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Learning to Love the Edit
My name is Nicole Scarano, and I am an indie author with one novel published and the sequel due later this year. This fact is incredible to me, because eight years ago having a published book with my name on it was nothing more than a fantasy. I never thought it would happen, yet here I am about to publish for the second time with no intention of stopping.
Where Did It All Begin?
Being an author was not always my dream. As a child, my mother told me I would one day become a great reader. I was obsessed with looking through picture books, despite my inability to read. My mom would watch me with them before I even knew what books were, and her words were the beginning of a lifelong love affair. I was homeschooled, and my mother used to read the classics to me, and when I grew old enough, we read them together. Because of her and her prediction, my love of books and storytelling run fierce to this day. In this photo, I’m passing my love of books on to my little sister.
Even though books were always my faithful companions, my dream was to work in film. In high school I wrote my first full-length screenplay and my second in college as an independent study. In college I…
