Nina Kaye

About me

I’m quite a simple creature really. I find contentment and joy in the little things, and I laugh a lot. I also love gin, karaoke and amazing beaches. So if you ever meet me in a setting where all three come into play, don’t expect to get the microphone back!

I’ve spent most of my life as a ‘frustrated creative’: someone who wanted to follow a more creative path, but who fell into a ‘safe’ job (which is actually quite fulfilling). I dreamt of being an author from a young age, when I was devouring the likes of The Baby-Sitters Club and Point Horror. At 17 years old, I even flirted with writing outside the classroom when supposedly studying for my exams.

Fast forward nearly 20 years and it was a life-changing illness that got me on the path to becoming a serious writer. You can read more about my health challenges on my Fundraising pages, but the short version is that in 2014 my body essentially ‘broke’, and I spent months rehabilitating from a raft of confusing and debilitating neurological symptoms.

During this time, I turned to writing to support my cognitive and physical rehabilitation, and the silver lining to all of this is that it led to me achieving my dream of being a published author.

Unfortunately, because of this lingering health problem, reading has become difficult for me and I have had to move more in the direction of audiobooks and on-screen storytelling. But thankfully I can still write and edit (unless it’s one of my bad days) – and my passion for churning out books has become a pleasant distraction from some of my more debilitating chronic symptoms.

I mainly write warm, witty and uplifting women's fiction/romcoms. Life is not straightforward and I like to reflect this in my writing – by creating realistic characters with messy lives who can learn along the way (as we all do). I have also published a non-fiction book called LIVING with Long-Term Illness, and a children's book called Mabel and the Elephant under the pen name Nina Louise.