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Carol Nicolas lives in southern California. A native of Canada, she attended BYU-Idaho (formerly Ricks College) and obtained a bachelor’s degree in education from Brigham Young University (Provo). A teacher, mother of five, world traveler, and fan of sci-fi/fantasy books and films, she enjoys gardening, painting, and family history research. She likes rock, pop, Celtic and classical music. She is a fan of Kristen Heitzmann, Robin McKinley, Maggie Stiefvater, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Shannon Guymon, Particia Briggs, Shannon Hale, Kristen D. Randle, Anne Osterlund, and Sheralynn Pratt.

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Average rating: 4.47 · 118 ratings · 45 reviews · 4 distinct works

	THE SEA CHILD: SELKIE KING MYSTERIES BOOK ONE 4.61 avg rating — 69 ratings — 2 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
	The Sixth Power 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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
	Double Play: A Novel of Magic 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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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Book Review: Yes, Your Serpentine Excellency

It’s been a while since I read a novel that was so entertaining and captivating as Kate Stradling’s book, Yes, Your Serpentine Excellency. All Joanna Marlow wants is a quiet life with her two beloved cats. She is content to work as a courier, to seldom use her magical ability to ‘skip’, and to avoid the attention of her family, the various crime syndicates, and the royal family. However, when her

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The Jade Necklace (The Chosen and the Cursed, #1)

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Cross My Heart: A Women’s Fiction Novel About Losing Everything—and Finding What Matters Most (The Homecoming Collection)

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Carol’s Quotes

“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
― Charles Schultz

tags: humor, life, wisdom

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury