We had the charming @philipnewton come and visit us this evening on his travels around North Wales and he had been to Palas Print in Caernarfon and bought a copy of ‘O Mam Bach’, which he bought with him for me to sign - lovely!
Well if I am anywhere within 15 miles or so of Yr Wyddgrug / Mold in the next week I may just buy one (if it’s still there). There’s always amazon.co.uk as a fallback, but wyneb yn wyneb book buying is more fun, also good to support Welsh bookshops in the area. And an excuse to siarad Cymraeg, of course
I had been in Palas Print for some Story Sydyn books on the advice of @Pete2; the O Mam Bach I had ordered from the Book Depository and it had arrived the evening before I left for Wales.
And I had taken it with me on the trip in the hope that I would meet @CatrinLliarJones and be able to get it autographed – so glad we were able to meet! (I had arranged to visit @aran but he had cautioned that the others would likely be away in the evening - which they were, but they came back before I left.)
Somehow missed this thread. Catrin, that’s brilliant. Being commissioned to write a novel is every new writers dream, so huge congrats for that. Will now need to seriously up my game on the reading front (yikes!). Will buy a copy and have it on the shelf beaming down at me as an incentive to crack on with the learning. Enjoy the interviews, the launch, the writing and everything else x
S’mae Catrin. Llongyfarchiadau on the published book and now the novel deal!
I’m in catch-up mode, and reading this thread very quickly, so I may well have missed it, but might you have the opportunity of doing an audiobook version of either book one day?
A lot of work, I know though, and also perhaps difficult to get publishers to go for it. But if it ever came to pass, I think it would be bendigedig for learners who are getting into reading, but also want to be very sure about how exactly what they are reading is pronounced.