by Nancy Herkness | Jul 13, 2012 | Books, Romance, Uncategorized, writing
One of my blog readers asked me to go back a step from my previous blog, and talk about how to find an agent or editor. I responded in the comments, but thought perhaps I should post it as a separate blog entry so more interested parties might read it. Below is a...
by Nancy Herkness | Jul 1, 2012 | Books, Romance, Uncategorized, writing
Several people have asked me what’s going on with my upcoming book Take Me Home (being released November 6th, for those who didn’t hear my original shouts of joy). So I thought I’d explain the steps it takes for a book to go from being a manuscript to being opened by...
by Nancy Herkness | Feb 15, 2012 | Adventures, travel, Uncategorized
In my last post I talked about all of the new buildings rising up from the ashes of the World Trade Center site. Of course, it is also the site of a terrible tragedy and everyone who works there is very aware of that. The 9/11 museum which is actually under the site...
by Nancy Herkness | Feb 7, 2012 | Adventures, travel, Uncategorized
We have our very own hometown hero here in Glen Ridge: Steve Plate, the Director of Construction for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It’s quite a title because he has quite a job: directing the construction of the entire World Trade Center site....
by Nancy Herkness | Jan 27, 2012 | Family, travel, Uncategorized
Handsome Husband and I like to go way, way south to get warm after Christmas. Being wanderers, we rarely go to the same Caribbean island twice. So this year we checked out the Turks and Caicos, staying on the island of Providenciales. My father, who commanded a...