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A portrait of Scotland through the stories of its people

That’s what it says on the cover anyway.
It arrived! I now have a copy of a published book containing a short non-fiction story (really just a glorified blog post I suppose) written by myself.
The book, “Days Like This” was put together by BBC Scotland and the Scottish Book Trust. The premise was that you had [...]

This Train is My Life/Signing away the royalties

Sleeping towns joined together
By the steel of the rails
Parallel lines
Parallel lives
I’ve booked another two train journeys today. I’m on holiday from work next week but the two following weeks will see me spend the majority of my time on one train or another as I travel around the country giving training courses or presentations.
I don’t [...]

Writers, hoors and junkies

It seems that my writing was good enough for the Scottish Book Trust. My short story/memory piece “The Day The World Failed To End” has been added to their website.
From reading the small print, any of these stories could be broadcast or printed in the future. Maybe this scrambled collection of poetic license, half truth [...]

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