PERSONAL FINANCE CONTRIBUTOR
Freelance writer at Bankrate with a focus on budgeting, mortgages, and credit cards.
I’m Nicole — a writer, musician, and freelancer.
Google calls me an American composer. Vox calls me a personal finance expert. I've been a freelance writer since 2012, I've written six books and dozens of songs, and I'm working on a chamber musical.
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Current projects
MONEY TALKS & ON THE MONEY
Advice and conversations about spending, saving and small business at Vox.
MELISANDE
A chamber musical based on E. Nesbit's short story "Melisande: or, Long and Short Division."
PIANIST AND ORGANIST
Full-time organist for the Quincy Unitarian Church, part-time accompanist for the Quincy Community Theatre and Quincy Symphony Chorus.
Thoughts
Schubert's The Trout (new English translation by me)
Soooooooooooo yes, we are starting our first MELISANDE sing-through tonight, I am very excited, but before we get to all
Federalist Paper #12
We're having our first sing-through for MELISANDE on Friday (we're just singing through two of the
What have we learned?
I was thinking the other day, because Larry and I were watching Jerry Springer: The Opera –
which was his idea,
In which I sing "Haze" from Dave Malloy's Three Houses (and play parts of the score on the organ)
I've mentioned before that I am the organist at the local Unitarian Church, and since last week was
Federalist Paper #11
I have been thinking about maps, lately, in a way that suggests I am about to come up with a
In which I actually write a love song
There's a paragraph in The Biographies of Ordinary People in which Meredith realizes that she does not know
On thought leadership and what I like to think about before I fall asleep
It troubles me that so much of the still-independent internet has devolved into what might be considered thought leadership; I&
Selected Works
THE BIOGRAPHIES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE: A novel of artistic ambition that follows three sisters from 1989 to 2016
WHAT IT IS AND WHAT TO DO NEXT: A four-volume inquiry into the process of understanding reality
I WISH YOU PEACE: A secular choral benediction for SSAA or SATB
FRUGAL AND THE BEAST: A collection of financial fairy tales
Reviews
Dieker excels at depicting how real people think and act.
Dieker writes with unrepentant honesty about the human condition.
A lovely, unpretentious story, suffused with feeling, that unfolds at the speed of life.
The longest consecutive quantity of lines that have required me to read them with full and focused attention.