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Nicole Amsler has over 16 years of experience in professional writing and marketing. She owns Keylocke Services, a local copywriting and marketing consultant firm (www.keylocke.com) but is also a published fiction writer.
A resident of Springboro for six years, Nicole has two children, a supportive husband, a well stocked library and a coffee addiction. She looks forward to bringing news about area authors and literary events to you.
Six of the nine Oscar nominated best films began their lives as novels. Considering the vast majority of movies don’t do their literary counterparts justice, it would be fascinating to see if the Oscar nominated books were as riveting as their films. The Descendants, a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings This debut novel regularly receives… (continue…)
Certain toy shelves are empty and the mall parking lots are packed. But bookstore shelves are jammed with easy-to-wrap packages in any price range. Here is a short list of books for your Nice list: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Visually dazzling, this debut novel caused significant pre-print buzz. Garnering a six figure deal,… (continue…)
November is National Novel Writing Month. Put your leftover Halloween candy to use as midnight fuel for frantic writing sessions and gain an easy excuse out of an awkward family Thanksgiving dinner. In the month of November, a few hundred thousand aspiring novelist attempt to write 50,000 words in a single month. But it’s not… (continue…)
Readers and writers will appreciate the collection of literary minds at this year’s Books by the Banks event in Cincinnati. The free event is held in the Duke Energy Convention Center on Saturday, October 22, 2011 from 10 am to 4 pm. Both young and old will find a favorite author from the 100+ local… (continue…)
We have Hurricane Katrina to thank for the latest Dayton-set novel. Jen Violi, an 11-year Dayton native and UD graduate, escaped the flooding from Katrina by returning to Dayton and writing the short story that launched her book Putting Make Up on Dead People. Donna Parisi, a senior in high school finds her calling in… (continue…)
God’s War starts with an intriguing first line, preparing the reader for a brutal ride: “Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert.” Local author Kameron Hurley tells a dystopian tale of female assassins set in a terrifyingly harsh world of bugs, magicians and religious wars. Nyx, a… (continue…)
It shouldn’t be a surprise that Kristina McBride fell into the young adult genre with her first book, The Tension of Opposites. As a high school English teacher in Springboro for eight years, she spent plenty of time around teenagers. “Plus I can vividly remember the swirl of emotions and conflicts I endured as a… (continue…)
(the following was submitted by Nicole Amsler) November is the month best known for television sweeps, too much turkey and frost on the ground. But for a handful of Dayton writers, it is also NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month.) National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 with only 21 participants. Now, in its 11th year,… (continue…)
