Glenda lives in the northeast where her saga novels are set. Her trilogy of sagas begins with The Toffee Factory Girls. The books are inspired by Horner’s Toffee Factory and Dainty Dinah toffee of Chester-le-Street, County Durham.

Her Ryhope sagas are set in the mining village where she grew up in the northeast. These are standalone books and can be ready in any order.

Her novel THE PAPER MILL GIRL received a commendation from the British Association of Paper Historians for accuracy of her research.

Glenda also writes Scarborough cosy crimes. These were shortlisted with Richard Osman and Val McDermid in the Dead Good Readers’ Awards 2022 for Best New Crime Series in their New Kid on the Block category.

Glenda has also built an impressive reputation as an award-winning short story writer. Her stories have been published in Take a Break, My Weekly, The People’s Friend, Best and newspapers including The Sunday Post, The Sun’s Fabulous magazine, The Mirror and The Express.

And she was one of six finalists in the coveted Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais Comedy Award.

Plus, Glenda has a unique claim to fame! She’s creator of the first ever weekly soap opera Riverside to appear in The People’s Friend, the longest running women’s magazine in the world. Riverside is now available as an audio drama at riversidethesoap.com

A life-long fan of the soap opera Coronation Street, Glenda was commissioned by ITV to write official TV tie-In books about the show.