Josie Henley-Einion

One of the things I like about my new status of PhD student is the flexibility to stay at home (or actually not at home much!) with my son when it’s the school holiday...

Searching my name on Google is a little hobby as some readers may already know from a previous post where I mentioned this...

This Volvic challenge (if you haven’t seen the adverts click here for the full glory of it) says that if you drink 1.5 litres of water per day for 14 days then you’ll feel a lot better...

Yes, it’s the usual reason for blogging – have far too many other things to do...

My latest addiction is Bookarmy.com, here is my profile page. I’m an author-member so I get a special little B next to my name, which I think is pretty cool but then I always was easily pleased...

I have been quoted in an article about libraries in my local paper. I was called by the journalist who’s done an article on me before so he obviously has my name on his ‘local author’ list...

I was doing a pipl search for myself (yes I am that egotistical and perhaps paranoid as well) and saw a nice variety of references to me, not all from me, including the Guardian, Struggling Authors, Meet the Author and Queer Cymru (although the information they have about my current job is out of...

I’ve been ill for a week now with something that started off as a simple cough and cold and turned out to be lesbian flu again. For those who don’t know, lesbian flu is a very rare mutation and has a worse prognosis than man flu, resulting in the patient almost dying...

This article appeared in the Western Mail magazine yesterday (07 February 2009). Soon after Silence was reviewed in the paper, I was invited to contribute to the Author’s Notes section and wrote this piece. Since then I hadn’t heard back so assumed it wasn’t going to be used...

Uni was closed today but I didn’t find out till I’d driven all the way from Cardiff to Swansea! That’s about 35 miles. Got there to find the library shut and tutorials cancelled, did an hour’s work in my office and came home again...

In case anyone else got a Sony E-Reader for Christmas like I did, check the reset button! Mine didn’t work and it was stuck on one screen from Saturday until yesterday when I took it back to Waterstone’s. Fair play to the store, they swapped it with no quibble...

My top-rated story on YouWriteOn.com is one of six in the anthology. Great Short Stories by YouWriteOn.com Writers is available to order on Amazon.co.uk (and Amazon.com) and through YWO. I’ve ordered several copies to give away at Christmas...

As Northern Rock mortgage holders, it is imperative these rate cuts are passed on...

Many apologies to all in Bournemouth who rushed over to the University today to hear me speak. The event was cancelled after all...

I’ll be in the Lawrence Lecture Theatre, Pool House, Bournemouth University at 14:00-16:00 on Wednesday afternoon 3rd December (the day after tomorrow)...

Sent to BBC Have Your Say today. Dear BBC I received a letter this morning from Northern Rock as my mortgage lender. I have been waiting to see their reaction to the Bank of England base rate cut and this letter proposes a cut in response to this...

This month I’ve had some marvellous reviews of my book. One appeared in Writer’s Beat Quarterly which was very glowing...

Tonight the Hacio program that I’ve been talking about for months is going to be aired. It’s on S4C at 11.55pm, but if you are otherwise engaged or unable to receive the Welsh channel then you can view it on the Hacio site. Welsh version here, English here...

Having the ceiling down in the kitchen and water leaking through the flat roof is not going to make for a terrific Samhain. However, it’s not raining right now and there’s enough wood in the garden for a decent fire. We have pumpkins, what more can you ask for...

Three days to go till I leave my job and there are suddenly a lot of things happening which I’ve been requesting for months, nay years! Oh joy. IT have decided that they do need to move all the databases off my clonky old computer and onto the main server after all...

Photos from my early morning present opening session (I have a ten-year-old with the patience of a gnat) will be online shortly. Presents: new digital camera (yay!), lovely hippy clothes, bottles of beer with strange names, a book (Longitude) and a little cat thing that is supposed to hold photos...

To my interview on BBC Radio Wales. As of tomorrow evening it’ll be wiped ready for the next show. I have finally managed to listen to it myself and noticed quite a few ‘ums’ which other people have not mentioned...

My bit on the Radio Wales Arts Show with Nicola Heywood Thomas went really well and I got lots of talk time! I even managed to get a plug in at the end for the new Legend scheme, ReadGeneration, because there was mention of young writers...

I’m going to be on the Arts Show on BBC Radio Wales, Thursday 2nd October at 6.30-7.00 (tomorrow evening). The show is presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas and the topic this week is storytelling. I’m going to be interviewed about my book and also take part in the discussion...

Due to escalating food prices, I’ve decided to start a new brand of baked goods. Credit Crunch Biscuits will be crunchy but contain no flour, eggs sugar or fat and will probably be made with gravel and cockroaches. Credit Crunch cereal is a bowl of wood shavings with used staples to add zest...

It’s been on the cards for a while, but I didn’t want to say anything until I’d signed, sealed and delivered the agreement. Yes folks, I now have an agent. Judith Antell of The Antell Agency is representing me for literary works, drama and journalism, foreign rights etc. etc...

As you can see from this picture, Silence is now in the three-for-two promotion in Waterstone’s. Newport was great, and I’ve left a batch of signed copies there so anyone who missed it can still pick one up...

Regular blog readers will remember I mentioned that a Wales on Sunday journalist spoke to me at the book signing I did in Newport Waterstones. He interviewed me earlier this week and this is the result...

A sign up in my local Costa Coffee shop: Iced Coffee’s Now Available. Apart from the fact that iced coffee=gak, I am appalled again. Iced Coffee’s what? I ask. Iced Coffee’s mug? Iced Coffee’s book prize...