Flaming Nora

We have a winner! Congratulations to go Alyson Hilbourne who has been drawn at random to win a signed copy of Celebrations at the Toffee Factory and a box of toffees. Prize will be sent today.  Thank you to everyone who entered. You can buy my new book at bit.ly/ToffeeCelebrations __ Glenda Young BlueSky:  @Glenda Young Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

Ooh! Another busy week and I'm loving it. This week was the launch in hardback, ebook, audiobook and large print of the final book in the trilogy Celebrations at the Toffee Factory. First off here's the real life Dirk who I named my character after in my book - Celebrations at the Toffee Factory.  This smashing man is Dirk Musschoot, a Belgian, who helped me with the research into the Belgian Birtley town of Elisabethville. This was also the week when I began writing my next historical saga The Bakery Girls.  It's set in the slums of the East End of Sunderland in 1902. It's going great so far. 4 chapters written, 41 to go! You can read an exclusive extract from Celebrations at the Toffee Factory at http://glendayoungbooks.com/celebrations And the book launch is tomorrow - all welcome! Plus my publisher Headline is offering you the chance to win all three books and toffees. Enter here . And I was interviewed live on BBC Radio York this week, talking about the TV develop...

It's publication day of the latest novel from Glenda Young Celebrations at the Toffee Factory is the third and final book in the toffee factory girls trilogy.  It's the end of WW1 and the factory celebrates. However, while the Great War has ended, Jack's toffee factory struggles after years of sugar rations and its troubles are far from over. Order your copy now.  It's out today in hardback, ebook and audiobook (paperback is coming in May). __ Glenda Young BlueSky:  @Glenda Young Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

This has been a very good week indeed. And it's the last "free" week I'll have before I begin writing The Bakery Girls. .. gulp, tomorrow.  I'll be in a different head space then until summer! Lumley Castle are advertising my talk with a cream tea for the Sunday after Mother's Day. Tickets would make an ideal present for yourself or for someone you know who loves books and cream teas in a unique setting.  See the Talks and Teas link at the castle website.   A reminder that Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girl s is just 99p this month. Download it here. My publisher Headline promoted my book The Toffee Factory Girls for Galentine's Day!  And one week today I'll be signing books in Chester-le-Street at the Crafty Gift Shop when the hardback, audiobook, ebook and large print of Celebrations at the Toffee Factory is released on Thursday 26 Feb. Speaking of which, you'll notice a different cover for the paperback, below, which comes out in May. Sign up ...

I've taken a few days holiday this week. It was a much needed break which comes towards the end of my researching and before I start plotting and planning The Bakery Girls. Speaking of which, my good news was included in New Writing North's newsletter this month. My monthly author newsletter went out this week and you can read it all here . Also this week, my novel Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls  went on sale at just 99p for Kindle. Download it here. And by the time you're reading this blog post, I'll be on my way to Cheshire to star in the Cheshire Crime Writers Festival. I'm speaking on Sunday 8 Feb on a cosy crime panel. And when I return I'll be speaking twice in County Durham libraries in their festival of local authors.  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 S...