Interview with women’s action/adventure novelist Nicole Black

Today’s guest author is Nicole Black. We’re chatting about her new women’s action/adventure, I Can Still Hear You.

During her virtual book, tour, Nicole will be awarding a $50 Amazon or Barnes and Noble (winner’s choice) gift card to a luck randomly drawn winner. To be entered for a chance to win, use the form below. To increase your chances of winning, feel free to visit her other tour stops and enter there, too.

Also, the book is on sale for $0.99 during the tour.

Bio:
Nicole Black is an author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur with a passion for sharing unique stories and helping people grow. For over 20 years, she’s worked in the business world as a corporate trainer in employee productivity and effective growth, where she’s helped some of the biggest brands in hospitality and entertainment grow sustainably through inspiring their employees. She’s been featured on platforms including TEDxWilmington, Jack Canfield Show, Santa Barbara News Press, The George DiGianni show and the Tom Barnard Show.

Through her writing, Nicole hopes to empower her readers and impart valuable lessons about grief, loss, and emotional growth. In her free time, Nicole enjoys traveling, yoga, and spending time with her wonderful daughter in their home of Santa Barbara, California.

Welcome, Nicole. Please tell us a little bit about your new release.
I am so excited about my new book, I Can Still Hear You. My father passed away in July of 2014 and that is when I started writing this book. He would come to me and at times I almost felt as though he were writing the book through me and with me at the same time. It’s so exciting to work on a project and then release it. The daunting part is that the next step, marketing the book is always harder than the fun part, writing.

Excerpt from I Can Still Hear You:
I gazed up at the ceiling in quiet disbelief, as if I’d see my father looking down on me. Carefully, I removed the map from the box. It was yellowing and old, and the paper was as thin as tissue, so I took care in opening it. The map had some faint lines on it, some solid, some dotted, but no place names, no markings at all to tell what exactly it belonged to.

“Great, Dad,” I muttered aloud. “This is super helpful.”

But the second I said it, as had happened a dozen times in my life when I’d been presented with a puzzle, my father’s voice said, I’m not going to give you all the answers. Where’s the fun in that?

“This is one big party,” I muttered again. I had no idea where to even start. The only thing that made sense was to contact my dad’s friend living in Hawaii.

Hawaii.

He couldn’t possibly mean that he wanted me to go to . . .

No. That was impossible.

I read the letter, again and again. The more I did, the more it seemed as if, yes . . . that’s exactly what my father wanted.

Peering in the box again, I hoped that wad of cash would present itself. Or at least the stopwatch. But neither did. The box was empty.

What part of the writing process do you dread?
I love all parts of the writing process. At times the most challenging part for me, is knowing when to put my book down and let it rest.

Do you ever suffer from writer’s block? If so, what do you do about it?
I once heard there was no such thing as writers block. The premise was that if you felt stuck it meant you didn’t know what your story was about. And the solution is to go back to your story and make sure you have a defined beginning, middle and end.

Do you ever wish you were someone else? Who?
I never wished I was another person, but I did wish at times that I was a bird. They always seem so free to me, able to pick up and fly off to some new adventure at any given moment.

What did you do on your last birthday?
For my birthday in 2020, one of my best friends and I traveled to New Zealand. When we booked our tickets, I didn’t realize that we would be flying over the International Date Line on my birthday. The airline wrote Happy Birthday on my ticket and the staff at The Sky Tower in Auckland made the day after my birthday incredibly special.

Links:
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The book is on sale for $0.99 during the tour.

Thanks for being here today, Nicole.

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