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
On mimicry and mapping
One of the things I've learned, as I've started accompanying various local choirs and community theater
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
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.