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Article: Lewisburg native to speak at West Virginia Book Festival: Romance author creating love story set in Greenbrier County
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- October 14, 2004
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jamiehenline@wvgazette.com
Lewisburg native Nancy Herkness has the perfect title picked out
for her first romance novel set in West Virginia.
"I tentatively named it, 'Almost Heaven.' It's just perfect for a
romance novel in West Virginia," she said during a telephone
interview from her New Jersey home.
However, Herkness' tale of a high-powered Manhattan lawyer finding
love with a furnituremaker in Greenbrier County could be named
something else in the complex world of publishing, she said.
Her second novel, "Shower of Stars," was originally titled
"Falling Stars," but the publisher renamed it to avoid sounding too
much like another book the company put out, she said.
"Writing is an art, ...