by Graeme Cumming | May 21, 2021 | Blogging, Gogglebox, The Gigging Years |
It’s about 4 weeks since I made the decision to get back to putting stuff out on my blog regularly. Since the beginning of the year, I hadn’t really been paying that much attention to it, so hadn’t noticed what was going on in terms of the stats. To be fair, my stats...
by Graeme Cumming | May 17, 2021 | Life Lessons, Nature |
As I grow older, I appreciate the natural world more. I’ve also come to realise that I’m most at peace when I’m in, on or by water, or I’m surrounded by trees. Forests and waterways feature prominently in my novels – though not always in...
by Graeme Cumming | May 14, 2021 | Book Reviews, Life Lessons, Nostalgia |
Towards the end of last year, I read and reviewed The Initiate by Stuart France and Sue Vincent. You can read my thoughts here. It was the first of their books that I’d read and, although not written in a conventional form, it invoked my curiosity sufficiently to want...
by Graeme Cumming | May 7, 2021 | Book Reviews, Independent Bookshops, Meetings |
Regular readers will recall me mentioning the gatherings for authors and book bloggers that take place in Stoke. Organised by Kerry Parsons and Steph Lawrence (click their names to check out their blog sites), they’ve provided a great opportunity to meet up informally...
by Graeme Cumming | Apr 30, 2021 | Book Reviews, Events, Independent Bookshops |
In February last year, when we had what we can nostalgically refer to as a normal life, I attended one of the stops on the Orenda Roadshow. Indeed, I wrote about it at the time. Whenever you go to a literary event like this, you are – unless you’re particularly...
by Graeme Cumming | Apr 23, 2021 | Thinking Aloud, Writing |
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been very conscious that I haven’t posted much to my blog. To be fair, even those posts have been sharing information from other places – a book review was one, but also details of how to help a fellow author, blogger and –...
