Nancy Beverly's professional life began at Actors Theatre of Louisville where she worked as the Assistant Literary Manager, reading thousands of scripts and acting as dramaturg on ...view moreNancy Beverly's professional life began at Actors Theatre of Louisville where she worked as the Assistant Literary Manager, reading thousands of scripts and acting as dramaturg on a number of Humana Festival plays, as well as having several of her own plays produced in the ATL showcases. Since then, she has worked in television with stints on hit shows Desperate Housewives and Ghost Whisperer, and has written and produced plays for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Rainbow Festival at Asbury Park, and Bloomington's Blizzard of Short Plays. Her play Handcrafted Healing was workshopped by the Athena Project in Denver. Her 2019 short film Shelby's Vacation, based on her screenplay of the same name, from which this novel was adapted, won the Audience Choice Award at Perth's Dyke Drama Film Festival in Australia, Best Acting Duo and Best Romance Short at the Olympus Film Festival in L.A., Best GLBT Film at the Erie International Film Festival, and the Best LGBTQ Film award at The Lady Filmmakers Festival in Beverly Hills, among many other awards. Shelby's Vacation is her first novel.view less