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| Taking inspiration from her home in the Cotswolds |
Debbie Young writes warm, witty feel-good fiction, and is currently having fun writing the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries, a seven-book series that runs the course of a village year from one summer to the next.The first is Best Murder in Show, which introduces fictitious village of Wendlebury Barrow, aspiring writer and inadvertent sleuth Sophie Sayers and her love interest, the charismatic local bookseller Hector Munro. The second, Trick or Murder?, is set at Halloween, and the third, a Christmas special, Murder in the Manger, is a jolly romp set around a traditional village nativity play. She's now writing the fourth in the series, Murder by the Book, which leads up to Valentine's Day.
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 Publications Manager of the Alliance of Independent Authors' (ALLi), which includes being Commissioning Editor of their Advice Centre blog. She also runs local meetup groups for ALLi in Cheltenham and Bristol.
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
Debbie is 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:
