Flaming Nora: Northern Life, Wrexham and the WI

Friday, April 28, 2023

Northern Life, Wrexham and the WI - my writing week

It's been an exciting week. Here are some pictures from my talk as a guest speaker at the Tyne and Wear South Women's Institute Spring Meeting. An incredible, friendly event. It was an honour to be invited.

The lady in red, below is Kim McGuinness, Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, who was the morning's guest speaker.

I spent some of this week in Wrexham where I'd been invited to speak at Wrexham Carnival of Words. What an honour! Thank you everyone who came to my talk and special thanks to Clare Ann for interviewing me.

My novel The Sixpenny Orphan was featured in Northern Life magazine as one of the "Best in Northern Writing" books coming out in May. What a treat. You can see the other books here.

And it's the last week when you can treat yourself to The Miner's Lass. A gritty, dramatic saga that was inspired by three words on a 1919 map of old Ryhope... "The Blood Pit" where bare knuckle fighting took place. Just 99p during April at http://bit.ly/TheMinersLass

I crafted another episode of my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine. I've been writing Riverside weekly since 2016 and you can find out all about it here.