Flaming Nora: Loving Libraries, Deadly Dancing, Newcastle Noir

Friday, November 15, 2024

Loving Libraries, Deadly Dancing, Newcastle Noir - My Writing Week

This week I've been enjoying watching Strictly Come Dancing, as I always do. It's my favourite TV show. The episode coming up tomorrow night is in Blackpool Tower Ballroom where I researched for two days this year for my next cosy crime - Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel. You can pre-order it now here.

Also this week I was invited to attend the Saint Benedict's Hospice Christmas Fayre. It was a wonderful day where I signed and sold my books and chatted to readers. It's days like these that make all the weeks and months sitting at home, alone, writing, make sense!

My local author event at Newcastle Noir is free to attend on Weds 4 December at Newcastle central library. See https://newcastlenoir.co.uk/ for full details.

I called into Sunderland Waterstones (my favourite shop!) this week and was delighted they'd called me "beloved local author". Next time I'd popped in they'd updated my book signing on November 21 with author Terry Deary. Should be a great night, come if you're free.

However, unlike Terry Deary, I love libraries.

I wouldn't be a writer without them.

And don't forget that my saga A Mother's Christmas Wish is just 99p this month. Download it here.

It's getting close! Book 2 in the trilogy, Secrets of The Toffee Factory Girls, is coming in February 2025. You can pre-order your copy now at bit.ly/SecretsToffeeGirls and if you haven't yet read the first book in the series, you can order it here at bit.ly/ToffeeFactoryGirls

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.