Flaming Nora

*COVER REVEAL*   My crazy golf cosy crime set in Scarborough, Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel. Published in September by Headline at bit.ly/FoulPlayAtTheSeaviewHotel __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

It's been an exciting week. Here are some pictures from my talk as a guest speaker at the Tyne and Wear South Women's Institute Spring Meeting. An incredible, friendly event. It was an honour to be invited. The lady in red, below is Kim McGuinness, Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, who was the morning's guest speaker. I spent some of this week in Wrexham where I'd been invited to speak at Wrexham Carnival of Words. What an honour! Thank you everyone who came to my talk and special thanks to Clare Ann for interviewing me. My novel The Sixpenny Orphan was featured in Northern Life magazine as one of the "Best in Northern Writing" books coming out in May. What a treat.  You can see the other books here. And it's the last week when you can treat yourself to The Miner's Lass. A gritty, dramatic saga that was inspired by three words on a 1919 map of old Ryhope... "The Blood Pit" where bare knuckle fighting took place.  Just 99p during Ap...

This week I received two huge boxes of the paperback version of my new novel The Sixpenny Orphan . It's out in paperback on May 11 but I've received my copies early, in time for the book launch at Ryhope Community Centre on Tuesday 9 May at 1.30pm. All welcome.  Buy it here . Called into Waterstones Sunderland to sign stock of my books! On Wednesday 19th April I was invited by the Friends of Washington Old Hall to speak at their beautiful, historic building. And received this wonderful comment when I returned. I packed 160 goody bags for members of the Womens Institute spring meeting where I've been invited to speak this weekend. What an honour. Nervous? A bit! Excited? A lot!  I'm spending the whole day with the WI at their invitation, too. I was included in Living North's magazine about local crime writers to watch. And here's news of an event a local, independent bookshop Featherbed Books at Houghton-le-Spring, which I'm doing on Wednesday May 10. All wel...

This week, the pressure has been off since I submitted The Toffee Factory Girls (book one of three!) to my publisher.   I've enjoyed the long, Easter weekend and have even written a short story which I've submitted to a magazine. Keep your fingers crossed for me.  Received a nice surprise this week from Fantastic Fiction website who include me in their Top 20 most popular saga authors! See fantasticfiction.com/genres/?gp=A    I had a celebrity endorsement this week. This is from Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics in response to a post on Facebook about my upcoming novel The Sixpenny Orphan .    Dave hails from Sunderland, hence his interest in my books. Elswhere this week, I attended the monthly meeting of Ryhope Heritage Society. Ryhope is the village where my historical sagas are set and where I was born and bred. This month they showed an amazing fim called “Ryhope Our Mining Village”. The meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month. All wel...

This week I pressed SEND on the manuscript of the first in the trilogy, The Toffee Factory Girls .  It's now with my publisher, who'll return it to me in a few months' time with structural edits. Then it's back and forward between author and publisher to polish the book and make it the best it can be.  I need to start researching the next book in this series and begin writing it, later this year. Until then, I have a few months where I can let my mind wander in all kinds of strange, creative directions and I'm looking forward to see what happens.  Also, this week, my third, upcoming cosy crime novel Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel  published later this year with Headline, was featured in The Bookseller magazine as an agents' top tips for a script!  What an honour.  Set during the miners' strike of 1921, my novel The Miner's Lass is just 99p during April at http://bit.ly/TheMinersLass published by Headline I received three copies of the Large Print  ver...