Radio, Secrets and pressing SEND - my writing week

This was a big week as I pressed SEND on cosy crime number four, Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel set in Scarborough. It's gone to my publisher, Headline, but it'll be back later this year with structural edits and changes.  For now, however, I'm going to take a well-earned rest for a few months.

This week I attended Saint Paul's church summer fayre in Ryhope, where my novels are set. It was a wonderful day where I talked to lots of fantastic people.

My new book The Toffee Factory Girls was given a fantastic review and great coverage in Living North magazine, the north's glossy mag!

The second in my trilogy about the toffee factory girls is now available to pre-order!  It's called Secrets of The Toffee Factory Girls and is available here.

I was interviewed twice on radio - on Durham On Air - about my new book The Toffee Factory Girls

And I was interviewed live on Radio South Shields about the book too.

Thanks go this week to my local CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) Branch for including my novels in their article on Ryhope's Guide Post Inn, fictional home of Ruth Hardy and her family in The Paper Mill Girl. Thanks to Keith and Julie who run the place too, for their help with research! 

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.

I also kept the Coronation Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers. 

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Festivals & Funiculars - my writing week

It's been a very busy week and wonderful too!  I was interviewed by Gilly Hope on BBC Radio Newcastle. You can listen to my interview here and I start talking at 1:42:33You can listen to my interview here and I start talking at 1:42:33.

I was invited to speak at Books by the Beach festival in Scarborough, which was a fantastic event!

Here I am with festival organiser Helen French.

And here I am on the Central Tramway in Scarborough where my cosy crime novels are for sale in the top station.

I stayed in Scarborough at the Headlands Hotel where my books are for sale in the lounge!

And I received this wonderful review about my novel The Toffee Factory Girls, which just about made me cry!

Also, I had a short story inside The Sunday People's Love Sunday magazine, and a promo for my novel The Toffee Factory Girls.

I also gave a library talk at South Bank library in Middlesbrough where my talk was part of the Crossing the Tees festival.

I was also interviewed on local radio station Durham OnAir

And I gave a talk to Sunderland Soroptomists, an inspiring group of ladies.

I received the hardback copies of the Spanish version of my Scarborough murder mysteries, Murder at the Seaview Hotel. How wonderful! Ole!

I popped into Sunderland Waterstones to sign stock copies of my new book The Toffee Factory Girls.

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.

I also kept the Coronation Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers. 

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WIN signed copy of The Toffee Factory Girls & Box of Toffee

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Talks, Toffee, 'Perfect Saga' and Scarborough - my writing week

My author newsletter for June went out and includes a competition to win a luxury Harrods Hamper and a copy of The Toffee Factory Girls. Read it all online here.Read it all online here.

This week I did a book signing at Waterstones Sunderland for my new novel The Toffee Factory Girls. Thank you to everyone who came and bought a book!

The Toffee Factory Girls was given the BEST review in The People's Friend magazine this week where the reviewer called it 'saga writing at its most perfect'.  Can't say better than that!

I also did a book signing at Boyes Store in Chester-le-Street, the town where The Toffee Factory Girls is set. This was such a friendly, fun event and I loved every minute.

I also gave two library talks about my new novel The Toffee Factory Girls. These talks were at Chester-le-Street library and Birtley library - two towns where the book is set. 

I also did a book signing at the Crafty Gift Shop in Chester-le-Street, which was great, they are very supportive in there, especially as the town doesn't have a bookshop of its own. 

Today you'll find me in Scarborough where I'm speaking at Books by the Beach festival at 3pm today (Friday 7 June).  I've been invited to talk all about my Scarborough cosy crimes and I'm very excited. If you're there I hope you'll come and say hello!

I was interviewed by The Yorkshire Times who have a competition to win a set of my Scarborough cosy crimes. Read the interview here.

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.

I also kept the Coronation Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers. 

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