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      I'm So Kindle Single I am preparing to be the first Kindle Single writer launched to a global audience from dear old Wales.  Arrivals , my first Kindle Single – that's an Amazon ebook, Nanny, a digital book, a bit like a 45, hence the name – is the novella from my debut collection of short stories  The Art of Contraception . It launches at the end of April, closely followed by nine other titles, old and new from Parthian's back catalogue. Amazon describes their Kindle Single as an ebook that’s 'twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book' The l0,000 to 30,000 word digital pamphlets will be produced by writers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians, publishers and other big thinkers. In fact, in their announcement of the Kindle Single launch Amazon wrote that the size of these ebooks offers the 'perfect, natural length to lay out a single killer idea, well researched, well argued and well illus...

Preview: Fresh Apples (small bites) Fresh Apples is a new theatre production based on short stories from Rachel Tresize and will be previewed at two free shows this weekend.  Susie Wild  catches up with the Cardiff-based director Julie Barclay in this interview [ http://www.guardian.co.uk/cardiff/2011/feb/25/fresh-apples-small-bites-susie-wild-tactile-bosch?INTCMP=SRCH ] Fresh Apples by  Rachel Trezise  won the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize in 2006 and features themes of adultery, stalking and teenage sexual experience. The 11 acerbic short stories are set in the Rhondda valleys with their characters on the brink of adulthood, the point where youth meets responsibilities. Five Years later, this award-winning, defiant collection is being adapted for the stage in Welsh and English. Julie Barclay Photograph: Claire Cousin It's a labour of love for Cardiff-based actress Julie Barclay  who loved the book so much she decided to adapt it for theatre, writing and direct...

Feb 15 So Long, Farewell 0 Comments Posted by  Susie Wild  in  Mslexia office Dear readers, the time has come for me to take off  my  Mslexia  blogging hat. The year of blogging as self-appointed literary it-girl for Wales has flown by and now it is time for some other voices to be heard. See Sophie’s  exciting news entry  below for details on how you could be writing rather than reading this here blog. Please don’t cry. I am not going to disappear. You can follow me on twitter (@soozerama) and also read my soon to be much more regular blogs about both sexes of writer over on ace literary mag  The Raconteur . I am pitching for one of those three month stints on the  Mslexia  blog too, so you may see me here again too, you just never know your luck. Wishing you happiness, inspiration and good literati parties. Take care all, Susie x About Susie: Susie Wild is a freelance journalist based in South Wales. She is one of Parthian's...

BY  SUSIE WILD   ⋅  FEBRUARY 14, 2011  ⋅   POST A COMMENT FILED UNDER    CARDIFF ,  JOHN COOPER CLARKE ,  LEGEND ,  POETRY ,  PUNK POETRY ,  THE GLOBE The Globe, 125 Albany Road, Cardiff Sat 12 Feb 2011 words: SUSIE WILD ★★★★ Punk poet dandy  John Cooper Clarke  rocks onto the Globe stage in his trademark big hair and skinny drainpipes combo, dark shades obscuring half of his face. The room is packed. The crowd braying for the expected long set of laughs, biting wit, shambolic tales and ales. JCC certainly does not disappoint his rescheduled show audience, nor avid fan, me. The legend that is JCC made his name as the support act for many seminal punk bands such as the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, The Fall, Joy Division, Elvis Costello and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Today three of his poems are even in the GCSE syllabus. Now in his sixties, the Lowry-meets-Burton performer is showing no signs of flagging. A month ahe...

Susie Wild Live Reviews: British Sea Power @ Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff  (21 February 11) Live Reviews: Swn Festival @ Various Venues, Cardiff  (26 October 10) Live Reviews: Madness / Chas / Hurts @ Camp Bestival  (04 August 10) Live Reviews: Slow Club @ Diva’s, Swansea  (08 June 10) Live Reviews: La Roux & I Blame Coco @ Cardiff University, Cardiff  (11 May 10) WILDLIFE | ARTROCKER BLOG:  http://www.artrocker.com/blog/13453