Episode #267: Nicole S. Brown

Nicole S. Brown is the author of School Days, Holidays, and All Days That Lie Between, More School Days, Holidays,and All Days That Lie Between, Many More School Days, Holidays,and All Days That Lie Between, Who Do You Love? Love Story in Poetry, Who Do You Love? Love Story in Poetry (clean cut), God’s Calling You to Live a Life That’s True, All About Slime, All About Slime (clean cut), Trials of a Northeast Louisiana Child, The School of Hard Knocks, Life Support, and The Refusal to Return to Slime, Are You Still in Love With Who?, The Diminishing of Slime, and Wet Dreams.

Nicole is a native of Monroe, LA. Nicole is a Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri, and Mississippi-certified, K-12 teacher who holds certifications in the following subject areas: Chemistry, Physics, General Science, Music, and Reading. She holds a B.S., in Chemistry Education from the University of Louisiana-Monroe, a MEd in Reading

Education from Alcorn State University, and an EdS in Educational Leadership from Delta State University. (she’ll send me a doc). Is about to start an EdD program in Ed Leadership. Also wants to get a PhD in math edu. Loves to cook & bake.

She’s been teaching since ‘05 off and on. She was off a while, was certified in 6 subjects in 4 states. Also has an admin license. 4 of her books are around education. Other are about love, erotica. Wants to get into sci-fi. Wrote horror when she was younger. Has 17 y.o. and 6 y.o.

Trench story: she says all was learning experience. She’s had issues w/ personal life/prof. life boundaries. Isn’t the type of teacher who yells, teaches kids to have positive affirmations. She wants kids to feel like they want to be there.

Your School Days & More School Days books, are they YA novels? She went room to room doing diff. interventions. She did poetry about breaking down music. Can integrate during poetry month (April). Grew into a compilation of many things. Target audience is early childhood to college. Can also be used as a teaching tool. Was in the running to be a supplemental text at Teacher Ed program @ Univ. of Missouri-2 locations, is in special collections. (she shows the text on video)

How do you find time to write so much with FT teaching & 2 kids? She doesn’t have to have a quiet time. She can tune it out. Grew up youngest of 7 kids. Had to be home @ a certain time, before 5:00. She has more time to unwind & write. Wrote a lot between 2012-17. Wrote 7 books in 1 yr while still working. Makes a point to write every day. Self-published. Uses an editor & her own software to edit.

What would you like to do in the future with your admin certification/EdD? She’s been a department chair for special content area, most of the time in it was with COVID. She did her admin internship on zoom. Wants to do an academic coach first rather than being a principal. When her kids are older, wants her own tutoring service or summer program for underprivileged kids.

She likes to stress the importance of the arts in education and STEM. Statistical data goes into finding students have more cooperative skills if they take these electives. Bring in guest speakers, ppl who make electric cars, get hands-on experience. Should take the opportunity. She has a poem piece called “Don’t Stop the Music” she reads & sings. It’s from her newest book.

Out of everything: no matter what field you choose to go into, you’ll always have a teacher. Her parents told her “Your attitude determines your altitude”. You can have OK academics. Some ppl may take a positive attitude the wrong way.

Where can ppl find you online:

Nicole S. Brown Social Media Sites:

https://www.facebook.com/outstandingauthornicolesbrown/ Facebook Fanpage

https://www.facebook.com/authornicole.brown Personal Facebook

https://www.tiktok.com/@authornicolesbrown TikTok

https://www.instagram.com/authornicolesbrown/ Instagram

https://www.tumblr.com/authornicolesbrown Tumblr

https://twitter.com/NikkisSecret Twitter

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4066097.Nicole_S_Brown Good Reads

https://www.youtube.com/@NikkisSecret/videos YouTube

Here are some links to her books: authornicolesbrown.yolasite.com

etsy.com/shop/PoetryatBest w/ all her books and swag