Flaming Nora

This week I've been in Yorkshire, carrying out research for my next trilogy of sagas which are set in a toffee factory.  I visited archives and a museum. It's been a very busy and productive few days. This week I was really chuffed to be included in the local community magazine with a full page advert for my new Sunderland saga set in 1923.  You can buy your copy at bit.ly/AMothersChristmasWish Also this week I felt very grown up (!) when I received my first ever press card. It's from the Society of Women Writers and Journalists, a professional society of which I'm now a member.   Heading to Sunderland beer festival next month at The Peacock? Look out for the beer that I'm sponsoring PLUS my article about Ryhope pubs and my new novel in the winter issue of CAMRA Angle magazine  Received this wonderful feedback from some of the people who joined my Heritage Open Days guided walk around Ryhope showing locations from my novels  My Christmas novel  A Mothe...

I attended an absolutely fantastic event at 17Nineteen in Sunderland. Talking to readers about my novels makes everything worthwhile, it validates the difficult and often lonely hours sat writing at home. Thank you everyone for coming and thank you to novelist Adrienne Hunter too. The event was held in the 17nineteen church in the East End of Sunderland, and the room we spoke in was Sunderland's first ever library and reading room. Santa Claus came early this year, with the delivery of a box of paperback books of my new saga.  Buy A Mother's Christmas Wish paperback book in bookshops and supermarkets (later this autumn) and you can win £200 off your Christmas shop!  What a fantastic competition, thanks to Headline Fiction. A few weeks ago I gave a library talk at Blaydon Library under their "Reading for Wellbeing" banner. This week I received this wonderful message from the organisers. Messages like this make my work all worthwhile. This week I gave a talk at Sunderla...

Congratulations to Catherine Mawson who has been drawn at random from all the correct entries to win a book of her choice and a bar of of chocolate.  Catherine has chosen a copy of The Miner's Lass, which will be on its way to her this week. __ Glenda Young Twitter:  @Flaming_Nora Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week I was surprised, and honoured, to see my novels (and the map I'd commissioned specially for them) being included by Beamish Museum staff when they were teaching at a school in Ryhope. The children were learning about old Ryhope and Beamish Museum were using my novels as a teaching aid. How wonderful is that? Also this week, I attended the monthly meeting of Ryhope Heritage Group. All welcome, £2 entry each month includes a cup of tea and it takes place in Ryhope Community Centre on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.  This month, the Chair of the committee - Brian Ibinson - created a film for me about my Ryhope novels. It's both moving and incredible. Have a look at it here. It's 12 minutes long but worth watching all the way through. There's still time to enter my competition to win a free book with chocolate and bookmarks. Enter here! I gave two talks this week, one at Featherbed Books in Houghton, the area's only independent bookshop. The talk was great, wit...

Catch me on the amazing Wonderbirds show talkign to Dee Anderson, Harriet Thorpe and Debbie Arnold, three women I am in awe of. I chatted about how being a Coronation Street and soaps fan fuelled my writing passion to being a bestselling novelist.  Watch it on YouTube here. My author newsletter for October went out this week. Includes a competition to win a free book and chocolate! Read it online here. 1719 Holy Trinity Church is now an amazing events space in Sunderland. They're hosting a fantastic event and their autumn fayre on Saturday 15 October. At 10am I'll be on a panel of local writers talking about what makes historic fiction set in Sunderland so special. Please join me, it's free and I'll be selling my books after the talk. All details here. I was interviewed in Pen to Print's Write On! Magazine about my writing life and inspiration plus the advice I'd give to new writers.   Read it all here. I'm beside myself with happiness to announce that I...