{"id":35821,"date":"2026-06-15T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35821"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:35:48","slug":"celebrating-pride-with-twinsie-talk-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35821","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Pride with Nicole Dykes #wotr26 #attendingauthor #spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Pride Month everyone!\u00a0 Twinsie Tenise here. I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who took the time to answer the questions for our pride month celebration. I thought hard about the questions and had fun coming up with them. I love that the authors seemed to have as much fun answering them. We will be celebrating all month with author spotlights\u00a0 as well as reviews for some of the LGBTQIA\u00a0 books we\u2019ve read this year.\u00a0 Check back daily to learn more about that days featured author or book and add to your TBR piles. I hope you enjoy getting to know a little about all of these wonderful authors and their work.<\/p>\n

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🏳‍🌈 Tell us your name and a little about yourself?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My name is Nicole Dykes. I’m a wife and a mom from small town Kansas where most of my books are set because it’s a big part of me<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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🏳‍🌈 How many books have you written? Do you have a favorite?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I honestly don’t know the answer haha I just write and publish. Write and publish! That would be like choosing between my kiddos and I won’t do it! Haha<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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🏳‍🌈 Do you write one book and finish it completely before starting the next? If not, how do you keep yourself from confusing the projects?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Most of the time yeah. I may try to multitask but I’m not good at it. My memory isn’t great so I really need to focus.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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🏳‍🌈 What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is it a default setting?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Default ahahaha that’s a good question!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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🏳‍🌈 How do you ensure your LGBTQ characters feel authentic and mutifaceted, rather than just serve a plot function?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I take my own experiences and I kind of put myself in the moment for a second. Thinking about how I would feel.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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🏳‍🌈 <\/b><\/span>What is one of your favorite books or movies with LGBTQ representation?\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Feel free to share more than one, I know it is difficult as a reader to pick one favorite of anything. Especially if its book related.<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I absolutely love Sloane Kennedy’s Protector series. I’ve read them over and over. And also watching Fried Green Tomatoes even though they never actually state it in the movie you can feel the love between the two women and it’s just so beautiful.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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🏳‍🌈 What is something you have used for a bookmark that IS NOT a bookmark?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Receipts<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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🏳‍🌈 Do you listen to music while you write? If so, what are some of your favorite genres or songs?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I do. I can’t have silence. It makes it hard for me to think. I mostly listen to 2000s music from my teen years<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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🏳‍🌈 What is a super specific detail you know about one of your characters that has no relevance to the story?\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ha I made one of my characters afraid of sprouting potatoes as a nod to one of my really good friends<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.authornicoledykes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Happy Pride Month everyone!\u00a0 Twinsie Tenise here. I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who took the time to answer the questions for our pride month celebration. I thought hard about the questions and had fun coming up with them. I love that the authors seemed to have as much fun answering … Continue reading Celebrating Pride with Nicole Dykes #wotr26 #attendingauthor #spotlight<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-9jL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36589,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35821\/revisions\/36589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}