I’m having a party! Join the fun!

by Nancy Herkness | Sep 4, 2013 | Books, Country Roads, Take Me Home, Uncategorized, West Virginia, Whisper Horse, writing

Join my Country Roads Launch Party on Facebook!  I have prizes, special guests, trivia, and lots of fun.  To accept my invitation, just click on one—or both!—of the parties below:  Country Roads Afternoon Launch Party Tuesday, September 17th from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m....

Yeehaw! My home state got its own stamp!

by Nancy Herkness | Aug 19, 2013 | Country Roads, Take Me Home, Uncategorized, West Virginia

I walked into the post office this morning and saw my home state of West Virginia on the new stamp display (so of course I bought a sheet).  It’s our 150th birthday of statehood! How pretty is this mountain sunrise?! Here’s what the U.S.P.S. has to say...

Good luck using your cell phone here!

by Nancy Herkness | Jul 30, 2013 | Home, Uncategorized, West Virginia

Did you know the United States enforces strict limits on the placement and broadcast power of cell phone towers and other transmitters in over 13,000 square miles in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia?  It’s true! Why this National Radio Quiet Zone?...

The deleted verse

by Nancy Herkness | Apr 23, 2013 | Country Roads, Home, Take Me Home, Uncategorized, West Virginia

You may have noticed that my book titles are borrowed from the lyrics of John Denver’s famous song about West Virginia “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”  What you may not know—I didn’t!—is that there was originally one more verse that the lyricist Taffy Nivert Danoff and...

Bill for compulsory science fiction in West Virginia schools | Books | guardian.co.uk

by Nancy Herkness | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized, West Virginia

I think my home state has a darned good idea with this! I enjoy science fiction myself (old style Trekkie here!) and think it can be very mind-expanding.  Go, mountaineers! A bill calling for science fiction to be made compulsory reading in schools has been proposed...

Paint the town chocolate!

by Nancy Herkness | Apr 16, 2013 | Adventures, Home, Take Me Home, travel, Uncategorized, West Virginia

I was visiting my folks in my hometown of Lewisburg, West Virginia, when–serendipity!–I discovered they were holding the Seventh Annual Chocolate Festival.  Since I am an unrepentant chocoholic, I insisted my husband accompany me to check it out. There was...