by Nancy Herkness | Nov 4, 2010 | Books, conference, NJRW, Romance, Uncategorized, writing
At the fabulous New Jersey Romance Writers “Put Your Heart in a Book” Conference, I attended a great workshop on writing query letters. Multi-pubbed author Lisa Verge Higgins presented a well-organized, information-packed class on how to write a...
by Nancy Herkness | Oct 26, 2010 | Home, Uncategorized
My husband was sitting in the family room last night when the doorbell rang. No one was there. However, this is what met his wondering gaze: This may not look strange to you, but here’s the thing: those pumpkins were all intact when we put them on the porch. ...
by Nancy Herkness | Sep 4, 2010 | Home, Uncategorized
The tree in our back yard took a sudden dislike to our fence. It hurled not one, but two giant limbs down on top of it. This is the second limb protruding through what’s left of our fence after the first limb hit it. This is taken in our neighbor’s...
by Nancy Herkness | Aug 8, 2010 | Adventures, Uncategorized
I go to ONE baseball game a year. ONE!! And the Yankees lost! They are not supposed to lose when I am there. After all, this is the team who’s won 27 World Series. All I need them to do is beat the Red Sox one day this year and they couldn’t manage...
by Nancy Herkness | Aug 1, 2010 | Books, Romance, RWA, Uncategorized, writing
How many of you know that the highest award a romance novelist can win is the Rita? Each year the Romance Writers of America (the largest writers’ group in the world!) honor the best books in the genre at their national conference. As you might imagine, the...