Colin Galbraith's Blog, page 6
May 12, 2012
Fingering the Pulse
Quick update because I got a lot of good work done early this week. I reviewed my GDR plan for the year and realised, that with eight months of my writing year gone, I’ve met several goals already as well as one dream. Not bad. Not bad at all. So despite many setbacks over the … Read more
May 7, 2012
A Couple of New Releases
Bit of a mad weekend: two books released, a play, a lot of writing, more reading, and a new project on the horizon. Let me explain. New Crime Novella Released On Friday my newest crime book was released to the world. Or at least it was meant to be. Normally the processing back-end of the … Read more
May 4, 2012
Plan of Work for May
Fiction * Launch GREENER IS THE GRASS * Complete revision of GATECRASH * Republish SLICK with “Other Books” section * Re-write DAFFODILS for Bloody Scotland competition Poetry * Submit POEMS FROM A COFFEE SHOP WINDOW for PSH giveaway 1st May * Launch POEMS FROM A COFFEE SHOP WINDOW (Kindle/Paperback) * Contact Edinburgh Bookshop with SILLY … Read more
May 1, 2012
April Review of Work
Fiction * Complete BACCARA BURNING – done * Start revision of GATECRASH – IP * Send GATECRASH to beta readers – not done * Re-write DAFFODILS for Bloody Scotland competition – IP Poetry * Complete production of POEMS FROM A COFFEE SHOP WINDOW – done * Kids poetry workshop at out of school club in … Read more
April 18, 2012
Slick – The Video
Hot in the heels of the video trailer for my up-coming crime novella, GREENER IS THE GRASS, I’ve put a belated one together for my debut crime novel, SLICK, released on January 2nd. If you liked the first one, you’ll love this! Click here if you cannot see the video[image error]
April 16, 2012
Greener is the Grass – the Video
The trailer for my upcoming crime novella, GREENER IS THE GRASS, to be published by Smashing Press on 4th May.
April 13, 2012
Lessons in Editing
What a week! I threw myself into a lot of work this week, feeling that if I didn’t, I would lose the plot altogether. You can only go so long without writing, with or without a plan, because the part of the soul that lives off creativity starts to wither. It needs to be exercised, … Read more
April 8, 2012
To Blog, or Not to Blog
Image: legalmarketingmaven.com A New Blog Well, this feels weird. I last posted on this blog on 7th February, 2012. It contained a poem about the perils of Scottish Independence called BROKEN NATION. Two weeks later the blog was invaded by some malware, that inserted some vicious code deep into the PHP coding as well as … Read more
February 7, 2012
Broken Nation – A Poem in Response to the Debate on Scottish Independence
There is a lot of debate going on here in Scotland just now, most of it surrounding the issue of Scottish Independence. When the SNP won the Scottish parliamentary elections in May 2011, they ensured their manifesto contained a promise to hold a referendum on Scottish independence. Now, with a majority of 69 seats behind … Read more
February 6, 2012
How Not To Make Friends On Twitter
Image: Telegraph.co.uk I’ve started using a service to monitor who follows and unfollows me on Twitter. Through registering with TwitQuit, I’ve been able to highlight some interesting activity that I wouldn’t otherwise have been aware of. As you might expect, I get a lot of authors connecting to me through Twitter. In the past, I … Read more
