Later Day 15

The first event in Swansea was an author questions and answers session at The Kingsway Centre, right in the middle of the city.

The Learning Resource Centre aims to provide a welcoming, supportive environment in which all students have access to learning and IT support. There are 17 computers with a good range of up to date software, online support materials, access to the Internet, books to borrow, newspapers to read.

Lindsay's session formed part of a day's activities to open the new learning resource centre.

Lindsay read a chapter of her book to a group of students who are currently studying basic skills literacy at the Kingsway Centre. After the reading, the group had the opportunity to ask Lindsay any questions about her work.

The session went really well, with the students needing no prompting from the tutors in asking questions. I think a lot of people find the crime genre very interesting, and particularly how a mother of four living in Borth delves into her imagination to create the scenarios in books such as The Rubber Woman. Lindsay answered a lot of questions about how she goes about writing, how she comes up with ideas and her life as an author. The response was so good that in the end, we had to bring the session to a close for lunch - I'm sure the questions could have kept coming all day.

The tutors at the Kingsway Centre will be conducting a digital photo story session with the students later today, emphasising that we all have stories to tell, so hopefully Lindsay will have provided them with some inspiration for that.

Thanks to Sarah Hall for organising everything.