Nicole Bross

Nicole Bross is a certified fiction book coach and editor, and the author of both adult and YA genre-blending speculative fiction. Her debut novel, Past Presence (Literary Wanderlust, 2019), an adult supernatural mystery, was a top-three finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel, awarded by the Crime Writers of Canada. She’s currently working on a near-future speculative YA and co-writing a nonfiction book for neurodiverse writers called A Novel Approach: Strategies for ADHD Writers, coming fall 2025. She’s also been the editor-in-chief of Birthing Magazine since 2015, and her writing has been featured in many print and online publications, as well as nationally-broadcast nonfiction TV shows.

Besides her certification from Author Accelerator as a book coach for fiction writers, she has a Bachelor of Applied Communications in Journalism from Mount Royal College and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from Carleton University. Through her book coaching business, Manuscript Alchemy, she’s worked with many writers at all stages of their writing journey, from planning to drafting to revising to pitching.

Nicole works with fiction authors writing adult, YA, or MG SFF (all subgenres), horror, romance (sweet to spicy), mystery/thriller/suspense, historical, contemporary, and short story collections. If you have a mashup of any of these genres, even better! She loves working with first-time authors as well as more experienced ones, and specializes in supporting neurodiverse writers to work *with* their ADHD to develop healthy, sustainable writing processes.