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Katina Jones

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Born

Swansea south Wales, The United Kingdom

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Chick Lit

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July 2013

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Katina has got something in common with Wales' famous poet,Dylan Thomas, in that they're both descendents of Swansea, which he famously referred to as his "ugly, lovely town".

During the Industrial Revolution, Swansea became the copper-smelting capital of the world. Known as Copperopolis, the city was a hive of activity, bringing incredible wealth to the few and back-breaking toil and ill-health to many.
A contemporary report written by a doctor describing the Swansea Valley speaks of a nightmare landscape, "literally burnt" where few plants would grow, dotted with lifeless pools, slag heaps, ... and smoke from the works everywhere. Even when Thomas was born Swansea was still an industrial centre of busy docks and coal trains.

These days, th Katina has got something in common with Wales' famous poet,Dylan Thomas, in that they're both descendents of Swansea, which he famously referred to as his "ugly, lovely town".

During the Industrial Revolution, Swansea became the copper-smelting capital of the world. Known as Copperopolis, the city was a hive of activity, bringing incredible wealth to the few and back-breaking toil and ill-health to many.
A contemporary report written by a doctor describing the Swansea Valley speaks of a nightmare landscape, "literally burnt" where few plants would grow, dotted with lifeless pools, slag heaps, ... and smoke from the works everywhere. Even when Thomas was born Swansea was still an industrial centre of busy docks and coal trains.

These days, the city is far removed from its grimy past.Located by the sweeping golden-sands of Swansea Bay it is now a popular base for visitors to the nearby Gower peninsula, which in 1956 became the first area in Britain to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. North of the city lie the grassy, heather-clad mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Katina believes that you pass through this world quickly so wants to live life to its fullest.

What spurred her on to write - and succeed in getting published - was a cruel remark by a school teacher when she was nine years old. The teacher humiliated her in front of classmates, unfavourably comparing her academic qualties with those of an older sibling.She was made to feel a failure - that she would never achieve anything worthwhile. That so demoralised the young girl that she gave up on her studies and left school with hardly any qualifications.

After raising a family, Katina decided to prove that the voice from the past was wrong - that she did possess some talent. If nothing else she knew she possessed a fertile imagination and a retentive memory and that helped propel her into her writing career.

Katina strongly believes that everyone has the power within themselves to achieve their dreams. It's all down to self-belief - don't ever think you're not good enough. If you truly want to do well you'll find your own path to success.Stay true to yourself, be yourself and always remember those who stood by you, through both good and bad times.

After losing both parents and a very dear friend Katina threw herself into her writing. SOS!I Love You - with its sunny setting and breezy cast of characters - completely blew away the melancholy mood she'd been in. The book became her therapy - it turned her life around, made her believe in herself again and dispelled the cobweb of negative thoughts which had been clouding her mind for too many years.

These days she laughs a lot more than she cries! ...more

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A Call from Abroad

I received an SOS today – not an SOS! I Love You but a real-life call for help. Or at least that was what I thought when I opened an email that came this morning. It was from my bestie mate ( bruv ) and he’d been stranded out in Limassol in Cyprus after losing […]

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Katina’s Quotes

“Experience: Mistakes you have survived.”
― Russell Blake, Night of the Assassin

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“The problem with getting older is you meant to bring sexy back, but then you got sidetracked, and wound up napping instead.”
― Russell Blake

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“To arrive at a happy tomorrow, you'll need to begin the journey today.”
― J.R. Wright

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“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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