Flaming Nora

This week I began researching in earnest. This is for my trilogy of novels inspired by Dainty Dinah (Horner's) toffee factory in Chester-le-Street. This week involved meeting a local historian and joining a new library. 4 months of research lie ahead and it's very exciting indeed. Each time I research a new book I like to have an item related to the book which I pin to my writing board for inspiration. So far these have included a scarlet ribbon, a red feather and a silver sixpence. For my Toffee Factory Girls books I've bought an antique Dainty Dinah toffee tin Elsewhere this week, my Christmas saga A Mother's Christmas Wish  was included in The Bookseller's preview of fiction coming out in November. It's already getting 5 star reviews from readers of the ebook, hardback and listeners to the audiobook. Fabulous! It's my favourite, so far.  Buy it here bit.ly/AMothersChristmasWish If you're reading this blog post before Saturday 10th September, there...

This week has been another week of planning research for my next trilogy of books. These have been inspired by a northeast toffee factory and the women who worked there before, during and after the first world war. I can't wait to start researching for this series of books and so am working my way through museums and archives online with a view to booking time to visit many of them in the coming weeks.  This week I sent out my author newsletter for September. You can read it online here . And if you'd like to subscribe to it - it's just one per month - you can do so here and read past newsletters here  too. My new saga A Mother's Christmas Wish  i s out now in ebook, hardback and audiobook. I was delighted to see the paperback previewed in The Bookseller magazine's preview of paperbacks for November 2022. Elsewhere this week I celebrated my 300th episode of my weekly soap opera Riverside, which I write for The People's Friend magazine.  It was a special episode ...

My author newsletter for September 2022 has now gone out and you can read it online here. __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

We have a winner!  Thank you to everyone who entered the competition to win a signed, hardback copy of my new saga A Mother's Christmas Wish and a box of Milk Tray chocs. I had a fantastic reaction to this competition with a ton of entries. As always, I used the online random number generator to pick the winner from all of the correct entries and the winner is Touran Parsee. Congratulations, Touran and thank you again to everyone who entered and for all of your support. You can buy the book here - http://bit.ly/AMothersChristmasWish __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week I've been putting together a research schedule for the next trilogy of books that I'll be writing set in a northeast toffee factory around the first world war. I've also been working on PR for my new saga and drafting a short story to enter into the Comedy Women in Print short story award later this year.  Last week included the launch of my new book out in hardback, audiobook and ebook. Since writing last week's Writing Week blog post, I received a beautiful bouquet from my publisher Headline on publication of my new saga, A Mother's Christmas Wish.  I had a very productive meeting with Claire of Hype That PR to arrange local and regional publicity for the paperback release in November of my new Christmas saga set in 1923. It celebrates the Irish tradition of Nollaig na mBan, the Women's Christmas.   There's still time to enter my competition to win a signed copy with chocs! Enter here. I'm now taking bookings for a FREE walk around Ryhope sh...

Social media sensation NorthEastNostalgic has been on a tour of Ryhope where I showed her the locations in my novels.  She's put a TikTok video together which you can watch below. What an honour! @northeastnostalgic #ryhope #ryhopevillage #sunderland #sunderlandhistory #northeastengland #didyouknow #learnontiktok #booktok #booktiktok #durham ♬ august - Taylor Swift __ Glenda Young Twitter: @Flaming_Nora Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

This week has been another major week!  My Christmas saga, A Mother's Christmas Wish, was released in hardback and e-book. The paperback is out in November.  You can order it from here - bit.ly/AMothersChristmasWish You can enter my competition to win a signed copy of the new book with a box of chocolates too. Enter here. Also this week, I've been putting together a research plan to research the trilogy of books I'm writing next. They're set in a toffee factory in the northeast (that no longer exists). While I haven't been doing any novel writing during August, I have been very busy planning my research for the new books and am really excited about it all, starting in September. It includes three days in Yorkshire too... but I'm not about to spoil any surprises here.  You can read more on my toffee factory girls trilogy here. Also this week, I did a book signing in Sunderland Waterstones for my Scarborough-set cosy crime Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel . A fa...