Flaming Nora

I've been writing Coronation Street weekly updates since 1995 and this week's Coronation Street update  has just gone live here . And if you'd like to support the Coronation Street weekly updates to keep them going (please),  you can donate here __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

This week I'm very happy to announce that my first of three cosy crime novels, Murder at the Seaview Hotel , is now available to order. It's released in August 2021 by Headline in ebook, hardback and audiobook and in paperback in November 2021.   What's it about?   Well, when a troupe of 12 Elvis impersonators (Twelvis) arrive for an Elvis convention in Scarborough, one of them is found dead and his blue suede shoes are stolen. B&B landlady Helen Dexter and her trusty rescue greyhound Suki are on the case in Murder at the Seaview Hotel , my first cosy crime and you can find out more here . In terms of actual sitting down on my backside and writing, I  wrote the Christmas  Coronation Street weekly update  and sent it to my emailing list of thousands of Corrie fans around the world. I've been running this list since 1995 and if you'd like to sign up to receive these weekly updates,  all details are here. And I've been working very hard on editi...

There's a lot going on in 2021. Here's just some of the exciting events I'm looking forward to in the new year. In March, my novel The Paper Mill Girl  is released in paperback. Keep your eyes peeled for news, interviews and competitions to win copies of the books. In May, my novel The Miner's Lass  is released in hardback, ebook and audiobook.   In August, my first cosy crime novel, Murder at the Seaview Hotel   is released in hardback, ebook and audiobook.  In October,  The Miner's Lass is released in paperback.  Keep your eyes peeled for news, interviews and competitions to win copies of the books. In November,  Murder at the Seaview Hotel is released in paperback. If it's allowed by then, I'll be holding a book launch in Scarborough, where the novel is set. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

I've been writing Coronation Street weekly updates since 1995 and this week's Coronation Street update  has just gone live here . And if you'd like to support the Coronation Street weekly updates to keep them going (please),  you can donate here __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Gulp, it's all got real. Murder at the Seaview Hotel ebook now available to order, it's out August 2021 from Headline. Hardback, paperback and audiobook coming too.  It's set in a Scarborough B&B called The Seaview Hotel and a group of twelve Elvis impersonators  (Twelvis) arrive but one of them is found dead and his blue suede shoes have been stolen. Just what is going on and who has murdered Elvis? "Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club".  Crikey.  Find out more at  http://bit.ly/CosyCrimeGlendaYoung __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

  It's been quite a wonderful week with a feature on me and my books in my always supportive local newspaper,  Sunderland Echo. My novel  The Paper Mill Girl  comes out in paperback in March 2021 and this week was one of the highlighted previews in The Bookseller magazine.  Read more on that here . The first of my three cosy crimes  Murder at the Seaview Hotel  is published in August 2021 with Headline and I've joined the Crime Writers' Association. This month I was featured in their members' magazine, Red Herrings.   Read more on that here. Sunderland Culture featured me as their Creative of the Week. I had no idea this was going to happen and it made me very happy indeed.  It's Thursday! It's #CreativeCitySunderland !! Today's spotlight is on award-winning local author, Glenda Young @flaming_nora Glenda's books are set in Sunderland in 1919. Her latest novel, The Paper Mill Girl, was released in ebook, hardback and audio in November (1/3) ...

Feeling very grown up. I'm now an official member of the Crime Writers' Association and am featured in their January newsletter, Red Herrings. My first cosy crime novel, set in Scarborough, is Murder at the Seaview Hotel. It's published in August next year by Headline and I couldn't be happier.   Here I am on the new member's page: __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Yesterday I published a blog post showcasing my writing achievements this year.  You can read it here if you'd like to. Today, I'd like to choose my personal top five writing highlights from all of those achievements. And so, here we go, in no particular order. NUMBER ONE Signing two new contracts with publisher Headline to write more sagas set in the coalmining village of Ryhope where I was born and bred AND to write three cosy crimes set in a Scarborough B&B. NUMBER TWO I won the  Evesham Festival of Words Short Story Award 2020   with my short story  The Fan Club Man. One of the judges told me that the story made her both laugh and cry in equal measure. NUMBER THREE Got myself interviewed on  BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour  about my gritty novels set in the northeast coalmining village where I was born and bred.  Jane Garvey said I was 'Such a good writer; fantastic' and my novels were 'Real sagas with female characters right at the heart'.  Quot...

It's time to look back at my writing year of 2020.  It's important to me to write these blog posts as a reminder of what I've done as I tend to take my skills for granted. And also, if I don't make a song and dance about my achievements, no-one else will. Have trumpet, will blow! And so, here we go.  As well as all of the achievements listed below, each week I write my soap opera  Riverside   for  The People's Friend magazine .  I've also written short stories which have been published in women's magazines including The People's Friend and The People's Friend Fiction Special, My Weekly and Take a Break's Fiction Feast. As for writing achievements this year so far, here we go! Interviewed on the  Women's Magazine Writers Blog . Sharon Marshall, soaps queen at ITV's This Morning,  said my novels were 'amazing' I was featured in The Guardian -  Corrie changed my life! Interviewed on  BBC Radio Newcastle about my novel Pearl of Pit...

Very happy to see The Paper Mill Girl  previewed in this week's Bookseller magazine.  It comes out in March 2021, just in time for Mother's Day, which will make a lovely present for some mum, or indeed for anyone. The blurb for the book in the Bookseller simply says this, however as I'm sure you can imagine if you know my books by now, there's a hell of a lot more going on. There's class warfare, domestic abuse, one of the most evil women I've ever written and one of the nicest men too. There's the workings of a paper mill in 1919, and I did weeks of intense research on this and the role of women in the mills too. Ultimately it's a story of friendship between women, even across a class divide. And yes, the paper mill girl at the heart of the story, does indeed bring up her sister's baby, but that my friends, is only the beginning of the tale... __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline    Twitter:  @Flaming_Nora Facebook:  GlendaYoung...

With thanks to my local newspaper, The Sunderland Echo  for featuring the news of my new five-book deal with publisher Headline. I'm really, really happy about this.  As well as writing two more novels set in old Ryhope, the village where I was born and bred, I'm also going to be writing three cosy crimes set in a Scarborough B&B. You can read the whole news article here. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

I've been writing Coronation Street weekly updates since 1995 and this week's Coronation Street update  has just gone live here . And if you'd like to support the Coronation Street weekly updates to keep them going (please),  you can donate here __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline  Twitter:  @Flaming_Nora Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor