Working class and proud - my writing fortnight

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 Fiction are offering a competition to win 1 of 3 copies of A Mother's Christmas Wish and you can enter the competition here.

My 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 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

Paperback publication day for A Mother's Christmas Wish

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.

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Win signed copy of A Mother's Christmas Wish and a box of chocs!

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.

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

My interview in The Bookseller magazine

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

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Community and cornets - my writing week

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 with my new novel, A Mother's Christmas Wish.

I was on the front cover of The Sunderland Echo, my local newspaper, with a feature on my new book A Mother's Christmas Wish  and a competition to win signed copies and a chocolate hamper. 

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.

I donated 30 books to Saint Paul's church Christmas Fayre and sold them within the hour. All money went to Saint Paul's church. It's fantastic talking to readers of my books and I love these events.

I gave a talk at Chester-le-Street library for their monthly book group, which went very well and it was an honour to be invited. I also told the group about my next novels which are set in their town.

I also helped out at Sunderland Antiquarian Society this week where they were stuffing envelopes with their Christmas newsletter. With almost 1,500 members, it was all hands to the pumps to get the newsletters into envelopes. And each newsletter carries a flyer inside to help promote my Christmas novel A Mother's Christmas Wish.  

And I even found time to start planning the first in my trilogy of The Toffee Factory Girls 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

Listen to my interview with BBC Radio Newcastle

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.

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

No shrinking violets - Ryhope pub landladies of the 1920s

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.

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Win my new Christmas book and Rington's chocolate hamper in The Sunderland Echo

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.

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Toffee, talks, fayres and museums - my writing week

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 in the northeast. The talk was about my new novel A Mother's Christmas Wish. It was a great evening and another chance to sign books and sell them using my little SUMUP machine, which I'm slowly getting used to!

This week my new novel A Mother's Christmas Wish was featured in The Sunderland Echo with a competition to win a signed copy. Top prize also wins a chocoholics gift box from Rington's!  All details here.

I'll be supporting Museum Shop Sunday once again this year, which is on Sunday 27 November. I'll be in the museum shop at National Glass Centre Sunderland (time tbc) to sign books including my new novel A Mother's Christmas Wish. Come along, it'll be a great day and there's a Christmas craft fair on too!

Elsewhere this week, my my new novel A Mother's Christmas Wish  and The Tuppenny Child began a 99p promotion for the ebook which will last for the whole of November. 

And my cosy crime Murder at the Seaview Hotel is on a 99c promotion for Amazon ebook in the US. Buy it here.

This week I sent out my author newsletter for November. It has special offers, news and events and you can read it online here.

Next week is the official book launch for my new novel A Mother's Christmas Wish.  All welcome, please come and details are in the image below. 

And finally, a reminder that I'll be selling and signing books at Saint Paul's church Christmas Fayre on Saturday 5 November 2022. All money will be going to Saint Paul's church by way of thanks for all the help that Rev. Chadwick gives me in researching my books. See you there!

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

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Read my author newsletter for November 2022

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.

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Glenda Young

Twitter: @Flaming_Nora

Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com