{"id":89,"date":"2025-07-01T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chimneyspublishing.co.uk\/test-stie\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T07:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:30:55","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chimneyspublishing.co.uk\/test-stie\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About\nMe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cJust when I thought one suspect, a twist would appear or an alibi and I was back to the beginning.\u201d<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>My Shelves are Full<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-style-section-2 has-base-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow is-style-section-2--1\" style=\"padding-top:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" 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adults, the Little Bookshop of Murders, was inspired by nearly twenty years working with bookshops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-eds-animate-it-block eds-animate-block-save\"><div class=\"eds-animate animated   \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"shrink\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"0\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"0.5\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"0\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"0.5\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"scroll\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"40\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fauthorsalouduk.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F08%2Fnicki_thornton-profile-251x300.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1&amp;ipt=a73b0e9a7c416171805728d20c97e28fd4cbb1db2372eaa029b06f9a7c8e09bf\" alt=\"\" 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She discovered bookshops are naturally places where gossip is shared and you learn a lot about everyone locally! So having been a lifelong fan of crime fiction, she decided it would be the perfect place to set a murder mystery series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicki\u2019s debut middle-grade fantasy crime fiction thriller, the bestselling The Last Chance Hotel, won the Times Children\u2019s Fiction Prize and was nominated for awards including the Carnegie Medal, the CrimeFest Best Crime Novel for Children and Specsavers National Book Award, and for the Prix Elbakin.Net for fantasy writing in France. She has been described by Waterstones as \u2018one of the most original children\u2019s writers around\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicki remains a huge supporter of anything that promotes reading for pleasure. She also reads way too much and you can find out what she\u2019s reading in her newsletter as well as following the progress of the next books in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-container-content-6388d5dc\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fun Facts!<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Although somehow cats always seem to feature in Nicki\u2019s books, she refuses to have one of her own as she is a wildlife gardener. She loves to encourage everything from butterflies to frogs into her garden and cats might disagree with the reason for this.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As well as creating her own a garden for wildlife she is a bio-diversity volunteer in Oxford getting involved in assessing habitats for everything from badgers to bats<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She finds walking or running and just being outdoors is generally great for coming up with plot ideas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She adores the sea, but lives in Oxfordshire, just about as far from the sea as it is possible to be in the UK. 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