A woman emerged from a doorway behind the long wooden
circulation desk. She was very tall, one of the tallest women Laurie had ever
seen, with broad shoulders and a muscular build. She wore jeans and a shapeless
black sweater with an unraveling hem and mismatched patches at the elbows. Her
feet were bare, and there was a long smudge of dust across one cheek. Her hair
was very thick and brown, hacked off indifferently at her shoulders. She came
out from around the counter, wiped her dusty hands on her jeans, and faced the
new arrivals.
Nicola Strozyk is the protagonist of Bias Cut and an
important secondary character in Lonely Satellite.
In Bias Cut,
she’s a forty-year-old researcher from Los Angeles who moves to New York, where
she ends up working for young designer Laurie Sparks. She shares an apartment
in Queens with Donya Kashani. Her ex-boyfriend is hotshot Los Angeles
producer Alex Weinberg. She has some romantic sparks with Sandy Cowell. Born in Modesto, she went to school at UC Berkeley before working on the Sony Pictures lot in Los Angeles.
Nicola's Twitter account is here (Luft Books is using it these days).
