CATRIN COLLIER - NEWS
I can also be contacted at Catrincollier@aol.com
I have accepted the position of Chair of Swansea Writers’ Circle. The group responsible for encouraging me from the very outset of my career before I published a single novel. We meet the first Wednesday of every month at 7.00 p.m. in Swansea’s County Hall, Mumbles Road. We welcome new members and would be delighted to see anyone with an interest in writing - be it novels, plays or poetry.
I would like to thank everyone who came to Pontypridd Library on Tuesday to support the library series of talks "Pontypridd - more than just a bridge". It was wonderful to meet so many of you.
On Sunday 26th February I will be at the Vault Festival (http://www.thevaultfestival.com/) in the Old Vic Tunnels in London reading from my Hammer Horror book, Wakewood (novelisation of the film) before a screening at 3.00p.m. For the full programme visit http://theflickerclub.com/page4.htm If anyone intends to go I’d love to meet them there. The Vault | February 9th - 26th, Waterloo’s Old Vic Tunnels | The Vault www.thevaultfestival.com
On Monday 5TH MARCH 2.00 P.M. I will be at the opening of the new Llanelli Library in Vaughan Street talking about my books and answering any questions. I’m looking forward to meeting old friends - and making new.
MAY 15th ( Tuesday) at 6 p.m. I will be at Planeta 11, ul. Piłsudskiego 38, Olzstyn, Poland at the invitation of the library authorities to discuss my books which have been sold into translation there. I am looking forward to seeing my friends again and am honoured to have been asked to return to my mother’s homeland.
On July 2nd I will talking at a meeting of Pontypridd Soroptomists - more details nearer the date.
Edwina Smart the incredibly hard working librarian has 6 speakers lined up for "Pontypridd more than just a town." Terry Walton (BBC radio - Feed yourself from your own patch) Wednesday 8th Feb at 2.00 p.m. Me on Tuesday 14th. Professor Dai Smith chair of the Arts Council of Wales and well known writer - I couldn’t have written Beggars and Choosers and Winners & Losers without his "Fed". Kim Howells Tuesday 10th March - he needs no introduction. And the wonderful Dean Powell talking about Dr William Price on Tuesday May 8th, Alun Seward author of Pontypridd Past & Present Tuesday 12th June all at 5.00 p.m. except Terry Walton. We’re all going to be talking about the town so it’s your chance to come and reminisce. Coffee and biscuits provided. I’ll bring along a few old photographs I’ve used in my research and talk about the book I’m working on which opens in Treforest. Hope to meet some of you there.
Monica Dennis contacted me after my father’s appalling treatment during discharge from the the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. The organisation she works with, A Dignified Revolution, which has a number of health professionals among its members is concerned with the care (or lack of) the elderly receive in hospital. Please take a few moments to look at their web site. We will all be old one day (hopefully) and please pass on the link to your friends and colleagues. Thank you. They desperately need publicity to make people aware of their aims. http://dignifiedrevolution.org.uk
My new novel Bobby’s Girl published by Allison & Busby will be out in paperback date to be announced in 2012
I have ventured into e-book publishing.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=CATRIN%20COLLIER
My Raunchy modern Caro French trilogy based on the lives loves and games (strip Snakes and Ladders - Blind Man’s Buff) of the Farcreek set are to be found on Amazon’s Kindle along with Hearts of Gold and The Road to Baghdad
