Books in Process:

Perkins, Nancy. Literacy in Writing: Ten Punctuation Rules for 90% Mastery. (Textbook materials field-tested with 100 of Chicago’s bilingual teachers).

---. Early Settlers of Woodford County, Illinois: 1824-1840 (350 single- spaced, typed pages to date of these first European settlers to that area, using nearly exclusively primary sources).

---. NYX: Sister of Erebus. (Third poetry book of the NYX trilogy).

---. Using MS Studies as a Basis for Creative Writing. Study includes research on Hemingway’s "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" at the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, 28 Dec. 2001.