Short Biography:
Nancy Herkness has written two contemporary romance novels: A Bridge to Love and Shower of Stars. Her current release, Music of the Night, is her first romantic suspense novel. She’s a member of Romance Writers of America, New Jersey Romance Writers and Novelists, Inc., and has won numerous awards for her work, including the Golden Leaf, the Write Touch Readers’ Award and the Aspen Gold. Nancy graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English literature and creative writing. A native of West Virginia, she now lives in New Jersey with her husband and two teenagers. Having recently been bitten by the knitting bug, she contributes regularly to Romancing the Yarn, a blog of “authors in search of one perfect yarn.”
Longer Biography:
Nancy Herkness has written two award-winning contemporary romance novels: A Bridge to Love and Shower of Stars. She also contributed a non-fiction essay to the anthology Welcome to Wisteria Lane: On America’s Favorite Desperate Housewives. Her current release Music of the Night combines romance and suspense.
Nancy was born and raised in the mountains of West Virginia. She majored in English at Princeton University. In addition to her academic work in literature, she was accepted into Princeton's Creative Writing Program, and her senior thesis was a volume of original poetry.
Herkness finds nothing odd about making her professional debut in the genre she calls the “Rodney Dangerfield of the literary world.” “I was trained as a poet, but from the day my grandmother gave me my first Georgette Heyer novel I wanted to write romance.” Romance novels appeal to her because the intensity of the relationships and the happy endings. Romance is the “genre of optimism, and that's why I like it,” Herkness explains.
Nancy is the winner of the Golden Leaf, Aspen Gold and Write Touch Readers’ awards for excellence in published romance. She was also chosen as one of three "Best Up and Coming Authors" for 2003 in Affaire de Coeur's Readers' Poll. She is a member of Romance Writers of America; New Jersey Romance Writers; and Novelists, Inc., and also writes book reviews, press releases and newsletters.
Having recently been bitten by the knitting bug, she contributes regularly to Romancing the Yarn, a blog of “authors in search of one perfect yarn.”