tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40372007443360147192024-03-13T13:21:47.254-07:00Llandeilo Book FairChristoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-86304891800639631452019-02-08T08:16:00.001-08:002019-02-09T22:56:24.847-08:00Book Fair 2019 cancelled<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Lit Fest itself will go ahead with full steam, though.</div>
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The silver lining is that there will be a book shop running during the festival in The Old Castle Hotel <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">113 Rhosmaen St, Llandeilo SA19 6EN </span>(<a href="https://www.marithomas.com/">Mari Thomas Jewellery)</a>, run by our festival partner <a href="https://llandeilo.cylex-uk.co.uk/company/menter-bro-dinefwr-22679162.html">Menter Bro Dinefwr </a>and their bookshop Cyfoes.<br />
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Llandeilo also has <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Bookstore/Books-at-the-Dragons-Garden-262306464635555/">a new bookshop in the Dragon Garden</a> https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Bookstore/Books-at-the-Dragons-Garden-262306464635555/<br />
our <a href="https://www.charityretail.org.uk/charity-shops/british-red-cross-bookshop-llandeilo-temporary-shop-left-hand-ground-floor-unit-101c-rhosmaen-street-sa19-6ha/">Red Cross Second Hand Book Shop</a> 101C Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo, SA19 6HA<br />
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<a href="https://www.evestoyshop.co.uk/">Eve's Toy Shop</a> on King Street and<br />
<a href="https://www.igamogamgifts.co.uk/">Igam Ogam</a> on 103 Rhosmaen Street<br />
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We'd like to thank you for sticking with us over the years and for the kind words many of you had for us and the community spirit you shared.</div>
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With fond memories and best wishes</div>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-44744141041006114452018-04-09T06:41:00.001-07:002018-04-09T06:41:07.078-07:00A Facebook event link for our Book Fair<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Hangout with the authors:</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">With over 30 local authors showing off their work it’s a good job that food and drinks will be provided by Llandeilo’s very popular cafe / breakfast venue The Hangout.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Hangout are special with their mixture of traditional and innovative food and their a “seed to plate” approach, meaning any elements they can make, bake, cook or create in house they will aim to do so using the best locally sourced ingredients.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Cynhelir y ffair Lyfrau rhwng 11.00yb a 4.00yh ar Ddydd</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sadwrn 28ain a Dydd Sul 29ain Ebrill yn y Neuadd Ddinesig pan fydd dros 30 o</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">awduron yn dangos eu gwaith. Darperir bwyd a diod gan gaffi poblogaidd, The</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hangout.</span><br />
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-15218571659633031132017-12-06T23:11:00.000-08:002017-12-06T23:11:03.143-08:00The #Llandeilo Christmas #BookFair this Saturday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>The Book Fair, smaller in scope than the Lit Fest will bring back the same spirit, with small literary events happening all over town.</strong> </div>
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<b style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Mae’r awduron yn cynnwys wynebau cyfarwydd a newydd: </b><strong></strong><strong>This time the Llandeilo Book Fair will be held in the Shire Hall and in the Horeb Chapel - bringing the authors right into the heart of town.</strong><br /><strong><br />Y tro hwn cynhelir Ffair Lyfrau Llandeilo yn Neuadd y Sir a Chapel Horeb – dod â’r awduron i galon y dref </strong><br /><strong><br /></strong><strong>Confirmed authors include familiar and new faces:</strong><br /><br />Kate Glanville, Cheryl Rees-Price, Anne Signol, Alex Martin, James Morgan, Rob Walton, Sam Smith, Colin Parsons, Graham Watkins, Christoph Fischer, Thompson Authors, Judith Arnopp, Angela Fish, David Lewis, Lisa Shambrook, Sarah Jane Butfield, Thorne Moore, William Scott Artus, Judith Barrow, Carol Ann Smith, Jacqueline Jeynes, Jo Hammond, Dafydd Wyn, Nicola Beechsquirrel, Carol Lovekin, JK Samuel, Sally Spedding, Charles Griffin, Kate Murray, Steve Adams, Will MacMillan Jones, Alex Martin as well as Parthian Books, Cambria Publishing, Cyfoes and Thunderpoint Publishing. Yn ogystal â Llyfrau Parthian Books, Cwmni cyhoeddi Cambria, Cyfoes a Chwmni Cyhoeddi Thunderpoint<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bydd digon o ddarlleniadau a digwyddiadau mewn busnesau a lleoliadau ar draws y dref, felly bydd hon yn ŵyl fer cyn Nadolig. O ganlyniad i nifer helaeth o geisiadau a dderbyniwyd, cynhelir helfa lyfrau arall. . <u>I gael y wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am raglen a lleoliadau’r Ŵyl gwyliwch y safle hwn. https://llandeilobookfair.blogspot.co.uk </u></div>
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<strong>2:15 Carmarthen based author John Thompson</strong> will be reading excerpts from Genesis & Nemesis, Vol I & II of the Brindavan Chronicle, and talking about the attraction of the psychological thriller. <span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o Gronicl Brindavan ynghyd â sgwrs am nofelau cyffrous seicolegol</span> </div>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-74126248117308517232017-12-06T23:03:00.001-08:002017-12-06T23:03:49.293-08:00Get to know James Morgan-Jones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My efforts then were largely inspired by television programmes. A favourite was
a fabulous, intelligent and prescient children’s series called ‘Timeslip’.
Looking back, I can see how this has influenced some of my writing today. It’s
a cliché to say that they don’t make them like that anymore, but, actually,
they don’t. We also had an RE teacher who once told the class that if we were
looking for stories to write we could do worse than delve into the Bible. I
took that advice on board and wrote something called ‘The Lost Scroll’. That
was probably the first time I shaped a story. I used people and, crucially,
places that I knew and still do that today, most particularly with regard to
place, though not exclusively and not always with complete faithfulness to the
original. In one of my books I consciously decided to use a character very
closely based on myself, using some personal experience. This has to be done
with great caution and with a ruthless sense of detachment. The<br />
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serve the novel and not the other way around. Self-indulgence has no place in
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The biggest
influence on my desire to write in early years was when I read ‘Sons and
Lovers’ for A level. That was a revelation and I realised for the first time
what literature could be. Having said that, a few years earlier I was
enormously impressed by Alan Garner’s ‘Elidor’ and indeed all his novels, and I
would still recommend his work to anyone who hasn’t read it. His novels
(particularly the earlier ones) are categorised as children’s or teenage
literature, but stand in a class of their own as classics, irrespective of
readership age. I can’t say that anyone I knew influenced me, though I was
encouraged by one or two dear friends who knew of and understood my desire to
write, and I remain eternally grateful for that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I think I am
most influenced by the power of place and the psychic and spiritual connection
that many people feel to it. I am also interested in trauma (including illness)
and how emergence/recovery from it can deepen that connection and root a person
in the course of their life. We live in such a disposable and superficial age
that spiritual aspiration is often seen as something to be politely ignored,
patronised or, worse, repressed. This, I think, is a terrible mistake and will
have, in the end, to be addressed. My characters are often very young, striving
to find something to believe in and with which to anchor themselves, usually
struggling with a central trauma or dilemma. All this interests me, because
although it is at its most extrovert in the young, I believe that the desire to
identify what endures in life influences people into adulthood and even old
age. Because of this drive toward continuance and timelessness, the past is
always a strong presence in my work, often spilling over into the present, or
threatening to do so. I enjoy recreating other periods – particularly the
Victorian/Edwardian era to which I have always been drawn, and this features,
or will feature, in at least two of my books. I am not drawn to powerful
figures – politicians or monarchy, for instance – but to the lives and fates of
ordinary people. These individuals often intrude on the present in my books,
and the supernatural is a strong strand in all of them, particularly the
novels. People with highly developed psychic perceptions have always fascinated
me. Such abilities, and the idea that a psychic dimension exists in the human
brain at all, are often (if not usually) dismissed nowadays. To me this is a
nonsense. The psychic facility is a natural part of the human psyche and, if it
is allowed to, can help and sustain us. I am working on a quintet of novels
called the Glasswater Quintet. The books are linked by character and place but
are not linear in sequence. They start and finish in roughly the present day
but move backwards and then forwards again in between. I am currently working on
the fourth book. I write short stories intermittently when taking a break from
the novels.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t plan
meticulously when I start a book. This, to me, seems mechanical and
restrictive. I have a good idea of where I want to go, and can often envisage a
strong and dramatic denouement. However, how I reach that point is usually a
matter of exploration. Personally, I think writing should be a living,
intuitive process for it to have any real immediacy and conviction. The best
aspect of writing is the pride taken in a piece of work when the end is reached.
The worst is the constant battle against the spectres of self-doubt and the
fear of failure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I work in a
small room decorated with lots of rich, oriental red. It contains my computer
and accessories, a mini library, a single bed and, very often, a cat. I am able
only to give a relatively short period of time a day to writing, and
consequently my daily word count is small but consistent. It is astonishing how
quickly a manuscript can build. I return constantly to a text, reworking
particular sections, even particular paragraphs or sentences, sometimes to the
brink of obsession. This can be both a good and a bad thing. Good in that a
meticulous self-scrutiny is likely to make you a better writer; bad in that,
unless you know where to draw the line, or at least to take time out, you can
easily end up not seeing the wood for the trees and becoming exhausted. Thus
far, I have had my work both proof read and copy-edited by two people. This I
find very helpful, because each sees different things and has different
suggestions to make. Being with a small publisher gives me considerable quality
control and an input on most matters, including cover art. It would not suit me
to have these things taken entirely out of my hands.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Favourite
authors – aside from D H Lawrence and Alan Garner – are Beryl Bainbridge, Daphne
du Maurier and Paul Scott (I believe Scott’s ‘Raj Quartet’ to be one of the
great works of English literature, shamefully underrated). All these authors, it
recently occurred to me, have something of the outsider about them and
consequently had/have rather strained relations with the literary
establishment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-76383127668638747362017-12-06T03:51:00.000-08:002017-12-06T03:51:34.048-08:00Introducing Angela Fish, author and reader at the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair Dec 09<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>Angela Fish will present her books at the Book Fair from 10:30 - 4pm in the Shire Hall.</strong></div>
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<strong>At 2:15 pm Angela will read from her work at Eve's Toy Shop.</strong><br />
Come along and meet Ben, his best friend Jess, and Scoot the dog. Find out about their adventures with Lox, Guardian of the Spider Kingdom. Their first quest is to find the pieces of the Spider Gate which has been broken by the magpies, but they must do this before the leaves fall from the trees.<br />
<span style="color: green;"><br />Meet Ben. Anturiaethau i blant am Ben a’i ffrindiau yn Nheyrnas y Corynnod</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Website: <a href="http://www.angela-fish.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.angela-fish.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/angelaEfish" style="border: 0px; color: #336699; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://twitter.com/angelaEfish</a></span></div>
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in intergenerational communication, women’s writing and Welsh Writing in
English. She gained her MPhil in Literature at the University of Glamorgan (now
the University of South Wales) in 1995, and became a principal lecturer there
until 2009. She also established and directed the Wales Centre for
Intergenerational Practice, based at the university, in partnership with the
Welsh Assembly Government and the Beth Johnson Foundation. Her
publications include non-fiction, fiction, short stories and poetry, often with
Welsh and feminist themes, and she has worked with local schools and
communities to improve communication between the generations. She has been in
demand, nationally and internationally, as a conference presenter and an
invited speaker in her field.<br />
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Her first book for children, <i>Ben and the Spider Gate</i> was published in
2015 and the second, <i>Ben and the Spider Prince</i> was released in May 2016.
The third in the series, <i>Ben and the Spider Lake</i>, came out in September
2016. A picture book, <i>The Captain’s
Favourite Treasure,</i> will be released at the end of 2017/early 2018. She is
currently working on another children’s book alongside a novel for adults.<br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Angela is a member of
the Society of Authors; the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Children’s
Writers and Illustrators Group (CWIG - a subsidiary group within the Society);</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> the Society of Children's Book Writers
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is a stunningly well-written and delightful book for children and parents and
very well-illustrated with some engaging and enchanting artwork throughout the
book.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="color: #444444; font-family: "quattrocento"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Interviewed by Jan Baynham. 20 September 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN"><a href="https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/christmas-grotto-2015-childrens-books-ben-and-the-spider-gate-by-angela-fish/">https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/christmas-grotto-2015-childrens-books-ben-and-the-spider-gate-by-angela-fish/</a></span><span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">LinkedIn: </span></strong></span><a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/AngelaEFish"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/AngelaEFish</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-77890042556954218612017-12-04T21:48:00.001-08:002017-12-04T21:48:51.913-08:00Introducing Wendy White, reader at the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair Dec 9th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>Join local author Wendy White for a reading from her work at Eve's Toy Shop at </strong><strong>1:00 pm. </strong><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Carol Lovekin will be showcasing her work at the Horeb Chapel during the Book Fair on Dec 9th. At 12:30 she can be found at her favourite shop, Indigo Hill, where she will be reading from her new novel ”Snow Sisters” and answer questions.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Praise for <i>Snow Sisters</i></span></b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br />‘Lyrical, evocative and crafted with magic, Lovekin’s writing is utterly enchanting’ Amanda Jennings, author of <i>In Her Wake</i></span></div>
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<a href="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/51xhqo42bl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/51xhqo42bl.jpg" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" width="208" /></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Carol Lovekin is a traditionally published writer based in west Wales. She writes contemporary stories examining relationships between women - sisters, mothers and daughters - threaded with ghosts, Welsh Gothic and magic. Her two novels, </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Snow Sisters</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> & <b><i>Ghostbird</i> </b>are published by Honno, the Welsh Women’s Press.</span><b><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"></span></b></div>
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Carol blogs at: <a href="https://carollovekinauthor.wordpress.com/">https://carollovekinauthor.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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Facebook Author page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Carol-Lovekin-1006022299431923/timeline/?notif_t=page_new_likes">https://www.facebook.com/Carol-Lovekin-1006022299431923/timeline/?notif_t=page_new_likes</a><br />
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<a href="https://writerchristophfischer.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/welsh-wednesdays-interview-with-carol-lovekin/">Link to an interview with Carol </a><br />
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-65696340445128724132017-12-02T22:51:00.000-08:002017-12-02T22:56:32.736-08:00 Guest post: "Being your own Publisher" by Dr Jacqueline Jeynes, author and publisher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Jacqueline will be at the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair on Dec 9th (Horeb Chapel) and will talk about walking the Wye Valley Way at the Fountain Fine Art Gallery at 11:30.<br /><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Fed up with hassles and restrictions when dealing with a
publisher for your books? Me too, so I decided to do it myself. Five years ago,
I would not have considered it – too difficult to reach group buyers, too much
marketing effort needed – but now, your side of the bargain seems to be
expanding while theirs shrinks and you are expected to do all this anyway. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Forget the “vanity publishing” tag – this is about becoming
a professional publisher as well as an author. I am referring to non-fiction in
this instance, as I do not write fiction, but many of the principles will still
apply. There are three important elements to consider:<o:p></o:p></div>
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there is no point considering publishing unless there is an ISBN number. Most
book shops will not stock without an ISBN and you need one to sell via sites
such as Amazon. You usually buy them in a block of 10 for around £150, or you
can now buy a single number, and register your details with <b>Nielsen ISBN Agency for UK and Ireland</b>.
It is a simple process and they have lots of guidance online to help – see <a href="http://www.isbn.agency@nielsen.com/">www.isbn.agency@nielsen.com</a> .
Once you register a title against a number, they include details on their own
list that goes out to bookshops who can order online via Nielsen who pass the
order on to you. You still have other numbers available, of course, so you can
publish more titles in the future.<o:p></o:p></div>
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the first book I published <i>‘Peg loom
Weaving: all you need to know to get started’ ISBN 978-0-9926100-0-5</i> was
A5/ full colour/ 145 pages/ illustrations on front cover and around half the
pages in the book. As a practical crafts guide, I specifically wanted spiral
bound so that readers can open it flat, though bear in mind libraries do not
like spiral bound as you cannot see the title when lined up on shelves unless
you include an outer ‘flap’ across the spine. My local printer was happy to
take on the job as long as it was pdf-ready to print. Once set up on their
system, they can print off small quantities as and when I need them, for
example 20 at a time. It is ideal as it
does not involve storing large quantities of books or having to have a minimum
of 500 printed at a time. This works out at around £5 a copy and we sell them
for £12.50 each<o:p></o:p></div>
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format, so my printer recommended Cambrian Printers in Aberystwyth. <i>“Before Hiroshima: Forgotten Prisoners of
War in Burma, Japan & Far East” </i>is A5 with laminated cover and a mix of
black and white/ colour illustrations. The next book <i>“Walking Wales: The Art Lover’s Guide to Wye Valley Way”</i> is square
format with full colour illustrations and laminated cover. There is also an
E-book version which was converted for me online, for around £90. The latest
version is B5 (so a bit bigger than A5 and therefore more expensive to print
per page) and is a revised version of my book published in 2002 <i>“10 Ps of Managing Risks Post-Brexit: 10
Basic Principles”.</i> The best feature
with this printing company is they have a choice between digital or traditional
printing methods. The digital print is from pdf-ready file and can be in any
small quantities you need at a time. If you need a bigger print run of 1000 or
more, they will shift to traditional printing to keep the prices lower. Digital
print is around £5-£10 a copy depending on page size and number of colour
illustrations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</b>– there are basic bits of information that have to be included in every
book. These include the inner title page plus author name/ date first
published. It also includes publisher’s name and contact details/ printer’s
name and contact details/ standard statement about ‘all rights reserved’ etc (
provided by Nielsen)/ and a note that the book can be ordered direct from
publisher. Once you have a printed copy, you have a legal obligation to send it
to the <b>Legal Deposit Office of The
British Library</b> within one month of publication. Also register the titles
with <b>Public Lending Right</b> scheme <a href="http://www.plr.uk.com/">www.plr.uk.com</a> for any payments due from
libraries if book is borrowed, and ALCS the <b>Author’s Licensing & Collecting Society Ltd</b> <a href="http://www.alcs.co.uk/">www.alcs.co.uk</a> who collect payments made when
photocopies of your books are made – I still get money from them each year for
my Health & Safety books published 15 years ago! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Remember to have several copies to send out to relevant
reviewers – if you get positive feedback, there should be the option to add a
few sentences to the back cover as the digital format makes it easy to amend.
List the title and details on Amazon. They add their own p&p amount for the
total price charged to the customer, then they take off their own fee before
passing the payment on to you. It is usually a bit less than the full selling
price, but it involves little effort other than posting books out to customers.
Website and social media pages are important, under your own and the publishing
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<b>E-books</b> – sites
such as Amazon have a facility where you can set up the book as an E-Book –
Kindle Publishing guides you through the process, or you can pay someone to set
your text out for you. The structure is a bit different from how you might
produce your version for print, and it is easy enough to do but can be very
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The only other issue now is the volume of sales and how you
keep the income as publisher (total sales received) separate from income as
author (% of total sales received). It depends how many millions you make I
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<b>Biography Dr Jacqueline Jeynes – Author & Publisher</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I did full-time teaching degree (B.Ed(Hons) ) while the
children were at school, then started my own Management Training Consultancy
1987 – 2011. As well as business training – I have an MBA and my PhD is on health
and safety in small firms - I kept up with my own interests and learning in the
arts completing an OU BA in history of art.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the same time as training in companies, I was distance
learning tutor with the OCA for more than 20 years, on history of art and
textiles 40 credit modules, revising their Understanding Western Art course at
one stage. While a tutor with OCA, I completed a BA (Hons) in Creative Arts
(2011) studying their modules on creative writing, printmaking and textiles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We moved to Wales 11 years ago and continue to keep up with
my personal interests in the arts as a student on practical arts courses with
Lifelong Learning. I wrote the new Distance Learning <i>History of Art</i> course for Aberystwyth University Lifelong Learning
5 years ago and have continued to add to the distance learning options offered
with <i>The Welsh Depicted</i>/ <i>Historical perspective on Contemporary art</i>/
<i>Gregynog and the influence of the Davies
Sisters</i>. I am currently writing two new options for 2018 on <i>The Cubists</i> and <i>Post Impressionists</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As the tutor, I love my students and I want them to succeed.
It is soul-destroying to receive harsh negative criticism from a tutor rather
than feedback that will help them get it right next time. If contact with the
tutor is only by written word, it is vital to get it right. Basically, the
courses are written with the aim of helping them to know how to learn, whatever
the topic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I still choose to attend SELL courses each year, including
painting, sketching, and 3D work, as it makes me focus on different aspects of
the arts. The more different elements you study, the more closely they fit
together. And although I definitely do not need credits towards another degree,
I do need the structure of a course to make me finish it! I have tried out
techniques that I would not normally consider my forte, especially finer
detailed painting such as botanical illustrations, but found that I do actually
enjoy them – in part, thanks to the great tutors we have at Aberystwyth
University. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Basically, I want to know the how and why art is produced,
and am willing to try any new techniques that someone else can show me. It may
not be my personal preference, but I will always give it a go. As I said, the
more you study, the more it all overlaps and you can understand the context of
art better. I still love printmaking and am a member of Aberystwyth
Printmakers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Personal ethos? I love writing to pass on information to a
reader. The writing for Silver Travel Advisor started by chance four years ago
and I am now a regular contributor for them. My aim is always to make the
information as clear as possible, unambiguous, and avoid jargon which often
just confuses people. I write reviews wherever and whenever I travel, including
local hotels, restaurants and attractions in Wales – see my blogs and reviews
on the Harbourmaster monthly wine-tastings, walking Cardiff Bay, and doing the
longest Zip Wire in Europe at Zip World! I am interested in wines, gin and the
Prosecco festivals and love to try out different tastings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The <i>Walking Wales: Art
Lover’s Guide to</i>.. series is based on long-distance treks I have completed,
my journals and photographs, plus beautiful images of old paintings of places
along the route courtesy of National Library of Wales project. There are many
more books that I aim to complete including:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Llangollen Canal & Brecon-Monmouth Canal/ The Art Lover’s Guide to The
Severn Way<o:p></o:p></div>
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Management for Small Firms (original publication 2000)<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 step-children/ 24 grandchildren between us and 3 great-grandchildren. I
completed all of my degrees after the children started school, was an
international Speaker & Presenter for many years representing small firms
and women entrepreneurs, and after writing articles in a range of magazines and
journals, had my first book published in 2000. I received national Writer of
the Year (non-fiction) award in 2015. I am the eternal student, love writing
and walking, and I don’t do much housework unless someone comes to stay!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.pencoedpublishing.co.uk/">www.pencoedpublishing.co.uk</a>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-66643713278990351672017-12-01T23:10:00.000-08:002017-12-06T23:09:33.968-08:00The Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair this Saturday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Y cyfle nesaf i gwrdd ag awduron, gwrando arnynt yn darllen a chael copïau o’u llyfrau wedi’u llofnodi bydd ar <strong>Ragfyr 9fed </strong><br />
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<b style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Mae’r awduron yn cynnwys wynebau cyfarwydd a newydd: </b><strong></strong><strong>This time the Llandeilo Book Fair will be held in the Shire Hall and in the Horeb Chapel - bringing the authors right into the heart of town.</strong>
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<strong><br />Y tro hwn cynhelir Ffair Lyfrau Llandeilo yn Neuadd y Sir a Chapel Horeb – dod â’r awduron i galon y dref </strong><br />
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<strong>Confirmed authors include familiar and new faces:</strong><br />
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Kate Glanville, Cheryl Rees-Price, Anne Signol, Alex Martin, James Morgan, Rob Walton, Sam Smith, Colin Parsons, Graham Watkins, Christoph Fischer, Thompson Authors, Judith Arnopp, Angela Fish, David Lewis, Lisa Shambrook, Sarah Jane Butfield, Thorne Moore, William Scott Artus, Judith Barrow, Carol Ann Smith, Jacqueline Jeynes, Jo Hammond, Dafydd Wyn, Nicola Beechsquirrel, Carol Lovekin, JK Samuel, Sally Spedding, Charles Griffin, Kate Murray, Steve Adams, Will MacMillan Jones, Alex Martin as well as
Parthian Books, Cambria Publishing, Cyfoes and Thunderpoint Publishing.
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For updates on the programme and the festival locations watch <a href="https://llandeilobookfair.blogspot.co.uk/">this space.</a> </div>
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Bydd digon o ddarlleniadau a digwyddiadau mewn busnesau a lleoliadau ar draws y dref, felly bydd hon yn ŵyl fer cyn Nadolig. O ganlyniad i nifer helaeth o geisiadau a dderbyniwyd, cynhelir helfa lyfrau arall. .
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<strong>11:00 </strong>Workshop with Nina Vangerow: Make your very own (Explorer's/Adventurer's) Booklet
<span style="color: green;">Gweithdy. Gwnewch eich llyfr archwiliwr eich hun</span><br />
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<strong>1:45 </strong>Illustrator William Scott Artus will be holding na illustration talk and draw session<strong>
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<span style="color: green;">“Cerdded ar hyd Dyffryn Gwy.” Darlith gyda lluniau gan arlunwyr fel Turner a David Cox</span>
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Robert Walton will read a selection of poems about music, street life, family and natural creatures with strong feeling, wry humour and sharp observation and some soft acoustic musical accompaniment for one poem on thumb-piano and, naturally, a gentle blues on sax for the title poem.
<span style="color: green;">Cerddi am fiwsig, bywyd stryd a chreaduriaid naturiol, gyda pheth cerddoriaeth</span></div>
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<strong>2:15 Carmarthen based author John Thompson</strong> will be reading excerpts from Genesis & Nemesis, Vol I & II of the Brindavan Chronicle, and talking about the attraction of the psychological thriller.
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<strong>12:30 Carol Lovekin’s </strong>work examines the relationships between women - sisters, mothers and daughters - threaded with ghosts, Welsh Gothic and magic. She’ll be reading from her new novel ”Snow Sisters” and answer questions.
<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o waith sy’n archwilio perthnasau rhwng menywod, gydag awgrym o ysbrydion a dewiniaeth</span></div>
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<strong>1:45 Thorne Moore:</strong> <strong>“Dark tales of Llys y Garn.”</strong> Thorne Moore reads from her latest novel, “Shadows,” set in an old Pembrokeshire mansion that harbours sinister memories of long-forgotten dark deeds.
<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o “Shadows” sydd wedi ei gosod mewn plas yn Sir Benfro sydd ag atgofion sinistr</span> </div>
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<strong>12:30 Will MacMillan Jones</strong> reads entertaining kitchen stories
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<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o lyfrau plant gan gynnwys “St.David’s Day is Cancelled”</span></div>
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<strong>2:15 Angela Fish </strong>Come along and meet Ben, his best friend Jess, and Scoot the dog. Find out about their adventures with Lox, Guardian of the Spider Kingdom. Their first quest is to find the pieces of the Spider Gate which has been broken by the magpies, but they must do this before the leaves fall from the trees. Maybe Ben’s wise gran knows the answers!
<span style="color: green;">Meet Ben. Anturiaethau i blant am Ben a’i ffrindiau yn Nheyrnas y Corynnod</span></div>
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<strong>12:00 Ann Signol </strong>reading a story about Norris the Pantomime Horse, Gertie Gobstopper the Pantomime Dame and their adventures travelling through Wales and on the Gwili Railway.
<span style="color: green;">Stori am gymeriadau pantomeim ar reilffordd y Gwili</span> </div>
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<strong>1:45 Colin R Parsons </strong>will reading his short story: Norman's Christmas Spirit, about Norman Dilbert, a hapless individual, who loves decorating his house for Christmas.There is plenty of festive fun in this story, with a lovely twist at the end, to make for a warm, Christmas treat.
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<strong>12:00 Sam Smith </strong>will be reading from his Poetry collection: “Speculations and Changes”
Sam is editor of The Journal (once 'of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry') and publisher of Original Plus books.
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<strong>1:00 Sally Spedding: a Reading from “Behold a Pale Horse”
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<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o nofel gyffrous wedi ei gosod ym 1983 a 1307 yn Llundain a Rousillon</span><br />
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<strong>2:00 Dafyd Wynn: Winner of the John Tripp award for poetry from his poetry
</strong><span style="color: green;">Cerddi gan enillydd gwobr Farddoniaeth John Tripp</span><strong> </strong></div>
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<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o’r ddrama deuluol, deimladwy, “Stargazing”</span> </div>
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<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o nofel newydd, “The Orphan Witch”</span></div>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-9429134027336155682017-11-30T22:39:00.002-08:002017-11-30T22:41:42.934-08:00Will MacMillan Jones <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I’ll have up to eighteen titles with me, spanning a range of genres. First up: my comic fantasy collection, The Banned Underground. Next the Horror/paranormal series, then some collections of short stories and poetry – these will form the basis of my hour set in The Angel Inn on 20 April as part of the Festival, some childrens’ fantasy books and finally – if it is finished in time – my first Scifi adventure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Banned Underground is a comic fantasy collection of stand alone stories, based on the adventures of a dwarf Rock N Roll band and their friends and enemies in a world that is almost our own – well, mainly because it is our own world really. The music just spreads, you know? Full of puns, gags, one liners and even a few subtle jokes; one of which made Jasper Fforde laugh a couple of years ago! Suitable for anyone with a sense of humour (not supplied with book) and a delight in the joy of living.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Mister Jones Mysteries are an unfolding tale of horror. The unfortunate Mister Jones has been pulled from his comfortable life by horrors raised by his family’s dabbling with the occult. In a series of adventures he slowly learns more about his family’s dark history – and himself. Described by reviewers as tightly written’; ‘oozing a constant stream of dread’; ‘a classic horror style reminiscent of de Maupassant and Denis Wheatley’. Perfect reading by a fireside, while a storm rages outside…<o:p></o:p></div>
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The poetry and short story collections come from two backgrounds. The poetry: I’m a third of The Tin Plate Poets collective from the Gwendraeth Valley. I specialise, I suppose, in the darker themes in my poetry for what poet is not touched by the darkness? I’ve won some awards with my Flash Fiction (that’s stories of less than 1000 words) and these collections contain those and other tales with a twist.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I grew up loving childrens’ fantasy stories, especially about dragons, I just had to write some and the first two will be with me at the book fair.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love characters, all sorts of characters and much of my work is character driven rather than plot driven. In the fantasy stories I like the interplay between the not wholly evil baddies and the not entirely squeaky-clean goodies; and that recognising their own faults can make the characters both uncomfortable with themselves and uncomfortably comfortable with each other. Oh, and there’s an on-off romance between two dragons. What’s not to like?<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the Mister Jones Mysteries I have a very introverted, quite formal main character who suppresses his emotions and usually feels entirely inadequate to cope with the situations he falls into. Rather like most of us, most of the time, I suspect. I enjoy mistreating him to try and provoke a response! In these stories, the plots and the underlying story arc in the collection – which can be read in any order up to now – are central to Mister Jones main task – to understand himself by solving a series of problems. That each problem is potentially fatal to him and to those around him just adds some spice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Space Scout of The Free Union, which should be available by the Festival, is a new departure for me. Scifi. I was invited by a publisher to write a piece for an anthology about the First Contact between humans and another species. When I was a teenager I was a huge fan of Scifi (yes, I’m a geek to the core!) and I wanted to write a piece in the style I recalled from the 1970’s – quite retro, I admit. A simple, uncomplicated adventure, with a touch of humour and a twist in the tale at the end. Anyway, I found that I enjoyed writing the piece so much that I forgot to stop, and suddenly found that I had written an entire short novel around that setting. One editor called it ‘Clint Eastwood in Space’ and I hope that she was trying to be complimentary!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Showing, the first of the Mister Jones Mysteries, was an important work for me. First because it was a departure from writing jokes, and secondly because the inspiration and setting are in fact real. My grandfather’s house was either haunted or possessed, and this was a way of writing my childhood terror of the house. There’s a lot of fact mixed into the fiction there – and the book fought me every word. The manuscript had to be continuously saved in three different places as it kept being corrupted or vanishing; finishing it was cathartic. And it has been very well received.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Satnav of Doom from The Banned Underground is probably (with The Vampire Mechanic a close second) my favourite book – it certainly has my favourite gag; but Working Title touches on things close to my heart. I’m fervently anti racist, and the difficulties and prejudice experienced by those just a bit different to ourselves is the underlying subject.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll cheat with three: conversations at book fairs last year and the year before; ‘Thank you so much for showing my daughter that there is a world of books she will enjoy beyond Tracey Beaker as she gets older.’ Followed by ‘I read that one and had to sleep with the light on for three nights.’ Or possibly ‘I bought one of those books here last year. Can I have a copy of everything else you’ve written?’ All are true. Honest. Trust me, I’m a fantasy writer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m a local author, I live just a few miles away. My youngest daughter, now at University, went to school here. How could I keep away?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh yes. I wasn’t lucky enough to be born here – that was one of my distant ancestors, who (according to family legend, there’s no proof!) fled after being found stealing sheep… But I’ve spent most of my life walking in the Welsh hills, valleys and mountains, except for the years I spent jumping off them loosely attached to a hang glider. The Celtic legends and folklore are part of my DNA. I couldn’t wait for a chance to move here, and will never leave.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I tell people that I’m an International Taxation Consultant they all laugh. It’s very wounding, because it is true – and one reason why the evil wizards in The Banned Underground operate under the cover of being Chartered Accountants. Beside that, I’m a storyteller and performance poet and as I said earlier, one of the three Tin Plate Poets… I started writing my first novel when I was twenty four. I still have it somewhere, together with all the rejection slips. Which, I may say, it richly deserved.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh, so very, very many. It can vary according to mood. Today’s five, and in no particular order: Richard Bach, for Illusions and Jonathon Livingston Seagull. Lindsey Davis for the Falco series of books, bringing Ancient Rome – another passion of mine- to life. JRR Tolkien. ‘Nuff said. Roger Zelazny, one of the greatest speculative fiction writers ever – his novel Lord of Light has always been a major influence on me for the quality of prose and width of imagination. Graham Greene. Again, the prose in The Quiet American is a joy; and his stories are just astonishing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-73880745638655363272017-11-29T22:22:00.000-08:002017-11-29T22:22:46.607-08:00Introducing the authors of the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair: Interview with Graham Watkins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the things about writing I particularly enjoy
is doing the research. It's an excuse to have some fun. For example, before
writing my historical novel </span><a href="http://viewbook.at/AWMW"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
White Man's War</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, which is about the siege of Mafeking
during the Boer War, I took my wife and myself off to South Africa. My wife and
I negotiated a deal. She agreed to accompany me exploring the battlefields of
the Zulu and Boer Wars in return for a visit to Kruger Game Reserve to see the
big five, a tasting tour of the Southern Cape vineyards, a trip up Table
Mountain, Oh! and a day shopping in Cape Town. It was a good arrangement. I got
plenty of material for the book and we both had a great time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That's a difficult question. It's tempting to answer
Dale Carnegie's 'How to Win Friends and Influence People.' I first read his
book when I began my business career in the 1970s and it helped me a lot. More
recently I discovered two books by David Howarth 'Waterloo' and 'Trafalgar.'
Howarth is a superb writer and a great narrator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Creating key characters is one of the first thing I
do when planning a book. I write out a profile. Name, age, sex, physical
appearance, mannerisms, hates and passions and so on. Some, like Nye Vaughn in </span><a href="http://getbook.at/iron_masters"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Iron Masters</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I came to writing late in life, when I retired in
2003. My first book </span><a href="http://viewbook.at/ExitStrategy"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Exit
Strategy</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> was a business self help tome written to explain
how to sell a company; an experience I had just gone through. These days I
write mainly for my own enjoyment rather than the money and I still regard
myself as a journeyman, an apprentice wordsmith, learning the craft. I don't
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characters that readers can believe in, a problem and a solution reached after
overcoming a series of obstacles. I detest ending where everything is left in
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes I have. I write in a variety of genres including
historical fiction, nonfiction and short stories. More recently I've started
writing thrillers. My first attempt was </span><a href="http://viewbook.at/TSD"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Sicilian Defence</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> a novel about a young American heiress
lured to Sicily to be defrauded. Right now, I'm working on a novel with the
working title Protocol 5 set in Britain involving murder, adoption, terrorism
and corrupt politicians. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you tell us a bit about your most recent book and why it is a must-read?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An impoverished Italian Count, an American beauty,
mafia money lenders, treachery and Sicilian guile all are in </span><a href="http://viewbook.at/TSD"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Sicilian Defence</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">;
a story of good intentions and evil plans where the past and the present
collide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
was the inspiration behind The Sicilian Defence?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the same way that a trip to South Africa inspired
</span><a href="http://viewbook.at/AWMW"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A White Man's War</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">,
it was a holiday in Sicily which gave me the idea of </span><a href="http://viewbook.at/TSD"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Sicilian Defence</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.
The title of the book is a chess strategy but the idea for the plot came from
reading about a real American woman lured to Italy and swindled out of her
fortune by a fake count. Touring the island; seeing the squalid slums of
Palermo, the breathtaking beauty of Mount Etna, the sad mass of African
refugees at Catania and the romance of Taormina was a story in itself. The
rest, as they say, is history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How
long did it take you to write The Iron Masters?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My historical novel </span><a href="http://getbook.at/iron_masters"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Iron Masters</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
is the biggest project I've undertaken so far. It's a fifty year family saga
set in the cannon foundries of the South Wales during the Napoleonic Wars.
Researching the history, crafting the plot, writing and editing took two years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your characters seem to hijack the story or do you feel like you have the reins
of the story?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That's a good question and the answer is yes. While
reading a draft of </span><a href="http://getbook.at/iron_masters"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Iron Masters</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> to my wife she observed that villain's
wife was a bit dull. As a result I did some rewriting and the character, Delyth
was her name, sprang to life. Murder, adultery and much more. She was great fun
and totally unexpected. In fact I had trouble keeping up with her antics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you could spend time with a character from your book who would it be? And what
would you do during that day?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It certainly would not be Delyth. She's the sort of
woman who entrances, seduces, uses and devours. I think I would spend time with
Themba Jabulani from </span><a href="http://viewbook.at/AWMW"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
White Man's War</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. He's a Baralong warrior at Mafeking,
armed by Baden Powell - that name might ring a bell. Themba's back story about
what really happened during those 217 days when the town was besieged would be
fascinating. Themba is, of course, my creation but to meet and talk with a man
like him from that time would great.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do
you have any hidden or uncommon talents?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I'm told I like the sound of my own voice which must
be true because I'm sometimes invited to give talks to different audiences. How
good I am is debatable and I confess I once put a listener to sleep at a black
tie Rotary event where I was the after dinner speaker. The poor chap almost
fell off his chair. It might have been what I was saying but I suspect his wine
consumption was the real culprit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
would you say is your interesting writing quirk?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I'm a butterfly and flit from one idea to another.
It's a bad habit and I have to concentrate so I don't lose track of what I'm
writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
do you like to do when you're not writing?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have an old farmhouse high in the Brecon Beacons
with six acres which I call as our green gymnasium. There is always something
that needs doing. Aside from looking after the house and garden, I like walking
and have a wood turning lathe in the barn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
is the most amusing thing that has ever happened to you? Not particularly to do
with your writing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Newly married, my wife and I went camping to
Coniston. We pitched our tent in a nice grassy spot beside a pretty little stream
and walked into the village for a couple of drinks. It was late when we came back to the campsite
and had started to rain. The rain got heavier; stair rods would be a good
description. We woke in the early hours in total darkness and soaking wet. The
stream had burst its banks and overflowed. Our airbed had submerged under six
inches of water and the tent had collapsed around us. Everything - shoes,
clothes, torch was underwater. We spent the rest of the night shivering in the
car. It didn't seem funny at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Give
us a random fact about yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After leaving school I trained to be a marine
engineer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>Links to find Graham:</strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/graham.watkins.311?ref=br_rs">https://www.facebook.com/graham.watkins.311?ref=br_rs</a></strong><br />
<strong><a href="https://twitter.com/GrahamWriter">https://twitter.com/GrahamWriter</a></strong><br />
<strong>Buying Links:</strong><br />
<strong>The Iron Masters; Amazon.co.uk: <a href="http://getbook.at/iron_masters">http://getbook.at/iron_masters</a></strong><br />
<strong>A White Man’s WarAmazon.co.uk: <a href="http://viewbook.at/AWMW">http://viewbook.at/AWMW</a></strong><br />
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<strong>Exit Strategy: Amazon.co.uk: <a href="http://viewbook.at/ExitStrategy">http://viewbook.at/ExitStrategy</a></strong></div>
Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-15640073892441666482017-11-28T22:10:00.000-08:002017-11-28T22:10:25.031-08:00Introducing the authors of the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair Dec 9th: Judith Arnopp<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Judith will be presenting her books at the Christmas Book Fair in the Shire Hall. Here is an interview to introduce you to her amazing work:<br /><br />Tell us a little about yourself as writer and as person.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I am very lucky to live on the
Welsh coast where I enjoy walking on the beach and cliff path, gardening with
my husband and working in my study with the stunning sea view. I have four grown-up
birth children, three step children whom I regard as my own, two grandsons (so
far) and three step grandchildren. I love my family, Wales and the environment,
all of which has a positive impact on my career as a historical novelist.<o:p></o:p></div>
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you choose to write historical fiction?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I was interested in history long
before I became an author. A class project in (drops her voice to a whisper)
1970s was about the way history has maligned Richard the Third so I was on to
that topic well before they dug him up
and the hysteria began. When I was little I wrote stories and read them to my
dolls, when I was a teenager I poured my angst onto paper and when I was a
young mother I wrote stories with my children as protagonists. So I think I was
born to write, there is nothing else I would consider doing; it is an instinct
and if I haven’t written for a week or so I become very grumpy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After I graduated writing seemed the
natural choice. I don’t think it was a decision but more of a progression. I
began my first (and never to be published) novel at university. When I finished
it the sense of achievement was immense; I was astounded that I had actually
done it. At the time I didn’t realise the hard work was only just beginning. I have
just completed my tenth historical novel and, although I doubt I will ever be a
household name, I am doing very nicely, with a steadily growing fan base. My
email box is always full of messages from readers saying how much they enjoyed
the last and asking for the next.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I write it isn’t a matter of dates
or records although I do try to get them right. I am interested in perspective,
how it felt to be in a certain situation in a particular political climate.
There are many books about Anne Boleyn but when I wrote <b><i>The Kiss of the Concubine</i></b>
I climbed inside Anne’s head and wrote from her perspective, exploring possible
reasons behind some of her actions. I am very careful to be as accurate as
possible and look at things from all angles. My readers seem to like that
aspect of my work – I don’t just recount events but try to explain why they
happened.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What in
particular fascinates you about the era(s) you write about?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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history has always fascinated me but when I began writing I mistakenly believed
the Tudor era had been done to death so I concentrated on Anglo-Saxon and
Medieval period. The early books, <b><i>Peaceweaver, The Forest Dwellers</i></b> and
<b><i>The
Song of Heledd</i></b> did quite well and set the foundations of my fan base
but I constantly asked to write a novel set in Tudor England, so I did. <b><i>The
Winchester Goose: at the court of Henry VIII</i></b> is the story of a prostitute
working in Southwark during Henry VIII’s marriages to Anne of Cleves and
Katherine Howard. This one shot up the charts very quickly, becoming Amazon
best seller for some time, so I decided to stay in the Tudor period and see where it would take me.
I am very glad I did.<o:p></o:p></div>
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about the concept behind your books. How did you get the idea? <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Everyone is searching for the truth in
history. Was Richard the third a murderer of innocents or a nice guy? Was Anne
Boleyn guilty or framed? What turned Henry VIII from the prince of chivalry
into a megalomaniac? We will never know the answers but it is fun to speculate
and of course the first question that needs to be answered is: What is truth
anyway? As far as I am concerned, there is no truth. That is why I never become
involved in hot-headed on-line debates; truth is variable and dependent upon
the witness. <em><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-style: normal;">Every event, every recorded instance has another story behind it,
another perspective, or another possible explanation. Researching the past is
like being in a tall building with a hundred windows, each showing a different
aspect of the invents, or an alternative route I can take.</span></em><i> </i>I wrote a blog some time ago about this that you can read <a href="https://siobhandaiko.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/my-monday-guest-judith-arnopp-one-hundred-windows/">here.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What makes you laugh?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I am very fortunate to have a
very witty and amusing husband. We’ve been together for thirty-six years yet he
still makes me laugh out loud every day. After so long together he knows
exactly how to tickle my sense of humour and as a result our day is peppered
with constant banter. It is something I am extremely grateful for because if
you can laugh, life can never become too bad.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What are you working on now? <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I have just finished <b><i>The
King’s Mother</i></b> the last book in a trilogy called <b><i>The Beaufort Chronicles</i></b>. The
novels follow the life of Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII. She was
married at an extraordinarily young age to Edmund Tudor, the Earl of Pembroke,
and spent the first years of her marriage in South Wales. <b><i>The Beaufort Bride</i></b> takes
place at fabulous Welsh locations like Caldicot Castle, Lamphey Palace,
Carmarthen and of course, Pembroke where Henry was born. I always make sure I
visit the locations prior to writing so I can get a feel of the place and
perhaps a glimpse of how my characters might have lived there. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Book Two, <b><i>The Beaufort Woman</i></b>, takes
place in the reign of King Edward IV when Margaret needed all her wits to
survive at the Yorkist court. Married to Henry Stafford, a younger son of the
Duke of Buckingham, she comes to terms with the new regime and forms a
tentative friendship with Queen Elizabeth Woodville. But after the king’s
sudden death and Richard of Gloucester’s acquisition of the throne, Margaret
and Elizabeth work together to bring the new king down and replace him with
their children, Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The third and final book in the
trilogy is <b><i>The King’s Mother </i></b>in which Margaret, having achieved her goal,
takes her place as one of the chief advisors to the king. She soon discovers
that life at the top is not the bed of roses she had imagined.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>As King Henry VI slips into
insanity and the realm of England teeters on the brink of civil war, a young
girl is married to the mad king’s brother. Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond,
takes his child bride into Wales where she discovers a land of strife and
strangers. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>At Caldicot Castle and Lamphey
Palace Margaret must put aside childhood, acquire the dignity of a Countess
and, despite her tender years, produce Richmond with a son and heir.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>While Edmund battles to restore
the king’s peace Margaret quietly supports his quest; but it is a quest that
ultimately results in his untimely death.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>As the friction between York and
Lancaster intensifies 14-year-old Margaret, now widowed, turns for protection
to her brother-in-law, Jasper Tudor. At
his stronghold in Pembroke, two months after her husband’s death, Margaret
gives birth to a son whom she names Henry, after her cousin the king. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Margaret is small of stature but
her tiny frame conceals a fierce and loyal heart and a determination that will
not falter until her son’s destiny as the king of England is secured.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The Beaufort
Bride traces Margaret’s early years from her nursery days at Bletsoe Castle to
the birth of her only son in 1457 at Pembroke Castle. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>As the struggle between York and
Lancaster continues, Margaret Beaufort fights for admittance to the court of
the victorious Edward IV of York and his unpopular queen, Elizabeth Woodville.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The old king and his heir are
dead, leaving only Margaret’s son, the exiled Henry Tudor, with a tenuous claim
to the throne. The royal nursery is full, with two small princes securing
York’s continuing rule. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>But Edward and Elizabeth’s
magnificent court hides a dark secret, a deception that threatens the security
of the English throne … and all who lust after it.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>In 1483, with the untimely death
of the King, Margaret finds herself at the heart of chain of events that
threaten the supremacy of York, and will change England forever.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The Beaufort Woman: One woman’s
selfless struggle for the rights of her son.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>With the English crown finally
in his possession, Henry Tudor’s endeavours to restore order to the realm are
hindered by continuing unrest. While the king is plagued with uprisings and
pretenders to his throne, Margaret in her capacity as The King’s Mother
oversees the running of his court. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The warring houses of York and
Lancaster are united, the years of civil strife are at an end but, as the royal
nursery fills with children, the threats to Henry’s throne persist and
Margaret’s expectation of perfect harmony begins to disintegrate.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>As quickly as Henry dispatches
those whose move against him, new conflicts arise and, dogged by deceit and the
harrowing shadow of death, Margaret realises that her time for peace has not
yet come.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Intrigue, treason and distrust
blights the new Tudor dynasty, challenging Margaret’s strength of character and
her steadfast faith in God<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The King’s Mother is the third
and final book in The Beaufort Chronicles, tracing the life of Margaret
Beaufort.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Lots of people think I am odd but
I prefer to see it as ‘individual’. Years ago, when I first turned vegetarian,
we were a bit of a rarity, and I think that is when the label ‘odd’ was first
applied to me. It stuck even more when I started banging on about climate
change and the anti-hunting ban, and protested about animal testing etc. etc.
etc.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In a posh town north of London, I
was the strange woman with goats and chickens in her back garden. I was the odd
woman who put a lead on her goats and took them for walks to the park.
Strangely, once I moved to West Wales I became less eccentric but whether that
is to do with the Welsh being less judgemental or as ‘odd’ as me I wouldn’t
like to stay.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Despite all that though most
people say I am kind and genuine. I will help people if they ask me but I am
very shy and often hesitate to offer for fear of rejection. I tend to hang on
to the people who understand me, people who don’t like me, don’t matter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Did anyone influence you / encourage you to become a writer?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I went to university as a mature
student and had grave misgivings that I’d not be up to the challenge. After
twenty years of being a mother my confidence was at a low ebb. Surprisingly I
did very well. My tutors always remarked that my essays were well written, even
when they were ill-conceived. My history tutors, Professors William Marx and
Janet Burton, persuaded me history was the way to go. My creative writing tutor,
playwright Dic Edwards was also encouraging, urging me to write ‘something
long.’ When I produced my first novel he urged me to try to get it published
but I didn’t; I knew it wasn’t good enough but his enthusiasm encouraged me to
sit straight down and write another. My first decent novel, <b><i>Peaceweaver</i></b>,
was published in 2009. I can never give enough thanks to Lampeter University
and the people who taught me there and opened my mind and got me thinking
again. They changed my life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are so many. Hilary Mantel
is my current favourite; I love the way she breaks rules, is not afraid to
speak out or deal with public adversity. Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies are
a superb journey into the Tudor court; I can never even hope to emulate her.
Many people disliked her portrayal of Anne Boleyn and it was very different to
my own but she was showing us Anne through Cromwell’s eyes, and she did it
magnificently.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love the classics of course;
Shakespeare and Chaucer and Dickens for their characters and drama. For easy
reading I tend to stick to historical but the genre is very mixed, some of it
is dreadful, some fabulous; you have to seek out the good authors and quietly
ignore the not so good. I never write bad reviews. One of my favourite modern
day historical authors is M. M. Bennetts who sadly passed way a short time ago.
Her books <b><i>Of Honest Fame</i></b> and <b><i>May 1812</i></b> are outstanding. I also
loved Michel Faber’s <b><i>The Crimson Petal and the White</i></b>. For
me, the thing that makes a good book is the journey to another time. If an
author can make me forget I live in the 21<sup>st</sup> century and introduce
me to solid, three dimensional historical characters and make me care about
their lives, then they can count me as a fan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What is your advice to new writers?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Write. Being an author is about
getting words on a page and crafting them into art. Don’t waste time on social
media, don’t worry about writing like other people. Join a class, polish your
skills and write, write, write. If you don’t you aren’t a writer just a
wannabe.</div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N7ICJkkFVDw/WeYeDh7v5hI/AAAAAAAAC0Q/-lb-st6BD_QhFylDFgkcVh6x7zujm7YrQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/the%2Bred%2Bqueen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N7ICJkkFVDw/WeYeDh7v5hI/AAAAAAAAC0Q/-lb-st6BD_QhFylDFgkcVh6x7zujm7YrQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/the%2Bred%2Bqueen.jpg" width="240" /></a>Bio: <b>Judith Arnopp is the author of
historical fiction set in the Tudor period.
Her novels include <i>The Winchester Goose</i>:
at the court of Henry VIII</b>:
<b><i>The
Kiss of the Concubine: a story of Anne Boleyn</i></b>; <b><i>Intractable Heart: the story of
Katheryn Parr: A Song of Sixpence: the story of Elizabeth or York and Perkin
Warbeck</i></b> and her latest project <b><i>The Beaufort Chronicles</i></b> which traces
the life of Margaret Beaufort in three volumes <b><i>The Beaufort Bride,</i></b> <b><i>The
Beaufort Woman</i></b> and <b><i>The King’s Mother</i></b>. Book One<b><i> </i></b>and
two are available now and Book three is due for publication in December 2017.</div>
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For more information about
Judith’s work click on the links below.<o:p></o:p></div>
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www.judithmarnopp.com<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.juditharnopp.com/">www.juditharnopp.com</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://author.to/juditharnoppbooks">http://author.to/juditharnoppbooks</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Historical-fiction-by-Judith-Arnopp--124828370880823/">https://www.facebook.com/Historical-fiction-by-Judith-Arnopp--124828370880823/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Today, I’m delighted to be chatting to author, Angela Fish. Her debut children’s book, '<i><b><span style="color: blue;">Ben and the Spider Gate'</span></b></i> will be published on Thursday, 24<span style="background-color: white;"><sup>th</sup> </span>September.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: blue;">Angela, welcome. Please introduce yourself and tell us a little about how you got started as a writer.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hello Jan. Thank you for inviting me to share your page today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I was born in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cardiff</st1:place></st1:city> and grew up in a village called <span style="background-color: white;">Tongwynlais.</span> My mother read to me a lot when I was little and I was reading simple text myself by the time I was four. I’ve never lost my love of reading and can be quite greedy with it! I remember writing simple poems and stories, and even plays, from the age of seven. Later on, most of my creative energy went into English essays and it wasn’t until I started an Humanities degree that I had any formal creative writing experience. I focused mainly on poetry at that time and my dissertation was a collection of poems with commentary. After that I did an M.Phil (Literature) but that was a research project, rather than my own writing. I went on some residential writing courses, mostly for poetry, and published some in journals. I was also placed second in a magazine short story competition, but then I started lecturing at my local university and work, and academic writing, took over. It wasn’t until I took early retirement and joined a writing group that I started writing again with any real purpose. Since then I’ve had a highly commended and a second place in <i>Writer’s Forum</i> magazine poetry competitions, written five books for children (one published, one in production and one needing final editing), begun two more, and have two adult novels partly written. It’s been quite a productive time but I don’t think that I would have done half (if any) of it without the support and encouragement of the writing group, and then the writing circle that I’ve been involved with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As I mentioned, I was part of a writing group and we were experimenting with different genres – stretching ourselves really, as it’s easy to become stuck in the same groove. We agreed to try writing for children and I completed two shorter (picture) books –one non-fiction and one fiction. Then we used story cubes (dice) as prompts for character and plot for the first chapter of a longer piece of work. The two images that came up were an open padlock and a triangle shape, but with wiggly lines rather than straight ones. Most of the group interpreted the shape as a pyramid or a tent but it immediately reminded me of a doodle that I’ve been drawing on the corners of pages since I was a teenager. It’s a partial cobweb with a spider dangling from it.</span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2GBR-Dt6cj8/Vfw-TWsOjQI/AAAAAAAADsw/K8W3K8tXX_I/s1600/IMG_20150918_0002%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #888888; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="129" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2GBR-Dt6cj8/Vfw-TWsOjQI/AAAAAAAADsw/K8W3K8tXX_I/s200/IMG_20150918_0002%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Once that thought had come into my head, I couldn’t shift it and so the basis of the story line developed. The padlock gave rise to the spider’s name (Lox) but also to the idea of his role as gate-keeper to the spider kingdom. The plot uses the traditional motif of a quest, but with a twist. I completed the first chapter and as I had such positive feedback from the group, I decided to finish it. Considering that I spent the last ten years of my working life in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">intergenerational</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white;"> f</span>ield, it’s not surprising that the main character, Ben, and his grandmother have such a close relationship, but this evolved as I was writing the book – it wasn’t a specific intention when I began.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: blue;">When you embarked on <i>‘Ben and the Spider Gate’</i>, did you envisage that there would be more books in the series?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">When I was about three quarters of the way through the first draft of <i><span style="color: blue;">‘Ben and the Spider Gate’</span></i>I knew that there was a lot more that I could, and wanted, to do with the characters and situations, but the general advice for the book length (aimed at the 5-8 age group) is to have about 10,000 words. That’s when I decided to have a short series, of three, that would follow Ben and Lox’s adventures over one year. By the time I finished the first, I already knew the basic story outline for the second one, <span style="color: blue;"><i>‘Ben and the Spider Prince’</i> </span>(due April 2016) but I wasn’t sure about the third. <span style="color: blue;"><i>‘Ben and the Spider Lake’</i> </span>(due Nov 2016) developed from a series of unrelated incidents – Welsh Water digging up the road in front of our house, a programme about hidden lakes, and another about mass migration!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I wanted each story to stand alone, so I’ve allowed Ben to recap some of the previous adventures, either by remembering or by talking to his gran or his best friend, Jess, so that the relationship between Lox and Ben is explained. However, I’ve tried to be careful not to repeat too much as it can irritate the reader if they’ve read the previous book(s), spoil it if they haven’t, and it also runs away with the word count!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: blue;">So that means we'll follow the same characters in each of the books. I think young readers like that, don't they?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Yes. Ben, Jess, Gran, Scoot the dog, and Lox figure in varying degrees in each book. It’s the characters who contribute to the magical elements that vary, as well as some of the locations.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: blue;">Perhaps, you’d like to tell us how you went about finding the right publisher for your book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My first search was for publishers who were accepting unsolicited manuscripts. Then I looked for some more detailed information about each company and at their terms of submission. The main thing that influenced me to submit to the Book Guild was that they asked for the whole manuscript right away and they guaranteed to respond more quickly than many others, which they did.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: blue;">I love the black and white illustrations in the book. How much ‘say’ did you have in the choice of these?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Almost complete control. I was asked to describe how I saw the main characters and anything else that was important to the story. I was told that I could suggest which scenes I wanted illustrated. I knew that there would be ten illustrations so I made a list but said that there were only four that I absolutely wanted put in. After that I gave the illustrator, Michael Avery, licence to choose what he considered the best scenes, but he only changed one of my suggestions. He sent me some character sketches initially and they were mostly brilliant, but I didn’t like the way that Lox had been portrayed, so Michael changed that. When I saw all the completed illustrations, there were two that I was unhappy with but they were altered without any fuss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: blue;">I believe you’ve taken your books into schools to gauge the response from the children. Would you like to tell us about some of those visits?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Yes, two schools have acted as ‘test’ readers for me and the responses have been very encouraging. One of the schools invited me in for World Book Day last March and the other invited me in to talk the pupils about the writing/publishing process. I was bombarded with questions and amazed at their acuity. I recently visited a school that had no prior knowledge of the book and was delighted at their attention and interest. Some of them were really surprised that books often start off with a piece of paper and a pencil. The self-editing process also confused some, as they thought that once something was ‘finished’, that was it. (Often applied to classwork/homework, I was told!) I’m hoping to make many more school visits, as children really are the best judges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">To ask when the next one will be ready! This has already happened with some of my test readers in the two schools and also with Maria Grachvogel’s son. Maria is a London-based fashion designer and gave me an ‘attributable quote’ for the publishers:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial";">“A heart-warming and magical tale which will really capture your child’s imagination. My son really enjoyed the book and very much identified with Ben and Lox. Each evening he wanted to hear the next instalment and was very captured by the story</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial";">.” </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: blue;">That's lovely to hear, Angela. You must have been delighted with that. On a general note, how much planning do you do when you embark on a new story?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I don’t make really specific plans but I generally have the story outline, and sometimes quite a bit of detail, in my head before I even put pen to paper. I like to talk to my characters and even role-play their parts. I do plan things like time sequences, for example, as I have to make sure that I don’t make mistakes or create something that isn’t believable. I’ve also had to bear in mind that two of my main characters are seven years old so there are many places they wouldn’t be able to go, or things they couldn’t do, at that age. Although there’s a magical element to the stories, they do have a basic everyday setting, so I have ensure that it is realistic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">No, not really. I find it difficult to set and stick to a specific time for writing every day. Sometimes I prefer to read and I think that helps as it can clear my mind. Then, when I do sit down to write I can achieve a lot more, and more quickly, than if I tried to make myself write for a set time each day. Once I am really into the story, I can write for anything up to eight or ten hours in a day.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: blue;">What are you currently working on?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I have another book for children, </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">‘<span style="color: blue;">Molly and the Magic Mirror’</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial";"> (8-11 age group) mapped out and the introductory section written but I need to decide if I’m going to have it as one book or a series. I’ve written the first of a collection of short stories about </span><i style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;">‘The Adventures of Brian, the Happy Banana’</span>. </i><span style="font-family: "arial";"> I also have two adult novels partially written and I’d really like to complete them – even if it’s just for my own satisfaction.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial";">You must be very excited about the launch of <i>‘Ben and the Spider Gate’</i>. How will you be celebrating?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b><span style="color: blue;">Thank you so much, Angela, for taking time to chat to me. I wish you good luck with the new book. </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Thank you for taking an interest. Good luck with your own writing, too.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: blue;">‘Ben and the Spider Gate’ </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">is published by Book Guild Publishing <a href="http://www.bookguildpublishing.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">www.bookguildpublishing.co.uk</span></a> and can be bought direct via its website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Or, links to the book on Amazon for pre-order: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ben-Spider-Gate-Angela-Fish" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ben-Spider-Gate-Angela-Fish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Angela may be contacted via:</span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Her website: </span><a href="http://www.angela-fish.com/" style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.angela-fish.com</span></a></li>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-33214495433587568642017-11-27T01:33:00.000-08:002017-11-27T01:33:06.705-08:00Introducing the authors and speakers of the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair Dec 9th: Illustration Workshop with William Scott Artus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>On the day of the book fair Scott will be around the Shire Hall to promote Anne Signol's book "Norris and Gertie Gobstopper on the Gwili Railway", which he illustrated. But...</strong><br />
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<a href="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/dsc_4306.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-14480 alignleft" height="300" src="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/dsc_4306.jpg?w=199" width="199" /></a><strong>William Scott Artus </strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- publishing and commercial illustrator talks about his career…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">William will be holding a illustration talk and draw session at the Flying Goose. Bring your children and learn how to draw cartoons the quick way. He will also talk about how you can break into to this lucrative career and the highs and lows of being a book illustrator.</span></div>
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<a href="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/gwili-railway-illust01.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-14479 alignleft" height="211" src="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/gwili-railway-illust01.jpg?w=300" width="300" /></a>Scott is a writer and illustrator working and living in Bonllwyn, Carmarthenshire. Scott splits his time between illustrating for Anne Signol and doing his own projects as well as running the Gwili Steam Railways events. Scott is trying to keep the heritage of the railway alive using events and fundraising activities such as the book. All the funds raised will be used towards a new heritage railway shed at Abergwili and new track laying on the railway. The book is sold in the shop and will be available for sale at the book fair and on the Santa’s Magical Steam trains. The new Halloween books that Scott has written will be available at the Carmarthen and Ammanford library book fairs and on the railway at half term. Signed book prizes are awarded for best costume on Halloween.
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-69354686695760520672017-11-25T22:24:00.000-08:002017-11-25T22:24:34.050-08:00Introducing the authors and speakers of the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair Dec 9th: "Norris and Gertie Gobstopper on the Gwili Railway" by Anne Signol<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/gwili-railway-illust01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-14479" height="211" src="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/gwili-railway-illust01.jpg?w=300" width="300" /></a><b>This years' Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair will be a Mini Lit Fest with several readings and events accompanying the book fair part. Anne Signol will be in the Shire Hall signing her books but at noon you can find her in Deb's Wool Shop reading from her book. </b><br />
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Norris travels to Carmarthen after a successful trip to Llandudno, to appear in the Victorian Extravaganza. This is the story of Norris the Pantomime Horse, Gertie Gobstopper the Pantomime Dame and their adventures travelling through Wales and on the Gwili Railway.<br />
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Anne Signol started the Sigfield Follies, a song and dance troupe, featuring an actual Norris the Norse character, in order to raise money for local children’s charities. The interest generated in Norris through these shows inspired Anne Signol to write about his adventures and assemble them into a show entitled Norris on Broadway.<br />
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<a href="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/dsc_4306.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-14480 alignleft" height="300" src="https://writerchristophfischer.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/dsc_4306.jpg?w=199" width="199" /></a><strong>William Scott Artus </strong><br />
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Scott is a writer and illustrator working and living in Bonllwyn, Carmarthenshire. Scott splits his time between illustrating for Anne Signol and doing his own projects as well as running the Gwili Steam Railways events. Scott is trying to keep the heritage of the railway alive using events and fundraising activities such as the book. All the funds raised will be used towards a new heritage railway shed at Abergwili and new track laying on the railway. The book is sold in the shop and will be available for sale at the book fair and on the Santa’s Magical Steam trains. The new Halloween books that Scott has written will be available at the Carmarthen and Ammanford library book fairs and on the railway at half term. Signed book prizes are awarded for best costume on Halloween.
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<b>On the day of the book fair Scott will hold an illustration workshop at The Flying Goose at 1:45.
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<strong><br />William Scott Artus </strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">- publishing and commercial illustrator talks about his career…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">William will be holding a illustration talk and draw session at the Flying Goose. Bring your children and learn how to draw cartoons the quick way. He will also talk about how you can break into to this lucrative career and the highs and lows of being a book illustrator.</span></div>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-13040965912302850372017-11-25T08:48:00.000-08:002017-11-25T08:48:26.087-08:00Chas Griffin about his work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hello…<o:p></o:p></div>
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My name's Chas Griffin
and occasionally I write a book about something I think worth writing about.
This doesn't happen very often, but when it does, I put my heart and soul into
it, and as much humour as it think the theme can handle.. </div>
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My first book told the
tale of how my young family and I left the traditional leafy suburb, to try our
hand at setting up and running an organic smallholding from scratch, up near
Llandysul. It was titled 'Scenes from a Smallholding' and was received a lot of
very nice comments from readers, all the way from 'surprisingly informative'
and 'I laughed till I cried', to 'a sort of Bill Bryson down on the farm'. </div>
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It
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The sequel ('More
Scenes..(!)') told the story of the ups and downs of the following dozen years
on the farm. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Both books were
leavened with humour. Chasing a piglet across a field full of heifers, in the
rain; the unbelievably sticky mess you get into when bottling honey; starting a
tractor in horizontal sleet…. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was then asked to
write a book on organic gardening ('Scenes for a Vegetable Plot') suitable for
keen but terrified beginners. Plenty of scope for humour there, especially as
Ken Guy drew some more of his terrific cartoons, as he'd done for the other
books.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My publisher wanted a
string of follow-ups, but there was no more to write about, and I couldn't just
make stuff up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But meanwhile I'd become
interested in why science didn't 'believe' in ghosts, when I knew at least four
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It took twenty-five
years of research but I eventually cracked it, and wrote 'DarwinPlus!' to
explain it to the world. It's very simple, but it takes longer than the space I
have here to explain it satisfactorily. Just common sense and schoolboy logic,
but the background work is vital if the logic is to be clear. In a nutshell:
'science has adopted a dogma (which it should never do) and this dogma has led
to catastrophic results in just about every field of human endeavour, from
philosophy to ecology and many forms of human misery'. Try reading
'DarwinPlus!'… if you can fault my logic I will be astonished. Nobody has managed
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I've written a couple
of humorous novels. The first, 'Your Dog as Philosopher' is a Kindle ebook.
Googling the title will take you there. Is it worth the five star rating it has
received? Only you can decide.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My second novel, 'Mr
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Both novels deal with
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Will I write any more?
Dunno. I'm not interested in the money, just in helping people to explore their
sense of reality. Are you one of them? If so…. I look forward to meeting you,
either in person, or via one of my books. <o:p></o:p></div>
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wonderful day! It's a pretty remarkable universe!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-78008332663967265202017-11-23T22:45:00.004-08:002017-11-23T22:45:59.309-08:00Time Table of Events for the Christmas Book Fair on Dec 9th <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>We're proud to announce the full time table of events for the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair:</strong></div>
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<a href="http://www.flyinggoosequilting.co.uk/find-us/" style="color: #e77e23; text-decoration-line: none;">Flying Goose Quilting:</a><strong>1 Crescent Road, </strong><strong>Llandeilo, SA19 6HL</strong></div>
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<strong><br />11:00 </strong>Workshop with Nina Vangerow: Make your very own (Explorer’s/Adventurer’s) Booklet<br />
<span style="color: green;">Gweithdy. Gwnewch eich llyfr archwiliwr eich hun</span></div>
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<strong>1:45 </strong>Illustrator William Scott Artus will be holding na illustration talk and draw session<strong><br /></strong><span style="color: green;">Gweithdy. Sesiwn o sgwrs a thynnu lluniau gyda darlunydd</span></div>
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<strong>11:00 <span style="color: green;">Darllenydd Cymreig annisgwyl</span></strong></div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.fountainfineart.com/llandeilo.php">Fountain Fine Art Gallery: </a><img alt="fountain-fine-art" class=" wp-image-2446 alignright" data-attachment-id="2446" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="fountain-fine-art" data-large-file="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/fountain-fine-art.jpg?w=229&h=153?w=550" data-medium-file="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/fountain-fine-art.jpg?w=229&h=153?w=300" data-orig-file="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/fountain-fine-art.jpg?w=229&h=153" data-orig-size="550,367" data-permalink="https://delythevanslabour.wordpress.com/fountain-fine-art-2/" height="153" sizes="(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px" src="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/fountain-fine-art.jpg?w=229&h=153" srcset="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/fountain-fine-art.jpg?w=229&h=153 229w, https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/fountain-fine-art.jpg?w=458&h=306 458w, https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/fountain-fine-art.jpg?w=150&h=100 150w, https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/fountain-fine-art.jpg?w=300&h=200 300w" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 10px 0px 10px 12px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="229" /></strong></div>
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11:30 Travel writer Jacqueline Jaynes will talk about “Walking the Wye Valley Way” with images about places along the route from the National Library of Wales digital collections from 18th-20th century with well-known artists including Turner and David Cox.<br />
<span style="color: green;">“Cerdded ar hyd Dyffryn Gwy.” Darlith gyda lluniau gan arlunwyr fel Turner a David Cox</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 18.2px;">1:00 SAX BURGLAR BLUES – ROBERT WALTON</strong><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "libre baskerville" , serif; font-size: 18.2px;">Robert Walton will read a selection of poems about music, street life, family and natural creatures with strong feeling, wry humour and sharp observation and some soft acoustic musical accompaniment for one poem on thumb-piano and, naturally, a gentle blues on sax for the title poem.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: green; font-family: "libre baskerville" , serif; font-size: 18.2px;">Cerddi am fiwsig, bywyd stryd a chreaduriaid naturiol, gyda pheth cerddoriaeth</span><br />
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<strong>2:15 Carmarthen based author John Thompson</strong> will be reading excerpts from Genesis & Nemesis, Vol I & II of the Brindavan Chronicle, and talking about the attraction of the psychological thriller.<br />
<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o Gronicl Brindavan ynghyd â sgwrs am nofelau cyffrous seicolegol</span></div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.visitllandeilo.co.uk/?Where_to_Shop:Fashion:Indigo_Hill">Indigo Hill: </a><img alt="16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n" class=" wp-image-2437 alignleft" data-attachment-id="2437" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n" data-large-file="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n.jpg?w=289&h=217?w=705" data-medium-file="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n.jpg?w=289&h=217?w=300" data-orig-file="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n.jpg?w=289&h=217" data-orig-size="960,720" data-permalink="https://delythevanslabour.wordpress.com/16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n/" height="217" sizes="(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px" src="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n.jpg?w=289&h=217" srcset="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n.jpg?w=289&h=217 289w, https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n.jpg?w=578&h=434 578w, https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n.jpg?w=150&h=113 150w, https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/16603000_1262936170465417_2878234428028880511_n.jpg?w=300&h=225 300w" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: left; height: auto; margin: 10px 12px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="289" /></strong></div>
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<strong>12:30 Carol Lovekin’s </strong>work examines the relationships between women – sisters, mothers and daughters – threaded with ghosts, Welsh Gothic and magic. She’ll be reading from her new novel ”Snow Sisters” and answer questions.<br />
<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o waith sy’n archwilio perthnasau rhwng menywod, gydag awgrym o ysbrydion a dewiniaeth</span></div>
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<strong>1:45 Thorne Moore:</strong> <strong>“Dark tales of Llys y Garn.”</strong> Thorne Moore reads from her latest novel, “Shadows,” set in an old Pembrokeshire mansion that harbours sinister memories of long-forgotten dark deeds.<br />
<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o “Shadows” sydd wedi ei gosod mewn plas yn Sir Benfro sydd ag atgofion sinistr</span></div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.peppercorn.net/">Peppercorn Kitchenware: </a></strong></div>
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<strong>12:30 Will MacMillan Jones</strong>reads entertaining kitchen stories<br />
<span style="color: green;">Straeon difyr o’r gegin </span></div>
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<strong><a href="https://www.evestoyshop.co.uk/">Eve’s Toy Shop: </a><img alt="eve-shop_Wnf" class=" wp-image-2442 alignright" data-attachment-id="2442" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="eve-shop_Wnf" data-large-file="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/eve-shop_wnf.jpg?w=385&h=190?w=680" data-medium-file="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/eve-shop_wnf.jpg?w=385&h=190?w=300" data-orig-file="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/eve-shop_wnf.jpg?w=385&h=190" data-orig-size="680,336" data-permalink="https://delythevanslabour.wordpress.com/eve-shop_wnf-2/" height="190" sizes="(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px" src="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/eve-shop_wnf.jpg?w=385&h=190" srcset="https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/eve-shop_wnf.jpg?w=385&h=190 385w, https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/eve-shop_wnf.jpg?w=150&h=74 150w, https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/eve-shop_wnf.jpg?w=300&h=148 300w, https://delythevanslabour.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/eve-shop_wnf.jpg 680w" style="border-radius: 5px; border: 0px; float: right; height: auto; margin: 10px 0px 10px 12px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="385" /></strong></div>
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<strong>1:00 Wendy White </strong>is the award-winning author of ‘Welsh Cakes and Custard’ and ‘Three Cheers for Wales’. Her latest book is ‘St David’s Day is Cancelled!’ She’ll read from all 3 and talk a bit about myself as a child. Suitable for 4 – 10 year olds.<br />
<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o lyfrau plant gan gynnwys “St.David’s Day is Cancelled”</span></div>
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<strong>2:15 Angela Fish </strong>Come along and meet Ben, his best friend Jess, and Scoot the dog. Find out about their adventures with Lox, Guardian of the Spider Kingdom. Their first quest is to find the pieces of the Spider Gate which has been broken by the magpies, but they must do this before the leaves fall from the trees. Maybe Ben’s wise gran knows the answers!<br />
<span style="color: green;">Meet Ben. Anturiaethau i blant am Ben a’i ffrindiau yn Nheyrnas y Corynnod</span></div>
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<strong>12:00 Ann Signol </strong>reading a story about Norris the Pantomime Horse, Gertie Gobstopper the Pantomime Dame and their adventures travelling through Wales and on the Gwili Railway.<br />
<span style="color: green;">Stori am gymeriadau pantomeim ar reilffordd y Gwili</span></div>
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<strong>1:45 Colin R Parsons </strong>will reading his short story: Norman’s Christmas Spirit, about Norman Dilbert, a hapless individual, who loves decorating his house for Christmas.There is plenty of festive fun in this story, with a lovely twist at the end, to make for a warm, Christmas treat.<br />
<span style="color: green;">“Norman’s Christmas Spirit”. Stori Nadoligaidd gyda thro cynnes</span></div>
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<strong>12:00 Sam Smith </strong>will be reading from his Poetry collection: “Speculations and Changes”<br />
Sam is editor of The Journal (once ‘of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry’) and publisher of Original Plus books.<br />
<span style="color: green;">Casgliad o farddoniaeth</span></div>
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<strong>1:00 Sally Spedding: a Reading from “Behold a Pale Horse”</strong>It’s a literary thriller, set mainly in docklands London and Collioure in Roussillon in 1983, with a tragic, historical backstory involving the purge of the Knights Templar in 1307. Clement and Catherine’s new marriage is a sham, and her one, reckless false move will change their lives for ever.<br />
<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o nofel gyffrous wedi ei gosod ym 1983 a 1307 yn Llundain a Rousillon</span></div>
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<strong>2:00 Dafyd Wynn: Winner of the John Tripp award for poetry from his poetry</strong><span style="color: green;">Cerddi gan enillydd gwobr Farddoniaeth John Tripp</span><strong><br /></strong></div>
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<strong>11:30 Kate Glanville will read from her novel Stargazing</strong>“A warm and touching family drama exploring serious issues like family breakup, domestic abuse and falling for the right person. You can spend a lifetime gazing up at the stars but one day reality will bring you down to earth with a bump!”<br />
<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o’r ddrama deuluol, deimladwy, “Stargazing”</span></div>
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<strong>2:15 Wendy Steele</strong> reads an excerpt from her latest, witch-lit novel, The Orphan Witch.<br />
<span style="color: green;">Darlleniadau allan o nofel newydd, “The Orphan Witch”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 20.0pt;">J.K. Samuel, a long term resident of Llandeilo, will be part of this year's Christmas Book Fair on Dec 9th with her charming books. Here is an interview with her:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
was born in London, England, but since then I’ve moved from place to place more
times than I can count, including 17 years living in Israel! Having arrived in
South Wales at the end of 2006, and with this being my second Welsh move, I now
consider myself very lucky indeed to live in Llandeilo, in this totally
stunning part of the Carmarthenshire countryside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
a child I loved reading stories, and soon began some creative writing of my
own. I was talent-spotted by a publisher when I was ten, and at the age of
sixteen I won second County prize for a story I wrote, called ‘Bees in the
Night’. It was about a mad scientist who lived in a hollowed out mountain where
he was breeding a strain of killer bees! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
didn’t do anything more with writing for many years, and then in 1992 I
published my first book (a humorous story about three princes) with Albatros
Publishing. This was an Australian company that unfortunately went out of
business some years later, meaning that this book is no longer available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bEuZf0Y-EoU/Wg1ryyKQfII/AAAAAAAAC6E/qFJgxCqXuFQhYiN0khjsH7rJvSH_VCrzQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/BG1%2BCover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bEuZf0Y-EoU/Wg1ryyKQfII/AAAAAAAAC6E/qFJgxCqXuFQhYiN0khjsH7rJvSH_VCrzQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/BG1%2BCover.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The concept behind
the Bumble & Grumpkin books <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
wrote the first of these (<b><i>Bumble, Grumpkin & The Legless Wellie</i></b>)
after buying a couple of glove puppets – a badger, and a rat – in 2006. At
first I thought I was going to write short stories about the pair, and then use
the puppets to narrate the stories to live audiences. But when I couldn’t get the
inspiration for any more short stories, I realised I needed to pray for help!
And so it was that one day while visiting the Lliw Reservoir, a light bulb came
on in my head. As I was standing by the waterside, in a single instant I was
suddenly aware of the almost touchable reality of an alternate present time –
invisible to me, yet happening right here, right now, in the very place where I
stood…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had discovered Inter Time!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then
Grumpkin the Super-Rat and Bumble the miniature badger became firm friends, and
in due course the pair finally became the first two individuals ever to cross
over from Common Time (our own form of present time) into Inter Time. And what
happened next? Well, suffice to stay that this adventure turned into quite a
saga, at the heart of which story lies the search for a mysterious artefact
with supernatural powers. The story proper begins in book two of this series,
called <b><i>Bumble, Grumpkin and the Half-eth of May</i></b>, which I hope to
publish later in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Grump-a-log book
series<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
you may already be aware, Lord Grumpkin of Grumblemore is a Super-Rat whose
strengths and abilities far exceed those of mere human beings – or so he would
like us to think! Riding high on the bubble of his own inflated pride, time and
again he collides head on with the annoying realities of life. And what is his
response to this? A never-ending torrent of complaints, of course! Indeed,
Grumpkin the Rat has so much to complain about on so many different subjects, that
in order to please his countless international fans, in 2016 he started a blog
called: </span><a href="http://www.grump-a-log.net/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">www.grump-a-log.net</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">. Note that at
this URL you can also listen to audio recordings of Grumpkin’s blog posts, read
by myself!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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these same ‘grumps’ are being compiled into books which contain all the colour illustrations
that were used for the original website material. This in turn has led to the
launch of the Grump-a-log book series, of which <b><i>When in doubt, ask a MONKEY</i> </b>is
the first. Please note that these books are intended for the enjoyment of adults
as well as younger readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It’s
hard to say which of all the characters in these books is my favourite, as each
one has distinct qualities that appeal to me differently according to my mood.
But of course I do have a particular soft spot for the roguishly ratty Master
Grump himself: namely, Lord Grumpkin of Grumblemore! And in answer to your
question – no, I am definitely NOT like Grumpkin! In fact, I don’t actually think
I’m like any of the characters, which really shouldn’t be too much of a surprise.
After all, I do not create these personalities, I simply travel in my mind to
the other world in which they have their own independent existence. There is
where I meet them and observe their various activities, after which it is my
job to report all that I see and hear back to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and subplots completely planned from the start?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of course not!</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Whilst I naturally
had a very general idea of the direction the story was taking, I can’t imagine
how boring it would have been to know the whole plot in advance, and then be
obliged to write it all up like homework! No, I like to sit down with my iPad,
not having a clue what’s going to happen next, and then watch the new scene
unfold in my mind’s eye just like the next episode in a TV drama.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">To
relax I take country walks with my dog Amy, or visit places like the Botanic
Gardens and Aberglasney. I like watching movies, and as I have opportunity, I
also enjoy listening to live music. I don’t have a favourite genre of music,
but I find that quite a lot of classical music seems to have the ability to
transport me to a higher place and really lift my spirits – which in turn, of
course, is very good for my own creativity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Social Media<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The BUMBLE &
GRUMPKIN Book Series:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.kingventor.com/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">www.kingventor.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-4110224840024970282017-11-16T02:21:00.003-08:002017-11-16T02:21:57.687-08:00Introducing the authors and readers of the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair: Interview with poet and author Sam Smith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today we have another newcomer to Llandeilo and its book fairs and festivals: Sam Smith<br /><br />Sam Smith will be showcasing his work at the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair 2017 in the Horeb Chapel. He will also read from his poetry at the Red Cross Book Shop at 12.00 that day.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">1) “Not a soldier of Picasso</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">I know art is more a progress</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"> than a war”</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">(From ‘Not a Soldier’)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The first section of your collection is a series of ‘Speculations on Contemporary Art’ focusing on various aspects of modern artistic works and practice. Is there a sense in which this might be considered an ars poetica? Or perhaps, even, an anti-ars poetica – given both the tone and the varied innovative use of form in this four-part series of poems?</span><br />
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And not just poetry. Genuine new writing, if attempting to be seen as art, should disconcert, should upset, and should leave the reader changed in some way. If only with a slightly different perspective. If a poem is what we expect from a poem then that poem has failed. Michael Hamburger gave me a lot of help and encouragement when first I decided to take the writing of poetry seriously. One thing we could never agree on was my assertion that every poem should contain some dissonance, something to upset the reader's preconceptions, make them pay attention.<br />
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I feel I'm stating the obvious here. But in any art craft is not enough. We have to move beyond accepted forms, to challenge the old, the accepted. It is how art progresses. The world is new every day and art has to change with it. The general public however is never comfortable with the new, prefers the familiar. Genuine art cannot therefore pander to the general public. In music, in the visual arts, in sculpture, and in poetry we have to defy expectations. We cannot please our teachers. We have to, as individuals, expect not to be popular.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">2) Throughout ‘Speculations & Changes’, and particularly in the opening series of ‘Speculations…’, there is a fine and beautiful balance between sharpness, the beauty of some moments and at times perhaps an almost provocative playfulness/humour. Could you say a little about these aspects in your work and how you manage that fine line of balance?</span><br />
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I began this section highly critical of accepted art forms – as seen in galleries, in performance and on the page. Very few seemed to challenge preconceptions. Or if they seemed to be attempting to do so had made themselves impenetrable. So much of recent visual art is of an Art College type. So much of the 'new' poetry has been academised, fails to invite the uncommitted reader in and thereafter usurp their expectations. This type of poetry begins by erecting a barrier that says for the cognoscenci only, that says you must first have read this... Add a footnote, please the teacher.<br />
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Does art have a purpose? A singular purpose? That is what I was also trying to work out. And if it does, how has it failed? And if art has more than one purpose on which level has it failed/succeeded? So I played about with artistic tropes and if '...a fine balance was achieved' it was mostly me enjoying myself.<br />
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As a fellow editor, Sarah, you must have received loads of submissions that begin by telling you that the submittee has just achieved an MA from some university or other. And the work, if competent (many of these courses like vanity presses exist solely to make money out of aspiring writers), is a slipping-by much-of-an-MA-muchness. In the next post comes a submission based on an untutored author's obsession obsessively worked through that demands only to be read, puzzled over, and read again.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">3) “…Whole cities now are made of paper, are sustained</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">by paper. Watch a city explode. Paper, paper everywhere.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Writing about it is just a way of forgetting.”</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">(From ‘We Lived upon Milk and Were Enemies to War’)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">While at one level ‘speculations’ focuses on observations on contemporary art and poetry, these poems seem to consider this not in isolation but very much as something that highlights our wider culture and society as a whole – the things we invest in, and the risks that go with that. How important is it to not just face up to reality instead of forgetting, but to look beyond the surface and separate the natural from the manufactured, the synthetic from the real, the art and the artifice – both in creative practice but also the way we live our lives? (And why?)</span><br />
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The kind of art that a society produces, or in the case of a totalitarian culture is allowed to produce, is indivisible from that society, its mores and traditions, and where its art wants it to go. Art as warning or aspiration. For instance in this poem what I had in mind was the IRA bomb in Manchester that blew out Michael Schmidt's office, the rest of it scene-setting.<br />
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In every poem I try to – at least I think I try to – create a touchstone, something recognisable on which the reader can build their own interpretation. Can be something natural, beyond the period depicted, something currently everyday, and then I try to widen it out even unto the absurd, as with a koan. But often on starting to write I have no idea where the poem is going to end up, what final shape it will be. More get thrown away than kept. Editor Alec threw out more of the kept here – felt that they stated the obvious. He was right.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">4) “Within a crooked system, however,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">often the only honest action</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">can be to lie.”</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">(From ‘Too Much Indulged’)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">“if any love is to be sustained, there are some truths which cannot</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">be said. (Such truths are mind tumours.) Love/sex, therefore, cannot be</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">communication. Even before that — the long looks into the other's eyes, the</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">hand lingering on the arm, tingle fingers touching shoulder, the belief that</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">you are in the company of a kindred spirit — can be shattered with the first</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">words. Between human beings, where love nor sex is part of the transaction,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">language is the sole means of unequivocal communication. And then it, for</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">example this, is imperfect.”</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">(From ‘Not Communication’)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Having mentioned reality and artifice, can we talk now about truth? I’ve quoted from two very different poems above (one dealing more with society and the other with the personal). In ‘Going by Inside a Car You Cannot Hear the Lark Singing’ also: “Truth | will come | as mockery”. So, does any truth exist and, if yes, where? And, if truth can’t be found in poems (or the world, when using words at least), what should we be looking for in poetry instead? (I notice that shamanism is mentioned in some poems and “For scholars to look solely for meaning | in poetry for instance | is to overlook its shamanistic qualities” from ‘Dialogue 48’.)</span><br />
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Truth? There's a biggie. In the collaboration between writer and reader, each collaboration dependant on the reader's own knowledge and imagination, simple truths can easily slip between the cracks. So does the poem attempt to create a sense of...? Something alluded to, not present on the page? I've already mentioned koans, how their absurdity can trigger contemplative states. What I'd count as a success is a reader looking up from the page and staring into their mental mid-distance. Possibly going back to read the page again.<br />
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I attempted this with my Rooms series. Where after a free verse description of a place or event I had a footnote called 'Notes for reading'. These told how physically the verse should be read, and were often at odds, bore no relation, to the contents of the verse. The effect of those 'Notes for reading' was to send the reader back up the page to re-read the verse. And to try themselves to reconcile the pairing. The series proved popular with art students.<br />
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Truth? I dunno. What I do know is that I seem often to be surrounded by delusion, self-administered or propagated, and aware that enlightenment when it comes often proves traumatic.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">5) “And again, in this our age</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">of silent despair (the crying-out-loud,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">the gulping sobs, belong to</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">a moment, require an audience),</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">night’s boneheaded insects will come</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">rattling against the lit black glass.”</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">(From ‘Adeona’)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">This quote makes me think again about the artificial in contemporary society but also about the role of the watcher and the watched. Could you tell me about the part these two play in your poetry?</span><br />
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Voyeur and victim? Performer and audience? The voyeur can project knowledge of being watched onto the victim. Audience projects judgements onto the performer. Victim can imagine an audience while being unaware of the actual voyeur. Victim can self-consciously play to imaginary audience. Where the natural?<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">6)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One of the things that I noted with a gasp of appreciation is the variety and innovation in ‘Speculations…’ Perhaps in part that is in the nature of these series of poems – looking at contemporary poetry, text and art practice. But it also seems to go beyond that. How would you describe your approach to innovation and the experimental in your own work?</span><br />
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I began as a novelist. I didn't want to write what had been written before, seemed the very contradiction of novel. And when I later came to write poetry I was appalled to discover an 'experimental school'. That a poem could be defined as belonging to 'the experimental'. Surely all new work, being new, had to be experimental? As with my novels any idea I had for a poem therefore also had to find its own form, own shape. Sometimes it could fall into an existing form, only to then go beyond the form, require something other... Often what has begun happily as a series can quickly run out of steam, go nowhere. Does it work? Is the one question I ask of every piece.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">7) “Intelligence is nothing without compassion;”</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">(From ‘Dialogue 48’)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">I’m taking the quote above out of context, as it comes from the ‘Speculations…’ and I want to apply it to the second section of the collection ‘Changes’. (I’ll justify this by saying that, for me, the second section of poetry very much demonstrates this in practice.) The poems in ‘Changes’ are full of wisdom, insight and “the sudden squirrel chase of an idea” but also many of them are very moving and emotionally charged – hovering above death, and vividly evoking love and loss in a range of situations, narratives and moments. I’m struck by how finely intellect and emotion are balanced in these poems and also the careful crafting of words and images to create poems that sparkle without losing their ‘squirrel chase’ sense of real immediacy. Are there any particular techniques or practices that you use for achieving this? And, more generally, what’s the typical (if there is such a thing!) writing process for you from inspiration to crafting and polishing the finished poem?</span><br />
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When I was a psychiatric nurse I became fascinated by how insight and intellect had so little to do with emotion and spirit. Likewise how little politics has to do with ethics. How ends become means and how do I fit the event, the moment into those considerations? Demonstrate them without becoming didactic? Every piece of writing, including this, a new exercise. An exercise where I continually ask of myself, ‘Is that true?’ Language itself has the tendency to mislead one. So, if not true, has does one make it true? How does one make it seem authentic? And that is where an image might get inserted, itself leading one elsewhere….<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">8)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Transience is something that struck me as a theme threading through this collection – be that celebrating a particular everyday moment, facing the prospect of death or the nature of art and its endurance. I’m wondering if this is a very deliberate choice or more of a subconscious personal zeitgeist? (It is just one of many themes woven through the poems, but one that particularly struck me.)</span><br />
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When I left school in Devon I went to sea and encountered for the first time the very real poverty of places then like Sudan and India. I ferried refugees during the '64/5 war between India and Pakistan and came home age 21 to old classmates fresh from college full of knowledge and who knew nowt of the world as was. That estrangement, already begun before I went to sea but exaggerated by what I had done and seen in my travels, was pretty much what led me to writing, if only to attempt to explain to myself all that was happening around me and to tell it in ways that were not untruthful, tell it in my language not theirs.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">9) “Then we will know that we are not,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">never have been, closed vessels,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">that we do need others;</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">but as with lichens, mosses, orchids,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">trust will be a plant of slow growth.”</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">(From ‘We Can Be Led to Believe’)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">How does the sense of simultaneously feeling alone/disconnected and yet needing/craving connection, of being individual yet part of something bigger influence your poetry? And are there elements of writing choice that you feel are particularly important for a poet building trust with their reader?</span><br />
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The touchstone, something familiar, should always be there. Even if its very mention arouses a prejudice. One can work with that. Turn the prejudice on its head maybe.<br />
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Of course though many people will not be the least interested in what I have written. Especially poetry that doesn't look/sound like the doggerel they have come to expect poetry to be. So if one's only ambition is to acquire readers then one will write doggerel with layers of sexual innuendo and if novels give the public the stories they expect inside their colour-branded covers.<br />
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But if one persists with what one genuinely believes is what one is trying to say then, if the work does get published, then one does reach – sometimes around the globe and beyond one's own generation – to individuals here and there who are grateful for finding 'a like mind'.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">10)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Following on from my previous two questions, could you say something more generally about themes that particularly interest you and where you found inspiration for the poems in ‘Speculations & Changes’?</span><br />
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I think you have already divined, Sarah, most of what drives me to write – estrangement, disconnection, delusion on the part of others, and – more particularly with art – seeming conspiracies of delusion, the Emperor’s new clothes. The daily frustration of being surrounded by what Norman Mailer termed ‘factoids’ – misapprehensions accepted as fact. How we are ruled by the moneyed and the ignorant, how one uses the other, and the many wilful blindnesses. While at the same time not wanting myself to be a bore.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">11)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Where can readers get a copy of ‘Speculations & Changes’?</span><br />
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http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk/speculationsandc.html<br />
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-41497773460298348342017-11-14T23:56:00.000-08:002017-11-14T23:56:19.970-08:00Introducing Wendy Steele, one of the authors and speakers at the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair Dec 9th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lizzie Martin is grieving. </div>
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A road trip to Wales with her best friend, Louise should help and while she’s there, she wants to find her real mother and the truth about her father.</div>
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Lizzie returns home to discover her old boss, Edward Brown, is manipulating her life from prison. She must deflect angry phone calls from her ex-husband, consider a house move and new career path and become a modern day Boudicca, protecting those she cares about.</div>
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There is hope though.</div>
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The squirrels are on her side, the rescued chickens love their new home and, inspired by the Welsh landscape, Lizzie takes her magic out of The Sanctuary. </div>
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The media forces images on
girls and women of impossible perfection of both looks and lifestyle and we’re
left feeling inadequate. We’re isolated if we don’t choose to conform but I
say, enough! Why can’t we be the beautiful, witty, sexy, intelligent, curvy
women that we are? Why can’t we be proud of who we are and the way we choose to
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I write about magic…real magic…the magic that
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<span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">In 1972, Wendy Steele came home from the Tutankhamun exhibition and wrote about her experience, beginning a writing journey which she still travels. Since working in the City BC (Before Children), she has trained in alternative therapies, belly dance and writing. Wendy combines these three disciplines to give balance to her life.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Her first novel 'Destiny of Angels' was published in 2012, closely followed by two short story anthologies and a non-fiction book 'Wendy Woo's Year – A Pocketful of Smiles', an inspirational guide, offering ideas, meditations and recipes to make every precious day, a happy one.</span><br />
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<b>I'm delighted to welcome Alex Martin to Llandeilo Book Fair for the first time.<br />Here is an Interview with Alex so you can get to know her a little before meeting her on Dec 9th</b><br />
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<b>Welcome Alex. Please tell us, how did you come to writing in the first place?</b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Through reading. As a child I was never seen without 'my nose in a book' unless I was actually up a tree.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>History fascinates me, always has. In chronicling the lives of those before us, we can learn so much about ourselves in the present day, if we listen. I wish politicians would. I can't prove it, but sometimes I can see into the past. Every time it happens, and that is all too rarely, I have a physical sensation of cold - enough to make me shiver. And I see things. Images so crystal clear they create an indelible memory in my brain and can be remembered with clarity years later. Sharper than real life, as good as a film, these pictures are fleeting but all-encompassing and very vivid. They always take me back in time, sometimes hundreds of years and often trigger a story.<br />
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I wanted to explore this interweaving between past and present time in my most recent book. I used a spooky experience in Wiltshire, where I lived for many years, to provide the inspiration for The Rose Trail, when I was working as a secretary in a legal firm and had to deliver a will to a house on the Wiltshire downs. With the errand achieved, I looked around the tiny village and felt drawn to one particular dwelling. It was a beautiful old house, larger than a cottage, but nothing grand. It stood, square and sturdy, basking in the sunshine and smiling across to the other houses skirting the village green. As I approached its whitewashed walls, I noticed it was empty. I peered in through the warped glass windows, tucked deep under the thatched roof. Inside, a large room with a massive fireplace at one end had an uneven floor made of wide limestone flagstones, glossy from the hundreds of feet that had worn them smooth over time. I could see straight through into the walled garden through the window opposite.<br />
Although the house was much humbler than the Meadowsweet Manor featured in The Rose Trail, it spoke to me of the era in which half the book is set, the English Civil War in the seventeenth century and features a real battle that took place on Roundway Hill in Devizes (pictured here).<br />
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I sensed a family at war with each other; conflicted and arguing, heard the clash of swords and the clang of armour. I remember vividly the chilling sensation that crept up my arms, making them spring goosepumps all the way up to my thumping heart. It took many years for the seed to germinate into The Rose Trail. The story took root as I delved into the past from where three ghosts emerged, one particularly vicious one bent on revenge. Fay Armstrong, the troubled narrator, is loosely based on my experiences.<br />
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<b> How long did it take you to write? </b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The actual writing bit takes about six intensive months if life doesn't intervene. It's done a lot of that lately. Incubation takes years.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Every which way I can - that means the Internet, museums, visiting sites where action is placed, books, always books!, exhibitions, maps - I love maps. Sometimes it's from my memory - old conversations, direct and indirect.<br />
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<b>How comfortable do you feel writing in the genre? </b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The research is always daunting and I worry, a lot, about getting it right. It's amazing the detail you need - shape of a button, how is that button attached? What were the newspapers at the time? What was the weather like? What was the time of the battle? These details can keep me awake at night but the actual writing is a deep pleasure. Once that time and place is fixed in my mind, I simply go there and let the images flow through my fingers and transform into words.<br />
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<b>How do you write? What is your writing environment like? </b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I scribble in my journal every night in bed before I go to sleep and often before a writing session. I research inside my house if I need the internet but research books live in my shed where I write. www.intheplottingshed.com is named after the wooden building my husband and I built from a kit in a howling storm. It took eleven days and much swearing. The weather was so turbulent we had to rope it down every night until the roof went on.<br />
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<b>How many rewrites did it take you? </b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Several - always several! I edit meticulously as I write but I'm never satisfied. There does come a point when I realise I'm fiddling too much and declare it done. Then I send it out to my beta reader team and change it again if they all see the same flaw or something ingenious I could add.<br />
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<b>Who are your editors and how do you quality control your books? </b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My son, Tomas Martin, is my editor. He's a Dr of Physics and a science fiction writer. He's a brilliant brainstormer for plots but a brutal editor. His greatest skill is being able to see the book as a whole and come up with strategies. My husband checks for punctuation and grammar but most importantly tells me to keep going when I feel like chucking the computer in the pond you see in the picture.<br />
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<b>Who are your favourite authors / influences? </b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>So many to quote them all but I love Jane Austen and Winston Graham (Poldark), Philip Pullman, EM Forster, Joanna Trollope, Julian Barnes, Daphne du Maurier and many others.<br />
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<b>Who would play your characters in a movie? </b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I thought Renee Zellwegar might be prepared to gain the weight for Fay Armstrong and you'd need someone goofy but beautiful for Persephone - perhaps Cameron Diaz - you can always see her strength and intelligence behind the blonde, which would be perfect.<br />
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<b>What are your next projects and where would we be able to hear about them?</b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I'm currently working on the fourth, and possibly, final book in The Katharine Wheel Series, which began with Daffodils and its sequel is Peace Lily. The third book, Speedwell, ended on a rather ambiguous note and it's time I tied up the loose ends. The research for Woodbine and Ivy is even more daunting than the vast amount I did for the others because it's set in World War Two when the children of the protagonists in the first three books have to face their own challenges. I wanted to show the destiny of their parents and bring the story full circle to the ending I planned from the beginning in Daffodils! I'm hoping it'll be out next year, in 2018.<br />
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<b>Alex Martin writes about her craft at http://www.intheplottingshed.com/</b><br />
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-2743402049386162232017-11-02T01:07:00.000-07:002017-11-06T01:10:38.640-08:00Workshop with Nina Vangerow: Make your very own (Explorer’s/Adventurer’s) Booklet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The workshop is free but we ask for a contribution of £2.50 to the costs of the materials<br />
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Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-73221230100996255192017-10-31T01:00:00.000-07:002017-10-31T01:00:14.160-07:00Introducing the authors and speakers of the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair Dec 9th: Sally Spedding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This year's book fair will be a bit like a Mini Lit Fest with readings accompanying the book fair. Sally Spedding (<a href="https://writerchristophfischer.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/welsh-wednesdays-today-with-sally-spedding-tenbybookfair/">no stranger to Llandeilo and its festivals</a>) will be showcasing her books at the Horeb Chapel on the day of the book fair, Sat Dec 9th, but she will also be reading in the Red Cross Book Shop at 1:00 from “Behold a Pale Horse”.<br />
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This is a literary thriller, set mainly in docklands London and Collioure in Roussillon in 1983, with a tragic, historical backstory involving the purge of the Knights Templar in 1307. Clement and Catherine's new marriage is a sham, and her one, reckless false move will change their lives for ever.<br />
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<strong>SALLY SPEDDING Biography</strong><br />
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Sally Spedding is the author of ten crime novels, also ‘Strangers Waiting,’ a short story collection and ‘How to Write a Chiller Thriller.’ Her latest crime chiller, ‘Behold a Pale Horse,’ set in France and London, is out now. Her backlist, ‘Wringland,’ Cloven,’ ‘A Night With No Stars,’ ‘Prey Silence ’ and ‘Come and be Killed’ will be published by Endeavour Press as paperbacks and e-bks. ‘Cut to the Bone’ (2015) has been optioned for film, and will be shot in Jamaica in 2018.<br />
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Kate Glanville is a familiar face at this blog and at Llandeilo Literary Events. I'm delighted to announce that Kate will be reading from her wonderful novel "Stargazing" (<a href="https://writerchristophfischer.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/llandeilolitfest-review-stargazing-by-kate-glanville/">click this link to a review of the novel</a>) at Barr's Jewelry at 11:30 am.<br />
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When I started writing my first novel A Perfect Home (published by Penguin in the US 2012 and Accent Press in 2014) I took any opportunity to write, often writing long hand in a note book while I sat beside my youngest son's bed waiting for him to fall asleep at night or sitting in the car waiting for my older children to come out of school or standing at the cooker waiting for the fish fingers to come out of the oven for tea. So desperate was I to get the words onto paper I would get up at five am and write at the kitchen table willing three small children to stay asleep till at least six o'clock. Consequently I was usually exhausted, late to pick the children up from school, many fish fingers were burned and I was extremely thankful to early morning CBeebies for its ability to distract the children while I grappled with that last illusive sentence before the pre-school rush began. Not surprisingly A Perfect Home revolves around a woman with three children, trying to juggle, motherhood and work and feeling as though she’s failing at both!<br />
By the time I started my second novel, Heartstones (published by Accent Press 2014) the children were a little bit more independent and I'd learned to type on my lap top using two fingers, usually sitting at my kitchen table or in the garden - Welsh weather permitting!<br />
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The kitchen became increasingly chaotic as the children grew older and, for a few years the weather got wetter so I decided to try writing in the converted pig sty that for ten years had been my pottery studio. I have been producing hand painted pottery for over twenty-five years; it was and still is my day job - though to write full time has always been my dream. I had moved to a larger purpose built pottery studio a few months previously, leaving the pigsty empty apart from one of my kilns. One wet afternoon, when the children were especially noisy, I took my laptop into my old shed. It was warm and cosy from the kiln and as I sat watching the rain fall onto the Brecon hills that surround my home I realised I had found the sort of peace and quiet I had been longing for every time I started to write.<br />
So, for a few years, my old pottery studio became my writing shed. Maybe that is why Heartstones is set in a pottery studio and revolves around the tangled romances and family secrets of two potters a generation apart. My third novel Stargazing is partly set on a Welsh hill farm, not too dissimilar from the little farms I could see in the distance through my window. It has a Welsh character in it called Nesta who reminisces about the lush green landscape of her childhood and is really just describing the view from I used to look out on from my window!<br />
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Sadly I had to leave my pig-sty last year and the children and I have been renting a pretty cottage in a beautiful National Trust owned park. Its cosy rooms and gorgeous garden are very conducive to writing. From my window I look out over a deer park and across to the ruins of a medieval castle. We live next-door to an imposing Georgian manor house that is meant to be the most haunted National Trust property in Britain and we have a resident peacock called Perry – he lives in the garden and knocks at the back door with his beak to be fed!<br />
I’m working on my fourth novel which, surprisingly, is not set in a Welsh castle or a haunted house but in The Dordogne! It revolves around an ex-1980’s pop-star who’s reclusive life is turned upside-down when financial problems force her to rent out her house to holiday makers. The story unfolds over the course of a week. As I recently read over the first draft I realised that the weather gets progressively hotter throughout the manuscript. I think I subconsciously wrote about the heat in an effort to get warm myself.<br />
Though our cottage is idyllic, it has no central heating and the winter was very, very cold. I wrote huddled by the log fire, wearing several thermal vests and my coat and my hat. It was a comfort to write about a stiflingly hot French summer! Often I went to bed to write with my electric blanket on full heat – still wearing my thermal vests and coat and hat and tried to imagine I was writing on a sun filled terrace with a warm breeze blowing through my flimsy summer dress.<br />
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At last the winter is over and I’m slowly divesting myself of my many layers – just down to one thermal vest now. I’m putting the finishing touches to my French romance and I’ve even been writing in the garden. As I look around at the bluebells drifting in-between the trees and Perry displaying his magnificent tail, my thoughts keep turning to a new story; a story set in a pretty cottage in Wales, nestled between a big house and a castle, with deer at the end of the garden, a peacock on the patio and, maybe, even a few ghosts…..</div>
Christoph Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06399939187936268001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037200744336014719.post-59620775440034319592017-10-24T00:30:00.000-07:002017-10-24T05:22:46.890-07:00Introducing the authors of the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair Dec 9th: JAMES MORGAN-JONES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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James Morgan-Jones was born and brought up on the
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trained as a professional actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in
London and worked for several years in the theatre. After a serious accident he
retrained as a feline behaviourist and now lives in West Wales. He began
writing seriously in 2008 after gaining an MA with Distinction from Trinity
Saint David University in Carmarthen. In January 2016 he published his first
collection of short stories, <i>Lantern
Light</i>, writing as A J Morgan. He then embarked on <i>The Glasswater Quintet</i>, a series of supernatural mystery novels,
linked by character and place but set in different decades, from the 1940s
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edition by Wordcatcher Publishing following in 2017. The second in the quintet,
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Bethan is in the grip of a serious eating disorder. Taken to her late grandmother’s cottage in West Wales in a last-ditch attempt to tackle her illness, there she is beset by unsettling visions. History and place exert a powerful hold on her fragile sense of self. Driven on by the revelations of a Victorian minister’s journal, her vivid psychic connection with a troubled boy and the ambivalent, enigmatic sway of the visitant Lydia, Bethan is plunged into a one hundred and sixty year-old tragedy as the material world and the voices of the dead collide. The force of a past not yet assuaged is unleashed, compelling Bethan and her parents to confront a seemingly unstoppable catastrophe of their own.</div>
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An abducted psychic reads the cards to preserve her sanity. In another part of the country, struggling to keep his family from disintegration and to deflect the lethal attentions of an East End gang, Luke is forced to flee his home.</div>
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In the long hot summer of 1976, these two strangers are connected in a way neither of them understands. Yet, as mounting obsession and the pursuit of violent revenge send events spiralling out of control, it becomes clear that their lives depend on a mutually-powered drive to prevail.</div>
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The cards offer both a line of communication and a tantalizing hint at salvation: Luke and Paige need to rely not only on their wits but on symbiotic faith and vision. Can the intangible ever be strong enough to deliver them – and those closest to them – from the forces of destruction?</div>
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