Riverside audio drama, Theakstons Crime festival - my writing week

This week was amazing. I continued editing my third cosy crime set in Scarborough, Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel.

I've also been on a  high after attending the Theakstons Crime festival in Harrogate. I was  shortlisted for the Dead Good Books reader award for best new crime series. Richard Osman won but to be there, to be shortlisted, was incredible! Here are some pictures from the weekend's event.

While in Harrogate, I visited Imagined Things bookshop, a beautiful place. They invited me to sign their "crime writers tote bag" which was an honour to do. They're going to auction it off so follow them on social media from their website at https://imaginedthings.co.uk

I was featured in the prestigious Yorkshire Post about being shortlisted for Dead Good Books reader award for best new crime series. You can read the article here.

I'm in Inside Soap magazine - not once, but twice, this week!  My Scarborough cosy crime, Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel is given a lovely mention. As is my new audio drama, Riverside, which is out now. Check out riversidethesoap.com for all details.

Yes, my weekly soap opera Riverside  is now out as an audiobook on Audible, iTunes, etc!  Check out riversidethesoap.com for all details.  Riverside the audio drama was given great coverage this week including in What to Watch, The Recs, Women's Magazine writing blog, Karen's Book Bag, ATV Today, What's on TV.

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. 

See you next week!

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

My soap opera Riverside - now available as an audio drama

Riverside is my feel-good story of family, friends and community. It features romance, heartbreak and secrets, as well as gentle wit and humour – all the elements of a classic soap – with a cast of actors already well-known from TV and radio soaps. 

The drama is based on the already successful Riverside serial, which has been written by Glenda since 2016 and published weekly in The People’s Friend.

It's now available in bite-sized 15-minute episodes as an audio drama.

Riverside will be available from Audible, Amazon and iTunes from Wednesday 27 July.

Visit the Riverside website for details of the cast and storyline at https://riversidethesoap.com

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

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Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

A wonderful, peculiar time - my writing week

This week I've been working steadily through edits of my third cosy crime set in Scarborough - Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel.  It'll be a few weeks before I send it to the publisher. Slow and steady for now, taking it easy, being careful with my edits to make sure the story makes sense. 

But it hasn't all been work and no play! I had a few days' holiday to Scarborough where I was delighted to spot my cosy crime novels not in just one window at Scarborough Waterstones book shop, but two!

My new Scarborough cosy crime novel CURTAIN CALL AT THE SEAVIEW HOTEL was featured in The Scarborough News,  Harrogate Advertiser, York Press, Yorkshire Evening Post, Northumberland Gazette, South Shields Gazette and Yahoo News!  It's out in paperback on Thursday August 4th.

My books arrived from the publisher, which is ALWAYS A JOY!

And I'm running a competition for you to win a signed copy. Enter to win here.

I had a fun short story published in The Sunday Post's PS magazine.

And you find me today enroute to Harrogate, to the Theakstons Crime Festival 2022. I've been shortlisted, one of six, in the Dead Good Books readers' award in their New Kid on the Block category. It's for a new crime series. I'm up against the likes of Richard Osman and Val McDermid so I have no hope of winning but to be shortlisted, wow, that really makes me happy and to know it's because of my readers makes it very special indeed. Thank you to everyone who voted.

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. 

See you next week!

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Win signed copy of my new Scarborough cosy crime, with candy rock & a box of toffee and fudge

Enter to win a signed copy of  my new Scarborough cosy crime CURTAIN CALL AT THE SEAVIEW HOTEL. It's out in paperback on August 4, 2022.

I'll also throw in three sticks of candy rock and a box of Scarborough toffee and fudge. UK entrants only, please. Deadline for entries is publication day, August 4 2022 at 5pm. One winner drawn at random and announced here on my blog.

Good luck, everyone!

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Scarborough - a moment in time

You find me blogging this from my happy place of Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast. I'd like to share something special that happened yesterday, purely by chance.

I'd gone for morning coffee at the beautiful EatMe cafe Sitwell at Woodend art gallery.

It's a stunning place. While there, excited people began to arrive in the cafe, asking each other "Have you come for Martin's event?"

I thought I'd turned up for coffee in the middle of a private event and asked if I should leave. I was told no, please stay. Curious, I asked who Martin was and what was going on.

Martin Dove, it turns out, is a regular contributor to one of the hugely popular Scarborough groups on Facebook where he posts entries from his teenage diaries from the 60s and 70s. I've seen these, they're moving and revealing and can break your heart.

Anyway, Martin had arranged to meet some of his fans to chat to them about his diaries. When he turned up I met him and told him I was also a fan of his Facebook posts. It was really very special.

Martin had printed off some stories from his life and handed them to everyone who'd turned up. Mine were entitled 'Rose' and 'Bike' and are in the envelopes pictured above.

I went into Eatme Cafe Sitwell for morning coffee... but I came out enriched in all kinds of ways.

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Competition, Comedy and Crime - writing week

This week I finished writing the first draft of cosy crime number three, Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel. It's a lot of fun and I've loved every minute of writing it. There's a long way to go before it's ready to send to the publisher, though.  

I've also been reviewing edits received from the copy-editor, to my saga The Sixpenny Orphan, which is released in 2023. These are the final edits to this book, fingers crossed!

I'm now working on an idea for a short story to submit the Comedy Women in Print prize 2022. The deadline is October so there's a long time to think about the plot and to ensure I have it right, before I start writing. 

To celebrate the launch of the paperback version of my second cosy crime set in Scarborough, Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel, I've teamed up with my local paper, the Sunderland Echo for a great competition. You can win an overnight stay at the beautiful Paragon Hotel in Scarborough plus dinner for two at the fantastic EatMe cafe inside the gorgeous Stephen Joseph Theatre. And there's two tickets to a new, fun production of Brief Encounter at the theatre too. You'll also win a signed copy of my book and four runners up will also win a signed copy of the book. Good luck! Enter here

I've been shortlisted for Dead Good Books reader award in the category of New Kid on the Block for my cosy crime novels. Up against Richard Osman and Val McDermid! To win, I need your vote, please, at https://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/dead-good-reader-awards-2022 - thank you very much indeed. Winners are announced at the Harrogate Crime Festival on July 22nd, 2022.

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. 

See you next week!

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Win a night in Scarborough with dinner for two and theatre tickets

To celebrate the launch of the paperback version of my second cosy crime set in Scarborough, Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel, I've teamed up with my local paper, the Sunderland Echo for a great competition.

You can win an overnight stay at the beautiful Paragon Hotel in Scarborough plus dinner for two at the fantastic EatMe cafe inside the gorgeous Stephen Joseph Theatre. And there's two tickets to a new, fun production of Brief Encounter at the theatre too.

You'll also win a signed copy of my book and four runners up will also win a signed copy of the book.

Good luck!

Enter here

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Writing retreat in Scarborough, Waterstones, Durham Gala, WRITE Festival and more - my writing week

This has been a very special week. I've been on a writing retreat in my happy place of Scarborough. It's where the novel that I'm writing - Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel - is set, my new cosy crime. I needed head space, quiet and peace to make good progress with writing and so took myself off to a beautiful apartment in Scarborough where I wrote, and wrote and wrote. It was hard not to be distracted by the beautiful view from the dining room where I wrote each day by the patio doors.

While there, I called in to Waterstone's Scarborough to sign my books and I even stickered them too!  It's moments like these I've been waiting for all of my life!

I've been shortlisted for Dead Good Books reader award in the category of New Kid on the Block for my cosy crime novels. Up against Richard Osman and Val McDermid! To win, I need your vote, please, at https://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/dead-good-reader-awards-2022 - thank you very much indeed. Winners are announced at the Harrogate Crime Festival on July 22nd, 2022.

My author newsletter for July went out! Includes a 99p / 99c cosy crime offer, a new video, a  saga title reveal, a book locations walking tour and a whole lot more! You can read it all here.

Events for this year's WRITE Festival have been announced and I'm honoured to be part of it. Come along to ask me anything about my books and my weekly soap opera Riverside, published in The People's Friend magazine since 2016. I'll be at Jarrow Library on Wednesday 28 September at 2pm. Booking is essential. Book here.

If you're at Durham Miners' Gala this Saturday (and why wouldn't you be? It's the best day of the year!) be sure to support them by buying a brochure. Page 72 looks good! Yes, it's an advert for my novel The Miner's Lass set during the 1921 miners' strike.

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. 

See you next week!

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Winner announced in my book and chocolate competition

Congratulations go to Christine Davis who has been drawn at random to win a book of her choice, chocolate bar, bookmarks and a postcard in my recent competition. The book Christine has chosen to win is The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon.  Thank you everyone for your support and for entering!

Well done, Christine!

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

My author newsletter for July - now available to read online

My author newsletter for July has just gone out and you can view it online here! Includes a 99p / 99c cosy crime offer, a new video, a  saga title reveal, a book locations walking tour and a whole lot more! You can read it all here.

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Beacon, Cookson, The Bookseller and a walk around Ryhope - my writing week

This week I've carried on writing third cosy crime novel set in Scarborough - Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel.  It's a lot of fun!

I've been shortlisted for Dead Good Books award in category of New Kid on the Block for my cosy crime novels. Up against Richard Osman and Val McDermid! To win, I need your vote, please, at https://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/dead-good-reader-awards-2022 - thank you very much indeed.

I went on a walk around Ryhope village, where my historical novels are set. With me was TikTokker and social media influencer Kathrine Taylor - see https://www.tiktok.com/@northeastnostalgic and we had a really good time!

Kathrine the Tik-Toker was mentioned in a news article this week and it included a quote from me too. Read it all here.

My Christmas saga out later this year, and my second cosy crime out in August, were featured in this week's The Bookseller magazine's Northern Powerhouse edition.

I offered one of my books as a prize in a competition to win this week.

And I delivered the second, and final  part of my writing for magazines workshop at The Word (National Centre for the Written Word) at South Shields. It's been a huge learning experience for me, putting thoughts and ideas down onto paper and in notes and a presentation. I've had excellent feedback and feel very proud of myself for doing this. I really hope it helps some of those who attended. It's always an honour to work in this room named after Catherine Cookson.

I gave a talk to the Coals to Goals project at the Beacon of Light, part of SAFC's charity partner, the Foundation of Light. It made me very proud to be speaking there, of all places.  The talk went well and it's my last event until my book launch in August.  All of my upcoming events are listed 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. 

See you next week!

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com