A bit about the author

I'm Welsh and very proud of it. I was born in Cardiff, and I used to live in Monmouthshire. However, at the moment I’m happily living in another Celtic area ~ Brittany ~ in a house called ‘Ynys Haf’. I love Bretagne (or Breizh as the Bretons call it) but visit Wales often to visit schools and libraries ~ and because I get homesick. I have a lovely husband (Rob) and three gorgeous daughters, Kirsty, Tanith and Stephanie. Kirsty works in the Museum of London in Docklands, and she and Art, her partner, have given me two beautiful grand-daughters, Daisy and Tove, and in February 2011 gave me a beautiful grandson, Dylan. Kirsty has also set up an on-line business (see her website “Ladybird Beads”) making and selling her own jewellery designs. Tanith works in London as an Operations Manager for a large chain of stores and is married to Darren, a brilliant guitar teacher and musician. Stephanie is married to primary school teacher Conall and has her own business working as a 'Living History Interpreter' in schools all over Northern Ireland (see her website “Time Steps in History”). She and Conall have given me my third lovely grand-daughter, Catrin.

When I'm not writing (something I've been doing since I was 8 years old) I'm usually found in a school somewhere, or a library, either helping kids to write stories and poems in workshops, or talking to them, telling them all about me and my writing.

And before you ask, yes, I love being a writer. It's the best job in the world. Second best is being able to visit schools and talk to and workshop with the kids. That's great.

Current projects

A teenage novel, “Full Moon” was published in October 2011 and “A Little Bit of Mischief”, a picture book set at Cardiff’s Techniquest, was also published last year. The next part of the ‘Magic Apostrophe’ series, ‘What Part of No Don’t You Understand?’ will be published soon, I hope, and the last part, ‘Tree of Light’ is ready for publication at a later date. I’ve also written another in the ‘Gwydion’ series ~ ‘Gwydion’s Quest’.

I’m also half-way through writing a young adult fantasy book which is sort of set in Wales, but not quite… Soon I’m intending to attack the Tudors (not literally ~ it’s a bit late for that!) and also finish editing the second part of my new adult series “Silver Fox” which is about Owain Glyndwr’s War of Independence. The first part was published in October 2010 and is available direct from me on robjen@wanadoo.fr. My other project, adult novels about WWI and WW2, have had to take a back seat, I’m afraid, but I’ll get round to them some day, I promise.

You don’t have to take my word for my books ~ there are reviews of all of them on gwales.com ~ from which site all the books are available.

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