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Sunday Coffee Reads: May 19

19 May

As I said in my Plans and Goals and Stuff post, Sunday mornings is when I read my way through all the interesting tidbits I’ve come upon during the week: tweets I’ve marked as favorite, Google Reader posts I’ve starred and articles I’ve mailed myself links to while waiting out an ad break. Then I add the ones I think everyone else might find interesting to Buffer, so they get tweeted during the week. (Note: I tweet what I think is interesting, not necessarily what I agree with.) But I thought that this year, I would pick the cream of the crop for a little Sunday morning link fest, so you have something to read with your coffee too…

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This week’s photo, as the very observant among you will undoubtedly have already noticed, is not of coffee, but of books. Specifically my books, and the mess they spent Friday in as I sorted through them. I’ve finally moved into a place where nowhere else lives too—hooray!—and so was able to take all my books out of storage and see what I had for the first time in years. (Turns out I bought a couple of Harlan Coben’s twice, and presumably read them thinking they were new to me too. Erm…) Once my bookcases arrive I plan to have HOURS of fun with my Goodreads iPhone app, its barcode scanner and a new ‘Owned’ shelf, but for now, it’s onto this week’s tweets:

Also, Nick Thacker has a whopper of a post (4,000 words long!) that’s also available as a free download: The Official Self-Published Book Marketing Plan. You can read it/download it here.

Until next week…

Sunday Coffee Reads: May 5

5 May

As I said in my Plans and Goals and Stuff post, Sunday mornings is when I read my way through all the interesting tidbits I’ve come upon during the week: tweets I’ve marked as favorite, Google Reader posts I’ve starred and articles I’ve mailed myself links to while waiting out an ad break. Then I add the ones I think everyone else might find interesting to Buffer, so they get tweeted during the week. (Note: I tweet what I think is interesting, not necessarily what I agree with.) But I thought that this year, I would pick the cream of the crop for a little Sunday morning link fest, so you have something to read with your coffee too…

I know Sunday Coffee Reads has been a bit patchy of late, but so has my presence at my desk. May, however, is a beautiful month clear of any events or speaking commitments, and my To Do list is really getting beaten into submission. So hopefully Sunday Coffee Reads will be making more regular appearances this month.

IMG_0637This week’s coffee shot was brought to you by Le Cocodile on the promenade in Nice, France. Bliss!

Onto this week’s tweets…

And this one will really only make sense to my Irish readers, but it’s so good I had to include it:

Until next week…

Sunday Coffee Reads: Apr 14

14 Apr

As I said in my Plans and Goals and Stuff post, Sunday mornings is when I read my way through all the interesting tidbits I’ve come upon during the week: tweets I’ve marked as favorite, Google Reader posts I’ve starred and articles I’ve mailed myself links to while waiting out an ad break. Then I add the ones I think everyone else might find interesting to Buffer, so they get tweeted during the week. (Note: I tweet what I think is interesting, not necessarily what I agree with.) But I thought that this year, I would pick the cream of the crop for a little Sunday morning link fest, so you have something to read with your coffee too…

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It’s all busy, busy, busy at Catherine’s desk at the moment. It’s not even the middle of April and I’m already so looking forward to May when—as yet, touch wood—there’s nothing in the diary except blank space, which I plan to fill with smug updates about massive daily word counts as I build up the pages in my WIP. (That’s the plan, anyway.)

Onto this week’s tweets…

And The Great Misquote got plenty of mentions on Twitter this week too:

I’m off to start preparing for this…

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Until next week!

Sunday Coffee Reads: Week 10

24 Mar

As I said in my Plans and Goals and Stuff post, Sunday mornings is when I read my way through all the interesting tidbits I’ve come upon during the week: tweets I’ve marked as favorite, Google Reader posts I’ve starred and articles I’ve mailed myself links to while waiting out an ad break. Then I add the ones I think everyone else might find interesting to Buffer, so they get tweeted during the week. (Note: I tweet what I think is interesting, not necessarily what I agree with.) But I thought that this year, I would pick the cream of the crop for a little Sunday morning link fest, so you have something to read with your coffee too…

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This week’s coffee pic is an antidote to the utterly horrendous weather we’re having here in Ireland at the moment: my breakfast-by-the-pool-in-the-desert-kit: Starbucks, water and sunscreen. Taken at about seven-thirty a.m., the only time of the day it was cool enough to be outside, in Las Vegas in June 2012. 

Onto this week’s tweets…

Are you a Google Reader user? I am—I use it every day—and was gutted to learn that it’s been sent to Google heaven on July 1st. But fear not: Feedly is here for you. And it looks way snazzier.

Also I’m just back from a fantastic 24 hours at Waterford Writer’s Weekend where I did a social media panel and a discussion about self-publishing success. It’s a great programme and I was only sorry I couldn’t stay a bit longer and attend some more events. (And have a few more mojitos…) Check out their Facebook page here.

Until next week…

Sunday Coffee Reads: Week 9

17 Mar

As I said in my Plans and Goals and Stuff post, Sunday mornings is when I read my way through all the interesting tidbits I’ve come upon during the week: tweets I’ve marked as favorite, Google Reader posts I’ve starred and articles I’ve mailed myself links to while waiting out an ad break. Then I add the ones I think everyone else might find interesting to Buffer, so they get tweeted during the week. (Note: I tweet what I think is interesting, not necessarily what I agree with.) But I thought that this year, I would pick the cream of the crop for a little Sunday morning link fest, so you have something to read with your coffee too…

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So today’s coffee shot isn’t one I took myself but it IS my favourite Irish coffee, in the non-alcoholic sense: a flat white from Insomnia. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Finally, this is TOTALLY off topic, but it’s the nicest thing I saw on the internet this week:

Until next week….

Sunday Coffee Reads: Week #8

10 Mar

As I said in my Plans and Goals and Stuff post, Sunday mornings is when I read my way through all the interesting tidbits I’ve come upon during the week: tweets I’ve marked as favorite, Google Reader posts I’ve starred and articles I’ve mailed myself links to while waiting out an ad break. Then I add the ones I think everyone else might find interesting to Buffer, so they get tweeted during the week. (Note: I tweet what I think is interesting, not necessarily what I agree with.) But I thought that this year, I would pick the cream of the crop for a little Sunday morning link fest, so you have something to read with your coffee too…

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This week’s coffee shot (see what I did there…?) is brought to you by Laduree in Covent Garden, which with some squinting and some very enthusiastic daydreaming, can be a little slice of Paris in the middle of London. And, bonus! You can have a stationery spree in Paperchase afterwards…

Onto this week’s tweets.

Also this week, Penguin Ireland reminds us that unlike, say, its American and British penguin friends, it accepts unsolicited manuscripts. It wants them. And you don’t have to be in Ireland to submit yours to them (although, as ever, research the books they like to publish first). This isn’t a one-time thing either; they are always open to unsolicited submissions. Always have been. So there’s no need to call in sick so you can scribble down the last 57,000 words of your novel this week, run it through spell-check and get it in the post to the Emerald Isle by Friday, okay?

Until next week…

Sunday Coffee Reads: Week #7

24 Feb

As I said in my Plans and Goals and Stuff post, Sunday mornings is when I read my way through all the interesting tidbits I’ve come upon during the week: tweets I’ve marked as favorite, Google Reader posts I’ve starred and articles I’ve mailed myself links to while waiting out an ad break. Then I add the ones I think everyone else might find interesting to Buffer, so they get tweeted during the week. (Note: I tweet what I think is interesting, not necessarily what I agree with.) But I thought that this year, I would pick the cream of the crop for a little Sunday morning link fest, so you have something to read with your coffee too…

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This week’s coffee shot is brought to you by the Market Street Cafe in Celebration, Florida, and the month April 2009. (Obviously this was taken early into my holiday, as I’m so ghostly white the hue off my Irish skin matches the blue of my T-shirt.) I’ve picked this picture because… I’m in Florida now! Like, right now. So even though this edition of Sunday Coffee Reads seems so late you’ll be having it with your post-lunch espresso, it’s actually not even 9:00 a.m. for me.

(For the jealous among you, take pleasure in the fact that the weather forecast says there’s an 82% chance of thunder today, and it’s so hot and humid that I walked out onto the balcony a few minutes ago with straight, sleek hair, admired the view for 30 seconds, and came back in looking like Monica in Barbados.)

Onto this week’s tweets…

Faber Academy went great on Friday [*waves to everyone who attended*] and I’ll be back in Dublin on Saturday (jet-lagged, probably!) for  How To Self-Publish for The Inkwell Group, which is just me, all me, for an entire day in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, in the lovely Royal St. George Yacht Club. You can find out more about that here, and read about my other upcoming events on my News Page.

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