Well RED Scottish Teenagers
The RED Awards ceremony – a break from the norm.
Month: January 2010
Showing Signs of Stross
Charles Stross’s blog and the discussion about how to make a living in the new world of digital publishing.
Scottish Serendipity
‘Strangled Silence’, the ‘The Goblin of Tara’ and ‘The Evil Eye’ audiobooks and the Scottish Connection.
Snap, Crackle and Pop into Hughes & Hughes
This is a first for me. One of my books is now available in your local shop or supermarket – in the breakfast cereal section. With boxes of Rice Krispies. ‘Mad Grandad and the Mutant River’ is part of a promotion from Kelloggs, along with Hughes & Hughes bookshops and the O’Brien Press, to sell cereal and reading material…
Death of a Sales Outlet
I was reading Eoin Purcell’s post on the problem bookshops are faced with as they lose more and more customers to online booksellers, both for print and digital books. Actually, he was passing on a point made by another blogger, Seth Godin (Is this all we do in blogs now – talk about other people’s blogs?), but it amounts…
Walking In The Air
So, before Christmas, we took the kids to the National Concert Hall to see ‘The Snowman’. It was a great show, with the half-hour film as the main event, but also featuring the Spotlight Stage School doing some excellent renditions of Disney tunes – although there were a few strange choices, given the range they had to choose from….
A Very Slippy Christmas
It wasn’t so much a White Christmas as an Ice Christmas. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. As a country, we’re obviously not very used to dealing with serious ice, but what I saw on the 23rd and 24th of Christmas was bordering on farce. Circumstances had brought the family and I to Navan for bit of last…