Monthly Archives: October 2016

With Broken Patterns on the way to publication, I’m feeling nostalgic. I mean, I started this book in 2014, and it’s just now coming out. It’s also a little weird, because I’m almost done with Starting Chains and about to be working on Missing Stitches. It’s all coming back full circle. So I wanted toContinue reading “The Woven Timeline”

I realized that, while I’ve gone over most of my creative process, there’s one tool that I’ve designed over the last few years I’ve never talked about. It’s an essential tool, though, and one that I’d like to share with you today. A series outline. Why to make a series outline You probably have anContinue reading “Series Outline”

Sorry, guys, no short story this week. But I think you’ll be pleased with what I have for you. Once again it’s time for my yearly Nanowrimo and Nanoedmo shopping list. “But Nicole,” I can hear you say, “Nanoedmo isn’t until March.” Or maybe you’re saying, “What the hell are you talking about?” Well, lastContinue reading “2016 Nano Shopping List”

Harry Potter fans, raise your replica wands! This has been a pretty good year to be a Potter fan. At least, as good as it can be now that the series is done. But, we got a screenplay and a new movie, so we can’t complain too much. Now, I haven’t seen Fantastical Beasts yet,Continue reading “A Review of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child”

Now that Broken Patterns is getting published, my life just got a shit ton more hectic. Not like it wasn’t bad enough, with holidays and getting two books self published by the end of the year. I’m going a little nuts, and cutting way back on some recreational activities I’ve been indulging in. In fairness,Continue reading “My Current Favorite Things”

I have a bad habit of confusing my friends when I talk about my writing. Part of it is that I talk in terms of drafts and parts. I might say, “I’m almost done with the first part of the second draft of the third book!” They just nod encouragingly and say, “That’s great, congratulations!”Continue reading “A Tale of Two Stories”

Hey, guys. I had to do an extra piece today to introduce you to an awesome fellow writer who’s new book is coming out today! Here’s what the author, Debbie De Louise has to say about it. Welcome to book two of the Cobble Cove cozy mystery series. If you had the chance to readContinue reading “Check Out Between A Rock And A Hard Place”

I feel like I should do something peppy after talking about the Vietnam war last week. Instead, though, I’m going to review the first few weeks of American Horror Story, My Roanoke Nightmare. It is October after all. There’s no better time for a horror story. Spoiler Warning! Do not proceed if you don’t wantContinue reading “A review of American Horror Story, Roanoke”

This is 17 years in the making. I hit a low point recently with Woven. I’ve written three books in the series, and I felt like I was spinning my wheels. I love the story, love the characters and love what I have planned for it. But I felt like it was going nowhere. ThenContinue reading “Seventeen Years”