January 2012
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Northern Lights dance over Edinburgh | Deadline... →
It’s sod’s law that this happens after I’ve left Edinburgh. Oh well!
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Since I’ve been watching the series Sherlock it’s got me thinking about Arthur Conan Doyle again. I knew he’d lived in Surrey at one point and it got me searching online. I didn’t realise that the house he lived in for over 10 years is at risk of being redeveloped into flats. The Undershaw Preservation wants to restore the house back to its former glory and turn it into an...
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Rankin calls for help for new authors | Deadline... →
A tax break would certainly be good. It’s hard to know what to do right now. Digital publishing is a wonderful new thing but the more traditional publishing houses are going to have to seriously rethink the way they deal with authors. I understand that a lot of publishing houses are being squeezed financially but at the same time they can’t expect new authors to have to crawl and beg...
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“Now we may see many beautiful things, and we pause. But if we were asked to explain it, we couldn’t. In other words, what’s the difference between a poet and an ordinary person? I think the big differences are two – One, the poet feels deeply, but, more than that, he can express eloquently and beautifully what the average person can’t express.”
Louis Ginsberg
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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