USA Today bestselling author
of contemporary women's fiction
November 2009
I'm sitting on the Algarve in Portugal, looking out over the ocean and one of the most gorgeous beaches I have ever seen. I swear if I look hard enough I can see pirate ships skulking along the coast, and hear the sounds of battle from the Crusaders to the Napoleonic wars. Traveling is a great way to fill the well. I could stay here forever, it's so beautiful, the food is wonderful and the Portuguese people I've met are lovely. I have about ten words of Spanish, enough to get a hotel, order a meal and say thanks. In Portuguese? Obrigada. Which means thank you. I was saying Obrigado, but the darling young man at the front desk informed me that since I am female, I say Obrigada. So, there you are, I have now shared my entire knowledge of the language with you, dear reader.
I hear from home that Power Play, my November Blaze, received a four-and-a-half star Top Pick from Romantic Times, which is always nice. That book was one of the easiest I've ever written. Sometimes they just flow from your pen as though the story were real...oh, wait a minute, a lot of it was real. The premise of Power Play came about on a writing retreat when it turned out our cabin was infested with bed bugs. They took all our clothes away for cleaning, brought us a Rubbermaid bin with lost and found clothing to choose from and moved us to the kind of rooms a busy lodge doesn't rent out. I describe that room almost exactly in Power Play and a lot of the funny incidents are loosely based on things that actually happened. Well, it's funny now!!
And my NASCAR Christmas novella, inspired by one of my fave Christmas movies, Miracle on 34th Street, is also out. The collection is a lot of fun with stories by me, Gina Wilkins and Debra Webb. They make great stocking stuffers for the NASCAR fan in your life.
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Until next time, Obrigada and Adios,
Nancy
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