About Me

Hi, I'm Nico Teop.

I'm a novelist, poet, lifelong reader, and someone who has spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about fictional people as if they have personally inconvenienced me.

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Books have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I started writing with poetry and the occasional fan fiction, usually in fragments: a feeling, a conversation, a scene I couldn't stop replaying in my head. Eventually, those fragments got longer, developed personalities, and started demanding entire books. Rude, really.

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I'm naturally curious, chronically prone to asking why, and incapable of leaving well enough alone when something catches my interest (ask me about my current hyperfixation). I'll happily disappear down a research rabbit hole for one tiny detail that may ultimately occupy three sentences or spend hours trying to find the perfect mood music for a scene. Whether anyone notices is beside the point. I'll know.

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When I'm not writing, working, or talking about someone else's book, I'm usually collecting another idea I absolutely do not have time to write, obsessing over some tiny piece of research for a manuscript, or convincing myself that this time I'm only going to tweak one chapter.

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Now that you know a little more about me, take a chance and pick up one of my books.

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(Let’s hyperfixate together.)