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| Taking inspiration from her home in the Cotswolds |
Debbie Young writes warm, witty feel-good fiction, and her latest book is Best Murder in Show, the first in a new cosy mystery series set in the fictitious village of Wendlebury Barrow, featuring aspiring writer and inadvertent sleuth Sophie Sayers and her love interest, the charismatic local bookseller Hector Munro. There will be two further Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries in 2017 - Trick or Murder?, set at Halloween, and Murder in the Manger. You don't have to be a detective to work out that one is set at Christmas. Initially seven books are planned in the series, which will run the course of a village year.
She has also published three themed collections of short stories and flash fiction: Quick Change: 20 Tiny Tales of Transformation, Marry in Haste: 15 Short Stories of Dating, Love & Marriage, and Stocking Fillers: 12 Short Stories for Christmas. She does like a nice obvious title.
Author Advice
When she's not writing, she's networking with other indie authors, via her role as Commissioning Editor of the Alliance of Independent Authors' (ALLi) Advice Centre blog, and by running local meetup groups for ALLi in Cheltenham and Bristol, and co-running one in Oxford.
Lit Fest Director
She is the founder and director of the free Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival, which celebrates a love of books and reading on the closest Saturday to Shakespeare's birthday.
Columnist
Broadcaster & Speaker
A regular guest on BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Book Club slot on Dominic Cotter's lunchtime show, Debbie loves doing radio and giving talks about writing and self-publishing.She is also an official speaker for JDRF, the leading charitable fundraiser for research into better therapy and a cure for Type 1 diabetes, which affects her husband and daughter.
Reader & Reviewer
She is also an avid reader, reviewing every book she enjoys to share the pleasure, and an ambassador for the children's reading charity Readathon.
Personal Life
She lives with her Scottish husband and teenage daughter in the Cotswolds, when not off in search of adventure and internet black spots (peace at last!) in the family camper van.
Every time she writes her author bio, she realises why she is permanently tired.
For more about Debbie's writing life, visit her website: www.authordebbieyoung.com.
You'll also find her on Facebook here and on Twitter as @DebbieYoungBN.
You may order her books at any bookshop by quoting their ISBNs, and they're also for sale via Amazon and other eretailing sites - here's her Amazon author page to get them all in one handy spot:
