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A review of Jenny Sullivans two novels Silver Fox Part 1 & 2.

Lets first look at the first of these two novels, Silver FoxThe Dragon Wakes which came off the press in 2010, The story is set in Wales during the period of Owain Glyndr and the Welsh War of Independence and although the main historical characters in this war, as we know them, have been placed as secondary to the main fictional characters portrayed in the storyline of the novel, the geographical locations and main historical events of the war, as gradually revealed via the narrative of the three principal characters Elffin, Rhiannon and Llywelyn, are as accurate as they can be from historical records available. This illustrates the outcome of intensive and thorough research into the history concerned prior to venturing on the project.

The descriptions of the battle scenes are very detailed and imaginative - especially in regards to the Bryn Gls Battle; any reader with an ounce of imagination can visualise the frenzied fighting and sprays of blood as a target was hit, and can hear the clashing of weapon upon weapon and the thundering of the horses' hooves as they charged across the battlefield.

Overall, Silver FoxThe Dragon Wakes is a novel that has been constructed and developed skilfully by a very imaginative mind. It has all the elements needed for a good historical story i.e., an unique history and setting, strong characters that have transcended time to guide us through the storyline, love, passion and a sprinkling of subtle sex.

The storyline ends in May 1403 with the burning of both Sycharth and Llys Glyndyfrdwy by the English under the young Prince Hal (Henry V) and with one of the main fictional characters, Llywelyn on his way to join Glyndr's army heading south.

The sequel, Silver FoxThe Paths Diverge follows the story from May 1403 to April 1407 with the principal Characters Elffin, Llew, Rhiannon, Siobhan, Ceridwen, Jack and Siwan finally travelling into exile to France on the ship y Groes Sanctaidd. Siobhan, Siwan and Loc were amongst a number of well constructed and interesting characters that had been introduced to this sequel which, again, has been constructed very skilfully as a continuation of what, undoubtedly, is a very interesting story based on the historical account of the Owain Glyndrs War of Independence.

But, at the end of the day, Silver Fox is a fictional story and the author is quick to admit that she has taken some liberties in the telling of the story. For example, apart from the creating of fictional characters, she has portrayed the Lady Marged (Owain Glyndrs wife) as a ruthless conniving woman who, whilst being totally loyal to Prince Owain Glyndr, would go to any lengths to ensure that her offspring were married off into the right blood lines. Shes also, in passing, portrayed Iolo Goch as a paedophile which probably wont go down well with any descendents he may have still in existence but, on the whole, the storyline is credible and evocative and presents the reader with a realistic insight into how both the peasant and 'Uchelwyr' lived, and what they wore and what they ate on a daily basis in the early 15th century.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed both the prequel and the sequel of Silver Fox and found it extremely difficult to put each book down once I had started reading them. This story is an excellent fictional angle on the Owain Glyndr history and very raunchy in parts especially in the prequel. I have spent more than half of my life studying and promoting the history of the Owain Glyndr War of Independence and am confident in my mind that Silver Fox part 1 and 2 could be adapted into a very interesting television series that would have worldwide appeal. I hasten to stress here that the reason I say series rather than a film (which everyone craves for) is that the storyline is based on characters associated to Prince Owain rather than on Prince Owain himself. Yes, a film on Prince Owain Glyndr and his Great War of Independence is desperately needed but, such a film will need to be a very powerful epic with Glyndr as the central figure. Such a film would be produced on the lines of Braveheart but would be even better as the Glyndr story is a much stronger one than the William Wallace story in my view.

But, whilst were waiting for someone to come up with the perfect script for a great Owain Glyndwr epic film and a major production company or a syndicate of companies that can come up with the finance to produce such a great epic, lets see if there is a production company out there with enough foresight and funding to produce Silver Fox as an interesting and unique Television series.

Sin Ifan

C.E.O. Embassy Glyndr

This novel is the sequel to 'Silver Fox It begins' and continues the story of Owain Glyndr's War of Independence for Cymru. I read the first book and reviewed it for Amazon and although both books are aimed at teenagers in the main, the labours of Jenny's thorough historical research of the period and events that took place as well as on the main characters was evident and I'm confident that such will be the case also with this sequel and I, for one, am looking forward very much to the read and would strongly recommend both books to those whohaven't, as of yet, read the first. A great present to give anybody that's interested in medieval history and especially in the history of the War of Independence of Owain Glyndr - but do remember, that these two books are novels and therefore the author has used her poetic licence to create a number of the characters but has, at the same time, used many of the real historical characters of the period in question.

Diwrnod arall i ddathlu - i chwifio baner Glyndr gyda balchder ac yn uchel! ac i godi gwydriad!...i nod achlysur Buddugoliaeth Brwydr Bryn Gls (22 o Fehefin 1402. Gweler y ddolen gyswllt isod am mwy o wybodaeth parthed y frwydr.

Another Day for Celebration and to fly the Glyndr flag high and proud and to raise a glass...or two! to remember The Cymric victory of the Battle of Bryn Gls. 22 June 1402. See link below for full details of this battle: http://brwydrauglyndwr.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/site-of-battle-of-bryn-glas-22-mehefin.html

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MAE'N MEHEFIN 21 - DYDD DIWRNOD CORONI GLYNDR - DYDD SENEDD Y POBL - DYDD SOFRANIAETH Y CYMRY...AMSER I DDATHLU A CHODI GWYDR...DEU DDAU!

ITS 21 JUNE - GLYNDR'S CORONATION DAY AND PARLIAMENT AND CYMRIC SOVEREIGNTY DAY...TIME TO CELEBRATE AND TO RAISE A GLASS...OR TWO.

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I would like to introduce you to WelshSinger Songwriter Aeram Evans who lives at Garndolbenmaen in Snowdonia, Wales.Aeram has been a musician since the age of 15, has been in a number of bands, and has released a number of CD's in, both, Welsh and English. Aeram's Welsh languagecompositions areregularly played on Radio Cymru, he's a dedicated Pentecostal Christian and as well as his compositions in the Welsh language in this genre, he has released a CD entitled 'Streets of Gold' .

Streets of Gold comprises of 10 powerful Christian songs which can be listened to at: http://www.isound.com/aeram_evans

Aeram's latest compositions howeverare'pop' which can be listened to on SoundCloud at: http://soundcloud.com/aeram-evans/tracks On this introductorypage Aeram explains that he has composed these songsin the hope that he may interest world wideFilmProducers and established artistes inpurchasing them. He also states that he has worked on one of the songs 'Ready to go' -which is a touching song about wife or partner abuse,in collaboration with retired Firechief Ron Oliver of Redmond, Oregon USA. He and Ron are currently working on further compositions andare reaching the completion offour Christian tracks which I'm confident will be well worth listening to when they are released if the current songs on SoundCloud are anything to go by!

Aeram is also currentlycollaborating with American musician John Walch on some pretty powerfulCountry tracks...here's a link to thegems released from this collaboration to date; well worth listening to: http://soundcloud.com/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=JonWinkzilla

I hope you will all enjoy and support this music and if you, like myself, think that Aeram and his collaborators deserve recognition for their creativity, please pass on the links as widely as possible.

CYMRWCH Y TIR YN OL/TAKE BACK THE LAND:

Deiseb newydd pwysig iawn, iawn i Gymru yn y blog yma...Pasiwch ymlaen i Gymry ymhobman! Very, Very Important new petition concerning Cymru in the latest post on this blog. Please pass on to Cymry everywhere! http://cymrwchytirynol.blogspot.co.uk/ CYMRWCH Y TIR YN OL/TAKE BACK THE LAND

http://cymrwchytirynol.blogspot.co.uk/

Campaigning Against an Old Conquest and a New Conquest of Wales by Means of Cheque Book Neo Colonialism in all it's forms inc that of Global Corporate and Green Imperialist Windmill Master Robber Barons, Speculative 'Sustainable' Spivs and Enviromentalist Carpet Baggers Advancing Eco Colonialism. Campaigning Against an Old Conquest and a New Conquest of Wales by Means of Cheque Book Neo Colonialism in all it's forms inc that of Global Corporate and Green Imperialist Windmill Master Robber Barons, Speculative 'Sustainable' Spivs and Enviromentalist Carpet Baggers Advancing Eco Colonialism.

Annwyl Gyfeillion,

Please go to this link and sign the petition set up by Professor Myron Evans of Craig Cefn Parc, which is situated in the Mawr constituency Ward of Abertawe/Swansea.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/against-development-in-mawr-community.html

Mynydd y Gwair, A large and beautiful mountainous Cymric plateau located within this Ward is currently threatened by plans to build a gigantic wind farm on it. See the following link for news and background history on this issue: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-17385189 and Professor Myron Evans, who lives in the Ward is vehemently against this plan as are we.

Whilst the above is going on, there are also proposals before Swansea Council at this very moment in regards to housing developments in Craig Cefn Parc. The MA007 plan aims to develop the Commonland of Gelliwastad. This is illegal! MA008 aims to build houses on the land of Ioan Richards. These plans are very heavily opposed. Ioan Richards is the current County Council candidate, also Independent, and although, the overall majority in the Ward is against these developments, and although he already has two houses in the ward, he obviously intends to go ahead with his private housing development which will make him a multi millionaire.

The petition is open to anyone world wide to sign so, if you agree with Professor Evans and us that these private development plans should be opposed on the ground that they are for profit and not for the local community then PLEASE, PLEASE sign the petition and pass the link on for others to sign. Diolch yn fawr.

Professor Myron is standing against Ioan Richards in the coming County Councils elections in May and I and Embassy Glyndr will support and campaign on his behalf. So, if you have family or have friends in this Mawr Ward, please advise them to vote for Professor Evans as an intelligent sound Cymric patriot with good sound Cymric principles.

Following is a bio pic of Professor Myron Evans in which there is a link to his website where you will also find his Election Manifesto.

Myron Evans, Independent, Mawr

Myron Evans was born in Craig Cefn Parc in the same house where he lives now, a house built by his great grandfather William Newlands, and also the house of Thomas Elim Jones, head Deacon of Elim Baptist Chapel. he went to Craig Cefn Parc school, Pontardawe Grammar School and University College of Wales Aberystwyth. He earned a B. Sc. (First Class) in 1971, a Ph. D. in 1974 and higher doctorate, D. Sc. (Scientiae Doctor) in 1977. He went to Oxford in 1974 and returned to Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea, then to IBM as a full professor and to Cornell in New York State. He became a full professor in North Carolina, and now is a scientist of the Civil List, a high honour similar to Order of Merit for his work in science. He was raised to Armiger in 2008 with his own coat of arms. He is strongly against the wind turbines that threaten to destroy Mynydd y Gwair and Mynydd y Betws. His website is www.aias.us and he is also a bard, poet and author. His complete manifesto is on the blog of this website, together with many campaign messages and hundreds of messages against wind turbines. He descends on his father's side from Prince Bleddyn ap Maenarch Brycheiniog and on his mother's side from the Tudor era Hopkin and from the Havard Families of RhyndwyClydach and Cwm Cerdinen.

Further Info:

This daily report illustrates some of the work done as AIAS Director by the Independent Candidate for Mawr, Myron Evans. This is a report of the number of leading universities worldwide and similar that visit www.aias.us every day. The Alpha Institute for Advanced Studies (AIAS) was founded by Myron Evans in 1998 and is run from Mawr, being fully international, and judging by the tremendous international interest in its work (feedback software), is one of the world's leading institutes of theoretical physics, established under the Newlands Family Trust (Est. 2012). Yesterday there were 3,024 hits from 610 distinct visits, 15% spiders. Scence and Technology Research Institute Ministry of Defence Government of Argentina UFT166 (Spanish); Austrian Institute of Technology general; University of Linz Austria UFT177; Bulgarian University of Agriculture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy LCR resonant; Physics University of British Columbia Canada UFT18; University of Muenster UFT140; Arizona State University UFT178; Faculty of Arts and Science Harvard University UFT157; Simons Center for geometry and Physics State University of New York Stonybrook UFT41; University of Illinois at Chicago UFT75; School of Public Administration University of New Mexico UFT38; Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington general; Wheaton College Essay 26; Engineering University of Wisconsin UFT38, essay24, UFT174; University of Caen Normandy photon B3; University of Poitiers general; US Government National Institutes of Health Educational notes 1 and 2, O level section; Indian Institute of Technology Madras infinite solenoid; Indian Institute of Astrophysics UFT208; Milan Polytechnic University UFT29; Physics University of Utrecht Netherlands UFT109; University of Vest din Timisoara Romania UFT175; Lulea Technical University Sweden UFT175 (Spanish); National Tsing Hua Univeristy Taiwan UFT99; Brunel University UFT99. Intense study all sectors internationally of all material on www.aias.us . This occurs every day continuously around the world.

Here are three links to short films that we at Embassy Glyndr have produced so far as part of our contribution to the campaign against the Windmilling of Cymru. These films were taken on Mynydd y Betws. Another on Mynydd y Gwair will be ready to release around Easter.

Diolch.

Sin