Born and raised in Massachusetts, Nancy received a BFA from the renowned theater department at Carnegie Mellon University. A career that included off-Broadway, summer stock, TV, films, and a road company tour of some military bases in France, sadly failed to put her name in lights, but did turn out to be excellent training for the writing career that was to come.After taking a hiatus to raise three children, she began writing for the stage, television and the financial community. Still another career as a biofeedback practitioner helped pay the bills when suddenly single again, and inspired by an overwhelming urge to knock someone off, she created the "Other Deadly Things" mystery series, originally published by Dell, which deals with the murderously wacky world of divorce where biofeedback stress-reduction is the order of the day.Advises NY Times best-selling author, JANET EVANOVICH, "Don't miss this stand-out-from-the-crowd cliffhanger with its slightly frazzled, commitment-phobic, in-your-face heroine, who'll tickle your funnybone as she steals your heart," and THE CHARLOTTE AUSTIN REVIEW extols, "This is amateur sleuthing at its charming, endearing, laughable and surprising best." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY called amateur sleuth Carrie Carlin, "a clever, slightly neurotic heroine whose personal life is in disarray, the kind of heroine Susan Isaacs might put in a mystery."Like her protagonist, Nancy admits to being a slightly neurotic divorcee who has occasional homicidal thoughts and whose personal life has, from time to time, been in disarray. But there the similarity ends. When she was five she ran screaming from the theater when the witch in Snow White poisoned the apple, and she would never, as does her protagonist, walk into situations where even a cop would fear to tread without backup. Like Thurber's Walter Mitty, however, she enjoys a rich fantasy life.Although three of the five books in the series are set in suburban New Jersey where Nancy raised her family, she now lives in sunny California with her very level-headed significant other and her three rescue cats. Coincidentally (or not) her latest book is a stand-alone romantic suspense.Nancy is a long time member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Romance Writers of America.Visit Nancy on her website at www.nancytesler.com.