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February 20, 2025 by B

Reading With… Nancy Houser-Bluhm

About Nancy Houser-Bluhm

Nancy Houser-Bluhm, born in Michigan and returning after living in Colorado for several years, has changed from years of rock climbing and skiing to biking, skiing, yoga-ing, breathing in nature and daily doses of writing with a variety of groups. Her most recent novel is The Nickel Loop, released July 22nd, 2024. 

She retired as a worker bee following a career in Speech-Language Pathology and having once been described as a ā€˜thinker’,  Nancy strives to leave readers with something to ponder and she is committed to sliding environmental issues into her engaging fictional writing.

The Nickel Loop, a time travel romance that takes place in the 1930s.

The main character, Emmeline, steps from a train in a small Colorado town into the year 1938 only to meet a man who has traveled forward from 1898. As they struggle to make sense of it all, love seems to spark, but can it endure?

Join us at Bay Books on April 22nd at 5:00 for a live interview, a time for questions and answers, and book signing of ā€œA Nickel Loopā€ by Nancy Houser-Bluhm.

Bay Books Author Questions

On your nightstand now: Legacy by Shannon Falken, The Seasons of Henry’s Farm A year of food and life on a sustainable farm, A Year in Balance, Happy Place, Bended Love-Kat Caldwell

Favorite book when you were a child: Little House on the Prairie books but even more so Half Magic a YA time travel series.

Your top five authors: I don’t have many ā€˜favorite authors’. I rarely read more than a couple by the same author. Just not a series girl. Authors I have sought out a 2nd book because of the first?…
Peter Heller, Daniel Quinn, Carolyn Myss, Kat Caldwell, Mitch Albom

Book you’ve faked reading: American Gods. (No judgement, I’m an anomaly)

Book you’re an evangelist for: The Mists of Avalon; first real fan fiction that rewrote the Arthurian legend making women the good ā€˜guys’.

Book you’ve bought for the cover: A Dog’s Purpose – A Novel for Humans

Book you hid from your parents: When I say No, I Feel Guilty

Book that changed your life: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Favorite line from a book: ā€œThe kind of long, slow kiss reserved for beautiful beginnings for two hearts ready to get back up and try again.ā€ (The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West)

Five books you’ll never part with: Tao of Pooh, Ishmael, The Celestine Prophecy, The Mists of Avalon, The Big Leap

Book you most want to read again for the first time: Timeline- Loved the entire book; sad the movie didn’t measure up.

What are your bookstore rituals? Enter, delight in the calm, scan, look at the gifts and cards. Wander sections such as local author, historical fiction, romance. Buy something-could be a book, a card, a journal.

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