Nicole Dieker
Full-time freelance writer since 2012.
Author of the Larkin Day mystery series and the perzine WHAT IT IS and WHAT TO DO NEXT.
About Nicole
Nicole Dieker is a writer, teacher, and musician. She began her writing career as a full-time freelancer with a focus on personal finance and habit formation; she launched her fiction career with The Biographies of Ordinary People, a definitely-not-autobiographical novel that follows three sisters from 1989 to 2016.
Currently, Dieker writes the Larkin Day mystery series and the perzine WHAT IT IS and WHAT TO DO NEXT, both of which are published through Shortwave Media. She also maintains an active freelance career; her work has appeared in Vox, Morning Brew, Lifehacker, Bankrate, Haven Life, Popular Science, and more. Dieker spent five years as writer and editor for The Billfold, a personal finance blog where people had honest conversations about money.
Dieker lives in Quincy, Illinois with the great love of her life, his piano, and their garden.
Books
The Larkin Day mysteries
A Millennial-aged amateur detective who practices old-fashioned sleuthing in a world of smartphones and social media.
WHAT IT IS and WHAT TO DO NEXT
A quarterly zine about understanding reality.
The Biographies of Ordinary People, Volume 1
A family saga that follows three sisters from 1989 to 2016.
The Biographies of Ordinary People, Volume 2
The three Gruber sisters go from childhood to adulthood.
Reviews and Praise
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Teaching
Nicole Dieker teaches music, writing, and the business of freelancing. If you’d like to work one-on-one with Nicole—or if you’d like to hire Nicole to teach a class or lead a webinar—let her know!
Recent Freelance Articles
What inflation means for the FIRE movement
Becoming financially independent and retiring early is only getting harder.
Mortgage, baby, and inflation. Help!
Combining finances for joint goals when inflation is high.
How a potential recession should affect your housing decisions
Who should buy a house now? Who shouldn't? We asked the experts.
Money Talks: The couple that grew up with very different relationships to spending
How one couple with different backgrounds does money.