept… my Comedic God, Billy Connolly waxes lyrical about his own rebellion against the idea… and to quote from the Big Yin himself, recently I turned 60 years old… even more recently I turned 65… and now, well… the kind of…
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