REPRISE TIME: MY FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK 2001. MY LATEST & 12TH BOOK BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS CIRCA 2021

Time flies when you're having fun, so the old saying goes, but when you have never dipped a toe into the publishing world, life can become a little confusing, as well as being exciting (and fun) when you are offered a two-book offer for publication. That date twenty years ago in January 2001 was exciting and the beginning of my book research and friendship with more than one hundred local resident interviewees in the Borough of Brentwood. Since then, eleven more books featuring various themes and topics have followed. 

Although I had been a local history columnist working freelance for Essex press for ten years prior to my first traditional publications and a member of the Society of Women Writers & Journalists, plus chairman of Brentwood Writers' Circle at the time, it was still a thrill to see my first historical book on sale in the best bookshops in the county. Check out our SWWJ website and discover their eclectic appeal and broad membership across the world. www.swwj.co.uk

1948 Line-up  of pupils at Junction Road School, Brentwood