Murder on Tyneside

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Sunday 21 July 2019

Hectic Week!!!

What started out to be a normal week, turned into quite the opposite.

My husband was diagnosed with an eye infection and needed to go into hospital for intravenous antibiotics. As you will have guessed, he was not best pleased, but it needed to happen. Oral antibiotics just weren't strong enough to clear the infection. He is home again now, but the eye is still giving him some trouble. However, the doctor did say that it would take some time to heal properly. Meanwhile we are keeping a careful eye on it and I bathe it for him every morning. Fingers crossed that it continues to heal. I must say the redness surrounding the whole area around the eye, has gone.

Shortly before that happened, I heard that my novel, Death on Tyneside had been nominated for the Author Academy Awards competition. But I haven't been able to push very hard for votes. Therefore if anyone reading this would like to add their vote, I would be grateful. The voting ends in about ten days time, then I understand that the judges will step in to make the final decision.

If you can spare a minute to add your vote, simply follow the link Author Academy Awards  and go to the Mystery Section on page 10. Thank you in advance for your support.


At the moment I am listening to Queen's Greatest Hits while I am typing this. I have see the film Bohemian Rhapsody twice and will be watching it again very shortly. Great Film and Great Music.

Well that is all for the moment - must go and get the washing off the line before the rain starts splashing down.

Wishing you all a wonderful day wherever you are.

Cheers !!

Chink! Chink!

Tuesday 2 July 2019

Exciting News!

I have some rather exciting news today!


Well, it's exciting for me anyway 😂

Death on Tyneside has been nominated for the Author Academy Awards Competition. Can you even begin to imagine how excited I am!

I am a latecomer to the event; I was nominated only hours before the submission deadline was reached. Therefore, I am going to have to work hard to acquire enough votes to take me through to the last 20 or so, before the judges take over and make the final choice.

That's where you come in.

I need your votes to help me get at least that far.. So I would be grateful if you would spare a few minutes following the link - Author Academy Awards and go to the mystery section on Page 10. Death on Tyneside is somewhere near the bottom of the page.

One thing - you will need to be very careful while scrolling down the list of books, especially if you are using a Kindle or iPad as the page is very sensitive. Press too hard and your vote could go elsewhere. Once you have voted, it cannot be undone. The voting ends 1st August 2019


Thank you very much for taking the time to add your vote. I really do appreciate it.


Cheers everyone!!