Flaming Nora

This competition has now closed, thank you.   __ Glenda Young X: @Flaming_Nora BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Headline has acquired three new sagas by Glenda Young, each featuring factory girls from Sunderland in the early 1900s. Clare Foss acquired world English language rights from Caroline Sheldon and Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. The first book in the deal, The Bakery Girls, tells the tale of how the famous Sunderland pink slice was first created, and will be published in 2027. Foss said: "We’re thrilled to be publishing Glenda’s mesmerising sagas, which have captured the hearts of over half a million readers. Glenda’s talent for storytelling is matched by her ability to create strong and engaging characters and gripping plots that are rich in historical detail. "The Toffee Factory Girls trilogy has been such a huge success, and we’re delighted that Glenda will now be taking us into the world of cake-baking and the creation of Sunderland’s famous pink slice!" Young said: "I’m over the moon! The Bakery Girls will be my 12th saga and my 17th novel published by Headline, and I’...

Congratulations go to Sharon Smallwood has been drawn at random to win a signed copy of Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel in my latest competition. Thank you to everyone who entered. If you'd like to read the book, download it here. __ Glenda Young X:  @Flaming_Nora BlueSky:  @Glenda Young Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week has been wonderful. Tiring, but wonderful. I've made a strong start on researching my next historical novel. This one will be set in a bakery. Title and details to be announced soon. I've been to archives, libraries and museums so far this week and am well and truly back in my happy place. Elsewhere this week, I did a book signing at new indie bookshop Electric Beacon Books at South Shields. I also did a book signing at the wonderfully named Fru Fru and Friends in Grangetown, Sunderland. This was great, met loads of the best kind of people. I was proud to see RCW - the literary agency I'm represented by, voted number one amongst literary agents, in The Bookseller magazine this week. And the Creative Writing Course at Sunderland Womens' Centre is now open for bookings. Very proud and honoured to be sponsoring this course.  Finally, my ballroom dancing cosy crime Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel was highly praised by The People's Friend magazine as "...

This week I began tentatively researching for my next historical saga set in Sunderland. I can't reveal what it's about but the research has begun! As part of the research, my first visit was to Sunderland Antiquarian Society, who were very helpful, as always. Also this week I'm happy to say that my Scarborough cosy crime Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel is now available at Waterstones, Scarborough. And speaking of Scarborough, the Seaside Hideaway hotel offered all four of my cosy crimes in a competition in conjunction with All Things Scarborough! Whilst in The National Glass Centre in Sunderland this week I spotted my books for sale in the gorgeous shop. And three of my four book signings this week were included in The Crack magazine, the north-east's premier listing and events magazine. One of those book signings was at Waterstones Sunderland. I crafted another episode of my weekly soap opera  Riverside  for The People's Friend magazine. I've been writing...

These are words I've wanted to write for some time as I struggle between being Glenda Young the Autho r and being Glenda, just me.  There's something called imposter syndrome where successful, creative people doubt their skills and accomplishments. They feel like frauds, fearing they'll be exposed as incompetent. However, that's not what I'm going through.  I don't doubt my skills as I know I can write very well. I don't doubt my accomplishments as I work bloody hard for all I achieve. Neither do I feel like a fraud, because I've earned everything through determination and grit. And I never feel I'll be exposed as incompetent, because that's something I'm not.  So if it's not imposter syndrome I'm suffering, then what could it be? It's the chasm of difference between putting myself out there as an author/performer - at events, book signings, book launches - and the me that is quiet and shy. I've always suffered from cripplin...

This week I've been in my happy place of Scarborough for the launch of my new cosy crime Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel.   With thanks to Heather French from Books by the Beach Festival in Scarborough, the launch was held at Oscar's Bar (the old CIU club opposite the railway station).  It was a fantastic event with over 80 people attending. We had cakes, cocktails and glitter ball key rings plus a goody bag for everyone who turned up. But first, before going to Scarborough I spent a day in Durham city, where I spotted my novels on the shelves at Waterstones. The books are now signed. The Scarborough News included my book launch event as one of the 6 best things to take place in the week, what an honour. The book's been spotted out in the wild and in libraries this week too! And here's the gorgeous picture for my launch. And even more gorgeous flowers from a friend at the launch. After the book launch I did a book signing at Mrs Lofthouse's Book Emporium in Sca...

My new cosy crime is out today in paperback! 'I loved Glenda's book and her characters - perfect for all fans of dance, mystery and cosy escapism. Absolutely smashing!' ANTON DU BEKE The fourth in the page-turning cosy crime series from Glenda Young, this unputdownable whodunnit is perfect for fans of Julia Chapman's Dales Detective Agency and Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club. Meet Tommy Two Shoes, Ballroom Bev and their quirky troupe of dancers when the glamorous world of ballroom dancing comes to the seaside town of Scarborough. However, beneath the glitter balls and sequins, there's bitter rivalry between the dancers - both on and off the dance floor - and the dancing turns deadly when one of them ends up dead. The Seaview Hotel mystery series was shortlisted for Best New Crime Series alongside bestselling series by Richard Osman and Val McDermid in the Dead Good Readers Awards. Order your copy here now and I hope you really enjoy it! __ Glenda Youn...