Purveyor of the written word, Nancy Loyan Schuemann has been writing ever since she began composing picture books for fellow students in elementary school. After graduating with a BSBA degree in marketing from John Carroll University, she pursued a career in sales and marketing. During the past ten years she has incorporated those skills into a professional writing career. She is a freelance writer specializing in construction, design, architecture, histories, profiles, antique safes, dance, travel and special interest in local and national publications. She has taught writing at the prestigious Chautauqua Institution in New York State. Nancy is a Cleveland, Ohio native who shares her knowledge of the city as author of "Cleveland, Ohio: A Photographic Portrait" and "On the Threshold of a New Century: The City of South Euclid, 1967-1999." Her love, however, is writing women's fiction. Her first novel, "Paradise Found," a multicultural romance set in the exotic Seychelles Islands was published in 2011. She has since contracted with Crimson Romance (a division of Adam's Media), her first release being "Lab Test," a humorous paranormal romance. She incorporates her love of dogs and travel into her novels. Travel has taken her around the world, including trips to Europe, Great Britain, South America, Egypt and the exotic Seychelles Islands. When she's not writing, Nancy teaches and performs, Middle Eastern dance as "Nailah." She shares her life with her husband and her Pointer/Labs, Amber and Topaz. Her web site is www.NLSScribe.com