Flaming Nora

Enter to win one copy of any of my books that you choose plus a large bar of Galaxy Smooth Caramel, free postcards and bookmarks.  I now offer  gift vouchers  in time for Christmas, which can be exchanged for any of my books.  Find out more here . Deadline for competition entries is Friday 14th October 2022 at 5pm.   One winner will be drawn at random and announced on this website.   Good luck!  UK entries only, please. Loading… __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week has been a week of organising and planning. I did a little research this week for my next trilogy of books and caught up on writing my research notes while planning ahead for the work I need to do in the coming weeks.  I was interviewed by three wonderful ladies on the Wonderbirds show this week. It was amazing, a real "pinch-me" moment.   The Wonderbirds Show is the creation of actresses Debbie Arnold, Dee Anderson, Sherrie Hewson and Harriet Thorpe. Find out more here.   They asked me all kinds of questions about my writing, my books and my soap opera Riverside which is now an audio drama. You can watch the full interview online at their YouTube channel very soon . My Christmas saga A Mother's Christmas Wish  ... ...was included in the Houghton Feast brochure for 2022. Houghton Feast is a huge event which happens each autumn in the north-east and it's an honour to be included in their brochure. I have a full-page ad and there are details of my eve...

This week has been a very exciting and interesting one and I've woken up each morning raring to get stuck into my work.  I've been researching for my next trilogy of novels and there's a lot of work to do but more on that later in this blog post. Elsewhere this week, I'm on a panel of writers at 1719 Church's autumn fayre in October. You can read all about that here in an article in The Sunderland Echo. I had a short story called Angie and the Mermaid published in Best magazine. In the Greyhound Trust newsletter, I was featured where I explained why I'd chosen a rescue greyhound to include in my cosy crimes set in Scarborough. Here I am below in the purple anorak, with Angie and her greyhounds who I researched before writing the book. And the cosy crime is on offer at Elvis Porthcawl festival this weekend where my flyers are in the Grand Pavilion.  And so to research. This week I was in Chester-le-Street researching the town's toffee-making past, with the l...

This has been a huge week. Saturday September 10, 2022 is a day I will remember for a very long time.  I led a guided walk around the ex-pit village of Ryhope as part of  Heritage Open Days 2022.   Ryhope is the village where I grew up and lived for most of my life, and it's now where I set my historical, bestselling novels, published by Headline.  The books are standalone and you can read them in any order. I've written a blog post, with a lot of pics too, and you can read all about it here.   The picture below shows me in the middle in the pink anorak surrounded by some of the walkers at the end of the day. It was amazing. I walked into Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens for a coffee in the cafe this week and was over the moon to see my books on sale in the museum shop. Delighted to say I am now offering GIFT VOUCHERS which can be exchanged for any of my sagas or cosy crimes.   Perfect Christmas presents! All details at   bit.ly/GlendaYoungGi...

I'm taking part once again in this year's Children in Read official auction to support the BBC's Children in Need appeal. You can bid to win a signed copy of my novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon.   Enter here and good luck! __ Glenda Young Twitter:  @Flaming_Nora Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

Delighted to say I am now offering GIFT VOUCHERS which can be exchanged for any of my sagas or cosy crimes.  Perfect Christmas presents! All details at bit.ly/GlendaYoungGiftVoucher __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Saturday September 10, 2022 is a day I will remember for a very long time.  I led a guided walk around the ex-pit village of Ryhope as part of Heritage Open Days 2022.    Ryhope is the village where I grew up and lived for most of my life, and it's now where I set my historical, bestselling novels, published by Headline.  The books are standalone and you can read them in any order. Our group met outside of The Top House   pub at 11am and 30 people turned up for the walk! My friend, and tour guide, Paul Lanagan interviewed me en route. At each stop on our walk, Paul asked me questions about the locations and how they make their way into my novels. We walked past pubs, shops, houses, the old pit site, the miners' hall, the rhubarb field, the old Co-op, it was wonderful.  Here are just a tiny selection of some of the pictures taken on the walk. This is the Albion Inn where we ended the walk and had lunch. This pub stars in my debut novel Belle of the Back Stre...