Flaming Nora

I've been away on holiday for two weeks and so have been relaxing and reading, a rare treat for me! While I haven't been writing, there have been a lot of things going on and it's time to catch up, so here we go. I was interviewed in The Bookseller magazine!  You can read it all here    Team Bookends chose my novel as one of their books of the month for November. Read more here . I had a smashing afternoon at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. Thank you to everyone who came to my talk about my writing life, northeast sagas,  Scarborough cosy crimes, and bought books from the fab display inside the museum shop!    Trip Fictio n are offering a competition to win 1 of 3 copies of A Mother's Christmas Wish  and you can enter the competition here. M y book is now on a blog tour  too! 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...

It's finally here in paperback! My Christmas novel A Mother's Christmas Wish is now out in paperback. It's my favourite of all of my novels so far. Buy it here. __ Glenda Young Twitter:  @Flaming_Nora Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

Enter to win a signed copy of my new saga, A Mother's Christmas Wish. I'll also send you a box of chocolates, a free postcard and free bookmark too. Good luck. UK entries only please. Competition closes at 5pm on Thursday December 1st, 2022. Loading… __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week I was profiled in an interview in The Bookseller magazine. This is the trade journal of the publishing industry and a big deal.  Plus, it was my idea for an edition of the magazine to spotlight working class writers. I emailed the editor months ago to suggest it. I'm very happy to say they took me up on the suggestion and even more happy to be included. You can read it all here... https://www.thebookseller.com/author-interviews/author-interviews/glenda-young-discusses-her-career-as-a-novelist-and-the-inspiration-for-her-sagas __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week was the book launch in Ryhope for my Christmas novel  A Mother's Christmas Wish.   The book is in the shops on Thursday November 24, but I held a special launch event at Ryhope Community Centre this week by way of thanks to Ryhope Heritage Society to coincide with their monthly meeting. It was immense! We had to bring in the emergency chairs because so many people turned up. What an incredible day.  This picture shows me with Brian Ibinson, Chair of Ryhope Heritage Society and my cousin Robert and his wife Julie, who played The Miners' Hymn on cornets at the event after a moving film from Brian about Ryhope's mining past. This week is Sunderland Beer Festival which runs at The Peacock pub in the city centre, where I'm sponsoring a beer made from a 1920s recipe. It continues over this weekend. If you go,  pick up the free CAMRA Angle magazine from the Campaign for Real Ale, where I've written an article about Ryhope pub landladies of the 1920s to tie in wit...

I was interviewed this week by Gilly Hope on BBC Newcastle about my writing life and new Christmas novel A Mother's Christmas Wish - find out more here. You can listen to it all here. __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

It's Sunderland Beer Festival next week at The Peacock pub in the city centre, where I'm sponsoring a beer made from a 1920s recipe.  Also pick up the CAMRA Angle magazine from the Campaign for Real Ale, where I've written an article about Ryhope pub landladies of the 1920s to tie in with my new novel, A Mother's Christmas Wish. __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Enter to win a signed copy of my book and a chocoholics hamper from Rington's in a special competition with The Sunderland Echo.  All details here. __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Two months of toffee factory research are now done and written up. Am now about to enter the wonderful (but tricky) stage of starting to plan the first of three novels in my trilogy The Toffee Factory Girls. Wish me luck, I'm going in!   For all those asking if there'll be more Scarborough cosy crimes... this week I worked on the difficult but necessary structural edits which help make a book stronger, sharper, cleaner and better.   I was honoured this week when author E. D. Thompson wrote an article for Writing.ie magazine in which she mentions me a lot.  Her article is a love letter to writing short fiction for women's magazines. Well worth a read and it's here. This week I screamed with joy when I saw the ad for Newcastle Noir in The Crack magazine. I feel like a naughty child who's creeped in to sit with the adults at the table. What a joy!  Book your tickets now. Also this week I gave a talk at The Word in South Shields, one of my favourite buildings i...

My author newsletter for November 2022 has just gone out. Don't miss out on bargains, events and news and an invitation to my book launch next week. Read it all online here. __ Glenda Young Twitter:  @Flaming_Nora Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com