About Nancy Tamosaitis

Fun facts: From 1993-1996, with her books available in multiple languages, Nancy was interviewed by dozens of national and international media including CNN, CNBC, The Geraldo Show, WPIX and the BBC. Access to the Internet was new for most people in the early '90s and Nancy taught countless media, including NPR, how to access the Internet. 

In 1993/94 after being appalled by the high volume of pedophiles encountered during her research, she filed a column in ComputerLife magazine and demonstrated on WPIX-TV and other broadcast outlets, how predators were preying on children online and what parents could do to prevent their children from becoming victims. For TV news shows, she feigned teenager status and caught predators red-handed. 

"To Catch a Predator," hosted by Chris Hansen, which premiered in November 2004, took a page out of Nancy's playbook. 

During the course of her editorial and public relations career, Nancy has written hundreds of articles. She is an active ghostwriter for corporate clients - researching and writing articles on a variety of subjects including mining & energy metals, biopharma, and physical security. She has been a contributor and columnist to many publications including Computer Life magazine, Longevity and Penthouse magazines. 

Nancy's first professional job was as a violist for Filarmonica de las Americas in Mexico City when she was in high school.  The orchestra toured throughout the Americas including Lima, Peru and Buenos Aires, Argentina. She attended Juilliard Pre-College from ages 12 to 17.

• She is the co-author of the bestselling The Joy of Cybersex (Prentice Hall/Brady Computer Books, 1993), the first book published on this phenomenon which was an international bestseller and available in multiple languages.   

• The New York Times review said, ‘It was inevitable that personal computers would become a medium for sexually explicit material, just as print, film and video technologies did before them. About the best things that can be said about this book are that it illuminates what has for years been a shadowy area of the personal computer culture and that it shows how computer erotica appears to provide many people with a ‘safe’ alternative to real, personal relationships in a world where H.I.V. is deadlier than computer viruses.’

• Snarky New York Times review aside, The Joy of Cybersex ($25) enjoyed multiple press runs with over 50,000 copies in print.

• She is the author of the net.talk  (Ziff-Davis Press, 1994), one of the first books on the Internet language of acronyms and emoticons including everything from the everyday (BTW, FWIW, IMHO) to the humorous, bawdy, and downright bizarre. The book weaves in a humorous essay that employs many of the acronyms and emotions referenced throughout the book. 

• She authored net.sex (Ziff-Davis Press, 1995), which reported on the steamy side of the Internet and included the first scientific survey of people who participated in adult Usenet groups, plus a thorough review of these groups, from the tame to the raunchy to the truly disturbing. net.sex was translated into over 10 languages.

• With the widespread success of The Joy of Cybersex, Nancy was commissioned by the publisher to write a follow up book entitled, "More Joy of Cybersex."  After Nancy's appearance on "The Geraldo Show" promoting the book, the publisher cancelled it, relaying that employees were protesting the contents of the book as they disapproved of the LGBTIQA+ community representation. Kathy Keeton, COO at General Media, called Nancy and said "we'll publish your book," resulting in the publication of the Penthouse Guide to Cybersex (General Media, 1995).