After the publication of Goa: A lesson in Life, I learned 2 lessons (no pun intended). Invest in a professional cover (done). Devote more time and effort into editing. As it turns out, Mr King was right. Book editing is an absolute joy. With each iteration, you’re improving, polishing, increasing the quality of your work. It gets […]
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1980 was a Golden Year in the Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade, which produced some of the greatest classics of all time. Here’s some of my favourites (and not so favourites). Space Invaders The original vertical space shooter, originally released in 1978, although, like Galaxian and Asteroids I didn’t come across them until
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Part 1: My first experience of video games during a day out to the Spanish City Fairground, Whitley Bay, in the North-east of England. I never really enjoyed the rides, I was a sickly traveller, so the spinning waltzers and anything more extreme were out of the question. So one rainy day I ran indoors
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This new blog series will chronicle a golden age of my life, before home consoles, social media and even mobile phones took over. I was lucky to be born in 1974. As a young boy I witnessed the birth of the arcade computer game (and computer games in general) in the late 70’s, was a
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Travelling the world while writing about your adventures seems like a pipe dream to many stuck in the 9-5 grind. Living your dreams while getting paid to share your experiences with the rest of the world? Can’t be true. However, unbeknownst to many, this is exactly what some people are doing, and it’s a rather
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Prague: The Musical City is now available on Ebook for 99p. ($1.25 USD) and £4.16 ($4.99 USD) on Paperback. Get your copy now! Amazon 5-Star review by Dorothy Palmer.. I enjoyed this short book so very much!! I laughed, I chuckled, I relived my very first visit to Prague as I walked with the author
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Introducing Prague: The Musical City, available exclusively from Amazon on eBook & Paperback. Over the past few months, I’ve been focussing on putting together my second publication, Prague: The Musical City. My goal this time was to place far greater emphasis on the editing and structure. Rather than a personal diary, now it’s very much an
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A crisp, clear morning. And the perfect time to experience Karlův Most (Charles Bridge). Fittingly, I’d picked up from where I’d left off at Karlovy Lázně the night before. In all their splendour, the twin Catholic churches of St. Francis Of Assisi and St. Salvator effortlessly wiped away the cobwebs, a refreshing palate cleanser for what was to come, but
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We always knew 2017 was going to be tough. Even before the turn of the year the flat was literally falling apart, as I almost put my foot through a squidgy, smelly, damp-rot infested section of our bathroom flooring just before Christmas. I hesitantly assessed the damage, a gaping foot wide hole at the end
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