Flaming Nora: Coffee, The Crack, Competitions and Elvis

Friday, August 11, 2023

Coffee, The Crack, Competitions and Elvis - my writing week

This week I'm preparing to begin research on book 2 in The Toffee Factory Girls trilogy during WW1. Have re-read book 1, now beefing up character profiles before plotting and planning.

My week began, as always, with a Monday morning coffee stop at Waterstones Sunderland. If you go to their cafe, upstairs in the shop, you can pick up free bookmarks. My books are all signed on their own table downstairs.

There's a competition on the Trip Fiction website to win one of three copies of my Scarborough cosy crime Murder at the Seaview Hotel. Enter here.

Two of my recent book signing / author events were listed in the August edition of The Crack magazine. Those events were a talk at Seaham Library and book signing at Weardale WordFest in Stanhope.

A reminder that my Scarborough cosy crime Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel is just 99p during August. Download it here.

However, it's not been all good news this week. I received a review on Amazon for one of my novels which has clearly been written but about a book at all, but about a different product. The reviewer doesn't realise that a low ranking on Amazon brings down my overall author rating. SO frustrating and of course, Amazon won't remove it.

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.