There's a Reason Flowers Are Not Gray

Nanci Woody was a college Dean and author of accounting and business math textbooks before writing her novel, Tears and Trombones. It won the IPPY (Independent Publishers) award for "Best Fiction in the Western Pacific." Recently she wrote the pilot for a streaming series for the novel.

With her musician husband, she wrote the lyrics and book for a stage musical, "Hello to Life!" that they produced in Sacramento. Her short stories and poems have appeared in, among other places, The CWC Liter...