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Back in Tallinn (Apologies for punctuation – an Estonian keyboard that I am not used to!)

I am over in Estonia on a short visit. It is nice to see the old wooden buildings as we drive past. It is a shame some never seem to get restored, it is structures like that and the really beautiful medieval centre that makes Tallinn. Dodging trams and trolleybuses and generally german made cars, […]

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I now appear on the Writers of Wales website!

http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/143354/desc/roberts-geraint/ Available for weddings, bar-mitzvahs, cabaret…

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You want to go where?

‘It’s a swamp, why do you want to go there?’ ‘There’s a memorial, to a battle. A pretty famous one, can you tell me where it is?’ And so I end up searching the google map for a village called Ardu, a name that deserves to have a whisky christened after it, and down some […]

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What next after ‘Forest Brothers’?

There are ideas running around in my mind for the next project. I have a few Welsh based novels either ready or at some level of completion. However, the story around Forest Brothers and the interest in Estonia has been such, it would be a shame not to keep the momentum going. I’ve therefore embarked […]

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Why did I choose Estonia for a novel setting?

I have recently released a novel called ‘Forest Brothers’, based in Estonia and I am asked a lot these days why I chose this setting. Certainly, I have no connection by birth or ancestry to the country. I am from Wales, hardly a neighbouring land. However, I have been married to an Estonian girl for […]

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Forest Brothers gets spammed!

And don’t worry, I didn’t click on any of the links. You are not at risk! Tell me, does this mean I am doing well, that I get this kind of attention?  🙂 This month has seen a sudden rise of spam coming through to both this website and the facebook page. Seriously, why bother? […]

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Why I write, by a British Rambler aka Geraint Roberts

http://s104.photobucket.com/user/kaygreen/media/MVI_6560_zpsa75a9f21.mp4.html A short interview where I am asked how I prepare a novel  

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New feature on my novel Forest Brothers in the Cambrian News

http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/lifestyle/i/31136/ The CN covers Cardigan Bay and Mid Wales and has been my regional newspaper since I was a teenager. Chuffed!  

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Where is Estonia, again?

I have come across this thought pattern on many occasions since I married an Estonian. Quite a lot more recently, as Forest Brothers was published. In short, there is a lot of ignorance in my country about the Baltic States. Even after 22 years of independence, EU and NATO membership, cheap flights for stag and […]

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Forest Brothers is on sale at all bookshops!!!

It’s been a busy week or so, promoting the novel ‘Forest Brothers’. I have needed to think hard about how to market. I have a minor experience from the traumatic time I spent as a Bank manager (!), but it is an interesting eye-opener to the publishing world how you have to at least help […]