I don’t like abridged books. Yes, I understand the unabridged Les Miserables is nearly 1500 pages, and Victor Hugo spends 50+ pages setting up the Bishop who gives Jean Valjean the candlesticks–a scene the movie/play does in 5 minutes flat. Yes, I…
As I was teaching the fine art of interviewing and newswriting to my middle school students, I had them mock interview me about my upcoming book The Unremarkable Squire. One of the students asked an interesting question: “Why isn’t the book…
Things I Learned from “The Illustrated Man”
April 2, 2013 | 3 Comments
I recently read Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man, a collection of 19 short stories written as only Bradbury can write them. I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned, in no particular order. Space is full of wonder, and…
Children of the Wells – Coming Soon!
March 16, 2013 | 1 Comments
I’ve always been fascinated with serialized, multi-author projects. Back in 2005-2006, I helped organize The Story Project, a two-year, multi-author project consisting of the fictional blogs of 13 characters as their lives intertwined in a New England mansion. A few…
What’s Happening Behind the Scenes
March 1, 2013 | 0 Comments
My website’s been pretty quiet lately, and I apologize for that. It’s because I’ve been busy on projects and tasks that you’ll see soon. Here are a few of them. The Unremarkable Squire I’ve spent my daily writing time lately…
Undying Good
February 5, 2013 | 0 Comments
So…last blog I made the claim that evil in fiction is often portrayed as undying and overpowering. (Author’s note: The jumping off point for this statement was Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which I finished since that blog and which ending only reinforced my claim.)…
Undying Evil
January 26, 2013 | 0 Comments
I’ve been watching the anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which, by the way, is fantastic. The bad guys are known as homunculi. They are nearly impossible to kill. They keep regenerating whenever hurt, and only sustained, brutal beatings can take one out. This…
Back in June I announced that my fantasy novel The Unremarkable Squire was to be published by Barking Rain Press sometime this winter. Unfortunately, this fall, my editor had some illnesses in the family to deal with, and the project was…
Subscribe to the Official Works of Nick Newsletter!
January 19, 2013 | 0 Comments
One of my goals for 2013 is to launch and maintain an email list so that I can directly fill in my readers on new publications as they come out. (Another goal is to get some of my unpublished projects…
I’ll be at The Next Chapter Bookseller in Warsaw, IN, on Friday, February 1, from 5:30-7:30pm for a book signing with my wife Natasha and fellow writer Nathan Marchand. The three of us have done a number of projects together,…
A few weeks ago, friend and fellow writer Nathan Marchand suggested that we swap short stories. He would write in one of my worlds and I would write in one of his. He chose Vienna, USA, because I’d been promoting it….
At the center of Vienna, USA is probably the best story of the collection, “Local Man Struck By Lightning Survives.” A product of an unwritten story about clouds and my stint as a reporter during the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Festival, it portrays a remarkable…
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