Flaming Nora

I was interviewed live on BBC Radio York today about my Scarborough cosy crimes in development for the screen. You can listen to my interview at 36 mins in at this link. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rbty __ Glenda Young BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

It's publication day of the latest novel from Glenda Young Celebrations at the Toffee Factory is the third and final book in the toffee factory girls trilogy.  It's the end of WW1 and the factory celebrates. However, while the Great War has ended, Jack's toffee factory struggles after years of sugar rations and its troubles are far from over. Order your copy now.  It's out today in hardback, ebook and audiobook (paperback is coming in May). __ Glenda Young BlueSky:  @Glenda Young Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

This has been a very good week indeed. And it's the last "free" week I'll have before I begin writing The Bakery Girls. .. gulp, tomorrow.  I'll be in a different head space then until summer! Lumley Castle are advertising my talk with a cream tea for the Sunday after Mother's Day. Tickets would make an ideal present for yourself or for someone you know who loves books and cream teas in a unique setting.  See the Talks and Teas link at the castle website.   A reminder that Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girl s is just 99p this month. Download it here. My publisher Headline promoted my book The Toffee Factory Girls for Galentine's Day!  And one week today I'll be signing books in Chester-le-Street at the Crafty Gift Shop when the hardback, audiobook, ebook and large print of Celebrations at the Toffee Factory is released on Thursday 26 Feb. Speaking of which, you'll notice a different cover for the paperback, below, which comes out in May. Sign up ...

This has been one heck of a week!  I was invited to speak on my cosy crimes at the Cheshire Crime Writers Festival. Had a wonderful time there, met some great people and thoroughly enjoyed it. Here are some of my pics from the event. I'm in the pink top with Sandra Mangan from the great Crime Fiction Lover website. And this picture is from Sandra Mangan of Crime Fiction Lover website. It shows me on the stage talking about my cosy crimes. Besides me is author Fiona Veitch-Smith who was there to speak about her golden age mysteries. Also this week I began thinking about plotting out my novel The Bakery Girls.  Those sheets of paper represent three chapters, or 6,000 words. I plot and plan now and start writing in March. I'm delighted to say my books are now in Felling Volunteer Library in the northeast and they made me author of the month! My novel Celebrations at the Toffee Factory arrived from my publisher. Advance copies have all been sent this week to everyone who helped me...

I've taken a few days holiday this week. It was a much needed break which comes towards the end of my researching and before I start plotting and planning The Bakery Girls. Speaking of which, my good news was included in New Writing North's newsletter this month. My monthly author newsletter went out this week and you can read it all here . Also this week, my novel Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls  went on sale at just 99p for Kindle. Download it here. And by the time you're reading this blog post, I'll be on my way to Cheshire to star in the Cheshire Crime Writers Festival. I'm speaking on Sunday 8 Feb on a cosy crime panel. And when I return I'll be speaking twice in County Durham libraries in their festival of local authors.  I crafted another episode of my weekly soap opera  Riverside  for The People's Friend magazine. I've been writing  Riverside  weekly since 2016 and you can  find out all about it here. I also kept the  Coronation S...

This week I've been researching again for my next novel The Bakery Girls .  I met and chatted to people from baking families in Sunderland, who ran businesses and were part of Sunderland life. It was incredible and a real honour to meet so many people and hear their stories and memories.  Elsewhere this week, The Petal Patch in Ryhope started up a new book club and the first book the members will read is my novel The Tuppenny Child. What an honour this is. I created a new competition for you to win a signed hardback copy of my new novel Celebrations at the Toffee Factory. It's the third and final toffee factory girls book in the trilogy.  Enter here and good luck! And now, before planning out The Bakery Girls , I'm going to take a short break. Once I start writing it'll be flat out working all through spring and into early summer.  Don't forget to sign up to my monthly newsletter to be the first to hear about new competitions, giveaways, events, news and special ...