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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Couldn't figure out what I was doing to my shoulder just before bed to make it hurt so much, I couldn't fall asleep... Learn from my mistakes and don't sit on your bed hunched over your tablet like a gremlin working on book edits 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Romantasy hot take: I'm sick of morally-gray shadow daddies. Where are the green flag soft-bois? #amreading #amwriting #romantasy

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Reintroduction time! I'm Nicole, and I write dark, historical-inspired fantasy with a heaping scoop of romance and a dash of female rage.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

✨ Manifesting good things today ✨

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Going to take the snow flurries on New Year's Day as a good luck sign ❄️❄️

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Might be ringing in the new year with a new book idea 👀👀

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

I'm not saying I believe in fate, but finally catching COVID after almost four years and therefore having to quarantine the *same* week your most anticipated read of the year comes in the mail, so you don't want to leave your house anyway, kind of feels like it.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

5yo and 3yo are snuggling quietly on the couch. Why do I feel like this is a trap? 😂

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

That feeling when the universe does you a favor and has your new book and new sweatpants arrive the same day you come down with a cold 🤧

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

5yo: 'Tis the season to be minty.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Me: *finally* sitting down to try to finish writing book 4 My brain: but what if you plotted out ideas for the sequel instead ...

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Did I finally come up with a title for book four, 82K words into it? 👀👀👀

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

5 yo woke up this morning, wrote two books, and promptly declared himself an author. You don't have to be published to be an author. You just have to write.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

There's nothing quite like the "doom averted" sensation of walking in on your 5yo holding an opened marker and staring longingly at the walls.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Being horrified by the number of children killed by war doesn't mean you have a political agenda. It means you have humanity in its most basic form.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

3yo looks out the window: "Let's see if we can find some seagulls" Me: I don't think we're close enough to the beach for them. 3yo: "Let's see if we can find some dragons." Me: ...

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Just did something scary and exciting...manifesting good news 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

43 degrees this morning, so I'm living my best life 🍂🍁

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Writing new words today after weeks of nothing but edits, and wow does it feel good 🤩. Soooo close to finishing book 4!!!

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

I've officially reached the "I've pre-ordered so many books I can't actually remember them all" stage 😂

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Driving 20 minutes in a car with two dozen fresh-made Duck Donuts that you aren't allowed to eat is, in fact, a form of torture.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

My best writing advice is to find yourself critique partners who don't let you get away with anything 😅

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Between landing and arc of one of my most-anticipated 2023 releases yesterday and the email I got this morning, I am giving new meaning to the phrase "buzzing with excitement."

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Dropping my favorite accessible ADULT fantasy recs from the last year in light of the 💿🐴 elsewhere. - One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig - The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten - The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem - The Curse of Saints by Kate Dramis - The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Silly me, thinking I would save money by using my audible credits to preorder books ...and then using the flimsiest excuses to buy the hardcopy books anyway.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

I try to stay out of celebrity squabbles, but Joe Jonas complaining he has to be a father while Sophie Turner continues to have a career is my villain origin story.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Fall starts now!!!!* 🍂🍁🍂🍁 *Yes, I know it doesn't officially start until the 23rd but I don't care.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

The US Copyright Office is seeking comment on AI as it affects writers and other artists! If multibillion-dollar corporations want to use YOUR labor and skill to benefit their shareholders, you probably have an opinion about that! Comment here (link at bottom): www.copyright.gov/policy/artif...

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Wow, you all weren't kidding about "Castles Crumbling." ...might have just found the theme song for MMC in "untitled book 4.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

The feminine urge to spend the rest of the day on one of those Victorian fainting-lady couches after experiencing 1st day of school dropoff chaos.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Do your main characters have theme songs? For TAoL mine are Elinor: "Castle of Glass" by Linkin Park Lukas: "Heart Upon My Sleeve" by Avicii featuring Imagine Dragons

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Going to have to thank my car in my acknowledgments if I ever get published because apparently, it is where I get all my ideas and fix my plot holes.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Preparing for the bloodsport known as "signing your kids up for after school activities." Wish me luck 🤞

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Ok, really? No gifs here?! *Insert exasperated/frustrated gif of choice here*

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

She's a 10, but she kidnapped me and realllllly hates my family.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

I was today years old when I learned that these posts are called skeets?! ...what?!

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

56 degrees this morning! Hello, Fall! My, how I've missed you 🍂🥰

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Fellow authors--let's agree that reviewers can say/post whatever they want to about our books Fellow reviewers--let's agree to NEVER tag authors in negative reviews *Steps off soapbox*

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Rough time for the California people. Hope everyone's ok.

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Nicole Buran @nicoleburan.bsky.social · 20/08/2023