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As well as being the Community Manager for Yelp Birmingham, I also write reviews on places I visit in the city. It’s the go to place for what’s going on in Brummie land! Find all my reviews here

This is great  article full of decent tips. Via Ideas Tap How to blog The time is ripe to get self-publishing. Stevie Martin gets blogging tips from Paul Bradshaw, Visiting Professor of Journalism at City University London; Audrey Rogers, founder of successful fashion blog Frassy; and The Media Briefing blogging master Patrick Smith…Read 

What A writers club based in the city centre, we have informal get togethers for a coffee on regular  Saturday afternoons (at the moment) to share advice, tips and generally support each other. Why I waited for a year after arriving in Birmingham and no amount of searching unveiled a writers club so here we [...]

Books & the City Festival of Writing Women’s Fiction Festival Nail Your Novel Daily Science Fiction  (via Simon Stanford) www.Duotrope.com  (via Simon Stanford) www.YouWriteOn.com  (via Simon Stanford) Celtx is the world’s first all-in-one media pre-production system. It replaces ‘paper & binder’ pre-production with a digital approach that’s more complete, simpler to work with, and easier [...]

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Ok it’s not Gratitude for December this month mainly as I was uncharacteristically ill over Christmas and while I was in one of my top three favourite countries, Italy. Hey ho. So let’s give some love to all of 2010 instead. Writing I finished my very first draft of my very first book. I have [...]

September 20th 2010 My fondness for Urban Coffee Co is very well documented. Nevertheless, particularly when I’m having a full on writing day (that is a short day with two breaks) the day is generally more productive with a change of scene so 2-3 coffee shops is ideal. In Glasgow and Edinburgh where until now [...]

Wow, it’s a hard month to be grateful but alas, there is always something:  5 days in Glasgow for book writing & getting to 32000 word target Meeting the lovely & talented Marsha Moore Having a light work month so more time for writing Match of the Day is back!

Sunday I miss breakfast at the hotel. I don’t like eating early, before 9am but it’s there for the taking. I just don’t know where the time goes. I’m looking forward to Sunday afternoon tea today at Cup, scene of gorgeous lunch last time but I’m not hungry enough. I delay until Monday, when it’s [...]

Another jaunt to Glasgow for book writing, this time for 4 nights so word target is 7000. Bean Scene visits Cresswell Lane, West End 4 (each morning) Woodside 2 Kelvin Grove 2 (nearest to hotel) Which one do I love most? I think it’s fair to say I love Glasgow now. It’s because I stay [...]