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Born and raised in a small town in Oklahoma, Nick Sconce now resides outside of Oklahoma City with his wife and three children.
His interests include photography, recording music, cooking, gardening and studying the financial services industry.
Pewter, Murder, and Loaded Dice and Structured Chaos are novels in a series involving Devin Predire
and Alex Vinkler.

His third novel, Hatchet Women, is set for release 4Q 2016.

Edie Firebaugh and her team of young, career-oriented women, are coerced to dye their hair to blend into their insurance company’s event planning department to conceal their real work in special investigations, fraud prevention, and agent termination. As they ascend and infiltrate the company’s hierarchy, they uncover a layered s ...more

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Nick Sconce I've often struggled with arriving at a functional definition of writer's block. I used to deny its actual existence. I think it can manifest itself e…moreI've often struggled with arriving at a functional definition of writer's block. I used to deny its actual existence. I think it can manifest itself emotionally as well as intellectually. For Hatchet Women, I spent five years writing the draft with a year and a half hiatus in between. I intentionally shelved the project during that time because I wasn't in the best place personally to do the novel justice. I'm not sure if that was a form of writer's block or not. From an intellectual perspective, I think the best cure or avoidance of writer's block is consistent reps, meaning having the discipline to write for similar periods of time or similar results in terms of word count or page length on a daily or weekly basis. When I'm writing a draft of a novel, I set a goal to write five pages per sitting five times a week, yielding 25 pages weekly. Typically, I can finish a first draft in three or four months this way for the novel length that I trust and am comfortable with. Even if I have no idea what I'm supposed to be writing to move the work forward, I commit to the reps.(less)

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Nick Sconce The best thing about being a writer, for me, is rereading something you just wrote, that gives you a charge or a quickening. It's completely an intrin…moreThe best thing about being a writer, for me, is rereading something you just wrote, that gives you a charge or a quickening. It's completely an intrinsic reward. I believe it's similar to the point in song writing when you convert a simple riff to a full component of a song. It's the moment of conversion between inception and growth where you get a real sense that it's developing into something meaningful. (less)

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	Wrong Person Investigations: Flash Mob Massacre 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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$1.99 Kindle Edition of Hatchet Women by Nick Sconce available now through Monday, 11-28-16

Hatchet Women follows four brazen women who are the hired henchwomen for a major insurance company. While investigating the annuity division of the company, they find the unique circumstance that one of every three annuity recipients dies mysteriously before they can collect. What transpires is a tension filled quest to solve what's really going on. Hatchet Women is 390 pages long and has a front Read more of this blog post »

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