In a first for the Making Hay blog we conducted a real time interview using Google Hangouts Live on Air. We talked to author and PR man Dan Tyte at home in Cardiff about his debut novel, working in PR and his vist to the Hay Festival this year.
Month: August 2014
Author Jim Saunders on Hay – Past, Present and Future
Jim Saunders, author of Hay – Landscape, Literature and the Town of Books will share his knowledge of Hay-on-Wye’s history, and then leads a discussion on the past, present and future of the town on Friday 5th September at 6pm at Booth’s Book Shop, 44 Lion Street, Hay on Wye. Jim Saunders is a writer and photographer based in Knighton, Powys and a former Offa’s Dyke Path Officer. Jim’s nature photographs also illustrate numerous books and magazines.
His book is a portrait of Hay, its setting and its people in words and photographs. Images are interspersed with an exploration of the town’s history and its stories and characters – amongst them Francis Kilvert, Alfred Watkins, Hay poisoner Herbert Armstrong, the Baskerville/Conan Doyle connection, Owain Glyndŵr, Richard Booth, and of course the Hay Festival.
For more information about the talk or to RSVP contact sarahdvies@serenbooks.com
Google Hangout with Dan Tyte
Dan Tyte was a panelist at the last Hay Festival . He was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales. He studied English Literature at the University of Liverpool before becoming a PR man. I’ll be talking to live next week on Google Hangouts about his debut novel ‘Half Plus Seven’ which was published by Parthian Books in April 2014. It has been described by the Editor of NME as “a lethal cocktail of Bukowski and Mad Men, finished with a twist of dry Welsh wit.”
You can sign up to watch the broadcast on Wednesday 27th August at 7pm. Just click here to register and you’ll get a reminder. 
MAKING HAY at the Hay Festival 