by Graeme Cumming | Dec 18, 2019 | Carrion, Publishing, Writing |
Never done this before. Not sure I should be doing it now, to be honest. But, in a moment of madness, yesterday I went public with the cover for my next book (I know – it’s been a long time coming…). The reason I have a doubt about whether to do it...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 11, 2019 | Book Reviews, Events, Meetings |
About every 5 months, a gathering occurs in a hotel in Stoke-on-Trent. On the face of it, not the most obvious place in the world to meet, but it seems well connected in terms of roads and rail – and the hotel is just opposite the train station. The people who show...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 7, 2019 | Music, Nostalgia, The Gigging Years |
Some time back, I wrote about the first time I saw Thin Lizzy when the original headliners were supposed to be Ultravox. It was a year later, 1982, before I finally got to see the band I was supposed to. In 1981, their biggest hit, Vienna, was cheated of a number one...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 3, 2019 | Book Reviews, Literary Festivals |
I went to the Harrogate Crime Festival this summer. It was my second time there, though the first had been little more than a recce – a long afternoon in sunshine and mixing with authors, book bloggers and crime fans generally. This year’s visit was slightly more...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 30, 2019 | Gogglebox, Nostalgia, Television |
There was a time when children were put to work at a very young age, often doing jobs adults couldn’t, like going up chimneys to sweep them. The nature of the work alone was cruel, and the pittance paid akin to slave labour. Those days, of course, are long gone,...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 28, 2019 | Events, Literary Festivals, Ravens Gathering |
How is it that December is almost here. And that means the nightmare that is Christmas (Bah humbug? Me?). Most readers here won’t be local to me, but for the odd few that are, there’s this going on in Retford next week. It’s a small town, so...
