Hi, I’m Nicole! I write things!

Currently, this is a place for collecting information about me and what I'm reading and writing. Hopefully one day, it will have books I've written, too! Feel free to poke around!

I’m currently querying.

Nicole (n.):

1. Writer of words
2. Lover of stories
3. Eater of cake

Nicole writes best at two in the morning. She graduated with a BA in English Literature, but if she’s being honest, she majored in Shakespeare. Her favorite things include d20s, soft cardigans, the robots on Mars, and video game music. She’s a born and bred Chicagoan, but currently lives in Colorado with her girlfriend and their cat. Professionally, she's been the marketing manager at an indie bookstore; unprofessionally, she flails about Star Wars.

Nicole has been writing nonsensically since she was very small, and coherently since she was slightly bigger. She will never write legibly. Though she tried going to school for theater set design, she long ago realized that she cannot escape the siren song of the written word and has accepted her fate as a bookseller who also writes (or a writer who also booksells). Thanks to a childhood full of David Eddings and Tamora Pierce, she focuses most of her reading and writing on fantasy (and sci-fi).

When not writing, she can be found plotting mayhem for Dungeons & Dragons sessions, aiming very badly in video games, reading NASA articles, or "baking" mug cakes in her microwave. Or petting her cat. But the cat is in charge of that.