Flaming Nora

My novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon , is now just 99p for ebook during May.  It's set in 1919 in a northeast pit village and Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast. What a bargain! Download it here > http://bit.ly/GirlWithTheScarletRibbon   __ Glenda Young Author of Sagas & Cosy Crime novels, published by Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

The ladies of Roker Life book group invited me to join them by zoom to discuss my novel  The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon   which was chosen as their first book to read. We all wore our scarlet ribbons too! (Photograph shared with permission).  The book club really enjoyed the novel and will be reading another of my novels, Pearl of Pit Lane next. What an honour!   __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Thank you to North East Lifestyle magazine for beautiful review of THE GIRL WITH THE SCARLET RIBBON in December's magazine.  They say this about my book and I couldn't be happier! "Beautifully written and well researched, Glenda Young brings the people and places of the North East to life. Highly recommended."  __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline    Twitter:  @Flaming_Nora Facebook:  GlendaYoungAuthor

My latest novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon  gets a glowing review in this week's The People's Friend magazine, which is in the shops now.   My thanks to freelance writer and book blogger Karen Byrom and to the magazine for all of their support. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Absolutely over the moon that my novel "The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon" is up to No. 13 in this week's B ookseller Heatseekers Chart!   The Heatseekers Chart is for those bubbling under the top 50 bestsellers by authors who haven't been in the best selling chart before.  __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Really chuffed to see my latest novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon featured as a Super Saga in the My Weekly Special magazine, which is in the shops today. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

With the paperback release of my fourth novel  THE GIRL WITH THE SCARLET RIBBON  earlier this month, I've been rather busy media-wise.   Pushing myself forward for promotion in this way is never easy. It's hard to make a song and dance about myself when I'm not a song and dance kind of girl.  And so I'm enormously proud of myself for the following this week: The book shot into the Bookseller's Heatseekers Chart at No. 20. More on that here . Featured in Sunderland Vibe magazine. I had a short story included in My Weekly magazine where there was also a competition to win 10 copies of the novel. And there was a lovely little mention of the novel in this week's People's Friend magazine, at the end of this week's episode of my weekly soap opera Riverside. Last week all of this happened: Isn't Yorkshire wonderful? Featured in  The Scarborough News  and  The Whitby Gazette  and  Yorkshire Evening Post Featured in  Inside Soap magaz...

I've a short story in the current edition of My Weekly magazine. It's a WW1 romance story and it's really lovely. There's also a competition at the end of the story in which you can win one of ten copies of my new novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon.  __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

The new Sunderland Vibe magazine is out now and they very kindly feature me inside the magazine, in a wonderful spread called Writing Sunderland Sagas. You can read my feature here. You can read the whole magazine online here. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Absolutely over the moon that THE GIRL WITH THE SCARLET RIBBON has shot into  The Bookseller's Heatseekers Chart at No. 20 this week! The Heatseekers Chart is for those bubbling under the main top 50 bestselling books, and I couldn't be happier.  __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

With the paperback release of  THE GIRL WITH THE SCARLET RIBBON  last week, I've been rather busy media-wise.   Think I've got someone working on all of this promotion for me? Think again. It's all part of being a writer and not something I find easy to do. Pushing myself forward is never easy. It's hard to make a song and dance about myself when I'm not a song and dance kind of girl. And so I'm enormously proud of myself for the following this week.  Isn't Yorkshire wonderful?  Featured in The Scarborough News  and The Whitby Gazette and Yorkshire Evening Post Featured in Inside Soap magazine Featured in Books by Women chatting about my choice of locations in the book Reviewed in  Peterborough Telegraph  (this one came via my publisher, Headline) The novel went on a blog tour and you can read all the reviews here.  (Blog tour organised by my publisher, Headline). Plus, I had two short stories published. A contemplative, uplifting aut...

I've written a really lovely article for the Books by Women website on why I chose to set my new novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon  between Scarborough and Ryhope.   I explain about my research process, about spending time in Scarborough not as a tourist this time, but as a writer, and about how a coincidence brought the two locations together.  You can read it all here. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

It continues to be a very exciting week around publicity for The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon.  So far this week my new novel  The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon  has been featured in  The Scarborough News ,  Yorkshire Evening Post , Whitby Gazette   and  Inside Soap magazine . Today I'm featured in The Peterborough Telegraph and you can read their lovely little review, below. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

It's been quite a week - and it's only Wednesday! So far this week my new novel  The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon  has been featured in  The Scarborough News , Yorkshire Evening Post   and  Inside Soap magazine . Today I'm featured in Whitby Gazette and  if you'd like to read it, it's here. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

It's been quite a week - and it's only Tuesday! So far this week my new novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon  has been featured in The Scarborough News and Inside Soap magazine . Today I'm featured in Yorkshire Evening Post and if you'd like to read it, it's here. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

With huge thanks to all at Inside Soap magazine for featuring my new novel  The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon  on the HotList! in this week's magazine.   Check out  Inside Soap magazine  online, they're fab! __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

My new novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon  is set between the northeast pit village of Ryhope where I was born and bred, and the fishing and seaside town of Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast. I adore Scarborough, for all kinds of reasons and have included a bonus chapter in the book headed Why I love Scarborough. Therefore, I'm overjoyed to be featured in The Scarborough News, it's a lovely interview and if you'd like to, you can read it here. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

My new novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon  is out this week in paperback and what a busy week or promotion it's been - and exciting too. There's a very dramatic event which takes place in the book. It's something that changes the fortunes of everyone involved.  And it was inspired by this old advert for a steam ship journey which I found while researching for the book.  The advert offers a journey by steam ship from London to Sunderland via Scarborough. And as luck would have it, my book was set between Sunderland and Scarborough. It seemed a stroke of good fortune to come across this advert and I knew I had to use it somehow in the book as inspiration for part of the story.  You might also like to read and see pictures of  5 Locations in The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

My new novel The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon  has been on a blog tour this week and you can read the wonderful reviews of the book as follows:  MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER - GINGER BOOK GEEK I was drawn to ‘The Girl With The Scarlet Ribbon’ by two words- Glenda Young.  That was enough for me.  I knew that any book written by her would be a brilliant, emotional and unputdownable read.  I wasn’t wrong either.  I read this book in one long reading binge because I couldn’t bear to be parted from the book for any length of time, for fear of missing something.    ‘The Girl With The Scarlet Ribbon’ is superbly written but then I think that to be true of all of Glenda’s books that I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing.  She writes emotional stories that really do get under your skin and you begin to feel every emotion that the characters are going through.  Glenda draws you into the story from the very start and then takes you on one heck of...

Frost magazine asked me how I write and I was only too happy to chat to them and tell them all about my writing process. If you'd like to read it, it's here. __ Glenda Young Author of historical novels with Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor