Flaming Nora

This week has been wonderful.   I've been to London on business for meetings. I've also taken time off for some much needed R&R and will be doing so again very soon!  In the meantime, here's what I've been up to.   Before the release of Music To Die For at the Seaview Hotel, I've created a Spotify playlist, music from bands who helped me with researching a musician's life! Includes songs from Field Music, The Lake Poets, The Cornshed Sisters, Venus Grrrls, at http://dlvr.it/TTP4Q5 My author newsletter has a new competition, a 99p offer and more! Read it now at  http://dlvr.it/TTLqVH Enter to win Signed Copy of Celebrations at the Toffee Factory by Glenda Young - with Chocolates! http://dlvr.it/TTLhl0   Celebrations at the Toffee Factory just 99p this month at http://dlvr.it/TTHlFK With thanks to Sunderland Antiquarian Society for including Celebrations at the Toffee Factory on the back cover of their monthly newsletter! I was invited to the 24 hour read...

Enter to win a signed copy of my new book, Celebrations at the Toffee Factory with a large bar of Cadbury's Chocolate!.  Deadline for entries is Friday 31 July 2026.   UK entries only.   Good luck, everyone! Loading… __ Glenda Young BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

We have a winner! Thank you to everyone who entered to win a signed copy of Celebrations at the Toffee Factory. The winner is Adrian Bold, many congratulations! The paperback book is available on Amazon at just £4.98! It's also available in supermarkets Tesco, Morrisons and Asda as well as Waterstones and all good bookshops. __ Glenda Young BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week I was honoured to see my cosy crimes advertised in The Scarborough Fair brochure. The Fair is an important annual arts festival in the town. I visited Scarborough and Filey for author talks at the library in each town this week.  Thank you to everyone who came and bought books too. It was an incredible, busy day! My books were spotted for sale in the railway station at Pickering on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, where I spent a few days holiday. And the books are also for sale in the Monarch hotel in Bridlington, owned by Alfa Travel.  All Alfa hotels up and down the country sell my books, with £1.50 from the sale of each one going to their charity, Re-engage. Also this week there's a guided walk of my book locations in Ryhope.  It takes place on Saturday 28 June and if you'd like to join in, the Facebook group is here. Elsewhere this week, I was invited to take part in the Jesmond Library 24-hour readathon to help raise funds for the library and the Nationa...

I'm delighted to say that The Bakery Girls is now available for pre-order at the price of £3.99 for Kindle and ebook orders.  Order yours now at bit.ly/BakeryGirls This week I gave a talk at Durham Clayport Library, it was all about my cosy crimes. I really enjoyed it and hope the people who came enjoyed it too.  Thank you everyone! I was a quiz question in the Sunderland and South Shields CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) magazine! And I popped into Waterstones Sunderland to sign a pile of books! I was also featured in the Northern Powerhouse edition of The Bookseller magazine, with my next cosy crime set in Scarborough. I crafted another episode of my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine. I've been writing Riverside weekly since 2016. Sign up to receive my free, monthly email newsletter with competitions, events and news at glendayoungbooks.com __ Glenda Young BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week has been another wonderful one.  I'm taking a break from writing novels for the rest of this year, although I am still writing my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine as well as short stories for myself.  I'm also involved as a judge in a prestigious short story competition, more details later if I can reveal them. This week I gave a short talk at Ryhope Heritage Group on how the real life toffee factory inspired my novels.  My talk came after the main talk by Dorothy Hall, Chair of Chester-le-Street heritage group who spoke about Horner's toffee factory and Dainty Dinah toffee. Working with Chester-le-Street heritage group, I attended the exhibition of Horner's toffee factory and Dainty Dinah toffee. The exhibition ran over three days at The Lambton Hotel in the town, and I attended on the final day with my books for sale. It was a fantastic event and there are pictures below of an original overall and hat from the toffee factory...