Toffee, Cream Tea and Heritage Talks - My Writing Week


This week has been another wonderful one. 

I'm taking a break from writing novels for the rest of this year, although I am still writing my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine as well as short stories for myself.  I'm also involved as a judge in a prestigious short story competition, more details later if I can reveal them.

This week I gave a short talk at Ryhope Heritage Group on how the real life toffee factory inspired my novels.  My talk came after the main talk by Dorothy Hall, Chair of Chester-le-Street heritage group who spoke about Horner's toffee factory and Dainty Dinah toffee.


Working with Chester-le-Street heritage group, I attended the exhibition of Horner's toffee factory and Dainty Dinah toffee. The exhibition ran over three days at The Lambton Hotel in the town, and I attended on the final day with my books for sale. It was a fantastic event and there are pictures below of an original overall and hat from the toffee factory, tins, photos and a Dainty Dinah model too!






And I'm very proud to say that all of the tickets for my talk with a cream tea at Lumley Castle are now sold out! This is the second time I've spoken at Lumley Castle about the toffee factory girls books and it's a joy that I'm looking forward to again.


I crafted another episode of my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine. I've been writing Riverside weekly since 2016.

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