Nicki Huntsman Smith

Nicki Huntsman Smith loves books.Everything She's learned about writing has grown from her love of reading. She began her writing career at the tender age of seven, when She wrote a play for her third-grade class. It was not an assignment; She did it because She discovered She loved creative writing as much as She loved reading. She received a children's typewriter the next year, and countless short stories followed.She wrote some awful poetry during her teen years, then some not-so-awful short stories over the next two decades. She became serious about writing books ten years ago. The timing felt right, and She created the world-altering habit of writing every day.Her first published novel, Secrets Under the Mesa, began as a short story. She decided it had some legs and went with it. The inspiration for The Troop of Shadows Chronicles emerged from two directions: her love of post-apocalyptic fiction and a recent interest in disaster preparedness.Stephen King says, "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."The hard work is worth it. She hopes you enjoy her novels. She wrote them for fellow book lovers just like you.