by Nancy Herkness | Aug 5, 2014 | Books, Country Roads, RWA, travel, Uncategorized, Whisper Horse, writing
On Wednesday morning, March 26th, I received a voice mail from Claudia Dain, asking me to call her back. I know who Claudia Dain is—a fabulous writer of historical romance—but I’ve never met her in person and she certainly wouldn’t call me out of the blue. Then I...
by Nancy Herkness | Aug 2, 2014 | Books, Romance, Sale, Uncategorized, Whisper Horse
Today only! All 3 books in my award-winning Whisper Horse series are $1.99 each on Kindle. Just think of that: the whole series for under $6.00! You can’t beat that for a deal! Yee-haw! Click here to buy ’em now! The prices go back up tonight at midnight!...
by Nancy Herkness | Jul 22, 2014 | Books, travel, Uncategorized, writing
I was bogged down. I could force myself to sit in the chair in front of the word processor and get words on the page, but I wasn’t inspired and I certainly wasn’t enjoying it. Not only that: I wasn’t getting enough words on the page, so I was falling behind on the...
by Nancy Herkness | Jun 24, 2014 | Books, Uncategorized, Whisper Horse
The Jersey Girls Read and Eat Book Group had a problem: they wanted to talk with me about my Whisper Horse novels which they had read, but they are located three hours away. I don’t drive over bridges (phobic), and there are several large ones between here and...
by Nancy Herkness | Mar 25, 2014 | Books, Uncategorized, writing
I was originally seduced by the commencement speech David Foster Wallace gave at Kenyon College in 2005, titled “This is Water”. Of course, David Foster Wallace is a name you hear all the time, a towering figure in the world of modern literature. (There’s something...
by Nancy Herkness | Mar 19, 2014 | Books, Country Roads, horses, Romance, Sale, Take Me Home, Uncategorized, West Virginia, Whisper Horse
Yeehaw! My publisher has put my two Whisper Horse novels, Take Me Home and Country Roads, on sale on Kindle for 99 cents(!) each until Sunday, March 23rd! Here’s the link to them on the Kindle Love Stories blog. To my loyal readers who have already purchased my...