Nicole Pyland's Blog, page 3
July 29, 2023
Flashback: Midnight Tradition
I remember thinking I was finished with the Celebrities Series, as it came to be called after I wrote ALL THE LOVE SONGS and its prequel, NO AFTER YOU. I’ve talked and written about those books a lot, and they continue to be reader favorites, but most people don’t know where MIDNIGHT TRADITION came from.
I had been writing a lot, and I was burning out a little at that time. I couldn’t even tell you what I was writing, but life was busy, work was stressful, and I needed a break. Writing is usua...
July 15, 2023
Flashback: The Fireworks
When I first started outlining the Holiday Series, I wasn’t sure who Aria Bancroft was. I wrote down that she’s a player, and that was it. I didn’t know her story until I got to writing the paragraph synopsis that I usually do before I write a book. I’d written Weston’s and Talon’s already, and it was time to write Aria’s. I remember staring at the screen, trying to come up with the story to tell about her, and it hit me that because Talon’s book was hot and steamy, and Weston’s was a bit of a s...
July 9, 2023
Coming Soon: Awaiting
You can now pre-order the 4th and final book in the Royalty Series, AWAITING, which is Alex’s story about finding love. The only problem is that Alex has already found love in Bexley, Alice’s best friend from America. Bexley might be wholly unsuitable to be the future Queen Consort, but Alex doesn’t care. She has a crush that she knows isn’t just a crush, and she looks for every opportunity to get to know more about the speech therapist from Kansas.
Awaiting Royalty Series Book 4 (final book...July 7, 2023
Audiobook Alert: The Best Lines
THE BEST LINES is now available for pre-order as an audiobook!
Get ready to immerse yourself in the captivating story of Ember & Eva, brought to life by Melissa Moran’s narration.
This story follows the journey of Eva Dash, a professor who finds herself at a crossroads after losing her dream job, and Ember Elliot, a reformed player who is determined to find her true self and pursue her ambitions beyond her family’s restaurant.
The audiobook version of The Best Lines is set to release on Augus...
June 17, 2023
Flashback: Lantern
When I told Charlie and Hailey’s store in JUST TELL HER, I introduced Summer Taft, Emma Colton, and Lena Tanner. Emma was Hailey’s first girlfriend. Summer almost hooked up with Charlie, but didn’t. And Lena dated Charlie very briefly. When I had the idea to write another book in what would then become the Chicago Series, I decided that it would be Summer’s book.
That was usually how it happened for me back then. I pick one character I want to write about, and it becomes their book before it ha...
June 13, 2023
New Release: Arriving
ARRIVING is out today!
Follow Alice as she discovers that her boring life in small-town Kansas was actually all part of the plan to hide her from people who don’t want her to be found.
When a man shows up and tells Alice she’s actually a Princess-meant-to-be-Queen, Alice doesn’t believe him and doesn’t want to follow him, either. Until she meets her new bodyguard, Nora.
Seeing Nora’s belief in the cause, Alice decides to take on this adventure that also includes the adventure of falling in...
June 3, 2023
Audiobook Alert: Fresh Start
The Chicago Series is coming on audio this year!
I was able to book the fantastic Melissa Moran again, who narrated the entire Celebrities Series for me, and she’s going to be doing all 5 books (Fresh Start, The Best Lines, Just Tell Her, Love Walked into The Lantern, and What Happened After) this year. I’m going to be keeping her pretty busy in 2023, huh?
Each book will be released as Melissa finishes them and they go through QA, so I don’t have specific release dates for all of them yet, ...
May 20, 2023
The angst of Just Tell Her
Way back when I first wrote Charlie and Hailey in THE BEST LINES, I had no intention of writing a whole series of books. THE BEST LINES was going to be a stand-alone, with mentions of Alyssa and Hannah from FRESH START, but as I started to bring them more into the plot and got to know Ember’s friends a bit, I knew I wanted to write a book where Charlie and Hailey fall in love.
Now, for the plot. This was interesting because there’s a friend (Charlie) who’s been in love with her friend (Hailey) ...
May 6, 2023
Coming Soon: Arriving
You can now pre-order the 3rd book in the Royalty Series.
ARRIVING follows an American woman who had no idea she was actually born a Princess. When a country she’s hardly ever heard of, outside of its ongoing civil war, needs her to return to help change it for the better, this would-be-Princess is reluctant and confused, to say the least. But then, there’s this beautiful bodyguard, Nora, who believes in the nation and the cause of reinstituting the monarchy and Alice as its Queen.
Discounted...
May 3, 2023
New Release: Appointing
APPOINTING is out, and you can pick up book 2 in the Royalty Series in e-book, paperback, or hardcover today!
This book follows Elin, a Princess of Norway, who due to a tricky family situation, becomes a reluctant Queen. The only problem is that Elin is gay and in love with her private secretary, who won’t be her private secretary much longer.
Read about Elin and Ingrid falling in love while Elin navigates being appointed to the throne of her country and also being clumsy around Ingrid becau...
