Tag Archive | thrillers
…a few thoughts on reviews… one of the most valuable commodities for Authors…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…I’m appalled to learn from news snippets on the Web recently that the pernicious practice of false reviews being purchased on Amazon is rife… as a scribbler myself, I consider each and every review that any of my WURKS attract is a a precious commodity… …since first dipping my authorly…
…aren’t top Literary Agents and Big Five Publishers imaginary species?…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…this ol’ Scots Jurassic scribbler has long since realized that any complaining or whining from me, about anything, seldom achieves positive results… and that fact pertains especially to my publishing aspirations… over the past ten years, I’ve experienced the sum’time exhilarating, sum’time depressing, pendulum familiar to many authors… when my…
How to Write Better Stories
Originally posted on Pen & Paper:
How to Write Better Stories Posted by Melissa Donovan on April 12, 2018 https://www.writingforward.com/storytelling/how-to-write-better-stories Melissa writes with a wealth of knowledge about how to write better, stronger, and more interesting stories that will capture your reader. Each example gives the writer something to think about and perhaps, will improve each story…
…time to spend a little timely time with my pal Author, Glen R. Stansfield…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…my great pal, and fellow scribbler, Glen R. Stansfield, he of the crime writing prowess that produced Fishing for Stones, and Harry, is also on the verge of launching a cookbook, a superb culinary compilation, Around the World in Eighty Dishes, which comprises a series of feature articles which first appeared in…
…the simple pleasure of chit-chat… how precious can that be?…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…there’s a certain grotesqueness in the WURLD which features daily in the newspapers and the ubiquitous 24/7 television ‘news’ channels… it would be all too easy to summarize that everything we see and hear is evidence of overwhelming evil and badness… but let’s hold on just a minute… ‘news’ outlets…
… ‘the moving finger having writ, moves on…’
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…they say there are lies, damn lies and statistics, Mabel… that may well be, but I couldn’t help notice this morning when I tapped into my blog pages, that it tells me I’ve posted 1,700 posts since this blog first saw the light of day back in May 31st, 2012……
…the beauty of the ear is in the lobe of the beholder…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…it takes a l-oooooooooo-ng time for this ol’ Scots Jurassic to adapt to new things… I didn’t start wearing long trousers until I was about 15 years old… when I acquire a new cellphone (I believe they’re called ‘mobile phones’ now), it takes an absolute age for me to understand…
…from Goonhilly Downs… to the WURLD…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…11th July, 1962… prob’ly not a date that gets instant recall in the minds of most people… I remember the occasion, but not the date itself… the first ever transatlantic satellite television signal between the USA and Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall on the West Coast of England… black and white television…
…to what depths in Hell has Humanity sunk?
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…apparently from April 16th, 2018, in certain parts of England, it will be officially a crime for homeless street people to ask the public for help or for money… please read that again, and let it sink in… IT WILL BE A CRIME TO ASK FOR HELP OR FOR MONEY…
…scoff not at the honest endeavours of others…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…to every man, woman, and child who ever picked up a pen or pencil, tapped at a typewriter, clicked at a keyboard, in an effort to WRITE SUM’THING out of their own imagination, I salute yeez… each and every one of yeez… heroes and heroines all… lately, I saw a…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 