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Welsh Wednesdays: A day for the entire family: Llandeilo X-Mas Book Fair Dec 10th

30 Wednesday Nov 2016

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1:30 pm: Rachel McGrath reads from her children’s book ‘Willow and Coco meet Santa.’
 
Rachel McGrath grew by the beach in Australia, and moved to the UK in her early thirties to pursue her career in Human Resources. Since her early teens she has had ambitions to write professionally, but it wasn’t until 2015 that her first novel, a memoir, was published.
Since then she has published several novels and children’s stories. Her writing has received several literary awards including the People’s Book Prize, Reader’s Favorite and more recently the New Apple Literary Awards.1:00 p.m. Sharon Tregenza reads from her Middle Grade/Mystery Adventure “Shiver Stone” 
 
Sharon Tregenza is an award winning children’s
author. She was born and brought up in Cornwall but has lived in several
countries including, Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates.
Her debut
novel “TARANTULA TIDE” won the Kelpie’s Prize and the Heart of Hawick Award.
“THE SHIVER STONE” is a children’s mystery/adventure set in Pembrokeshire, and
is published by Firefly Press. It was short listed for the Tir na n-Og and the
Somerset Teachers Award.
Sharon has an
MA in Creative Writing and another MA in Writing for Young People. She is a
member of the Society of Authors, The Society of Children’s Book Writers and
Illustrators and the Scattered Authors Society.
http://www.sharontregenza.com
http://www.faceboook.com/sharontregenzabooks

 

twitter.com/Sharontregenza
 
 
 
Angela Fish is a writer who specialises in intergenerational
communication, women’s Ben and the Spider Gate was published in 2015 and the second, Ben and the Spider Prince was released in May 2016. The
third in the series, Ben and
the Spider Lake
, will be out in September 2016. She is a member of the
London Book Fair Authors’ Club and lives in south Wales.

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.
Her first book for children,

www.angela-fish.com
www.facebook.com/AngelaFishAuthor
10:00 am: Book Fair opens with Hayley Addis: “The Goblin Circus” (children & adults) reworking fairy-tales
Hayley “Haloquin” Addis is an Enchantress, weaving magic
through words in storytelling and teaching about real Faery magic. She is the
author of “Your Faery Magic” (non-fiction) and the creator of
storytelling show The Goblin Circus(fantastical), with an illustrated storybook
in the works! When not writing or making magic Hayley dances, studies for her
Philosophy Doctorate and dabbles in arts and crafts. Despite running a circus
she still can’t juggle. Find her at 
www.aworldenchanted.com /www.thegoblincircus.com 
10:45 am: Will MacMillan Jones presents his ‘Enchanted Darkness,’ a performance for children and adults.

 

Will Macmillan
Jones
 writes Dark Fantasy, fantasy he fantasises is
funny, and books for children. Some of his pieces have won awards but he
doesn’t like to talk about that as it draws attention to the fact that other
pieces haven’t.
http://www.willmacmillanjones.com
 
11:15 am: Wendy White, ‘Tir-nan-Og’ winner, reads from her children’s book ‘Welsh Cakes and Custard.’
 
Wendy
White grew up in Llanelli and studied at Lampeter University. She worked as a
library assistant before training to become a primary school teacher and has
taught at schools in Berkshire and Carmarthenshire. She is an award-winning
author of children’s books. Welsh Cakes
and Custard
and Three Cheers for
Wales
are about the adventures of Betsi Wyn and Emyr Rhys and feature their
grandparents too, Mam-gu and Da-cu. Each book includes five stories with a
strong Welsh flavour, a child-friendly recipe and some traditional songs. Wendy
writes for adults under the pen name Sara Gethin.
 
 
 
 

12:15 am: Colin R. Parsons reads his Christmas Story “Norman’s Christmas Spirit”

 
He loves writing for children and young adults in
the genres of: fantasy, sci-fi, steam punk and the supernatural.
He has published many books
including his best selling series Wizards’ Kingdom, also The Curious World of
Shelley Vendor books and his Crank Tech One series.
 
 
Here’s the full programme:
 
9:45 am: The Llandeilo Town Band will open the event with festive music.
10:00 am: Book Fair opens with Hayley Addis: “The Goblin Circus” (children & adults) reworking fairy-tales
10:45 am: Will MacMillan Jones presents his ‘Enchanted Darkness,’ a performance for children and adults.
11:15 am: Wendy White, ‘Tir-nan-Og’ winner, reads from her children’s book ‘Welsh Cakes and Custard.’
11:45 am: Hugh W. Roberts reads “What If Summer Never Arrives” from his brand new book “Glimpses”
12:15 am: Colin R. Parsons reads his Christmas Story “Norman’s Christmas Spirit”
12:45 am: Short Story Competition Award Ceremony.
1:00 p.m. Sharon Tregenza reads from her Middle Grade/Mystery Adventure “Shiver Stone”
1:00 p.m. Carol Lovekin reads from her magical novel ‘Ghostbird.’      
1:30 pm: Rachel McGrath reads from her children’s book ‘Willow and Coco meet Santa.’
2:00 pm: Poetry Readings. (Open Mic)
2:30pm:  Welsh Poem Recital Competition.
3:00 pm: Liz Riley-Jones reads from her Celtic fantasy novel ‘ Hiraeth a burden – baich’ and talks about the significance of the Welsh Language in it.
3:30 pm: Graham Watkin reads from his best-selling mythology collection ‘Welsh Legends and Myths.’ 
4:00 pm: Kate Glanville reads from her novel ‘Stargazing.’
4:30 pm: Christoph Fischer reads from his Carmarthenshire-set murder mystery ‘The Body In The Snow.’
17:00: Book Fair closes with the announcement of Raffle Prize winners.
Catering by THE HANGOUT at the YARD Llandeilo (traditional, healthy and vegetarian options)

 

Gift Wrapping in aid of the Air Ambulance all day long

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“The Body In The Snow” receives Just Review’s Book of the Year” Award

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

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Thanks to Just Reviews for this award. I’m thrilled to bits.

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Here’s my favourite review from Amazon for the book:

“This was such a funny read. I found myself time after time laughing out loud. The characters simply pop!
The pop culture adds so much to setting up the scenes and bringing the reader right into this world.

Bebe is one of the most egocentric characters I have come across in a long time. I kept waiting for this character trait to start to annoy me. No such luck. It endeared her to me instead of alienating me. The reference to one of my all time favourite show – Absolutely Fabulous – had me in stitches. I could see it unfolding in my minds eye.

So the main plot.. A cosy murder mystery. The reader has a very limited choice of possible suspects but until the very end you are never really sure and then with the reveal you go – wait, what?

Ok so I loved this. Can you tell?”

Get the book here: http://bookShow.me/B01LVYRI9L

Blurb: 24812-body2bin2bthe2bsnow-kindle2bcover

Fading celebrity Bebe Bollinger is on the wrong side of fifty and dreaming of a return to the limelight. When a TV show offers the chance of a comeback, Bebe grabs it with both hands – not even a lazy agent, her embarrassing daughter, irritating neighbours or a catastrophic snowfall will derail her moment of glory. But when a body is found in her sleepy Welsh hamlet, scandal threatens.

Detective Sergeant Beth Cooper has a string of unsolved cases to her name. Her girlfriend left her and she’s a fish out of water in rural West Wales. Things couldn’t get much worse – until the case of the Body in The Snow lands in her lap.

Can Beth solve the case and save her career and can Bebe make her comeback? All will be revealed in this light-hearted, cosy murder mystery by best-selling and award winning historical and crime fiction novelist Christoph Fischer.

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Christoph Fischer was born in Germany, near the Austrian border, as the son of a Sudeten-German father and a Bavarian mother. Not a full local in the eyes and ears of his peers he developed an ambiguous sense of belonging and moved to Hamburg in pursuit of his studies and to lead a life of literary indulgence. In 1993 he moved to the UK and now lives in Llandeilo in West Wales. He and his partner have several Labradoodles to complete their family.

Christoph worked for the British Film Institute, in Libraries, Museums and for an airline. His first historical novel, ‘The Luck of The Weissensteiners’,  was published in November 2012 and downloaded over 60,000 times on Amazon. He has released several more historical novels, including “In Search of A Revolution” and “Ludwika”. He also wrote some contemporary family dramas and thrillers, most notably “Time to Let Go” and “The Healer”.

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Local businesses support #LlandeiloBookFair #raffle in aid of Air Ambulance Wales

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

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A big thank you to all the local businesses who put up our posters and leaflets. Llandeilo is a very dynamic and vibrant small town with a huge variety of shops. Here are some of the prizes that have been donated for the raffle in aid of the Welsh Air Ambulance. Come along on Dec 10th to have a chance to win some of these great prizes.
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Papillon
Organica
Deb’s Wool Shop

 

The Little Welsh Dresser,
Scorpio
Cuckoo’s Nest
Eve’s Toy Shop,

 

In Stitches
Dragon’s Garden

 

 

 

 

 

BOOK PROMO – ‘Book Bites’ – FREE from 27th Nov to 26 Dec…

28 Monday Nov 2016

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Another promising looking freebie!

Book promotion, Free book, Have Bags Will Travel, memoir, humor, D.G. Kaye

28 Monday Nov 2016

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Author D.G. Kaye has put her book, Have Bags Will Travel, on promotion for FREE from November 28th through December 2nd! The winter holiday season is a time when so many travel, and this would be the perfect book to stash in one’s carry-on to read along the way …

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Source: Book promotion, Free book, Have Bags Will Travel, memoir, humor, D.G. Kaye

In honor of the upcoming travel season, I’ve decided to put my book, Have Bags, Will Travelon promotion for FREE, starting today November 28th through December 2nd! The book will be available Free to all countries and I am putting up The Universal Link Herethat will take you directly to the Amazon book page of your country to download it.

If you haven’t read this little travel log and memoir of mine, please feel free to download your copy today. It seems that based on…

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#Glimpses – Prelaunch Blog Party

27 Sunday Nov 2016

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Join Hugh and his fabulous blog-party over at https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2016/11/26/glimpses-prelaunch-blog-party/

Your Site, Now in Other Languages: Introducing the Google Translate Widget

27 Sunday Nov 2016

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WordPress.com News

Internationalization is very important to us, and we’re striving to make sites across WordPress.com accessible to all, such as your international followers and multilingual readers.

Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the Google Translate Widget, which allows you and your site visitors to instantly translate your content into 103 languages currently supported by Google Translate.

Languages currently supported by Google Translate. Languages currently supported by Google Translate.

How it works

To enable automatic translation on your site, add the Google Translate Widget in your Customizer by going to My Site(s) → Customize → Widgets. Once enabled, your site visitors will be able to access a dropdown menu in your sidebar or footer and automatically translate the content into 100+ languages.

A blog post in English. A blog post in English.

The blog post above, automatically translated into French with the Google Translate Widget. The blog post above, automatically translated into French with the Google Translate Widget.

Additionally, you can also send readers to a specific language version of your site by adding a language…

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The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during World War Two

26 Saturday Nov 2016

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This has been on my kindle for some time and I can’t wait to get my teeth into this. Here’s an excerpt

Lorna Peel

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The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established in 1939 by King George VI and was linked with the RAF so that RAF personnel could be substituted for women whenever possible.

Originally the roles of the women in the WAAF were domestic duties such as cooking and driving. Women were not allowed to fly and their general capabilities were often doubted in the early stages of the war. During the Battle of Britain, however, the RAF were under huge strain and this led to a change of role for the WAAF. It became crucial for the WAAF to take on more technical tasks, and they were trained in operating teleprinters—like Into The Unknown’s Kate Sheridan—radar plotting, the maintenance of barrage balloons and the interpretation of photographs.

There were approximately seven thousand WAAFs based at Fighter Command airbases such as Biggin Hill during the summer of 1940. These bases were targets…

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Historical Saturday Review: “In Praise of the Bees” by Kirstin Gleeson

26 Saturday Nov 2016

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In Praise of the Bees Cover MEDIUM WEBThis is a truly excellent read. Some of you may remember my interview with the author and my review of her book “The Hostage of Glenorchy (The Highland Ballad Series Book 1)”  

This book starts with a most intriguing set up – a woman recovering from stab wounds, nurtured by nuns in Ireland AD 590. A very difficult undertaking to portray this time realistically and authentically. Gleeson did a splendid job at that. I’m not normally one for historical fiction of that period, but the theme of bees attracted me to the title and I found this to be of high literary quality and depth.
How our heroine finds herself in the new environment and faces demons past and present, her marriage and the best way forward, in light of her own desires and god’s will.
There is much to enjoy in this read, written thoughtfully and with great reflections and perspectives on society. Symbolism, juxtaposition and character depth add to the many praises I have for the “Praise of the bees”. Maybe my recent interest in bee keeping has made me partial to pick up the book, but the author’s competence has won me over.
A marvel.

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website: www.kristingleeson.com

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twitter: @krisgleeson.com

Book Review: Ludwika by Christoph Fischer

25 Friday Nov 2016

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A wonderful review of Ludwika by grandmapeachy – many thanks!

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Ludwika: A Polish Woman’s Struggle to Survive in Nazi Germany by Christoph Fischer

Originally I learned of Christoph Fischer from a promotion for Ludwika.  Instead of reading this book first I chose to read his Three Nations Trilogy and loved them. It wasn’t until several months later that I got back to the book that originally caught my interest.

ludwika-by-christoph-fischer-coverLudwika Geirz was a real woman who was displaced from Poland during WWII, but Christoph Fischer has fictionalized her story using the available details of her life as the backbone for the story. This book could be the story of any young Polish woman caught up in the tragedy that was Nazi Germany in World War two. The story of sacrifice, loss, hope and despair could be that of any victim of this time and place in history.  Mr. Fischer has a talent for bringing out the emotional impact of war upon ordinary…

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