Blairsden: Grandeur and melancholy side-by-side

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...

My very brief flirtation with being a David Foster Wallace fan

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...

99-cent sale on the Whisper Horse books on #Kindle!

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...

Can you write 30,000 words in 28 days?

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...

Apology from a bad blogger

by Nancy Herkness | Jan 8, 2014 | Uncategorized, writing

Wow! I need to blog more.  I just noticed that my last entry was from nearly a month ago.  So why DON’T I blog? Excuse #1: It uses the almost the same writing muscles as fiction does, and I need to conserve energy for writing my books.  Because those are what folks...