I’d like to welcome the fabulous Nancy Cole Silverman to the blog for #WriterWednesday. You need to check out her latest mystery. I loved it!

A few of your favorite things: The change of seasons. Particularly the first days of fall. I love the crisp air and, living in sunny southern California, the rain!

Things you need to throw out: Clothes! I confess to being a clothes horse, and I’ve a closet full of old clothes I promise myself to get rid of...once I finish my next WIP...which appears to be never. I’ve always got something going.

Things you love about writing: The empty page. No, really. I love it when I start a new project. It’s like starting a new job or moving to a new neighborhood. Everything is new and even though have a good idea of what the story is about when I start, I’m always amazed at how things come together. In the end, I somehow feel like I’ve known these characters and the places they live forever.

Things you hate about writing: Okay, hate is a strong word, but the thing I find most difficult about writing is rewriting. It’s like working a Rubiks Cube.

Things you never want to run out of: Wine!

Things you wish you’d never bought: Bad wine!

Words that describe you: Tenacious.

Words that describe you, but you wish they didn’t: Lustprinzip...it’s a new word for me, I’m trying to use it at least three times. Isn’t that the rule? It means, according to Websters, instant gratification. I want it ... and I want it now.

Favorite foods: Chocolate...chocolate and wine are even better.

Things that make you want to gag: Liver! Growing up I was anemic, and my great aunt used to make me peanut butter and liver sandwiches. To this day, I can’t stand the smell of liver.

Favorite beverage: WINE!

Something that gives you a sour face: Lemons. I have a love/hate relationship with them. We have a small lemon tree in our backyard, and it gives the best lemons, but they are sour.

Favorite smell: Orange blossoms in the spring. I grew up in an orange grove in Phoenix in the 50s and the smell still brings back memories of my childhood.

Something that makes you hold your nose: The smell of rotten fish!

Something you’re really good at: Making up an outlandish story and getting people to believe it.

Something you’re really bad at: Sitting through a boring lecture on a hot afternoon.

Something you wish you could do: Crossword puzzles. I’m lousy at it.

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: Clean fish! I learned as a kid. My grandfather used to love to fish, and he’d make the best fish over a campfire...but, if you want to eat...you gotta clean it. Not my favorite thing. I’d much catch and set free today.

Things you’d walk a mile for: My dog! I love her, she’s my best friend and we walk together every day. Even on those days, when I’d rather not, she makes me get up and go out.

Things that make you want to run screaming from the room: The sound of a jackhammer. My neighbor’s been jackhammering an old concrete patio around their house and it’s maddening. Even earphones don’t help.

Things you always put in your books: Usually, it’s a chatty sidekick.

Things you never put in your books: Gratuitous sex or violence.

Most daring thing you’ve ever done: On a dare, when I was a kid, I jumped in a bull pen, with a real Brahman bull, and got chased out!

Something you chickened out from doing: Jumping in any more bull pens. I’m not stupid!

About Nancy:

Nancy Cole Silverman enjoyed a long and very successful career in radio before turning to print journalism and later, to fiction.

As a graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in Mass Communications, Nancy was one of the first female on-air television reporters in her hometown of Phoenix. After moving to Los Angeles in the late 1970’s she turned to the business side of broadcasting, becoming one of the top advertising sales executives in the market. After stints at KNX, KFWB, KABC and KXTA radio, she was appointed General Manager at KMPC, making her one of only two female managers in America’s second-largest radio market.

But in her heart of hearts, Nancy thought first of herself as a writer. In 2001 she left the radio business to found and edit The Equestrian News, a monthly publication for equine enthusiasts. “That’s when I really began to write,” said Silverman, “toggling between writing articles for the News and fiction I’d been thinking about for years.”

Today, Nancy is a full-time author. She writes both the Carol Childs and Misty Dawn Mysteries (Henery Press), numerous short stories, and is currently at work on a piece of historical fiction.

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