Toffee, beer, crime and a press pass - my writing week

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 Mother’s Christmas Wish was reviewed by esteemed writer Pam Norfolk whose reviews are published in many local newspapers too. She said this about A Mother's Christmas Wish "...a believable, richly detailed world in this emotive story full of hardship, kinship, resilience with a memorable cast of beautifully drawn characters, a vivid evocation of 1920s, A Mother’s Christmas Wish will be on every saga fan’s own wish list." and you can read the full review here.  https://pamnorfolkblog.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-mothers-christmas-wish.html

The review was also published in the Lancashire Post and you can read it here.

Tickets are now on sale for  Newcastle Noir in December at Newcastle central library. May I recommend Panel 16, Sunday 11 December, 2pm. What an honour to be invited to be part of this prestigious crime writing festival. The full programme is here.

Join me on Thursday November 3 at The Word in South Shields where I'll be talking about my new Christmas novel A Mother's Christmas Wish (and selling signed copies too!). All details here.

I'm now offering both my cosy crime novels for just £10.99 inc UK postage. If you'd like them all details are here.

I'm 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

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

Santa Claus comes early, Sunderland's first library - my writing week

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 Sunderland Libraries Literature Festival, which went down great and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I spent a day researching my next trilogy of novels in the University of Sunderland library.  As an alumni member of Sunderland University, I'm allowed free access, which is great.

I'm 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

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 book and chocolate competition

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.

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

My novels as teaching aids and on film plus a message that made me cry - my writing week

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, with a small and informal and friendly audience.  The second talk was for Fulwell Field Club at the local community centre, another talk which went down a storm.

I'm now offering both my cosy crime novels for just £10.99 inc UK postage. If you'd like them all details are here.

Receiving messages like these make everything worthwhile...

And my audio drama Riverside, is out on a blog tour this week and getting fantastic reviews.

A reminder I'll be at Sunderland Literature festival on Tuesday next week. It's free, all welcome

I was really chuffed to have my third Scarborough cosy crime, coming  2023 - Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel - included in this hotlist in the Bookseller magazine, for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022.

I'm 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

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

Wonderbirds, Thunderbirds and the Blaydon Races - my writing week

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've been invited to speak about my Scarborough cosy crimes on a panel at the prestigious Newcastle Noir fest in December 2022. Keep your eyes on their website here.

I picked up a copy of the Sunderland Libraries Literature Festival 2022 brochure and sat reading it with a coffee in town. Might have to give up the luxury of coffees in town soon, though. The prices are soaring.   I planned which authors I'd like to see at this year's festival.

And please come, if you're free, to my session on Tuesday 18th October at 11am in Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.

I gave a talk this week to Blaydon Library, which was wonderful. I really enjoyed it, so friendly and informal.

If you're free, please come! Saint Paul's church on Saturday 5 November at 11am. I'll be signinig and selling my books at the Christmas Fayre with all proceeds going to Saint Paul's church. The vicar, Rev. Chadwick, has helped me with research for all of my Ryhope books.

I'm 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

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