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 | May 5, 2014 | Adventures, travel, Uncategorized
My friend Betsy and I decided it was time for another adventure so we trekked off to Peapack-Gladstone, NJ, to see the Mansion in May, a charity designer show house at a grand old mansion called Blairsden. Built at the turn of the century, Blairsden was the...
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...
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...