NANCY GIDEON Books & Biography

With over 58 sales to her credit since her first publication in 1987, Portage, Michigan author Nancy Gideon's writing career is as versatile as the romance market, itself. Her books encompass genres from historicals and regencies to contemporary suspense and the paranormal. Her works have been published overseas in Romanian, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Danish, German, Icelandic and Chinese, among other languages. Also listed on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), she collaborated on the indie horror films In the Woods and Savage with screenwriting and ADR script credits, and even played the character "Bar Extra." A national speaker on writing in general and romance in particular, Gideon is a Western Michigan University honors grad with a major in journalism and minors in history and communications. She's a member of Novelist, Inc., Savvy Authors and the Mid-Michigan, PAN, PASIC and FF&P chapters of Romance Writers of America, and is former vice-president, published author co-liaison and award-winning newsletter editor for MMRWA. The mother of two grown sons, one married and proud producer of her grandson and the other shanghaied into being her assistant, she also works full time for the law firm, Redmond, Streed & Yokom.