RISKY PURSUIT IS HERE!
High school senior Decker Savage, convinced the man with his mother is key to the disintegration of his family, follows him through dark streets, to the wrong side of the law, into unexpected relationships, and into danger that tests his courage and threatens everyone he loves. An inter-generational thriller for all ages with characters you won’t forget.
A book that you and your teen will both enjoy: an adult-YA crossover imprint.
Sam Spratford (Publishers Weekly, July 9, 2025) reports that Penguin Young Readers has partnered with Berkley Books to launch Berkley XO, an adult-YA crossover imprint featuring hybrid titles that bridge the gap between YA and adult books, such as
RISKY PURSUIT
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A gripping, page-turning mystery filled with tension and high emotional stakes. Proof that even young-adult heroes can have hidden heart and stores of great courage.
__James W. Ziskin, author of the Anthony, Barry, and Macavity award-winning Ellie Stone mysteries
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Articles
RISKY PURSUIT went on a blog tour. Here are articles I wrote for the tour.
May 3 issue
1.Aggie Mundeen, my rom-com mystery series character, grumbles about my new character, Decker Savage: Aggie Grumbles
June issue
How Writers Relax
July issue
3. Changing from Writing Rom-Com Mysteries to Adult-YA crossover suspense/thriller?
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Lessons from History
Remember when you were ten or eleven and your teacher or Sunday school teacher first exposed you to history? And later gave you a quiz?
Two teachers in Ohio, over three years, compiled some answers from their 5th and 6th graders:
Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock. Which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out, “Same to you, Brutus.”
Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted “hurrah” and that was the end of the fighting for a long time.
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Happy Reading,
Nancy