Nicole O'Dell and her husband Wil have six wonderful children, the most recent additions being triplets, born in August 2008. Nicole and Wil recently began a youth group at their church for grades 7-12 where Nicole focuses on the teaching, Bible study application, service outreach planning and evangelism focus for the group. She also works with parents to help foster healthy, open lines of parent/teen communication. Nicole enjoys speaking at other churches, youth groups and parenting groups to offer insight into healthy, Godly navigation of those rough teen years. Over the years, Nicole has worked as a youth director, a Bible study leader for women and teens, a counselor at a crisis pregnancy center and was a veteran camp counselor for over a decade.

Recently, along with her six kids and the church youth group, Nicole is very proud to have birthed a unique teen-fiction series called Scenarios: Interactive Fiction for Girls. It has been a true labor of her love?in the most literal sense. The completed manuscripts for Truth or Dare and All that Glitters, the first two books in the Scenarios for Girls series, were submitted from her hospital bed as she awaited the arrival of the triplets.

Scenarios for Girls is designed to help tween girls learn the importance of making sound decisions. In each book, the main character arrives at a moral dilemma where the reader gets to choose! There are alternate endings based on the reader's choice. Nicole has seen that this method gives the reader the opportunity to experience the consequences of the "wrong" choice or the rewards of the "right" one without the real-life cost. Each book also depicts forgiveness and restoration following both decisions. The contract at the end of the book gives the reader a chance to commit to her choice and encourages her to seek accountability it. The prayer leads her to a commitment to God in regard to that specific decision.