Sunday Mercury Interview Causes Familial Hilarity

My sister rang me up today and asked if I’d read this article in The Sunday Mercury. She then proceeded to read out extracts from it and guffaw in the pauses. She wasn’t laughing at the fact that ‘academic Alys’ and I were ‘Driven out for being lesbians’ from a ‘poisonous village’ as she already [...]

Book Crossing Experiment

Greetings from Amsterdam. So far I have seen no dams, but in the Artis Zoo today I saw something which could have been a hamster. After the zoo, we went on a trek to find the ‘gay area’ though really the whole place is very gay friendly.
I did something I’ve been wanting to do for [...]

This Publicity Animal

Interview in one80news
This article appeared in the 15th August edition on one80news, but as it’s based in Brighton and Hove, I didn’t get to pick up a copy and had to wait for it to be sent via snail mail. It is the result of a long phonecall interview I did earlier in August. I’m [...]

Whoda Thunkit?

Yes indeed, who’d have thought that little ole me and my humble opinionated blog would cause such an uproar to the righteous readers of the Guardian Books Blog.
As regular readers of this blog may know, I was invited by the Big G to write a blog post about my book being Welsh Waterstone’s Book of [...]

My Book up there with James Frey

This is the sight I was greeted by in Aberystwyth Waterstone’s on Saturday. The Waterstone’s UK Choice of the Month is James Frey’s Bright Shiny Morning, which I found out about when I was at Swansea the week before.
My book, as Welsh Waterstone’s Book of the Month, generally has a separate stand with the ‘our choice [...]

We Will Never Silence Josie Henley-Einion

Swansea in the Rain
Photos of the Swansea event are up on my website now, in the Silence Photo Gallery. It was terrible weather, but I managed to be of good cheer. I met up with some of the Swansea Mensa crowd beforehand and had a Starbucks latte. This warmed me up somewhat after getting soaked [...]

Silence Soundbites

The audio recording of my book launch is available now on my podcast, Casting Pods. To listen, click here. Also available is the transcript of the podcast, click here to read it. This includes a reading from the opening chapter, which I put at the end of the podcast.
I should be getting some extracts up [...]

Interviews, Reviews and Articles

“Not one for Granny”
I’ve had my first review of Silence since publication. It’s hilarious, and very gratifying. Read it in full here, but here’s a quote: “It won’t be everyone’s idea of a good read. Stay away from this if you don’t fancy some graphic sex scenes… This is not one for granny.” Actually the [...]

Book Launch Video

video in bed! i mean embed. whatever zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

If it doesn’t work, go to the YouTube link and watch the thingy properly. I am too tired to say any more.