Nicole Buran

Couldn't figure out what I was doing to my shoulder just before bed to make it hurt so much, I couldn't fall asleep...

Learn from my mistakes and don't sit on your bed hunched over your tablet like a gremlin working on book edits 🤦🏻‍♀️

This. Although truthfully, I forget about this place often 🫣

Romantasy hot take:

I'm sick of morally-gray shadow daddies.

Where are the green flag soft-bois?

#amreading #amwriting #romantasy

You're the best! This was so helpful!

Reintroduction time!

I'm Nicole, and I write dark, historical-inspired fantasy with a heaping scoop of romance and a dash of female rage.

✨ Manifesting good things today ✨

Going to take the snow flurries on New Year's Day as a good luck sign ❄️❄️

Might be ringing in the new year with a new book idea 👀👀

I'm not saying I believe in fate, but finally catching COVID after almost four years and therefore having to quarantine the *same* week your most anticipated read of the year comes in the mail, so you don't want to leave your house anyway, kind of feels like it.

5yo and 3yo are snuggling quietly on the couch.

Why do I feel like this is a trap? 😂

That feeling when the universe does you a favor and has your new book and new sweatpants arrive the same day you come down with a cold 🤧

5yo: 'Tis the season to be minty.

Me: *finally* sitting down to try to finish writing book 4

My brain: but what if you plotted out ideas for the sequel instead ...

Did I finally come up with a title for book four, 82K words into it?

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5 yo woke up this morning, wrote two books, and promptly declared himself an author.

You don't have to be published to be an author. You just have to write.

Few things are hotter than men with rolled up shirt sleeves 😂

There's nothing quite like the "doom averted" sensation of walking in on your 5yo holding an opened marker and staring longingly at the walls.

Being horrified by the number of children killed by war doesn't mean you have a political agenda. It means you have humanity in its most basic form.

3yo looks out the window: "Let's see if we can find some seagulls"

Me: I don't think we're close enough to the beach for them.

3yo: "Let's see if we can find some dragons."

Me: ...

Just did something scary and exciting...manifesting good news 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

43 degrees this morning, so I'm living my best life 🍂🍁

Writing new words today after weeks of nothing but edits, and wow does it feel good 🤩.

Soooo close to finishing book 4!!!

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Oh no! Why are you up so early?

The hazards of eating while breastfeeding 😂

We did this except with chocolate on his head that we thought was a mole 😂

I've officially reached the "I've pre-ordered so many books I can't actually remember them all" stage 😂

Driving 20 minutes in a car with two dozen fresh-made Duck Donuts that you aren't allowed to eat is, in fact, a form of torture.

My best writing advice is to find yourself critique partners who don't let you get away with anything 😅

Between landing and arc of one of my most-anticipated 2023 releases yesterday and the email I got this morning, I am giving new meaning to the phrase "buzzing with excitement."