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Nicole Quinn's feature film, Racing Daylight (writer/dir), stars Academy Award winner Melissa Leo and Emmy winner David Strathairn, and is streaming everywhere. The Gold Stone Girl trilogy is available for Kindle, Paperback and on Audible/Itunes. Her plays are published by Playscripts, Inc. She's produced thirteen audiobooks, and narrated as many. Quinn is a member of Actors and Writers, a Hudson Valley not-for-profit ensemble that provides free theater to a rural audience. Nicole is on the Board of the Rosendale Theatre Collective, where she books the weekly films, and the Film Fatales a collective of women directors. Other affiliations: WGA, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, NYWIFT, AWD, WIF
Reviewed by J. C. Steel for Readers' Favorite
Nicole Quinn’s It’s a Nightmare (The Gold Stone Girl Book 1) is set over a million years into the future, in a world where humanity is split between the abused and the abusers under the rule of the Night Mare. The few who escape the system live Off-grid, scraping a living in the wilderness outside Winkin City limits. Public broadcasts of brutality provide a constant flow of indoctrination on every display surface, and examples are swift and frequent. Females are property, branded and kept as animals, and the gender imbalance runs at one female to every fifty males. Only the so-called Gold Stone girls, rare enough that only four have been found in more than a million years, escape the short life of rape and abuse. Their fate is to be eaten alive by the Night Mare, as a public spectacle. No one knows why.
In It’s a Nightmare, Nicole Quinn peels back layers of complacency to reveal a disturbing alternate-universe view of how the gender biases ingrained in our society could play out, a chilling and brilliantly written exposé on the dangers of being different. This story is one you will see playing in news headlines across your mind’s eye as you read, right down to the swaddled bodies bobbing in the current. The world of Blinkin will remain etched in your imagination in blood and grime, and the characters showcase a profound understanding of the psyche of abuse. This book is guaranteed to be a thought-provoking, deeply disquieting wake-up call.
