Nicole Evans | Editor and Author

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vas Normandy | She/Her | Author of BLOOD PRICE | Freelance Editor | Bi AuDHD Disabled | Believes in: dragons, the power of books and you. 🖤 https://thoughtsstainedwithink.com/links/

A shot of just three and a half shelves of Nicole's LOTR bookshelf collection, featuring plenty of collectibles, like funko pops, Weta figures, artwork, books, scores and now, a new collection of trailer film reels from all three films from her good friends. 😭
The OH HOW streaming schedule for July 10th - the 12th written in yellow and white, with a reddened ocean background photo.
A blue background with the cover of Blood Price by Nicole Evans (with artwork by Zoe Badini) in the center of a trope map surrounding the book.
Screenshot of a word count of 730 total after Nicole's first writing session of 2026!
Artwork of Karra (a fat Elven woman with light gray skin and red and black hair) and Callum (a muscular human with sunkissed white skin and black and white hair) by Nalou Arts for the upcoming fantasy romance novel, The Beckoned and the Bound by Nicole Evans.
Screenshot of Goodreads page for The Beckoned and the Bound, highlighting the current adds of 55 on "Want to Read" shelves
A screenshot of a black box with white text that reads, "Early Art Reveals Plus Goals for 2nd Half of 2026!", which is the header of the next Patreon post going live on Nicole's Patreon!
A screenshot of the Goodreads page for The Beckoned and the Bound by Nicole Evans, showing that 49 people have added TBATB to Goodreads and she is one add away from unlocking her next goal of 50 adds and revealing new art as a reward!
Cover for Blood Price by Nicole Evans, created by Zoe Badini, feat. a mid-sized white skinned woman wearing black and red armor running with a bloodied spear between a wolf and a raven in a snow-covered cursed forest.
A screenshot of Nicole's Draft2Digital (D2D) account dashboard, which shows that she's sold 28 books over all, but nothing May onward and has a current balance of -$4.89 thanks to D2D's new "mainanence fees" that punishes only authors who do not make more than $100 a year through them.
A series of photos of Dovah the Dog, a golden retriever with a white face, sitting on a deck looking out at the blue lake water.
Zoomed in artwork of the cover for The Beckoned and the Bound by Nicole Evans, featuring Karra, a fat woman with light gray skin, numerous silver ear piercings in her tipped ears, with red and black flowing curly hair.
Part of the LGBTQWriteAThon pride month challege, creating a mood board based off your stories! A rainbow background with a black square in the center and white text.
Snippets of the cover The Beckoned and the Bound by Nicole Evans, with art by Žana Arnautović, while detaling the different crimes the leading cast of TBATB may or may not have committed.
A blurred background of red roses amongst green foliage with the cover of the epic fantasy queer romance, The Beckoned and the Bound by Nicole Evans in the center, with a trope map around it.
A rainbow background with black and white text detailing Nicole's goals for the month for #LGBTQWriteAThon, which incldues: editing her authors' books, outlining her sequel WIP to start writing in July, participating in all #LGBTQWriteAThon prompts, adding her local pride parade and getting her upcoming release The Beckoned and the Bound up to 50 adds Goodreads!
A rainbow background featuring the covers of two of Nicole's books: on the left, Blood Price, with cover art by Zoe Badini, and on the right, The Beckoned and the Bound, cover art by Žana Arnautović! Around both are the queer rep found in both books, including: queernorm worlds, bi protagonists, normalized neopronouns, and more.
A rainbow background with a photo of Nicole, a fat white woman wearing black-rimmed glasses and a sexy black top with her long, red-and-black hair down, left arm raised to show off her LOTR tattooed-sleeve. The words, "The Author" are written in black while facts about Nicole are written in white, including that she: loves trees, is a video game nerd, loves birb watching, is a full-time freelance editor, bisexual, disabled AuDHD, Dragon Age obsessed and believes in dragons.
A rainbow background with a photo of Nicole, a fat white woman wearing black-rimmed glasses and a sexy black top with her long, red-and-black hair down, left arm raised to show off her LOTR tattooed-sleeve. The words, "Pride Month Reintroduction" and "#LGBTQWriteAThon Day 1" are written in black and white text.
Artwork of Menace, a Vesperfel (a made up creature) that is a combination of a bat, cat and dragon, with a cat's body, a bat's wings and ears, and a dragon's spine and tail, with black fur and white accents, staring into an open fire's flame. The text, "We are one add away from getting more art (and details) about this little Menace" is written above her head in white. Artwork by Žana Arnautović, which is featured on the back cover of the forthcoming fantasy romance novel, The Beckoned and the Bound by Nicole Evans!
A background of red with rose petals falling as a gray and white paper is ripped open to reveal the words, "Cover reveal incoming" written in black text, before the cover is revealed. The cover is a 3D mock-up of the cover for The Beckoned and the Bound, the first book in a new epic fantasy romance series. The cover features red roses bordered the title in white font at the bottom, with rose petals swirling around the couple centered. On the right is a man with sun-tanned white skin and black-and-white curly hair wearing a white shirt. His left hand reaches up and touches the chin of the woman on the right. She has flowing red and black wavy hair, light gray skin and is wearing a fantasy-styled travelers garb of white, red and brown, looking at at the man with coy affection. Surrounding the cover are tropes and details about the book, including comps (Saint of Steel series by T. Kingfisher and Dragon Age Origins!), cover artist ( Žana Arnautović) and typographist (Goldfinch Book Services) credits, and tropes (two spice levels, bi4bi romance, yearning, only one bed, extreme slow burn, pathetic for her, hand flex, forced proxmity).
A fat white woman with black-rimmed glasses and tattoos wears noise-canceling headphones and smiles at the camera while her overlord, more colloquially known as Sasha the Cat—a gray Russian Blue with white markings—stares away from the camera. You know, as is her right and her vibe, honestly.
A beaver cleaning his paws on a waterbank
Close up of water and green plants
A sunset with four geese traveling across the skyline
a blue graphic with an outline of the United States. Red and white text reads: Call. National Book Banning Bill Proposed in US House of Reps. Tell your rep: Vote no on H.R. 7661
A series of four canva graphics with the trans flag in the background, featuring 10 books either by trans or nonbinary authors or featuring books with trans or nonbinary main characters!
Dovah the dog attempting to catch her sword toy by barely moving her head and instead biting the air.
A book stack of amazing books to consider reading for the Trans Rights Readathon! Including books by Greer Stothers, Yoon Ha Lee, Shelley Parker Chan, Neon Yang, Alexis Hall, K.M. Enright, August Clark, JD Rivers and Aubrey Ennis.
A reel on a background of red roses that reveals the title of Nicole Evans' upcoming fantasy romance debut, THE BECKONED AND THE BOUND, coming this fall!
An ink-spotted white background with a calendar overlaid in black text, detailing the availability for new projects to be booked for freelance SFF, romance and horror editor Nicole at Thoughts Stained Editorial, including: 2 spots for Sept, 1 in Oct, and 1 in November!
A background of red roses blooming out of green stems with white font overhead, outlining a guessing game for the title of Nicole's upcoming fantasy romance debut. The second image has the same background, but atop it is a trope map with two dozen tropes.
White, ink-stained background with black text and a series of diferent book covers, highlighting cover reveals, recent releases and upcoming releases by authors who have worked with Thoughts Stained Editorial.
Dovah the Dog, a Golden Retriever with a white face, is mid-leap eating a pink doggo treat that says Love with white frosting. Her ears have lifted like little airplanes.
Photo of blooming roses with white text overlaid as a guessing game of five words, with only the letters "B" and "E" filled in, so readers can guess the title of Nicole's next book.
A red background with black slotches and a trope map about Blood Price by Nicole Evans in the center, the book cover's artwork by Zoe Badini.
Photo taken by Nicole of the clouds over the ocean with a light blue box with black text that reads, "Newsletter Teasers for Feb" before detailing two newsletters: one of a more personal nature and a monthly wrap-up!
Photo of a keyboard as the backdrop of a white text box. Inside, it reads: "Money well spent, what more can I say? Working with Nicole will give you the confidence and tools you need to get your writing to the next level.," from an author who worked with Thoughts Stained Editorial who chose to remain anonymous.
Black and red background with white text detailing just a few things I personally love in my upcoming fantasy romance, including: forearm appreciation, getting pinned against things trope and green flag golden-retriever MMC who is pathetic for the FMC.
Photo (taken by Nicole) of yellow flowers of green vines as the background, before a yellow box with is overlaid by black text detailing Patreon posts coming in February from SFF and romance author Nicole Evans.
A photo by Nicole of Dovah, her goldren retriever, running in a snowy background, while five book's covers sit atop the photo, with "January Reads" in black text at the bottom middle. Books include: Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase, The Dreamer and he Deep Space Warrior by T.X. Tucker, Taken by the Alien Next Door by Tiffany Roberts, English Grammar Usage by Mark Lester and Blood by Dr. Jen Gunter.
Photo of roses turned black and white aside from the stems, which have turned red, with a red box with white text at the bottom that reads, "Celebrating one year of full-time editing."
Backdrop of white flowers with a blue and purple color scheme with the text, "2026 is the year of...reading intentionally" written in white font over a blue, halfway transparent box.
On a backdrop of smoky white, a calendar of gray and red details the remaining slots available for authors to book editing services with Thoughts Stained Editorial, including: one slot in May, July, Oct and November, plus two spots available each in August and September.
A black and white background with a red textbox. Inside, it reads: "Working with Nicole was an absolutely wonderful experience! She is incredibly friendly and genuinely cares about the author's well-being. I really appreciated her sensitivity to how editing feedback can impact an author's mental health as I'm an anxious little hermit. In addition to editing my MS, she also summarized my frequent errors so I can focus on improving those for my next work—though we'll see how that goes! I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone looking for a skilled and compassionate professional," from an author who worked with Thoughts Stained Editorial who chose to remain anonymous.
A cute photo of a blurred background focused on a frog sitting on a brown fence. Black and white text overlays the photo, detailing Nicole's Patreon goals (which you can find at Thoughts Stained Patreon!), including reaching 50 paid subs or $100 a month!
A timeline that talks about the path of publication, told across four graphics, with dark blue and gray elements pulled from the cover of Blood Price (artwork by Zoe Badini) a novel by Nicole Evans.
Background of white snow and thorny, reaching tree branches, part of the cover of Blood Price, an epic feminist fantasy inspired by periods, the cover of which is centered around a trope map written in white text.
Backdrop of a tree with green leaves against a clear blue sky, with nine squares detailing author Nicole Evans' 2026 writing bingo card!
Backdrop of a brown-trunked tree stretching up to the sky, leafless, with nine red squares overtop detailing Nicole's personal bingo card for 2026!
Four different photos of Dovah the Dog, a very photogenic golden retriever overlaid with black and white text detailing her human dog mom's writing goals and intentions.
On top of a photo of a red rose growing amongst green foliage outside of stone castle walls, the words "Editorial Bingo" are written in black and red font, detailing nine different goals for Thoughts Stained Editorial in 2026!
A redish-pink rose on the lefthand side of a bed of dark green leaves, with white text overlaid on top, detailing the debut fantasy romance releasing from author Nicole Evans.
Artwork of a wintry landscape amongst a cursed forest with a gray wolf running and a red-tipped-winged black raven flying overhead (all artwork part of a cover created by Zoe Badini for Blood Price by Nicole Evans) with quotes of their first meeting written in white text in the center.
Sasha, a Russian Blue with gray fur and white accents on top of her nose, mouth and stomach, sitting bread-loaf style on the stairs staring at the camera.
Photo of purple leaves with tiny white flowers sprouting, with white text overlaid in both serif and cursive fonts detailing dreams for Thoughts Stained Editorial freelance editing business, including leveling up as an editor, booking more queer writers, and learning to find a balance between editing, writing and rest!
A blue and purple background featuring character cover art from Zoe Badini's artwork for the cover of Blood Price by Nicole Evans at the bottom. At the top, in black text, it reads: "Periods equal power, a blood price paid and a status earned. What happens when that power is taken away? What lenths would you go to take it back?" The second page is the same background, but with a trope map and the book cover!
Background artwork of the cover for Blood Price featuring a cursed forest amongst a wintry landscape, with multiple reviews quoted from Goodreads praising the book for it's powerful, unique worldbuilding, fierce protagonist and unrelenting punches.
A dark red background with a border of red leaves with the following written in two different fonts in white: "Do you have questions about how I wrote a story with period-incsluve worldbuilding?" inviting readers, writers or anyone, really, to ask questions about Nicole Evans' epic fantasy debut, Blood Price, a book written about and inspired by periods!
Author testimonial from J.E. Rizzo, historial romance novelist and author of Fitzjohn: Uprising about Thoughts Stained Editorial. It reads: "I’m so grateful that I hired Nicole to edit my historical sports romance novel! Her feedback was not only smart, clear, and actionable, but the manner with which she delivered it was caring, compassionate, and enthusiastic. She truly approaches working with writers from the perspective of an actual writer. Someone who gets it. Who understands what it’s like to be in the trenches, to create something so brutally personal, and to be vulnerable enough to ask a virtual stranger to read and critique it. I would definitely work with Nicole again, and highly recommend her, with no hesitation, to other writers. Five out of five stars."