I’m Nick. I write books.
I’m an author, an editor, and a memoirist living in Pacific Grove, California. My company Storyflect allows me to capture remarkable human stories through custom memoirs. Over the course of my career, I’ve ghostwritten dozens of memoirs and non-fiction books.
I also write my own stories. I’m excited to take the step of sharing my fiction with the world through my two latest novel, Burning Home.
I’m represented by Ann Leslie Tuttle at Dystel, Goodrich & Bourret LLC.
Burning Home
You can smell it in the air. It’s fire season—the time of year when blazes are bound to threaten the Santa Cruz wilderness and the ancient redwoods that thrive in it. But in 2033, it’s worse than normal.
A slew of devastating fires are popping up one after the other, pushing Cassidy Salvo to put her life on the line in her job as a firefighter. Everyone seems to be blaming the changing climate, but Cassidy isn’t convinced. As she develops a relationship with Robin Roseman, a mysterious businessman and a leading donor of her fire station, she begins to suspect that the fires might be stemming from something sinister. Arson.
But Cassidy’s will to find the truth is driven by more than her love of the redwoods. She’s trying to atone for a tragedy embedded in her childhood—one that transformed her into a shell of her former self. As she digs deeper, she realizes that what’s happening in the redwoods might be rooted to her past. And the only way to keep the forest from burning is to look back.
The Inspiration
The title doesn’t veer too far from the truth. Burning Home is inspired by the loss of my childhood home: a rural cabin on a lake, which burned in the Woolsey Fire.
This story channels not only the pain of losing the physical objects that constitute a home, but the emotional fallout that occurs in the wake of true loss. Most importantly, it provides a blueprint to heal from tragedy when it inevitably arrives.
