Hello, everyone!! It's now June of 2023 - and COVID19 has changed the world forever. And, it seems some variety of it will be with us all for the duration. Cultural and life changes have wreaked havoc on my personal writing schedule.
On July 4 of 2020, WC Publishing released the eBook ALWAYS CHASING 'EM by D. K. Ludas (Daria) and me. It's a collection of 11 of our short mysteries no longer available in print in the original publications. We hope you'll enjoy it - and it's only $2.49! We wanted you to have as much fun with those adventures as we did writing them.
KEEPING FAITH with D.K. Ludas is about Faith Blessing. Her journey is an amazing one through fear and doubt--one we all take at one time or another. Be sure to write a review or at least email me if you read KEEPING FAITH so we know how you liked it! Books 3 and 4 were being written when Daria passed away of a serious but undiagnosed heart condition that triggered a massive stroke. I will finish Book 3 for the publisher by the end of 2023 for release in 2024. So if Inspirational Christian Women's Fiction is your thing, you'll get to spend time with Grace Blessing in Book 3. The Amazing Grace Trucking Company Facebook page is waiting for you to join and please share the book titles and reviews YOU have enjoyed reading!!
GONE IN A FLASH, the third book in the Point and Shoot Series is entering editing now. My husband's health and my personal grieving period have been hard on my creativity. It will be dedicated to long time friend, cover designer, and staff advisor, Rik Feeney who passed away late in 2021 due to Covid complications. WC Publishing is planning to release it in October of 2023. We're working on quite a rollout for this book! We'll keep you all posted.
Until we hear from you, please stay safe, be healthy, and God bless you!
Nancy Q.
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Nancy Quatrano's (aka N. L. Quatrano and Nancy L. Quatrano) stories have almost always involved dark, hard topics that deliver a satisfying ending. A mystery lover at heart, her romance roots show through like a bloodstain on a white blouse.
As a kid, she was always getting in trouble for vanishing up into the old maple tree in the back yard with a new volume of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins, or just about anything she could get her little hands on. By the time she was 10, she'd traveled the "mighty Mississip" with Huck Finn and decided that she was not Little Women material.
A multi-published short story author since 1999, her award-winning short mysteries are published in Crime Scene NJ 1, 2 and 3, as well as a variety of other collections and magazines. Her short story "YELLOW RIBBON" was a Writer's Digest Writing Competition honorable mention (2004) and was later published by Wild Rose Press for three years.
Her award-winning private eye mystery manuscript, MURDER IN BLACK AND WHITE became a full-fledged book in August of 2015. The second book in the series, "Still Shot" was released in November of 2016. She's a contributor and the editor and creator of Snowbird Christmas collections Vol 1, Vol 2 and Vol 3 available through Amazon and all e-book outlets. And for seven years, she was a semi-monthly columnist for the St. Augustine Record, covering the Hastings-area events. In 2017, she was a contributor and the editor of the mystery short-story collection, 30 SHADES OF DEAD which has sold quite well for the organization.
As a ghostwriter, she's written MIRACLE BOY with Isiah Grayer, Jr., a young man from St. Augustine, Florida with an amazing and inspirational story (currently being revised and updated!), and ONE AT A TIME as well as TELL THE CHILDREN, as told by Caroline Wolff, of St. Gerard Campus, St. Augustine, FL.
Two Stone Lions Press released MERCIFUL BLESSINGS in March of 2018 and the launch book signing at the Liberty States Fiction Writers Conference was a sell-out! In partnership with talented short story writer, Daria Ludas (aka D.K. Ludas), their award-winning inspirational southern women's fiction/mystery series, called The Amazing Grace Trucking Company, is about three southern women who are also sisters. MERCIFUL BLESSINGS won the Royal Palm Literary Awards in 2014 for the Women's Fiction category and book two, "KEEPING FAITH" won a Maincrest Media Award in 2022.
Email her any time at nancy@NLQuatrano.com.
