nicole d. collier, ph.d.

@essentialcoco.bsky.social

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✨ professional daydreamer. ✍🏽 novelist for kids 🍑 ATLien in St. Pete. 💡 critical thinker ☀️ Former teacher and teacher educator 🐍 FAMUAN 🔺 DST1913 www.nicoledcollier.com

Three young Black girls holding paperback copies of Just Right Jillian in front of the check out counter of a school library. Their faces are covered with hearts for privacy.
The heading reads Sakura Medal Nominee. Underneath is a 3D image of Just Right Jillian beside the text: The mission of the Sakura medal award program is to create a community of lifelong readers in international schools in Japan.
Picture of a neon yellow sign with black block letters stating CIRCADIAN RESET EVENT. A blurry background shows water from Tampa Bay.
Black woman facing away from the camera. Her dark hair is in high ponytail and a white shawl is draped across her shoulders. She's looking off into a line of palm trees against a cloudy nighttime sky.
Sculpture of an airplane in front of the bay shore. Crescent moon in the early morning sky.
Sunrise with a cloudy sky. Palm trees in front of calm waters
Cover of Just Right Jillian. Featuring a Black girl with deep brown skin, brown Afro puffs, a purple dress, holding a hatching chick.
Predawn sky, with full moon hidden in the clouds. Palm trees in the foreground, lit apartment building in the back.
Picture taken at dawn of the moon setting in a downtown city across the bag. Lit park in the foreground, buildings in the background.
Sunrise at the bay shoreline. Sand spotted with seaweed.
Sidewalk chalk picture - a colorful circle with Dance Here in the middle of it.
Black woman with long locs and red lipstick smiling alongside a young Black girl with a light brown ‘fro who is also smiling. ☺️
Hazy park at dawn. Geometric art sculpture in a field of grass surrounded by a sidewalk.
It takes a lot of time to produce great books, and trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time. Instead, authors who are soliciting them could be writing their next book; agents could be trying to find new books; editors could be improving books through revisions; and the solicited authors could be reading books they actually want to read that will benefit their work—rather than reading books they feel they have to read as a courtesy to their editor, their agent, a writer friend or a former student. What’s worse, this kind of favor trading creates an incestuous and unmeritocratic literary ecosystem that often rewards connections over talent.
Sunrise over a sandy shoreline with a short pier nearby. Running stats = 4.07 miles 50:08 minutes 12:18 pace.
Sunrise facing a shoreline.
Cover of The Many Fortunes of Maya on a pink background, surrounded by arrows and phrases describing the book. Mother-daughter tensions, deep down secrets, swimming lessons, flute playing, parental separation, misunderstandings, fortune cookies, soccer matches, daddy's girl, grill-offs, BFFs.
Man running on a sidewalk in a tree-lined park. The trees are lit with white lights and the man is wearing black running tights and a blue long sleeved top.
Shadow of a woman running. Running stats are 4.11 for distance, 50 minutes time and 12:10 pace.
Cover of I'm Sorry You Got Mad By Kyle Lukoff Illustrated by Julie Kwon. A pouting boy surrounded by discarded drafts of apology notes.
Black woman smiling with henna locks and doctoral regalia.
Colorful logo for Reading in the Middle Podcast on aqua blue background
Screenshot of the weather app showing 43° that feels like 29° in central Florida
Pink bricked hotel with palm trees 🌴 in front that are lit with white Christmas lights.
A close up of a red rose surrounded by green leaves.
Santa and reindeer lit at the top of a grassy hill alongside a lit boardwalk. First light in the morning sky as the backdrop.
Predawn sky with contrails that look like clouds, floating above the bay shore.
Just Right Jillian, The Many Fortunez of Maya, The Best Friend Bracelet, all lined up in a row.
Palm trees decorated with garland to resemble candy canes against a mostly cloudless blue sky. A multistory building stands in the background.
Holiday display of the word JOY in the park. Black man in running shorts taking a picture of it.
Sunrise at the bayshore beach. Pier in the distance.
The cover of MG novel THE BEST FRIEND BRACELET featuring two brown skinned girls and a shimmering friendship bracelet.
Picture of a skyline, bayshore and a full moon illuminated by the morning sun.