Nicole M. Miller

  Inspiration. In my experience it can strike anywhere, anytime. I got the idea for one story from a song that was being piped into a restaurant. Another one came from the tourist information room in a highway rest area, still another from a nightmare. As I said, anywhere, anytime. I’ve explained a bit about the background to the Texas Dreams books on my website (www.amandacabot.com), so today I thought we’d talk about the inspiration for the book I’m currently writing, my 2012 release from Revell. Those of you who’ve read my bio know that I’m an avid traveler, and so you probably won’t be surprised to learn that this book,...

Thanks for hosting me on your blog! You asked about the history behind my novel. My first novel, Killing Time, is actually my second release. Somehow, my second novel, Queen of Hearts came out first. Actually, it occurred because my publisher had a spot for a historical in April (my contract for Killing Time was for publication in August.) Killing Time came about due to my work in a jail. I’ve always been an avid reader and had planned for many years that one day I’d write a book. When I began work as a counselor in the jail, my thoughts returned to the book. I thought it would be...

    I am currently writing a fantasy trilogy, called The Cascadian Chronicles. In it, an American college graduate travels through a portal to the mythological world of Auberon. Miriam Aguilar was brought to her foster family as an infant by her mysterious godparents. Her fiancée calls off the wedding during a camping trip with friends, and suddenly her godfather reappears after all these years. Feeling that she no longer has a home anywhere, Miri chooses to follow her godfather to the land of her birth. But the land of her birth is a magical world seemingly stuck in the Dark Ages. She happens to be the heir to the...

    What would happen if a poor girl made a shameful decision to feed her family? What would the consequences be? What would she be like when she grew up? That series of questions was the inspiration for Lt. Ruth Doherty, an Army nurse during World War II, and the heroine of A Memory Between Us, the second book in the Wings of Glory series. Ruth’s character came to me when I was writing my first novel, A Distant Melody, which was meant to be a standalone book. My hero in A Distant Melody was a B-17 pilot with the US Eighth Air Force based in England. While doing...