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  • NT1/18

    It was a glorious occasion when my first novel, Stepping, was published by Doubleday in January, 1980!  If you want an idea of just how…

  • BL1/11

    YOUR LIFE IS NOT A NOVEL OR MAYBE IT IS! I’ve always wanted to write about the lives of “ordinary” women, and I have done…

  • NT/Jan 4

    When I looked at the photo of our library–republished here because I accidentally deleted it–I saw 2 books by and about a woman writer I…

  • NTBlog#7

    SEASONS GREETINGS!             This how my daughter posed me for a picture: me on top of a pile of books, chocolate and Prosecco nearby. And…

  • Nancy Thayer Blog #6

    WHAT INSPIRES MY BOOKS? A Nantucket Christmas was inspired by dogs. Here’s Kiska, with her personal shopper and fashion designer Tina.  They were at the…

  • blog#5

    AN ISLAND CHRISTMAS I hope you all had a delicious Thanksgiving!  I did, but I’m happy to be back at my computer.  I’ve been talking…

  • Christmas 15 #1

    A NANTUCKET CHRISTMAS Where do my ideas come from? Christmas and dogs are two of my favorite things, so when I decided to write a…

  • Shivers

    In 1984, Charley and I married and bought a historic house on Orange Street on Nantucket. Nantucket is thirty miles from the coast of Massachusetts…