Meet the Author
When Nancy was seven years old, she and her mother wrote poems to each other on special occasions. The poetry was awful, but Nancy learned that written words have value.
In high school, Library Journal’s Pegasus published her poem, a feat she ranked beneath cheer-leading. At eighteen, with journalists underpaid and English major graduates selling lingerie, she slogged through spectacularly unimaginative courses in Business Administration at the University of Texas and earned a BBA. Fortunately, she took a creative writing course.
Married, with two daughters, she read numerous books on writing and wrote articles, poetry, and the biography of artist Jose Vives-Atsara (Shoal Creek Publishers). She founded Book Publishers of Texas, where she produced the association’s trade journal and promoted members’ books for seven years.
Returning to college to earn her MA, she studied English literature and began writing NINE DAYS TO EVIL, a novel of psychological suspense, Shakespeare, and nonstop-action which was a Clue Award Finalist and won the Blether Gold Award. Her poem, Time to Lie, featured on “Theme and Variations,” was broadcast on NPR. For three years, she wrote San Antonio Woman’s Book Shelf column and articles for other publications. She was honored by Friends of the San Antonio Library with the 2012 Arts and Letters Award, and her books and papers from the Texas Book Publishers Association are in Texas State University’s Southwest Writers Collection.
While writing NINE DAYS TO EVIL, Meredith, Nancy’s serious graduate-school protagonist, and Nancy both needed humor in their lives. Meredith’s “mature” classmate, Aggie Mundeen, popped up in Nancy’s head and fascinated her for four Aggie Mundeen Mysteries. Each book in the series won or was nominated for an award.
Her latest book, THE PLUNGE, a novella of suspense, takes Aggie and Detective Sam to a lakeside cottage on the Guadalupe River in Texas – a few hours before the river unexpectedly floods. This book is based on the actual event – Nancy was there!
Are people who manage to survive catastrophe forever changed? THE PLUNGE propels Aggie Mundeen in a new direction. Nancy is working on book two of Aggie’s Lake series.
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Her stand-a-lone suspense novel, RISKY PURSUIT, will be published in February or March of 2025:
A resourceful high school senior, depressed by his parents’ impending divorce, has to find and derail the anonymous mystery man threatening him and everyone he loves before the culprit destroys them all.
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