Unremarkable Squire

The Bipolar, Paranoid Writer

I’ve spent the last week looking over galleys of my novel, The Unremarkable Squire. This stage of publication is a strange one for me. First, I start over-analyzing all my sentences. Is this really the best word here? (Never mind I’ve asked…

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Children of the Wells – Coming Soon!

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…

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What’s Happening Behind the Scenes

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…

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Update on “The Unremarkable Squire”

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…

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Subscribe to the Official Works of Nick Newsletter!

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 (Another goal is to get some of my unpublished projects…

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Booksigning in Warsaw, IN

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,…

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The Discarded Gift

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….

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Spotlight – Local Man Struck By Lightning Survives

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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Spotlight – “The Love Letter”

“The Love Letter,” the second story in Vienna, USA, is a strange story. Without revealing too much, it’s about Mark Parrish, who doesn’t want at all, and so he drags a young lady into his experiment to determine why people willingly suffer…

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Spotlight – “Transitions”

This month I’m highlighting Vienna, USA, a collection of five short stories set in the fictional Midwest town of Vienna. The first story of the collection is “Transitions,” and like most of the stories in this collection, it’s based on…

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Spotlight – Vienna, USA

In the near future, I hope to start releasing more of my short stories and novellas, but I thought it would be worth highlighting some of my work that’s already available. Vienna, USA is a collection of 5 short stories set…

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Another World Promo Contest

I just uploaded a PDF version of my flash fiction collection, Another World, and I thought I’d like to have a contest to celebrate. Here’s the lowdown: Anyone who purchases a PDF or print copy of Another World during the month…

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