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Daynote - Tue 29 Oct

Cracking on with the cuts.

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Daynote - Mon 28 Oct

Time for a little planning...

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Daynote - Fri 25 Oct

The end of another week.

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Daynote - Thu 24 Oct

It's me! On a podcast!

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Daynote - Wed 23 Oct

Turning in some work.

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Daynote - Tue 22 Oct

So close I can taste it.

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Daynote - Mon 21 Oct

Spooky season is well underway.

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Daynote - Fri 18 Oct

And home again.

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Daynote - Thu 17 Oct

Hello Big Smoke.

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Daynote - Wed 16 Oct

On the road again.

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Daynote - Tue 15 Oct

Finishing things feels good.

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I'm on the Page One Podcast

Come and watch me chatting up a storm on one of my favourite podcasts.

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Daynote - Mon 14 Oct

Mid-October and all's well.

A Reluctant Spy

One month after

Today marks exactly one month since A RELUCTANT SPY, my debut novel, was released.

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Daynote - Wed 9 Oct

Editing is still forward motion.

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Daynote - Tue 8 Oct

Forging ahead.

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Daynote - Mon 7 Oct

Cutting a load of words and adding a load more.

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Daynote - Fri 4 Oct

I'm not entirely sure what I was talking about when this picture was taken. Pretty sure I wasn't talking about the size of a fish I once caught but it was a fairly rambling monologue at the start, so who knows. ON DECK: This morning was

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Daynote - Thu 3 Oct

No daynote yesterday as I was doing a school visit! My first ever and it was a lot of fun. I went to Earlston High School down in the Borders and met the Advanced Higher English class. I talked a bit about my career so far and how I got

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Daynote - Tue 01 Oct

Well, isn't this a fancy new website? As noted in a brief post yesterday, I'm in the process of migrating a bunch of stuff to a new platform called Ghost, so there's going to be broken links and such all over the place for

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Website migration in progress

I've switched my website and newsletter to a new service called Ghost. Although really, it's not actually new to me, I briefly hosted with Ghost when they first launched before it even had a newsletter component. Ghost should make it a LOT easier to quickly create

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What I'm up to - September 2024

What it's like to become a published novelist. Settle in - this one's a long one.

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Daynote - Mon 30th Sep 2024

I woke up to my own face in my podcast app this morning, which was exciting - I'm on this week's episode of the excellent Write and Wrong podcast, havering about my books, my influences and the slightly twisty route to getting A RELUCTANT SPY published.

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Daynote - Fri 27th Sep 2024

I had a lovely day down south yesterday. I was in Bristol for my day job (where my very lovely team celebrated my book launch, I gave a talk on my parallel career as a UX designer and I had a very nice pasty for lunch) and then caught the

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Daynote - Thu 26th Sep 2024

An early start today, waking up in central London on the Caledonian Sleeper. And as of this writing, I'm just about to arrive in Bristol for my day job. ON DECK: A cheeky 1,728 words this morning on the train to Bristol. Something about trains really works