Book: Nest Of Stars
Q1. Hello, can you please introduce yourself? Readers would love to know more about you.
My name is Nicole Verrone and I’m a native of North Carolina. There, I spent time on a dairy farm as a child, on the roof of my parent’s house writing poetry in notebooks as an adolescent, in the Black Mountains during college on a quaker farm and have been trying to escape to see the world since I felt stuck on a plot of land in Union County as a child. I’ve been married for 25 years to a shy fly fisherman who is the best dad and partner and friend a girl could ever want. I have four daughters, all thriving in their spaces.
Q2. What were the key challenges you faced while writing ‘Nest of Stars’ book?
I have difficulty leaving these beloved humans to hide and write. My husband and I have so much fun together and my girls are wonderful companions, full of empathy and compassion and intelligent both emotionally and intellectually. Because I give so much, always making sure everyone is fed and content, taking time to do what I was created to do was hard, and I waited twenty years until I felt they were secure and happy to sneak away and listen to the words that I’d kept at bay. My life is more beautiful outside than in, and its sometimes easier to be in the present than diving internally to listen. It can feel pretty deep and isolating there.
Q3. What books or authors have most influenced your own writing?
Circe by Madeleine Miller, Mary Oliver’s
poetry, Whitman, Tennyson, Frost, Angelo, Marquez, Thoreau, Bishop, Bob Dylan,
Melville
Q4. What’s your favorite spot to visit in your own country? And what makes it so special to you?
I love Boston because of the history and warm memories of walking the cobbled streets as a 17-year-old. It was the first city I visited that convinced me I belonged
in New England. It was a space of the brilliant, it was romantic, it was delicious, it was steeped in stories, it was intriguing and mysterious and everything I wanted in a city. I still feel I belong there; through I reside in the south.
Q5. Is there lots to do before you drive in and start writing a book?
Only lots of listening and unplugging, reading and musing. All time well spent that gives itself to creation the way the darkness called for light and put order to the chaos of the mind.
Q6. How long did it take you to write ‘Nest of Stars’ book?
About six months of writing.
Q7. On what all platforms’ readers can find ‘Nest of Stars’ book to buy?
Amazon, Barnes and Noble and any Indie bookstores.
Q8. Tell us about the process of coming up with the book cover and the title ‘Nest of Stars’?
My friend Sarah Helser is an artist and we have shared life for almost 20 years. She
shared her art with me for the cover, and it meant everything to me.
Q9. When writing a book how do you keep things fresh, for both your readers and you?
If I write that which I hear echo in my mind, I can only assume others have experienced a glimpse of the experience. But we can never know, can we, what others truly feel and think. Art is an expression of the deepest wounds and the resolution of their injury by way of beauty for ash. It isn’t fresh or new, but to me, it’s real, and it’s my way of climbing out of the deep so I can be a part of the waking world. I’m always relieved when I finish a piece, like I conquered the dream internal battle and turned its weapons into a sculpture.
Q10. Are there any secrets from the book (that aren’t in the blurb), you can share with your readers?
No way.
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