Nan McCarthy is the author of Since You Went Away, Chat, Connect, & Crash, Live 'Til I Die, and Quark Design. Her Chat, Connect, & Crash series, originally self-published in 1995, was acquired by Simon & Schuster and published in trade paperback in 1998 after receiving write-ups in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, Glamour, Mademoiselle, and People. Nan regained the rights to the series and released new editions in 2014. A former magazine editor and technology journalist, Nan founded Rainwater Press in 1992 and began selling her books online in 1995. Nan and her husband, a veteran who served 29 years in the Marine Corps, are the proud parents of two adult sons. Nan wrote Since You Went Away after taking a ten-year break from full-time writing to care for the family during her husband's frequent military travels.
