Flaming Nora

This week I attended the spring fair at Arts Centre Washington to sign books and chat to people and I had a great day! I also gave a library talk at Pelton Library to celebrate Women's History Month. Really enjoyed this! I created this month's competition for you to win a free, signed book. Don't delay and enter today here. Before I began writing novels I also write TV tie-in books for ITV Coronation Street. Two of my fan books are now on sale in the official shop on the ITV Coronation Street Tour! Also this week I was very pleased to see my new novel The Toffee Factory Girls advertised in my local Sunderland Advertiser magazine. 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.  Sign up to receive my free, mo...

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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

This week has been very busy.  I've been to the Yorkshire seaside town of Bridlington where I was invited to speak at SpringFest in Bridlington library on a crime panel with author Kate Evans, chaired by author Nick Quantrill. Here I am at Bridlington library on the crime panel and under this pic are more details of their wonderful Springfest Festival of Words. Whilst in Bridlington, I signed books for the gorgeous Book Nook bookshop in the Old Town and met some readers too, always wonderful! I also had a short story published in The Sunday Post's P.S. Magazine. And this week I finished writing up my chapter plans for my next cosy crime set in Scarborough. It's always a scary moment to begin a new book, like taking the plunge from a high diving board and not knowing if you'll sink or swim. I'll begin writing next week once the busy-ness of this week has calmed from my mind. My new saga The Toffee Factory Girls was included in New Writing North's spring bookshel...

Congratulations go to Martine Townsend who has been drawn at random to win a signed copy of The Paper Mill Girl in this month's book competition. Thank you to everyone who entered and stay tuned for a new competition coming up soon. __ Glenda Young Twitter:  @Flaming_Nora Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

Date for your diary! BOOK LAUNCH Sat 25 May from 10-4 at The Lambton Arms pub in Chester-le-Street, plus an exhibition by Chester-le-Street Heritage Society on Horner's toffee factory and Dainty Dinah. I'll be joined by the lovely Featherbed Books who'll be selling my books! This week I cracked on with planning chapters and getting the plot of the story straightened brain for Scarborough cosy crime number 4 - Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel  I was overjoyed to be included in The Sunderland Echo's list of women for International Women's Day And for International Women's Day I had the best afternoon at the launch of the Rebel Women of Sunderland podcast at Sunderland University.  If you're in Bridlington Yorkshire on Sat 16 Mar I'd love to see you! In the morning, I'm part of  Festival of Words at North Bridlington library then at 2pm at The Book Nook in the Old Town, signing my Scarborough cosy crimes, so come and say hello!  I crafted another epi...

This week included World Book Day and I was interviewed on BBC York about my cosy crime series set in Scarborough.  You can listen to my interview here and my bit begins at 3.12:24 Also on World Book Day I called into Sunderland Waterstones where my new book The Toffee Factory Girls  was on sale! Hand-modelled by the lovely Waterstones' bookseller and it's signed too. And The Toffee Factory Girls  takes pride of place in my publisher Headline's choices for Mother's Day. What an honour. My Scarborough cosy crime Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel has been nominated for an award by my publisher  in The Last Laugh category for Best Humorous Crime Novel in this year's prestigious Crimefest Awards!  I was also researching my next Scarborough cosy crime for  with my 'must have' writing books before plotting my chapters next week!  While researching my next cosy crime, which stars rescue greyhound Suki,  I went for a walk with rescue greyhounds Carla and R...