Flaming Nora

In no particular order, here we go with my personal favourite top 10 highlights of my writing year 2021. 1. Being on the telly 2. Breaking into the top 50 UK bestsellers chart with my novel The Paper Mill Girl 3. Writing 50 episodes of my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine.  Episode 250 of Riverside was published this year. 4. Having 12 short stories published for magazines including T he People's Friend, My Weekly, Take a Break Fiction Feast and Best. 5. Donating hundreds of my novels to Ryhope Community Centre for distribution around the village (where my novels are set, and where I grew up) to those self-isolating during lockdown. 6. Making the front page of my local newspaper The Sunderland Echo and having a whole page dedicated to my novel The Miner's Lass. 7. After more than 20 years, I gave up writing the Coronation Street Weekly Updates .  You might think it odd that I'm including this as a highlight, but it was very difficult to let ...

There's a lot going on in 2021. Here's just some of the exciting events I'm looking forward to in the new year. In March, my novel The Paper Mill Girl  is released in paperback. Keep your eyes peeled for news, interviews and competitions to win copies of the books. In May, my novel The Miner's Lass  is released in hardback, ebook and audiobook.   In August, my first cosy crime novel, Murder at the Seaview Hotel   is released in hardback, ebook and audiobook.  In October,  The Miner's Lass is released in paperback.  Keep your eyes peeled for news, interviews and competitions to win copies of the books. In November,  Murder at the Seaview Hotel is released in paperback. If it's allowed by then, I'll be holding a book launch in Scarborough, where the novel is set. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor