Journalism I Have Done

In the next couple of months I will be looking at a way of consolidating this and my other blogs into one site, probably a dot com with my own name on it, because having three websites for different things in an age of tabbed browsing is beginning to strike me as both unwieldy and pointless.  In the meantime, some links to the stuff I have been doing since March…

APRIL 2012

• April Oot for The Broughton Spurtle
• Author Interview: EJ Newman for 12 Books in 12 Months
• Author Interview: Jan Kozlowski for 12 Books in 12 Months
• Author Interview: Duncan Barrett for 12 Books in 12 Months
• Author Interview: Catriona Child for Ten Tracks
• Storytelling and Smiles – an interview with Electric Tales for 12 Books in 12 Months
• Social Media For Bands on Ten Tracks

MAY 2012

• May Oot for The Broughton Spurtle
• The Book Blogger Files #1 – Roof Beam Reader
• The Book Blogger Files #2 – Tolstoy is my Cat
• The Book Blogger Files #3 – Rob Around Books
• The Book Blogger Files #4 – The Lit Bitch
• In Defence of Self Publishing – An Interview With Acorn Press

JUNE 2012

• June Oot for The Broughton Spurtle
• Backpacking Adventure – a set on Flickr
• Edinburgh Leads Shortlist for Scottish Children’s Book Awards for The Edinburgh Reporter

 JULY 2012

• July Oot for The Broughton Spurtle
• Dull Books roundup on 12 Books 12 Months

Things I Wrote in March

Interviews

• Gemma Malley, YA author for 12 Books in 12 Months
• Jeff LaSala, Editor of new SF book Foreshadows: The Ghosts of Zero for 12 Books in 12 Months
• Steve Augarde, children’s author and illustrator for 12 Books in 12 Months
• Alastair Kilpatrick, musician, for The Edinburgh Reporter
• No Globe, club night for Ten Tracks

Reviews

• Scottish New Writers Awards Showcase for The Edinburgh Reporter
• Literary Death Match Edinburgh for 12 Books in 12 Months

Links

It seems I have abandoned this blog pretty cruelly – no posts since October, terrible behaviour.  I have been updating 12 Books in 12 Months pretty often though, and sporadically posting on my personal page, A Daddy Long Legs is Not A Father.  Here are links to some of the writing I have done over the past few months.

November Oot for The Broughton Spurtle

Interview with The Night Light for 12 Books in 12 Months

Blues Weekend on Ten Tracks

Interview with Weaponizer for 12 Books in 12 Months

Interview with Angry Robot Books for 12 Books in 12 Months

December Oot for The Broughton Spurtle

Interview with cartoonist Alexander Matthews for 12 Books in 12 Months

Interview with Kohl Publishing for 12 Books in 12 Months

Edinburgh’s Unsung Heroes for Ten Tracks

Interview with illustrator Gemma Correll for 12 Books in 12 Months

Interview with Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery artist John Allison for 12 Books in 12 Months

Top Christmas Songs for Ten Tracks

January Oot for The Broughton Spurtle

Interview with illustrator Aurora Cacciapuoti for 12 Books in 12 Months

January Roundup for Ten Tracks

Interview with artist Victoria Evans, founder of the 28 Drawings Later Challenge for 12 Books in 12 Months

12 Books in 12 Months – A Review

February Oot for The Broughton Spurtle

Idiot’s Guide to Dub for Ten Tracks

February Roundup for Ten Tracks

Scottish Children’s Book Awards Results for The Edinburgh Reporter

Links

I have been neglecting this blog, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing any articles of interest.  See links below.  I will also post fuller versions of some of these soon – including the interview with Rod Jones of Idlewild (the full thing is about 3000 words but I edited that pretty heavily for Ten Tracks..) and a transcription of the CTA interview!

Cancel the Astronauts audio interview for The Edinburgh Reporter

12 books in 12 months for IdeasTap

August Oot for The Broughton Spurtle

Forest Cafe’s Literary Opus for The Edinburgh Reporter

Amanda Palmer Interview for Ten Tracks

Rod Jones Interview for Ten Tracks

12 books in 12 months for Novel Times

Andy Stanton Interview for 12 Books in 12 Months

September Oot for The Broughton Spurtle

Links

My last 12 books in 12 months guest post for Mslexia Magazine

July Oot for The Broughton Spurtle

Festival Roundup for Ten Tracks

Links

Posting these rather far after the fact, but here are links to some articles I’ve written recently.

Review – Blood Brothers at Leith Festival for The Edinburgh Reporter

EIFF Review – An Evening With Chemikal Underground for The Edinburgh Reporter

Top Ten picks of EIFF for Ten Tracks

Links

Making a music video – an interview with artist David Galletly for The Edinburgh Reporter

A blog post on Cineconcerts and the EIFF 2011 for Ten Tracks (complete with Whale Shark comic..)

Link

A post for Ten Tracks

And one for Mslexia

Link

Guest post on Guardian Edinburgh about a competition being run by Ten Tracks in association with EIFF 2011 – can you make a music video in a month?  Go on then!  You might get it premiered at this year’s film festival…

A Link and a Promise

I have written but one article this week – a post for Ten Tracks outlining some of the best Scottish music blogs.

However, you will doubtless be thrilled to hear that there are Plans Afoot.  For one, myself and Andrew will be live blogging Eurovision on Saturday over on my personal blog, A Daddy Long Legs is Not A Father.  The idea behind this is to give me a bit more practice using Coverit Live, because the editor of The Edinburgh Reporter made an interesting 12 Books related suggestion that would entail using it.  But in an enigmatic sort of way, I’m not going to tell you any more than that just now.  More information is coming soon, though.