by Nancy Herkness | Nov 21, 2010 | holidays, recipe, Uncategorized
I’m sure many of my friends will laugh hysterically when they see a recipe on my blog. But all my Facebook pals have asked for my world-famous Carrot and Ginger Soup recipe so I’m happy to oblige. The joke: I hate to cook and I make this soup exactly...
by Nancy Herkness | Nov 9, 2010 | Books, conference, NJRW, Romance, Uncategorized, writing
Do you like to kill people in your books? Or at least strew a dead body or two around? Then Annie Solomon’s “Plotting the Romantic Suspense Novel” workshop is for you. Boy, do I wish I had attended this one before I started Music of the Night. It...
by Nancy Herkness | Nov 4, 2010 | Books, conference, NJRW, Romance, Uncategorized, writing
At the fabulous New Jersey Romance Writers “Put Your Heart in a Book” Conference, I attended a great workshop on writing query letters. Multi-pubbed author Lisa Verge Higgins presented a well-organized, information-packed class on how to write a...
by Nancy Herkness | Oct 26, 2010 | Home, Uncategorized
My husband was sitting in the family room last night when the doorbell rang. No one was there. However, this is what met his wondering gaze: This may not look strange to you, but here’s the thing: those pumpkins were all intact when we put them on the porch. ...
by Nancy Herkness | Sep 4, 2010 | Home, Uncategorized
The tree in our back yard took a sudden dislike to our fence. It hurled not one, but two giant limbs down on top of it. This is the second limb protruding through what’s left of our fence after the first limb hit it. This is taken in our neighbor’s...