Come see me Sunderland Libraries Literature Festival
I've been asked to do a couple of talks as part of Sunderland Libraries Literature Festival 2017. And while I've always shied away from talking in public in the past, and I'm nervous about doing these talks, I'm also excited about it. And if anything I have to say can help any other writers or bloggers out there, then it'll all be worth while. I'm going to be talking about how and why I started up the Coronation Street Blog in 2007 (10 years ago!) and how it all works, what our team does and how to run a successful blog. I'll also go on to talk about the seven TV Tie-In Coronation Street books I've written. In addition, I'll speak about the fiction-writing side of my life as I write short stories for women's magazines ( Take a Break, My Weekly, The People's Friend ) and I was commissioned to write the first ever weekly soap opera for The People's Friend magazine (the UK's oldest story magazine). I have also had the follow...