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Monday 15 January 2018

My Life (maybe) – according to the books I read in 2017



Describe yourself















How do you feel?



















Describe where you currently live



















If you could go anywhere where would you go?


Your favourite form of transportation is


Your best friend is


You and your friends are


What’s the weather like?


Favourite time of day

















If your life was a book



What is life to you?


Your fear


What is the best advice you have to give?


Thought for the day


How would you like to die?


Your soul’s present condition


This is a fun idea I saw first on Portobello Book Blog:

Thursday 4 January 2018

Four Capital Writers


Three fellow writers and myself, all Edinburgh based, have set up a website together. Appropriately, we call ourselves Capital Writers


And to give you a flavour of our writing we have produced an anthology, Capital Stories, one story from each of us.


The stories in the anthology are arranged chronologically and are set in Edinburgh, from Regency times to the present day:

A Close Encounter
Anne Stenhouse

Afternoon Tea with Angelica
Jennifer Young

The Letter
Jane Riddell

An Ordinary Joe
Kate Blackadder

Apart from being writers living in Edinburgh we have something else in common. None of us were born in Scotland’s capital city but we have come to live in it at different times and for different reasons – and we love it.

We have each posted on the website an account of how we came to be here. This is mine, a tale that encompasses the murder of Rizzio, a horde of mice, and a name on a telephone list …

Anne, Jane, Jennifer and I propose to blog about things that interest us, to tell of the delights of Edinburgh including its past and present literary heritage (and promote our books along the way … )

We are looking forward to that and hope that you will travel virtually from wherever you are to join us …

… and we hope that you enjoy Capital Stories (99p).