Like she was born to rock the written word, it was as if Nikki sprang from the womb with a book and a pen in her hand. She’s been writing, reading, and creating stories for as long as she can remember. She spent her younger years reading to her cabbage patch dolls, writing elaborate creative stories on the back of her grandparents garage door in chalk, and reading Enid Blyton tales under the covers with a flashlight, long after she was told “lights out”.

When she finished high school, she went to university to study journalism and picked up a few small gigs contributing content for websites and local street press publications. Since then, she’s interviewed some of the most well respected and successful DJs in the dance music world, and contributed a whole swag of feature articles to a nationally distributed women’s magazine in Australia.

A few years ago, during the dead of winter, Nikki sat in front of her computer and started tapping away at the keyboard. The result was a finished manuscript of her first real novel. As proud as she was for completing such an enormous task, she says she’d rather eat cockroaches for breakfast than actually allow anyone to read it. Even so, she kept on writing, coming up with new ideas and honing her skills, and now feels like she has a finished product that she actually would like people to read.

Nikki, her two dogs and her husband recently relocated from Australia to the United States. She’s finally starting to master driving on the other side of the road, and thinks America’s fascination with peanut butter is too awesome for words.