This has been one heck of a week!  I was invited to speak on my cosy crimes at the Cheshire Crime Writers Festival. Had a wonderful time there, met some great people and thoroughly enjoyed it. Here are some of my pics from the event. I'm in the pink top with Sandra Mangan from the great Crime Fiction Lover website. And this picture is from Sandra Mangan of Crime Fiction Lover website. It shows me on the stage talking about my cosy crimes. Besides me is author Fiona Veitch-Smith who was there to speak about her golden age mysteries. Also this week I began thinking about plotting out my novel The Bakery Girls.  Those sheets of paper represent three chapters, or 6,000 words. I plot and plan now and start writing in March. I'm delighted to say my books are now in Felling Volunteer Library in the northeast and they made me author of the month! My novel Celebrations at the Toffee Factory arrived from my publisher. Advance copies have all been sent this week to everyone who helped me with research. If that includes you, your book is on its way.  The book is out in hardback, audiobook, ebook and large print on Feb 26. Paperback is coming in May. And finally this week, huge news from Nova Mundi Studios who have announced they're developing my cosy crime books for screen.  Read the full press release here. Elsewhere this week, my novel Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls is just 99p. Download it here.  And Lumley Castle are promoting my talk with them in March for a cream tea and author talk. See the Talks and Tours tab on the events page at the castle website. And this week I went for a walk in the rain!  The walk was a guided tour of Sunderland's East End (old Sunderland), as part of my research for my next novel The Bakery Girls. I crafted another episode of my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine. I've been writing Riverside weekly since 2016 and you can find out all about it here. I also kept the Coronation Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers.  Sign up to receive my free, monthly email newsletter with competitions, events and news __ Glenda Young BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Nova Mundi Studios are delighted to announce that they are actively in development with a “cosy crime” series for television based on the incredibly popular series of best-selling novels “Murder At Th...

I've taken a few days holiday this week. It was a much needed break which comes towards the end of my researching and before I start plotting and planning The Bakery Girls. Speaking of which, my good news was included in New Writing North's newsletter this month. My monthly author newsletter went out this week and you can read it all here. Also this week, my novel Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls went on sale at just 99p for Kindle. Download it here. And by the time you're reading this blog post, I'll be on my way to Cheshire to star in the Cheshire Crime Writers Festival. I'm speaking on Sunday 8 Feb on a cosy crime panel. And when I return I'll be speaking twice in County Durham libraries in their festival of local authors.  I crafted another episode of my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine. I've been writing Riverside weekly since 2016 and you can find out all about it here. I also kept the Coronation Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers.  Sign up to receive my free, monthly email newsletter with competitions, events and news __ Glenda Young BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com

Deadly Dancing at then Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young, cosy mystery set in Scarborough. The novel opens on a bench on a Scarborough cliff top, from where

This week I've been researching again for my next novel The Bakery Girls.  I met and chatted to people from baking families in Sunderland, who ran businesses and were part of Sunderland life. It was incredible and a real honour to meet so many people and hear their stories and memories.  Elsewhere this week, The Petal Patch in Ryhope started up a new book club and the first book the members will read is my novel The Tuppenny Child. What an honour this is. I created a new competition for you to win a signed hardback copy of my new novel Celebrations at the Toffee Factory. It's the third and final toffee factory girls book in the trilogy.  Enter here and good luck! And now, before planning out The Bakery Girls, I'm going to take a short break. Once I start writing it'll be flat out working all through spring and into early summer.  Don't forget to sign up to my monthly newsletter to be the first to hear about new competitions, giveaways, events, news and special offers. Sign up here. I crafted another episode of my weekly soap opera Riverside for The People's Friend magazine. I've been writing Riverside weekly since 2016 and you can find out all about it here. I also kept the Coronation Street Blog ticking over with news and editing the team of 16 bloggers.  Sign up to receive my free, monthly email newsletter with competitions, events and news  __ Glenda Young BlueSky: @Glenda Young Facebook: GlendaYoungAuthor Website: GlendaYoungBooks.com