by Nancy Herkness | Mar 1, 2015 | Books, NJRW, Uncategorized, writing
Last month I participated in two challenges: one for my mind and one for my body. The mental challenge was Jersey Romance Writing Month (JeRoWriMo) where the goal is to write 30,000 words in 28 days. The physical challenge was to attend 30 Jazzercise classes in 35...
by Nancy Herkness | Mar 4, 2014 | Books, NJRW, Romance, Uncategorized, writing
That’s known as a writing challenge, and I took it this February, participating in (and leading, for full disclosure) Jersey Romance Writing Month (JeRoWriMo). I founded the challenge three years ago for the New Jersey Romance Writers because many of us liked the...
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...