Flaming Nora

Enter to win a signed copy of your choice of one of my historical sagas. Deadline for competition is Wednesday 29 November 2023 at 5pm. Winner will be announced on this website.  Good luck, everyone!  UK entrants only.   Loading… __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

We have a winner! Congratulations go to Irene Oliver who has won a signed book in this month's competition.  Irene has chosen a copy of my saga The Sixpenny Orphan, which will be on its way to her this week. You can enter November's competition here - good luck! __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week I've been writing more of the first draft of book 2 in the Toffee Factory Girls trilogy. I'm making good progress with it and am due to be finished the first draft at the end of January 2024. In between writing, I had a few days' holiday to Scarborough where I stayed at the Headlands Hotel, who are big fans of the books.  It's a beautiful hotel and I highly recommend it, their website is  https://theheadlandshotel.co.uk/  and here I am in their reception area (I'm the one in the pink). This week there was a smashing article in The Journal newspaper about Weardale Wordfest, which takes place on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 October in Stanhope, County Durham. I'm giving a talk on Saturday at 1.30pm, all welcome and it's free. All details here. While in Scarborough I popped into Waterstones there and signed a huge pile of books of my Scarborough cosy crimes. Thank you booksellers, for all of your support! And I was overjoyed to see my Scarborough cosy cr...

This week I gave the inaugural talk at Sunderland Libraries Literature Festival. What an honour that was. Thank you to everyone who came. I also met the recipient of the Glenda Young Award for Creative Writing at the University of Sunderland.  No pictures here as it was a private meeting but I'm extremely proud of being able to sponsor a student this way. I had a short story called Belles of the Ball , about a woman's football team, published in The People's Friend Special this week. And my novel A Mother's Christmas Wish  is only 99p this month at http://bit.ly/AMothersChristmasWish Lauren Laverne at BBC 6 Music radio station gave me a shout out on The People's Pinboard on Monday 16 October, it was about my author talk at Sunderland libraries literature festival. What a joy. 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 abou...

This week my new cosy crime Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel was listed in The Bookseller magazine as one to watch at the Frankfurt Book fair this year. What an honour. It was a big week for me as I began writing the second in the trilogy of The Toffee Factory Girls. My books were spotted for sale in the beautiful gift shop at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland. I had a short story published this week in The People's Friend magazine. It was a fun story about Friday 13th being lucky for one woman, and I was featured on the cover too. The Italian version of my Scarborough cosy crime Murder at the Seaview Hotel was featured in an article in The Scarborough News. Read it all online here. Also this week I signed copies of my new cosy crime in Waterstones Sunderland.  And I gave an author talk at Yarm Library in Stockton-on-Tees, which I really enjoyed. Thank you everyone who came along! Here I am with Mel from Drake the Bookshop who was on hand to sell books at the talk. My talk at ne...

There's a lot of catch up on in this week's writing week as I've been away on holiday for almost two weeks. However, lots of things have been happening in my writing world even though I was away, and it's been crazy business since I returned.... so here we go! My author newsletter for October 2023 was sent out with a 99p offer and a competition. You can read it all here. I was featured and interviewed in the first ever edition of Key Worker magazine. See page 70 here . My Scarborough cosy crime Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel was featured in New Writing North's autumn bookshelf.  Thank you to them so much! Stockton on Tees libraries gave me this wonderful display. It's to promote my talk at Yarm Library on Saturday 7 October at 2.15pm. All welcome, do come! I was interviewed on BBC Radio Newcastle about my new Scarborough cosy crime Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel. My book was given a fantastic review from the prestigious Crime Fiction Lover website. You can read ...