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Nikki Loftin is a writer and native Texan who lives just outside Austin, Texas, with her two boys, two dogs, nine chickens, and one very patient husband. She writes Middle Grade novel-length fiction as well as personal essays, puppet plays, articles, poems, and short stories. Nikki is represented by Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Literary Agency. Her debut novel, The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy, was published by Razorbill (Penguin) in Summer 2012. Her second book, Nightingale's Nest , will come out on Feb. 20, 2014.

Nikki is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin graduate writing program (MA, '98). She has been a popcorn seller, waitress, bookstore employee, Music and Gifted/Talented teacher, and a Director of Family Ministri
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A few years ago, when I was going through the process of looking for an agent and then an editor, I started noticing some names popping up over and over again on the websites and twitter feeds I haunted. (I’m pretty sure most of us do that — wannabe authors, I mean. We form a sort of virtual worldwide community, bonded together by the adversity of rejection and – finally, maybe – by success!)


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Published on May 13, 2013 11:39 • 4 views
Average rating: 3.94 · 267 ratings · 106 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
The Sinister Sweetness of S...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011
Nightingale's Nest
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2014

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The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy by Nikki Loftin
" Since I heard about this book ages ago, I have been SO excited for The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy. I love middle grade - it is a growing love of mine. I keep finding more and more fantastic middle grade, which is awesome. I am happy to... "
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“When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night. ”Use your imagination, Lorelei,” she’d say, “and your whole life can be a fairy tale.” I wanted that to be true. But I should have paid more attention to the fairy tales.”
Nikki Loftin, The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy

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