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Library Ladies and Guest Posts
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Have you ever wondered what librarians do when they aren’t working? The answer may not surprise you; they read books. Loads of them. Piles. Stacks as big as an elephant. I’ve recently had the pleasure of collaborating with two such voracious librarians at The Library Ladies. Kate and Serena were kind…
Authors continuing to behave badly …
Originally posted on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing:
It seems to be time – again! – to remind some “authors” out there how they should be conducting themselves in the world of promoting their books. Not everyone has bad manners, but there are enough who make it difficult for the rest of us who DO abide…
…let there ALWAYS be libraries…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
ELDER PARK LIBRARY …by any stretch of the measurement of age, this ol’ Scots Jurassic scribbler is no longer a youth… I adulted around a-hem years ago… and having become in recent years an Author, I have more than a passing interest in the comparatively new debate as to whether…
…art covers for Authors?…there was a time, a time there was…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
? …it seems not such an age ago that my frequency of trips from where I live in the Middle East to London was dictated by the need to stock up with physical copy books from Waterstones in Piccadilly… I was what’s prob’ly known as a ‘weight purchaser’…I bought books…
When Critical Reviews are the Best Kind
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Sometimes I read a review that expresses such passionate hatred for a book that I can’t help but want to read more. Perhaps I am alone in that response. Now, I enjoy literary novels – I read a lot of folks like Margaret Atwood and Alan Moore – but occasionally…
…superb blogger, Allan Hudson, lets me onto his blog today…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…follow Allan’s THE SCRIBBLER, on allanhudson.blogspot.com Guest Author Seumas Gallacher of Abu Dhabi SEUMAS GALLACHER escaped from the world of finance seven years ago, after a career spanning three continents and five decades. As the self-professed ‘oldest computer Jurassic on the planet’, his headlong immersion into the dizzy world of…
Dear Authors…An Open Letter To All Authors This Year
Originally posted on Happymeerkatreviews:
Dear Authors, Please make it easy for me to review for you this year, by remembering all these things: Please get my name right, it’s not hard to learn, it appears all over the web. Either call me by my name, or just say ‘hi’. But please don’t call me something…
I’ll Do It My Way
As people who read my last post will know, I received my first bad review recently. This lead to a lot of self-doubt and questioning. The review claimed my book was boring erotica. The boring bit I had no problem with. We are all entitled to our own opinion and I know not everyone will…
…where have all the bank services gone?… long time passing…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…’fess up time… in a different life, this ol’ Scots Jurassic scribbler was once a banker… a Trainee Master of the Financial Universe… I skulked around as a manager of treasury departments and headed foreign exchange dealing rooms for a coupla decades and threw in some service for another coupla decades…
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