The Ramblin Scribe

Hello, I’m Sylvia Nickels, ramblin scribe, avid reader, (almost) Tennessee native, and wannabe web designer.

When I learn a little more about WordPress and finish editing these pages, you can find links to helpful writing sites and some of my pieces published online. You can catch the Ramblin Scribe’s latest column by clicking on the Ramblin with Sylvia link above. From that page you can go to all my previous columns.

A couple of years ago, I self-pubbed my autobiography as a gift for my family and, with some trepidation, presented copies to my four sisters and three brothers that Christmas. You never know how family might react to airing the family secrets! But they were very kind and supportive. Eight Miles of Muddy Road can be ordered through Amazon, other online booksellers, the author, and the online publisher, Lulu.com. As well the book can be ordered through any brick and mortar bookstore.

My siblings encouraged me to finish the mystery novel I’d been working on for lo, these several years. I did finish it and recently had the opportunity to ‘pitch’ the manuscript to an agent at a conference. Keeping fingers crossed that she will be so impressed with it that she takes me on as a client!

I’ve had stories published in print and online. Several are archived on the web and can still be read, if you should be so inclined. If you ‘Google’ my name, those stories along with the pages of this website will come up. Also my affiliations, Sisters in Crime, national and online chapters, and the Authors Den online.

I’m a member of several writers groups in my local area. Click on the links for each organization to find out more about them. FLOW-For Love of Words, is a very small group which has been meeting in my hometown for ten or twelve years. Members of the Lost State Writers Guild, a somewhat larger group, have been together a little longer.

I’m a board member of the Appalachian Authors Guild and Associates, which includes new and well-known writers from all over the area covered by the Appalachian Regional Commission, as well as a couple from Western states. Look for us at regional festivals, such as the highly-acclaimed Virginia Highlands Festival in Abingdon, Virginia, which takes place in July/August each year, and events marking historic occasions all around the Mid-Atlantic region. Many of us have participated in these events for several years.

If you’d like to hear more about the Lost State Writers Guild or the Appalachian Authors Guild and Associates, email Sylvia.

This page has the following sub pages.

• Rocking Chair Reader
• Eight Miles of Muddy Road
• Crooks and Creatures