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Scarborough Fair, Filey and Library Talks - My Writing Week

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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...
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Library Talk, Waterstones and Real Ale - My Writing Week

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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
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Toffee, Cream Tea and Heritage Talks - My Writing Week

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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...
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Coronation Street, Scarborough Spy, Sunderland History - My Writing Week

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This week has been very busy and has made me very happy too.  First there's a competition to win a signed copy of my new book Celebrations at the Toffee Factory. Enter here and good luck! My talk at Lumley Castle on Sunday June 28 is sellign quickly and the last tickets remain. Buy yours now. I've signed up to join the Jesmond Library Readathon and I'll be reading at 2pm on Friday June 26 from my book Murder at the Seaview Hotel. All welcome, it's free, donations welcome too for the library. My book launch for Celebrations at the Toffee Factory continues on Saturday 6 June at The Lambton on Front Street in Chester-le-Street. All welcome, it's free and part of a three day exhibition by Chester-le-Street heritage group.   I'll be doing talks at Scarborough Library AND Filey Library on Wednesday 24 June.  All welcome, they're free.  I was featured in The Scarborough News too. And I had a wonderful day at Sunderland History Fair where I was officially invited to...
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Enter to win Signed Copy of Celebrations at the Toffee Factory by Glenda Young

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Enter to win a signed copy of my new book, Celebrations at the Toffee Factory.  Deadline for entries is Friday 26 June 2026.  UK entries only.  Good luck, everyone! Loading… __ Glenda Young BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com
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Waterstones, My Weekly, Two Launches, Morrisons and Tesco - My Writing Week

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This week I submitted my manuscript for The Bakery Girls to my publisher, Headline.  This leaves me free to really enjoy the release of Celebrations at the Toffee Factory , which came out last week in paperback. And it's been a joyous week! I had a short story in My Weekly magazine, and my name on the cover.  The story is called The Toffee Factory Queen and is a tie-in with my toffee factory girls books. The winners were announced in the mini bookcase competition and announced here. Celebrations at the Toffee Factory was spotted in my local Morrisons supermarket, always a joy to see! And it's even more of a joy when it's not spotted on a shelf because it's sold out. This was my local Tesco. I'm doing two book launches this week in Chester-le-Street, close to the site of the original toffee factory I write about in the toffee factory girls books.  The first book launch on Friday morning from 11-1 is at Crafty Gift Shop inside Saint Cuthbert's Walk shopping centr...
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