Flaming Nora

This week I began the background reading for my next Scarborough-set cosy crime. It's going to be a lot of fun!  No details yet... I'm such a tease! After the hardback, ebook and audiobook publication last week of The Toffee Factory Girls  I received two beautiful bouquets. One from my publisher Headline (thanks, everyone!) and the other from my husband who is also my chauffeur, bodyguard, roadie, counsellor and coffee maker! The Toffee Factory Girls proof paperbacks were sent out by my publisher to reviewers, with free toffees!  Some pics already received are as follows: This one from  https://twitter.com/thebookmagnet This one from  https://twitter.com/Lindahill50Hill This one from  https://twitter.com/_chapter1_page1 This one from  https://www.instagram.com/tamisreadingcorner/ I was featured in The Halifax Courie r with my cosy crimes set in Scarborough, in a round-up of Yorkshire novels. How wonderful! Read the full article here.   It wa...

Enter to win a signed copy of any of my books shown below - sagas or cosy crime! Deadline for competition is Friday 26 April 2024 at 12 noon. Winner will be announced on this website.   Good luck, everyone! UK entrants only.   Loading… __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Well, it's a big week this week with the launch of THE TOFFEE FACTORY GIRLS in hardback, audiobook and ebook / Kindle. (The paperback is coming in May).  Got your copy yet? Order it now at bit.ly/ToffeeFactoryGirls  or ask your local library to order it for you. The first review is IN and it's a whopping 5 stars from Booklover Bev who has been with me right from the start of my writing life.  This week I visited my happy place of Scarborough for a few days R&R. While there, I called into Scarborough Waterstones where they have a table specially for my cosy crimes set in the town. I signed all of their stock so if you're after a signed book, they've got them! Also this week I gave my first talk of the year. It was a last-minute request to cover a speaker who cancelled for Ryhope Heritage Society (of which I'm a member).  It was a pleasure to give the talk which went down well by all and to share my love of researching the history and heritage of Ryhope for my his...

Congratulations go to Heather Copping who was drawn at random to win a signed hardback copy of The Toffee Factory Girls, and a box of Tofiffee. Thank you to everyone who entered the competition and if you'd like to order the book, it's here! __ Glenda Young Twitter:  @Flaming_Nora Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

Would you like to know more about the real-life locations I use in my novels?  I hope that if you read The Toffee Factory Girls or if you've read it already, that these pictures might give some context and background and add a bit of depth to the locations I've written about. 1. Horner's Toffee Factory, Chester-le-Street The most important of all of the locations in this book. Horner's Toffee Factory and the Dainty Dinah toffee brand inspired the novel, story and characters. 2.  Front Street, Chester-le-Street A lot of action in the story takes place on Front Street, which remains the main shopping street in Chester-le-Street. On the right hand side of this picture can you can see a group of women, dressed in their overalls. They are workers at Horner's toffee factory. 3. The Lambton Arms pub, Chester-le-Street The pub is where evil Frankie Ireland lives. Fortunately, Frankie's brother Jim and Jim's wife Cathy are good people who run the pub.  The pub will h...

Today's the day for the launch of my new novel, THE TOFFEE FACTORY GIRLS.   It's out in hardback, ebook and audiobook and in all libraries too.  The paperback is coming in May. Order your copy now at http://bit.ly/ToffeeFactoryGirls and I hope you really enjoy it! __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week I received this happy picture! It's Belgian journalist Dirk Musschoot who is involved with Birtley heritage society, who helped enormously researching the Belgian village of Elisabethville in Birtley, and he kindly allowed me to use his name in my book The Toffee Factory Girls.  This week I was overjoyed to see my Scarborough cosy crime Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel in the window at Sunderland Waterstones, my local bookshop!  And not only was it in the window but... ... inside Waterstones they had lots of copies of the book (all signed now) with this wonderful sign. My competition is still live to win a signed hardback copy of  The Toffee Factory Girls  with a box of Toffifee! Enter now at  https://flamingnora.blogspot.com/2024/01/competition-time-enter-to-win-signed.html Also this week I was announced as one of the speakers at this year's East Riding Festival of Words. It's held in Bridlington Library on  Saturday 16 March 2024 at 10.30am. My s...