(Portland, OR) -- Trial gets underway today for a self-published romance novelist accused of murdering her husband. Opening statements are scheduled this morning for the murder trial against Nancy Crampton-Brophy. She's accused of shooting and killing her husband and popular Oregon Culinary Institute teacher and chef Daniel Brophy in June of 2018. Crampton Brophy worked as a romance novelist and once wrote an essay she called "How to Murder Your Husband."