Nancy Deville

Hi Everyone!

I'm currently finishing up a memoir that will be out shortly. It takes place in 1968.

Nancy Deville’s coming of age memoir is set in Tokyo, California, Europe, and overland to India. It’s an emotional journey about waking up sexually in the sixties with no rules, the social awkwardness of a girl with sketchy life skills, an on-the-road relationship, and persevering through hardships in Middle Ages/Third World cultures with no money of her own, an indifferent lover, and no way to get back to civilization but by retracing thousands of miles of steps. Her story is about looking for love, and the power of learning to love yourself.

Biography

Nancy Deville began her career in the 70s as a hippie clothing designer. From 1980 to 1990 she was a costume designer and stylist for TV commercials, taking a two year hiatus to design and manufacture felt her appliqué Christmas stocking designs for major department stores such as Saks and Neimans. Since 1990, Nancy has written best selling health books. She is a weight-loss and anti-aging expert. Since turning 60 five years ago, Nancy reevaluated her life and what she wants to spend her time doing. Nancy loves making up stories, and telling stories. Although she still wants to help people be healthier, and she is especially interested in helping older women live killer third acts, at the same time, she wants to live her own killer third act by doing what she loves most. A long-time yogi, Nancy is the founder and director of Yoga for Incarcerated Women http:// www.yogaforincarceratedwomen.com/, a volunteer group that takes yoga and meditation to women serving jail and prison sentences. Nancy lives in Santa Monica, California with her whippet, Scarlett.

Fun Facts

Hobbies

Reading, playing with my whippet, traveling with my boyfriend, meditation (if you can call that a hobby), cooking, designing, sewing, knitting, yoga

Most Exotic Place Visited

I lived in Japan for high school, traveled overland from Europe to India in 1968, and I have been many exotic places, but one that comes to mind is white water rafting on the Zambezi river knowing there were crocks and hippos lurking