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Byron Kalies

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Born

tredegar, wales, The United Kingdom

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http://www.byronkalies.com

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Crime, Sports

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April 2014

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Golf writer, photographer, poker player, golfer and now novelist. I have written, developed, bluffed, suffered and suffered, I have moved on from the relatively straightforward world of management and leadership writing with inferences of motivation, leadership skills, change matrices, decision making, communication, customer care, bottom lines, double-loop learning, stress, attribution theory, behavioural interviewing, project management, group think and Johnson and Scholes’ Cultural Web, to the complex and unfathomable world of describing grass and hitting a ball into a hole and now to the bizarre world of making things up and writing them down.

Golf / writing is frustrating, annoying, fun and, to be fair, of limited value in the important Golf writer, photographer, poker player, golfer and now novelist. I have written, developed, bluffed, suffered and suffered, I have moved on from the relatively straightforward world of management and leadership writing with inferences of motivation, leadership skills, change matrices, decision making, communication, customer care, bottom lines, double-loop learning, stress, attribution theory, behavioural interviewing, project management, group think and Johnson and Scholes’ Cultural Web, to the complex and unfathomable world of describing grass and hitting a ball into a hole and now to the bizarre world of making things up and writing them down.

Golf / writing is frustrating, annoying, fun and, to be fair, of limited value in the important areas of our life; global warming, birth, world peace, relationships or helping people get along better – quite the opposite actually.

I have written for a number of golf publications including Golf International and am golf writer for Cambria Magazine. My book ‘Tenby to Celtic Manor: A History of Welsh Golf’ (2010) was an underground success in select parts of Cefn Fforest, but has not sold out totally and some copies can still be found on the back shelves of selected bookshops, newsagents, charity shops, alongside original copies of ‘Fly Fishing’ by J.R. Hartley.

Recent developments have seen me delve into the murky indoor world of poker. I have written a number of articles for magazines and am developing a deep interest in linking golf, Wales and poker.

My latest venture involves writing the great Welsh novel; The ‘Don Quixote’ for Dowlais; Notre Dame de Pentre; Crime and Punishment for Criccieth…. you get the idea.

My first stab at this is a crime / Golff Noir / Taff Noir novel set in the mythical Welsh village of Mynydd Eimon in a undefined date in the 1930s – 40s ish, Not a million degrees of separation from Mountain Ash at any time in the past 100 years. ( Link to opening chapter – http://byronkalies.wordpress.com/2014... )

Prior to attempting to write the great Welsh novel …………

I was a columnist and feature writer specialising in business and management, training and consultancy, psychology, tourism, sport, music, humour … and the 220 possible combinations of the above.

I was the author of Tales From the Front (HRD Press, U.S.A - and 25 Management Techniques in 90 minutes (MB2000), a contributing editor for C.I.O. (IDG Communications) and had written for a number of publications worldwide including:

Across The Board (U.S.A.), Business Day (South Africa), Career Times (Hong Kong), C.F.O. (Australia), Golf Today (U.S.A.), Management First (U.K.), Management Today (Australia), Marketing Magazine (N.Z.), Public Servant (U.K.), The Age (Australia), The Guardian (U.K.).

I am listed on the Writers of Wales database – http://www.literaturewales.org/writer... ...more

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Tenby Golf Club – The Railway, James Braid and Dai Rees

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Tenby is a town with a lot of history. Originally a Norse settlement, the town has developed fairly peacefully for the greater part of its life. The architecture reflects the steady progress of history with some of the finest buildings remaining intact. For example the largest parish church in Wales, St. Mary’s. It is thought that this has been the site of a church since Norman t

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	Mynydd Eimon - Private Hell it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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