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Driving for nearly two hours through scenery fit to hypnotize, over mountains and through valleys from home to Aberaeron prepared my psyche. This evening would be my first ‘formal reading’ and ‘signings’ for an Indie Bookshop in Wales. Crach Ffinnant – The Prophecy is now available from this delightful bookshop, BOOKWORM. Karen Gemma Brewer, decided to display my books above Harry Potter and GOT in the window. I thought, ‘What a nice thing to do.’ Crach certainly has the potential, time will tell.

After sharing background as to the why’s and wherefore’s of writing Crach Ffinnant-The Prophecy I asked somebody to ‘dip in at random’ and a chapter was selected for me to read.  Briefly, I explained some of the main events, helping folk get to this point and understand the story before I began reading. We repeated the process again, sharing two chapters. My readings were well received and I thank all for listening attentively.

BOOKWORM BOOKSHOP – ABERAERON

Gwisgo Bookworm is a wonderful little secondhand bookshop in the delightful Georgian seaside town of Aberaeron. Niki and Karen Brewer are delighted to be the new owners of this well-known bookshop having taken over in September 2017 We welcome you to come and browse through the many and varied books that are available in the shopAsk us to find you a book, old or new, and we will do our best to source it for you. Greeting cards and OS maps are also available.

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Introducing

‘REMLOCK’

A new children’s short story. I will make no introductions except, take a listen and feel free to comment. Thank you!

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A children’s story about a Princess who must face issues about growing up. I wrote this story for a friend whose daughter needed to face the issues raised in the story.

Yesterday as folk know, I posted a narration of John Thompson’s work, ‘The Rocking Chair’. I mentioned it had stimulated me to record some of my own children’s stories. So here is a mini audio book of ‘PABLO REMEMBERS’. I wrote this a few years ago and it was an intuitive tale. In order to give credence to my comment, it happened like this. I was asked by a friends children to tell them a bed time story. Tullulah, one of the children was severely disabled and as she and her brother and sister sat in wait, out came the never told before tale spontaneously. Her sister suggested I write it down and as they had liked it so much, I did.

Since then, I have told it many times in a variety of settings and one such, can be found on the page dedicated to this story here on my site. There you will see a video where in the guise of one of my creations, Professor Knowitallicus, I perform the story at Kidwelly Castle during a medieval festival at storytelling time.

Enjoyo the audio book!

Please feel free to comment, your feedback is important to me.

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I now have two published works with another on the way.  Creating audio books of my work is an exciting project. Whilst I have made a good start with Crach Ffinnant The Prophecy, there is still much to do and I am enjoying every minute of narrating my stories. mind you remembering character voices can be a pain, but I am getting there. At the  Storytelling & Book Fayre Weekend, (National Botanical Gardens of Wales 21/22/6) I met some incredible authors with so much experience. One writer of children’s stories impressed me greatly.

A well-respected author of considerable standing in the literary community of Wales, John Thompson shared this short story with me. The Rocking Chair tells of a boy visiting his Granny, sharing his worries due to non attentiveness during a history lesson about Owain Glyndwr. Granny has an unusual solution to the problem. Will it be solved?

I was enchanted by this short story, so I narrated it and sent it off to John as a prezzie, for his help and friendship at the weekend. Well as these things do, one thing  led to another. So when time allows I am going to dig out some of my children’s stories and make an audio book of them. Lovely spin-off. So lots of recording in the diary. So unbeknownst to John, his words have created a mission for me. Have a listen to the ‘Rocking Chair’

I would be grateful if folk have comment on the narration, please feel free. All feedback is helpful, Thank you.

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