About the author
Nanci Williams was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and caught the writing bug at an early age. She won numerous awards for her short stories and essays as a student, and went on to pursue a career writing marketing materials for clients large and small, earning the coveted Silver Medal Award from the American Advertising Federation and a Silver Anvil Award from the Public Relations Society of American, among other honors. In 1992, she co-founded a successful advertising and public relations firm in San Jose, California, and served as its CEO for 20 years. During that time she was tapped to serve on many boards and commissions, and chaired the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce for two terms. She left the agency she co-founded in 2012 to pursue writing full-time, completing "Fishtails: Men who bite, dates that suck and other cautionary tales from a mid-life fishing expedition." She is currently at work on a novel, tentatively titled "Acronyms," which she hopes to complete in 2013.