<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Educated Nurses LLC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donna Nucci]]></description><link>https://www.donnanucciauthor.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:31:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.donnanucciauthor.com/it/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[In Search of Publication]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today I turn 60.. Today still no book deal.. It all started six months ago, armed with nothing but a dream and a manuscript that I was convinced could tell a valuable story of women, nurses, mothers, daughters, grief, secrets and little bit of spice. As I navigated through the labyrinth, I felt like Indiana Jones, dodging boulders of rejection and swinging over pits of despair. Each query sent was like tossing a message in a bottle into the vast ocean of publishing. And what did I get in...]]></description><link>https://www.donnanucciauthor.com/post/in-search-of-publication</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab9b5ad374a74a681c547f3</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_4f09e14fb10d43f8babbe28703c0780f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Donna Nucci</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens After You Finish the Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[I thought finishing the book would feel like relief. It did. But not in the way I expected. My editor kept saying, “You’ll know when it’s done.”  I kept thinking, That feels wildly optimistic for someone who has never done this before. She was calm about it. Certain. Like, this was all very normal. write a novel, get an agent, casually end up in a bookstore. I know healthcare systems. I do not know publishing. So when I typed “The End,” I had absolutely no idea what I had just signed myself...]]></description><link>https://www.donnanucciauthor.com/post/what-happens-after-you-finish-the-book</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e53fc10c8d230c9e9350c7</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:58:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/96a608_f893ce7adf034c27b818d0c87cea518c~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Donna Nucci</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why I Stole My Mother’s Car. Dementia, silence, and the story behind my debut novel, THE PENNY. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[My mother was a woman of quiet, ferocious dignity. After my father died, something in her left too. What followed wasn't grief in the ordinary sense. It was a five-year unraveling I could document clinically and could not stop personally.
I was a nurse. I thought I knew death.
I did not know this.
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