Flaming Nora

It's been another busy week and I'm loving every minute. First off, there's a new competition to win a signed hardback copy of Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls with a box of Toffifee, enter here. Also this week I revealed the title of the third book in The Toffee Factory Girls trilogy , this will be released in 2026. Haven't read the first two books yet? Catch up here! A wonderful email arrived this week from the owner of the Spa Chalet in Scarborough. Now, I've had a picture of the Spa Chalet on my wall since I was a child so this was rather exciting. There is a group of ladies booked to stay there this summer and they're a book club, reading my Scarborough cosy crime Murder at the Seaview Hotel. How brilliant is that?  I was also invited to speak to the group in exchange for a night at the chalet. Find out more about the book at http://bit.ly/MurderAtTheSeaviewHotel Elsewhere this week, I was at the Crafty Gift Shop in Chester-le-Street, near the site of ...

Would you like to win a signed hardback copy of Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls, plus a box of Toffifee toffee?  Be in with a chance to win by entering the competition below and answering correctly. All correct entries will go into a draw and a winner drawn at random. UK entries only, please. Deadline for entries is Friday 21 March 2025 at 5pm. Winner will be announced on this blog. Good luck, everyone!   Loading… __ Glenda Young X: @Flaming_Nora BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week has been another busy week and I wouldn't have it any other way!  I've finished writing the third book in The Toffee Factory Girls trilogy and have sent this to the publisher. There's still a lot of work ahead but for now I can take a well-deserved break. However, I haven't been sitting back!  In March it'll be 10 years since I left my day job to begin my writing life and so much has happened since.  There's a wonderful celebration of the last 10 years in the Sunderland Echo and you can read it all here. Also this week I was invited to take part in the Festival of Local Authors organised by Durham County Libraries. I gave a talk at a library outside of Crook in County Durham and it was wonderful. Without libraries, I wouldn't be the writer I am and I owe them everything.  Thank you to everyone who came along. And so, in celebration of 10 years of writing, I've been looking back at awards, achievements, memories. Here we go with this week's ...

My books were loaned from libraries a whopping 42,933 times between July 2023 - June 2024.  I held a competition to guess which was the most popular with library users during that time, and the winner has been drawn from the correct entries at random today. Congratulations to Susan Gibson who correctly guessed that my most borrowed book was my Scarborough crazy golf cosy crime, Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel. Discover all of my books at glendayoungbooks.com __ Glenda Young X:  @Flaming_Nora BlueSky:  @Glenda Young Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week my new novel Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls was released in hardback, ebook and audiobook.  To celebrate I went to the pub with my husband then to an Italian restaurant.  The book was given a mention in The Bookseller's Fiction Buyer's Guide, which is a seal of approval.   And my book was given a lovely half-page mention in a local magazine, with some great images too. 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, monthly email newsletter with competitions, events and news  __ Glenda Young X: @Flaming_Nora BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week I'm away (far, far away) but so much has happened that if I don't put it all in a blog post there's a danger my hard work might go by the wayside.  First off, my monthly newsletter was sent and you can read it online here https://www.facebook.com/100063588826750/posts/pfbid0zV37C6u7moHtdoik5N3hAe7ru4DWH4hnRBmKwGFUrE8RtYM3eHLXqUfbi786awdol/ And now, here we go with the news: This week I've been featured in a great deal of media, print and online, for various reasons... as follows: New Writing North newsletter  https://newwritingnorth.createsend1.com/t/j-e-wohtuy-yduiudwtl-dd Sunderland University news https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/more/news/university-news/2025/glenda-young-sunderland-university The Northern Echo  https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24900556.sunderland-university-graduate-raises-10k-charity The Northern Echo (again, on a different story) https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24896538.author-release-second-book-set-chester-le-street Further E...