I’m afraid I’m not very interesting when I’m not writing anything! So here’s a quick update on what I’ve been doing over the last year or so, since I’ve had anything to write about on here.
Firstly, I had a disaster last Christmas. I was all set up to publish ‘Winter Snowfall at Elder Fell Farm’ last autumn – but then my lovely editor pointed out a few issues that needed some remedial work which I didn’t have time to do before publication day because I was gearing up for an intensive month of work as Mother Ginger (my alter ego who makes all the gingerbread for Father Christmas) in late November and December. So I had two choices – do it in a hurry, or do it properly and publish it in 2024 instead. I chose the latter. And then I couldn’t face touching the manuscript again until well after Christmas when all the fun at the festive farm was over and I’d caught up on some sleep!
I’ve also been working on two other projects.
Firstly, I’ve been writing a play with my best friend, Cath Turnbull. It’s all about the workers at a local munitions factory, the ‘Aycliffe Angels’ and now we’re editing it and trying to find people to read it and give us some suggestions for what to do with it next. It’s called ‘Where Angels Sing’ and features three wartime munitions girls from very different backgrounds. We follow the lives and loves of Mabel, Grace and Kitty who have all been called up to work in the factory, and it’s packed with songs and stories from the real Royal Ordnance Factory at Aycliffe. It has LOTS of parts for women, and very few for men, so it’s a great choice for most amateur drama societies.
I’ve also been co-writing a football blog with my husband, Ben Taylorson, who is currently trying to visit all of the 92 football league grounds in the country. It’s been great fun visiting some places that aren’t usually tourist destinations, and some of our favourite places have been towns that we probably wouldn’t have even considered visiting if it hadn’t been for football – Stockport, Morecambe and Barrow in Furness have been some of our favourites so far. To find out more, please visit our blog, 376 miles. (which coincidentally is the distance from Middlesbrough to Plymouth, the most distant of the league grounds we currently have to visit – as long as Yeovil don’t get promoted any time soon!)
As soon as ‘Winter Snowfall at Elder Fell Farm’ is published I’ll be getting back to the hard work of writing book three (working title ‘Wild Flowers at Elder Fell Farm’) which might involve a wedding!
Liz Taylorson 
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