During the pandemic and in place of face to face events Nikki set up a Facebook community, The Lost Books of Lockdown to match authors with readers who otherwise would never have met and broadcast 42 live Author Showcases and 10 Business of Books interviews with experts from the publishing sector.

Nikki is delighted to have been a judge for the Page Turner 2022 Writing Mentorship Award for unpublished writers, offering one lucky winner a mentorship and 6 month coaching package worth £1100. The finalists can be found here.  She is looking forward to the ceremony in October when the winners will be announced.

An avid reader across many genres, she is especially keen on contemporary stories full of emotion, and realistic characters who jump off the page. Whether you make her laugh or cry, she doesn’t mind but she does want to be simultaneously challenged and entertained through beautiful writing. Books which leave her thinking are her favourites.    

Nikki loves talking to her readers at book club events and festivals. She ran a writers’ workshop at the inaugural Herts Book Festival in May 2022 as well as chairing the ‘Life and Love’ authors in conversation talk with Lauren Forsythe and Hina Belitz.

Her own novels explore the often-neglected stories of midlife characters, rich with gritty experiences whilst full of possibilities for growth and change. She wants to give a voice to anyone who is feeling stuck, and at the same time hopes to inspire closet novelists of all ages to write the books they have always dreamt of writing. Her second novel, Someone You May Know, based on a true-life romance about second chances is underway!

She believes there’s no need to put your writing ambition on hold until you retire. She is living proof. From first word to finished book, you can get there too, one word, sentence, paragraph, page at a time. As George Eliot allegedly said, ‘It’s never too late to be who you might have been.’