In a desperate race against time as a hurricane threatens the eastern seaboard, they search for her three-year-old son who is missing from the wreckage, but someone knows more than they are telling. Kasey Phillips thought her biggest problem was deciding whether to photograph Cody Tuggleâ€™s honky-tonkinâ€™ tour, until an accident on Route 58 claims the life of her husband. Iâ€™m so glad you asked that! My second book in the Adams Grove series is OUT OF FOCUS and it will be available in November. Hopefully, they will tickle memories of people from your own past, and youâ€™ll feel like you already know them. The quirky characters are probably going to remind you of that crazy aunt or the black sheep brother of your best friend in college. My characters have flaws just like you and I. I write love stories from the crossroad of small town and suspense. I think you have to believe in yourself before anyone else will. I firmly believed that as long as I didnâ€™t quit, I would be published. I have my pile of rejections, but I learned from each one and knew that every bad news email was one step closer to the â€œyesâ€ Iâ€™d eventually get. It moves S-L-O-W and, at the same time with the advent of e-pubs, is changing in ways folks never imagined. Thatâ€™s all fine and good except thatâ€™s not really how it works in the publishing business. Iâ€™m used to planning what Iâ€™m going to do to achieve success, then following that plan. You see, by day Iâ€™m a Senior Vice President with Bank of America.

Itâ€™s been one eye-opening experience for me. The toughest thing for me has been that publishing is like no other business Iâ€™ve been in or run. What has been the toughest obstacle youâ€™ve had to overcome along the way? I made a lot of friends that weekend that I still chat with today, and many are now published! So, long story short….it took me from July 2005 to May 2011 for my first novel to get into a readers hands. That trip was what I gave myself as a present that year.

It was in Atlanta, GAÂ that year and just so happened to fall on my birthday. That was the year Iâ€™d joined RWA and went to my first RWA national conference. Iâ€™ve been writing seriously toward publication since 2005. How long have you been writing before you sold? To learn more about Nancy, visit her online at: They now live on a 76 acre goat farm where Nancy spends every spare moment working on her next book. After spending most of her life on the Virginia coast, she and her husband left Tidewater for greener pastures a little further inland in Southampton County. Nancy Naigle writes love stories from the crossroad of small town and suspense.

Out of Focus by Nancy Naigle