Debbie Young writes warm, witty, feelgood fiction inspired by life in the English village where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her Sophie Sayers Village Mystery series, comprising a planned seven cosy mystery novels, will together run the course of a village year, from one summer to the next. The series is inspired and informed by the Cotswold village in which she lives with her Scottish husband and their teenage daughter, and where she has served on many village committees for the last 20+ years. She also writes short stories which feature in many anthologies, and she performs regularly at regional events such as the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Bristol Literature Festival and Stroud Short Stories, as well as the Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival of which she is founder and director. She also writes two popular columns in regional magazines, is a regular panellist on BBC Radio Gloucestershire's monthly Book Club programme, and is a frequent contributor to other regional radio stations around the country. She has been blogging about her writing life since 2010 and has over 10k followers on Twitter. She is an ambassador for the British children's reading charity Readathon and for the Type 1 diabetes research charity JDRF.