(Portland, OR) -- A Portland-based romance novelist who once published an essay titled "How to Murder Your Husband" will serve life in prison after shooting her husband to death. A judge sentenced Nancy Crampton-Brophy yesterday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. A jury convicted Crampton-Brophy of second-degree murder late last month for the 2018 death of Daniel Brophy. Crampton-Brophy shot and killed Brophy at the Oregon Culinary Institute, where he was a popular teacher and chef. Crampton-Brophy says she plans to appeal.