A native Texan, Nan worked for a life insurance agency and it was here she garnered her first commercial writing success. She created an office procedures manual which the home office issued to all its agencies. For that Nan got a bonus and caught the writing bug.
After moving to Florida, she was employed as assistant purchasing agent for a petrochemical engineering firm but later tried out the other side of the negotiating desk and went to work for a manufacturer's rep-where she met her husband.
Nan joined Romance Writers Of America and started writing novel-length fiction. Her work finaled in several RWA chapter-sponsored contests as well as back to back finals in The PACIFIC NORTHWEST WRITERS ASSOCIATION’S annual literary competition, adult genre and romance genre respectively. Five manuscripts later, HITTING THE HIGH NOTES is scheduled for release February 1st 2010 by Champagne Books with a sequel, PESTO PACKIN’ MAMA contracted for release in JUNE, 2010. 
