This is one of the short stories I wrote last month for my horror compilation. It is dedicated to Jim Connick, who has a fear of going round a corner quickly and being impaled on a pointy thing, which he blames on the film Dog Soldiers.
I’m running for the last bus, slipping and sliding on wet concrete in old cons wi nae grips, hurdling knocked ower bins and homeless folk and piles of vomit, breathing hard as my tired lungs gasp in cold night air.
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In today’s guest post I talk to Ben Godfrey and Nathan Connolly, some of the team behind The Night Light, an online arts magazine based in the fair city of Manchester. Read on to find out about funding (or lack of), what they look for in submissions, and doing it yourself.Continue reading “Interview: The Night Light”
Ever wanted to ask me a question about what it’s like to write 12 books in 12 months?
Maybe you want to know how much planning it takes, what music I listen to when writing, or my WPM? Perhaps you want to read an excerpt, or find out what I plan to do after the 31st of December when the whole thing is over?
Well now you can, in a live Q&A session with The Edinburgh Reporter. Assuming you have access to the internet, which you must do or you wouldn’t be reading this.
I’ll be online responding to your questions and comments tomorrow (Saturday October 15) from 10am – 11am. To join in, all you need to do is go to the Edinburgh Reporter website and click on the link to the liveblog event.
If you want to be involved but can’t make that time, you can submit a question by email to theedinburghreporter@googlemail.com, or on twitter using the hashtag #askaligeorge.
So that’s tomorrow, Saturday October 15, 10am – or at least that’s the time it will be here in Edinburgh.
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It has been brought to my attention I’ve been casually mentioning NaNoWriMo all over the place for most of the year, but some readers might not have the faintest idea what I’m referring to. Read on for an explanation.
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In this guest post, award winning author Emily Dodd gives you a taste of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s seedy underbelly – the twilight world of stalking.
I’m not talking creepy or romantic stalking. Successful comedian stalking is quite different; a fine art with the ultimate aim of making the comedian laugh. Then you have arrived, then you are funny.
I first started stalking comedians in the Fringe by accident. I’d recognise them and greet them like one greets an old friend. I was so ridiculously friendly that they were polite; perhaps thinking I was someone they knew but didn’t recognise. You could see them racking their brains trying to work out who I was.
A real friend, Vicki once caught me mid-stalk with Simon Amstell. She edged away, embarrassed. I went to find her afterwards.
“What were you doing?!” she exclaimed.
“I don’t know” I confessed “I just forgot I don’t actually know him. It keeps happening..”
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Today in Edinburgh (my place of residence since June 2008) there is a totally exciting royal wedding. That horse riding royal one is marrying a rugby player (who may also ride horses, I don’t really know).
According to my sources (Twitter) a group of people from the Highlands have been camping near Canongate Kirk since 2pm yesterday in order to catch a glimpse of the happy couple. The wedding is at 3pm today. For my part, I am sitting in the flat listening to Andrew Collins and Josie Long on BBC Radio 6 Music, eating cold pizza and trying to work out a realistic word count target that I can reach before midnight tomorrow. When the bell tolls 3, meanwhile, I’ll likely be on my way to Perthshire. Different strokes for different folks.
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12 Books in 12 Months 