Busy doing nothing the whole day through - my writing week

It's taken a while but I'm finally relaxing into my summer, doing nothing much. I'm reading a lot, enjoying time with family, listening to music and podcasts, the radio and watching TV.  So there's not much to report on my writing life this week except for some exciting news.... 

...this is FANTASTIC! Shared by Eleonora Motta who is the translator of my Scarborough cosy crimes into Italian. Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel in an actual Italian bookshop... in Italy! 

Morrisons this week. HUGE names! BIG sellers! CELEBRITY novels!  But look whose books have sold out (again) bottom right. 

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 Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers. 

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Winner announced in The Toffee Factory Girls book and toffee box competition

Thank you to everyone who entered my recent competition to win a signed copy of The Toffee Factory Girls with a box of toffee.  The winner has been picked at random from all correct entries received.  Many congratulations go to Diane Rugman who I've emailed today.

If you'd like a signed copy of the book for yourself, please email me and I'll send details of how to pay. You can buy the book at Amazon, WHSmith, Asda, Morrisons and Tesco and online here.

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Going global, staying local, and a fan letter arrives - my writing week

The ITALIAN version of my Scarborough cosy crime Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel, starring a troupe of am-dram actors, is out this week with a stunning new cover.

The Italian - and Spanish - versions of my Scarborough cosy crimes are being used by students of Languages for Fun in Whitby and Scarborough to help them learn a new language! All details here.

In Spain, the first cosy crime Murder at the Seaview Hotel is now in the shops and has been reviewed thus: "As gripping as Agatha Christie and as funny as Murder, She Wrote, Glenda Young's The Strange Case of the Murder at the Seaview Hotel is coming to bookshops to delight the most intrepid readers!" Read the full review here.

I gave a talk this week at The Word in South Shields, all about my new book The Toffee Factory Girls. I really enjoyed it!

Also this week a fan letter arrived from a reader who enjoyed The Toffee Factory Girls so much that she wrote to me and included a toffee recipe too. How wonderful.

The Toffee Factory Girls is just 99p for ebook this month at http://bit.ly/ToffeeFactoryGirls

The competition closes at 5pm today - Friday 19 July. Enter now to win a signed copy of The Toffee Factory Girls and a box of toffee with a toffee hammer - enter here.

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 Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers. 

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Women, Brownies and talking in the SAFC Director's lounge - my writing week

This week I gave a talk at Sunderland AFC Stadium of Light in the Director's Lounge, no less!  What an honour. It was part of their Coals to Goals project and I talked about my new book The Toffee Factory Girls. We had a raffle to win a free book and a box of chocolates and there were free toffees for all. It was a great day and I enjoyed it a lot.

I also gave a talk to a local WI group, which was very enjoyable indeed.

The Crack magazine listed my upcoming talk at The Word in South Shields. All are welcome and it's a talk about my book The Toffee Factory Girls.

I enjoyed a wonderful day at Beamish Museum, where I research all of my novels. The museum officially opened Ryhope's Grand Cinema which is on site now after being moved from Ryhope, where my novels are set.  It was an emotional day, especially when Ryhope Brownies presented me with my Local History badge for helping them research old Ryhope some weeks ago.

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 Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers. 

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Speaking volumes, 99p offer, Spanish must-read and more - my writing week

This week my author newsletter for July went out to subscribers. It includes a new competition and a special 99p offer! Read it online at https://glendayoungbooks.com/so/0bO-IfPeD?languageTag=en

My Scarborough cosy crimes are now available translated into Spanish and Italian. The Spanish version was listed as one of the must-read books for summer, in Revista magazine!  You can read the full article here.

Also, the eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that there was no writing week post last week. This was because I was on holiday in the beautiful town of Llandudno in North Wales. While there I gave a talk at the Hydro Hotel for guests of Alfa Leisureplex, who sell my books in their hotels throughout the UK. It was a wonderful night. £1.50 from the sale of each book goes to Alfa's charity, Re-engage, to help combat loneliness in older people.

Thank you so much to Reengage UK charity for this wonderful interview in their Time Together Summer 2024 magazine! Read the whole magazine online at https://online.fliphtml5.com/yikfn/cmib/#p=1 

My Scarborough cosy crime starring obsessive crazy golfers, Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel, was the top audiobook download during June at Listening Books!  No. 3 was my Scarborough cosy crime starring 12 Elvis impersonators Twelvis, Murder at the Seaview Hotel, and No. 10 was my saga The Sixpenny Orphan. I'm over the moon!  See the top 10 list here.

Just 99p during July at http://bit.ly/ToffeeFactoryGirls 

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 Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers. 

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Radio, Secrets and pressing SEND - my writing week

This was a big week as I pressed SEND on cosy crime number four, Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel set in Scarborough. It's gone to my publisher, Headline, but it'll be back later this year with structural edits and changes.  For now, however, I'm going to take a well-earned rest for a few months.

This week I attended Saint Paul's church summer fayre in Ryhope, where my novels are set. It was a wonderful day where I talked to lots of fantastic people.

My new book The Toffee Factory Girls was given a fantastic review and great coverage in Living North magazine, the north's glossy mag!

The second in my trilogy about the toffee factory girls is now available to pre-order!  It's called Secrets of The Toffee Factory Girls and is available here.

I was interviewed twice on radio - on Durham On Air - about my new book The Toffee Factory Girls

And I was interviewed live on Radio South Shields about the book too.

Thanks go this week to my local CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) Branch for including my novels in their article on Ryhope's Guide Post Inn, fictional home of Ruth Hardy and her family in The Paper Mill Girl. Thanks to Keith and Julie who run the place too, for their help with research! 

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 Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers. 

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Glenda Young

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Festivals & Funiculars - my writing week

It's been a very busy week and wonderful too!  I was interviewed by Gilly Hope on BBC Radio Newcastle. You can listen to my interview here and I start talking at 1:42:33You can listen to my interview here and I start talking at 1:42:33.

I was invited to speak at Books by the Beach festival in Scarborough, which was a fantastic event!

Here I am with festival organiser Helen French.

And here I am on the Central Tramway in Scarborough where my cosy crime novels are for sale in the top station.

I stayed in Scarborough at the Headlands Hotel where my books are for sale in the lounge!

And I received this wonderful review about my novel The Toffee Factory Girls, which just about made me cry!

Also, I had a short story inside The Sunday People's Love Sunday magazine, and a promo for my novel The Toffee Factory Girls.

I also gave a library talk at South Bank library in Middlesbrough where my talk was part of the Crossing the Tees festival.

I was also interviewed on local radio station Durham OnAir

And I gave a talk to Sunderland Soroptomists, an inspiring group of ladies.

I received the hardback copies of the Spanish version of my Scarborough murder mysteries, Murder at the Seaview Hotel. How wonderful! Ole!

I popped into Sunderland Waterstones to sign stock copies of my new book The Toffee Factory Girls.

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 Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers. 

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Glenda Young

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