My story.

Nora is a lifelong resident of the Durham-Chapel Hill area. She has a bachelor’s degree in English with Honors in Creative Writing from UNC, and a Masters in English from the University of Washington in Seattle.

She spent more than 24 years as a stockbroker and financial advisor with a major investment firm, working in the Durham office. She retired in 2005 to focus on writing.

Her first published novel, UNTIL PROVEN: A MYSTERY IN 2 PARTS, appeared in October 2012.  While the book is entirely fiction, the seed for it was a real murder that happened in Chapel Hill on Christmas Eve, 1963.

In 2013, Nora published a nonfiction book about that Christmas Eve murder, TIME OF DEATH, to further explore the questions it raised.

Her second novel, THE WORST THING, appeared in May 2018.

Her third novel, LAMMIE LOVES CUBBY, will be available on April 7, 2026.

She lives and writes in Chatham County, inspired by her native landscape, her husband, and dogs. Her favorite word is "gratitude."

Now, let’s kick things off with a virtual reading, shall we?

Listen to my essay, Reading in the Time of Trump, as a part of Charlotte Readers Podcast’s FREE COVID-19 Read-in series. I’m proud to share the space with authors Randell Jones and Linda Phillips, as our literary community comes together to celebrate art during these strange and uncertain times.

Enjoy!

Coming soon to a bookstore near you.

Lammie Loves Cubby hits bookshelves on April 7, 2026

When crazy meets crazy, long suppressed passion can combust in more ways than one. Lammie Timmons got the best news of her life on a Monday morning. Cubby Tatum, the man she had loved since she was five years old, was coming home to Littleboro after twenty years away. Could a series of fires that start small and escalate have anything to do with the two reuniting? Arson investigator Maureen and self-proclaimed knight errant, Joe, make the equally odd couple who set out to follow the smoldering trail of clues and solve the mystery.

Pre-order your copy today from your favorite indie bookstore, or online anywhere books are sold!