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 | Dec 9, 2013 | Books, horses, Romance, Take Me Home, Uncategorized, West Virginia, Whisper Horse
My publisher is giving my readers a holiday gift. They’ve lowered the price of TAKE ME HOME to $1.99 on Kindle until December 28th. So treat yourself to your own little gift. Escape to the mountains for a few hours and find out how a whisper horse might...
by Nancy Herkness | Mar 19, 2013 | Books, Romance, RWA, Uncategorized, writing
Maybe I should explain what a writing challenge IS first. The most famous one I know of is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) where participants attempt to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I find this virtually impossible on two counts: 1) November...
by Nancy Herkness | Jan 3, 2013 | Books, holidays, Romance, Uncategorized
Wow! Connie Brockway has a good memory! She gives a thumbs-up to my book SHOWER OF STARS in her romance blog. SOS was originally published in 2004 so I’m delighted to have it brought to readers’ attention again. I hope you’ll check out what Connie...
by Nancy Herkness | Nov 15, 2012 | Books, Country Roads, Romance, Uncategorized
Thanks to a fellow author, Jennifer Wilck, for tagging me with the ziggy zig zag tag—“You’ve got the LOOK!” As part of this tag, I have to take my most recent work-in-progress or my current manuscript and search for the word “look,” then post the surrounding...
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...