Nancy J. Cohen / Nancy Cane

Nancy J. Cohen also known as Nancy Cane is a mystery and romance author born to Minnie and Harry Heller in 1948. She went to the University of Rochester, where she got her clinical nursing degree before she proceeded to the University of California for her masters in 1975. After graduating from college, she practiced as a clinical nursing specialist before she quit to become a full-time author. She has asserted that she has always been interested in creative fiction as she was creating stories and poems as a child. In 1975 she decided to take a concrete step and got a “How to Write” guide. However, it was not until 1994 that she published her first work “Circle of Light” the debut novel of the “Light Years” series under the pseudonym Nancy Cane. Cohen started out writing futuristic romance novels but would shift to mysteries when romance lost its luster. She changed her name to her real name Nancy J. Cohen and just when mysteries were becoming more popular she started writing the Bad Hair Day Mysteries. The first novel of the series was “Permed to Death” first published in 1999, which went on to spawn more than ten more novels in the still ongoing series. Other novels series she has written include the “Drift Lords” series and the single standing novels “Keeper of the Rings” and “Silver Serenade.”