Almost at the end of March. Where has the month gone? Last Monday the 21st, I spoke at the wonderful Hull History Centre. A most incredible building packed with so much information and collections of local, regional and national importance relating to the city and surrounding area. My role on that day was to speak of my current novel THE HOMECOMING GIRLS and of its significance to the Hull area. To this end a slide show was shown of photographs of old Hull in the late 19th and early 20th century, which surprisingly, many were exactly as I had imagined the courts and alleys to be. There were several of my regular readers there and amazingly they seem to know my books and characters better than I do!
On Wednesday I attended the Hull Literary Luncheon where as usual we were entertained by excellent guest speakers; actor Larry Lamb, author Simon Scarrow, and maritime historian Dr Robb Robinson.
Dr Robinson, Robb to all who know him, is a Hull based author historian whose new book FAR HORIZONS is just out and I can say with authority is a crackingly good read. Not only as a member of an old fishing family does he know what he is talking about, I can affirm he is also more than willing to share his information and expertise.
Saturday the 26th. Back to the Hull History Centre for a meeting with the Society of Authors North. The society is open to published authors and gives advice on all matters relating to writing, authorship and publication. We covered many topics including e books and enjoyed an excellent lecture given by archivist Judy Burg who spoke of some of the archived material held at the centre and then gave us a tour of the building.
Monday I went to the market town of Hedon, close to where I lived for almost forty years until three years ago. The reason for my visit was to sign books at Beckett's newsagents who always stock my books. I found a complete restoration of the shop -- a face lift/makeover and it was lovely to go back and catch up the news with so many people.
Today I managed to work on another chapter of the first draft of the new book and as usual start to think I shall never finish it in time! But of course I will.
Saturday the 2nd April I shall be signing at Hull Waterstone's, the day before Mother's Day. 2pm if you can make it to come and say hello!
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