Flaming Nora

I'm overjoyed (and that's putting it mildly) to announce that my novel The Paper Mill Girl  has made it into the official UK Top 50 list of bestselling books. Okay, she's only at number 49, but she's made the list and I couldn't be more happy and proud. For the last few weeks, the book has been bubbling under the bestselling list in The Heatseeker's chart, for those authors (me) who haven't been in the main bestselling list before. She entered the Heatseekers chart at number 11, rose to number 3 and the following week was still there, hanging on in third place. And now this! She's made the leap from the Heatseekers chart to the main official UK top 50.  I am very happy indeed.  Thank you to everyone who has bought the book and enjoyed it. __ Glenda Young Author of Sagas & Cosy Crime novels, published by Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

This week I'm writer of the week at The People's Friend magazine website. What a treat!  I talk about writing my weekly soap opera Riverside for the magazine each week and a little about my writing routine when I'm writing novels.  This week in the magazine, as well as my weekly soap opera Riverside, I've also got a magical, contemporary, fairytale short story called Three Wishes which I wrote during last year's lockdown. You can read it all here. __ Glenda Young Author of Sagas & Cosy Crime novels, published by Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

This week has meant a new start. It's the beginning of a month of research for my second cosy crime novel Set for Murder at the Seaview Hotel.  It's the second in the series of Helen Dexter cosy crimes, she's a wonderful sleuth who runs a B&B in Scarborough.  The first in the series comes out in August this year and it's here. Although I'm known as a saga writer and my sagas are hugely popular (thank you, everyone!), I'm writing sagas and cosy crimes alternatively now for the foreseeable future, which is great. It keeps the sagas fresh, new and exciting while I take time away from historical writing to have fun in a contemporary setting with my cosy crimes. And so to this week, I've been  researching. This has involved a flurry of phone calls to Scarborough and to friends in the northeast who are involved in something similar to the business in which the crime in my book is situated. I've been creating the structure of my novel in my mind, turning id...

Absolutely chuffed about this, pop-pickers!  My new novel THE PAPER MILL GIRL is a non-mover this week, remaining at number 3 in The Bookseller's Heatseekers Chart (for those bubbling under the top 50 bestsellers by authors who haven't been in the best selling chart before).  She entered the chart at number 11 to weeks ago... ...then last week went up to number 3... .. and this week, despite some very stiff competition from books written by celebrities with their own PR campaign (and I have none of this), she holds her own at the number three slot. Very happy indeed! __ Glenda Young Author of Sagas & Cosy Crime novels, published by Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

This week is the last of five weeks that I've allowed myself off to rest between writing books. And while I haven't been writing (apart from my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine) it's surprised me how much work I do on auto-pilot without thinking about it. That's why these weekly writing blog posts are important to me and why I'll keep doing them. They're a reminder of what I do outside the realm of writing, all work that goes to support my writing life.  It's a busy life, full of admin and record-keeping as I'm self-employed. I have to be my own secretary, Public Relations expert (witht he help of Hype That Publicity! ), my own Personal Assistant, hair stylist and make-up artist for when I do zooms and online talks. I have to be my own life coach,  manager, mentor and yes, it's exhausting at times. But do you know what? I wouldn't change it for the world.  And so let's have a look at what I've been up to t...

I know October is a way off yet but it'll be here before you know it.  October is when Libraries Week is celebrated.  Join me in support of Libraries Week with an online author zoom talk for Northumberland Libraries on Tuesday 5 October at 2pm. Sign up here, it's free.  I'll be chatting on about my new paperback release out in October, The Miner's Lass . There's a signed book to be won for the best question asked during the zoom! __ Glenda Young Author of Sagas & Cosy Crime novels, published by Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor

Last week my novel  The Paper Mill Girl  entered at No. 11 in the  Bookseller Heatseekers Chart!  This week it's up to No. 3. I'm over the moon! 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 Sagas & Cosy Crime novels, published by Headline Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor