When work isn't writing...
I had the pleasure of two speaking engagements in April. The first was at Sunbury Book Club where I gave a talk titled - From Juliet Bravo to Cagney and Lacey to Happy Valley: Why I write female detectives. I gave an overview of how women were allowed to join the police force in the UK before exploring fictional female detectives on the page and the screen. I then had the chance to talk about my own female detective - DI Bernadette 'Bernie' Noel, before finishing with a little quiz. Then, at Books in the Park Festival in Beckenham, I had the fabulous opportunity to interview Janice Hallett. We talked a lot about her different experiences of writing (journalist, government speech writer, screenwriter and author), as well as look at her latest novel - The Examiner . It was such a lovely festival in a beautiful setting and well worth my while sitting on a tram for 55 minutes to get there! Unfortunately, none of my family could come with me so no photos of the actual event for me....