Flaming Nora

It's paperback publication day today of my latest novel published by Headline. 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 for sale in Asda, Morrisons, Tesco, Waterstones, all good bookshops and online. Thank you so much! __ Glenda Young BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week I began editing the first draft of my next novel The Bakery Girls. It'll be published in 2027 with Headline and you can pre-order it now right here.    The cover has been done and I revealed it this week, to a wonderful reception. Many readers say it's their most favourite cover yet. I wrote an article on The Real Toffee Factory Which Inspired my Books. Read my article for Women Writers, Women Books at  https://booksbywomen.org/the-real-toffee-factory-which-inspired-my-books/ I was interviewed on BBC Radio Newcastle by presenter Anna Foster about my new book. You can listen to the full interview on BBC Sounds here. There was a wonderful review of Celebrations at the Toffee Factory, out next week in paperback! - in The Blackpool Gazette which was syndicated to a great number of other local newspapers too.  You can read the full review here. And I had the most wonderful evening at Sunderland College in their City Bistro. I was an invited guest to a special di...

Today I was honoured to be invited into BBC Radio Newcastle. I was interviewed by presenter Anna Foster who wanted to know all about my writing life and my new book coming out next week - Celebrations at the Toffee Factory. You can listen to the full interview on  BBC Sounds here. __ Glenda Young BlueSky:  @Glenda Young Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor Website:  GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week I hit a milestone when I type THE END on the first draft of The Bakery Girls.  However, there's still a long way to go with weeks of editing ahead, to get the draft into shape to send to my publisher Headline. This week I went out my author newsletter to my growing number of subscribers.  You can read the newsletter online, it contains two competitions to win free goodies.  Read it online here. Also this week I started gearing up to a month full of book launches.  The first one is at Featherbed books on Thursday 21 May, which is the release day in paperback of my third and final saga in the toffee factory trilogy. All events are free, do come if you can. I'm also giving a talk at The Donnison School in Sunderland. This one has a ticket price of £5 and it's a fantastic venue and heritage centre to support.  Buy your ticket here. The full list of all of my book launches and talks this month can be found on my website here. This week I had a short story p...

This week I've continued to make good progress writing the first draft of  The Bakery Girls .   I aim to finish the book soon and then there's weeks of editing and rewriting to do. My author newsletter for May was sent to subscribers today. It has two competitions and some special news in it.   Read it online here . I started to plan for the book launch of the final book in the Toffee Factory Girls trilogy. It's released on May 21 and is called  Celebrations at the Toffee Factory. I visited a brand new Waterstones store in the Arnison Centre, Durham.  It's wonderful to see new bookshops opening, and great to see my books on the shelves. This week I also gave a talk at Guisborough Library for World Book Night. It was a talk about my Scarborough cosy crimes and I really enjoyed it. I received some wonderful feedback too. Thank you to everyone who came and made the event so special. The winner was announced in my latest competition.  Was it you? Find...