Cowbridge Book Festival
18 April 2011
In May, Cowbridge is holding its very first book festival. Cowbridge is a small market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, and it also happens to be the place that inspired the town in my first book, The Suicide Club. I’ll be sure to mention that at my event. I’ll be reading at the book festival, on May 19th at 11am . Also at the festival are Alistair Campbell, Niall Griffiths, Jamie Owen and fellow Transworld author, Jo Carnegie.
You can visit the festival’s website at
www.cowbridgebookfestival.co.uk
Cowbridge is a lovely little town and the perfect setting for the book fair. I hope it goes well for the organisers not only because of all the hard work they’ve put in but because it is something that could be enjoyed by lots of people from the surrounding area. Things like this are a little sparse where I come from.
Since my last blog I’ve been doing quite a lot of work on my next book, which is shaping up quite well. Of course I have crippling fears that it’s all terrible and that I should hurl my laptop into the river, but there are also times when I’m happy with it. It’s going to be about climate change and set a few hundred years in the future at a time when there is simply not enough food to feed the population.
I’ve also written a short story about a Japanese particle physicist who comes across a mysterious window when he moves to a new house. I’m quite happy with this story. It was one of those that pop into your head fully formed, ending and all, and you feel that you have to stop everything and write it at once.
Since moving to Cardiff I’ve been walking along the Taff Trail fairly regularly, a path that leads from Cardiff Bay all the way to the Brecon Beacons. I intend to cycle a large chunk of it soon and when I do I will write a blog about it.
I need to go now. I always feel a little guilty about blogging when I should be working on the book. Adieu.
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