Historical Fiction Women's Fiction Literary Fiction African American Interest Teen & Young Adult BIOGRAPHY
I'm Nancy Klann-Moren, author, artist and third generation Southern California native. I live in Laguna Woods with my husband, a retired architect who now creates beautiful ceramic art. I'm the mother of two grown sons, both rock stars in their fields, and I'm the litter-box lady to my two cats who don't give a damn about anything.
I began my writing journey toward the end of my career in Advertising and Marketing . While on long plane rides I tried my hand at writing short fiction as a creative outlet. My goal was to create unique stories told in a distinctive voice. I'm happy to say some of those stories have earned awards and publication in anthologies, and eleven of them make up this collection of short stories titled, Like The Flies On The Patio.
Short stories were my primary genre until one morning while in a writers workshop I read an excerpt from one of my shorts. When I finished, the instructor asked what she was doing for the next couple years, "Because," he said, “What you have written isn’t a short story, it’s a novel.” After a good deal of foot dragging I realized the seed he'd planted was ready to sprout. That story turned into my first novel, The Clock Of Life, which has garnered awards from Writers Digest, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Readers Favorite Book Awards, Kindle Book Awards. It's a BRAG Honoree, and an Awesome Indies AIA Recipient.
The Clock of Life delt with the consequences of the Vietnam war, and also the civil right movement.
My newest novel, Love and Protest, tackles the Anti-Vietnam War Protests in the sixties, and the Black Lives Matter movement of today. The story unfolds by way of a diary discovered in a thrift shop, written 52 years earlier. |
