Nicole Evans | Editor and Author

Bookstore Romance Day 2025 Virtual events for Bookstore Romance Day 2025

Are you ready for #BookstoreRomanceDay weekend? Two days of virtual programming! 650+ officially registered participating bookstores (plus probably more that aren't on the list).

You can save your spot(s) for the virtual events at the link. Bookstore map & list link in next post.
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I am creating THE cutest little menace of a creature for my current fantasy romance WIP and I am so excited to get so much character art of this gremlin and win over your hearts. 😍

(Artists, unfortunately this won't be happening for months at least, so no need to pitch me services at this time. 😘)

This is so much better than my answer of "Nothing" in all caps.

I am not surprised you approve. 😍

Me, reading one of the saddest, most heartwrenching, gut-churning novellas, crying and bracing myself the entire time.

Also me: how about all my feedback is about how to make it hurt even *more*?

Cover for the novelette "The Path, the Sky, and You" by JD Rivers. II's mainly a graphic cover. It has two gold stripes the top, under it tribal like stripe in gold. In the middle under it a stylized sun. Under it a band that is a cross between an amethyst and milky way in blue and gold, with the title "the path the sky and you" in front of it, under it the author JD Rivers, followed by another tribal like band, and then a gold stripe. The main background color is a warm gray. The cover was done by the author with the help of canva resources.

After returning from Adabel, Onder is lost. But when a new path opens for him, he is hesitant to walk it. With the future of the tribe on the line, will he be able to secure his own freedom or bow to pressure?

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Companion to "The Edge of a World"

DL/Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-path-the...

Author testimonial for Thoughts Stained Editorial, which reads: "Having Nicole as my editor was like having an editor, hype squad, and best friend all in one package. Her attention to detail is beyond compare, and she articulates her feedback in such a kind and thoughtful way. I love how safe I and my work have been with her; she truly believes in the work, and that's why she's able to put that above and beyond care and effort in. She is also compassionate and delicate with the more sensitive elements of my work, and handles it with all the care in the world. I cannot recommend her enough. Just don't steal her from me!" from author E.K. Earle, author of the Wraith and Wanderings series.

Y'all are NOT prepared for how I am going to YAP about E.K. Earle's books! If you want gothic that is grotesque, heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure, filled with rememberable characters and written with luscious prose, you can look no further than EK's books!

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I really want to finish my first draft by the end of the year so this is very apt!!!

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Deciding to get your next sleeve done, saving up the money for it and then being unable to find an artist in KS who will respond or does the fine line work you're wanting makes me so sad. 😭

Hey look! That's me!

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Oh my gosh this COVER 😍

Artwork of Kye and Jude from the book Name Her Holy. Jude is holding Kye, arms around her shoulders, one hand in her hair. Kye is leaning into Jude, head tilted back, one hand on her chest. Jude is looking over Kye’s head off onto the distance, her expression is murderous. Jude’s white, has freckles, a long scar over her nose. Her long auburn hair is in a loose braid with little flowers and an undercut. She is wearing gilded armor with a cornflower blue padded under coat. A blue ribbon tied to her elbow flaps in the breeze. A sword next to her, sticking out of the ground, with a small token wrapped around its hilt. Kye has tan skin covered with scarring, white eyes and short dark brown hair. She is wearing an elaborate dark purple cloak with light gold thin chains hanging from it. A mm embroidered tailored long jacket underneath. Broken ruins of cathedrals sit like ghostly visions behind them in a setting sun sky, giving way to dark starry night in Kye’s corner. Pale roses sit against the night sky.

Throwing my tablet across the room so I stop working on this, please take this doomed yuri off my hands I’M BEGGING 🌸✨🌻

You got this!!! I believe in you!

Book cover, two people standing on a cliff next to each other, looking down onto ruins that are white and glowing, title: The Edge of a World by JD Rivers - the main colors are beige and brown. Cover illustration by planetsandmagic

One wrong step and the monster in Otar's veins kills.

🛣️ indiana jones but gay
🏛️ archaelogy!
🌎 rooooadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer

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I really did. I could feel myself tearing up while I was reading so I was like, might as well have a score to go along with the tears. 😂

When you're editing a tragic novella (like, the kind where they all die at the end tragic) and thus put on the Clair Obscur soundtrack to maximize the vibes while you cry your eyes out.

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I hope she makes you a proud mamma. 😭

Our cast of characters may be small, but they make one helluva impact. Meet Ashilde, Anóra, Funakiin and Ieka! 🩸

Blood Price is an epic fantasy featuring impossible choices, a doomed quest, female rage and loads of ~trauma~.

(All photos from Pexels!)

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Book cover to THE BLADED FAITH by David Dalglish: a skull-masked assassin in a cloak wielding a sword

Do you like assassins? Training montages? Do you like gods walking around, murdering and getting murdered? Maybe give THE BLADED FAITH a try then, as it's on sale for today only at $2.99.

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A trope graphic on a black and red smoky background with the cover of the epic feminist fantasy novel Blood Price by Nicole Evans in the center, with 13 tropes written in white text surrounding it.

Hey, it's Trope Tuesday! So you get a trope, and you get a trope, and you get some trauma—wait, oops, I meant another trope!

Which of these are your favorite? 🩸

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Let's write some words today.

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Oh that is so sweet of you! But yep it is a *skill* that deserves compensation so just saving up! One day!

I dream of being able to afford to make it into an audiobook, one day!!

I get giddy every. single. time. someone gets excited about something because *I* was excited about it and spent my energy getting HYPE.

Champion art. It's the best feeling in the world.

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I've gotten four different people to play Clair Obscur. A dozen to read Evan Winter's The Rage of Dragons or ML Wangs' A Sword of Kaigen. A friend into an entirely new-to-them subgenre of romance simply because I won't shut up about how much I love it.

You know people who only hate and tear down things online have never experienced the joy of championing art and sharing their joy and it shows.

Brb, tattooing Wren's praise into my SOUL omfgggggg 😭

Oh my GOD Wren!! This makes me want to cry because it is *exactly* what I want to do with this book. Oh my fucking god.

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