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Nikki Stoddard Schofield
Nikki Stoddard Schofield has been creatively writing since elementary school in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. Because her first novel, Bondage and Freedom, A Civil War Romance, met with...view moreNikki Stoddard Schofield has been creatively writing since elementary school in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. Because her first novel, Bondage and Freedom, A Civil War Romance, met with much praise, she has continued her writing career.
To write Bondage and Freedom, Nikki researched guerrilla warfare in East Tennessee, and to write this current novel, she researched the fall of Richmond. She is currently working on her third novel, Treason Afoot, A Civil War Romance, about the treason trials held in her hometown of Indianapolis from September to December 1864.
Nikki’s inspiration for starting on this career of writing Civil War romances began when she was reading a genre romance that was so disappointing she said to herself: “I can do better than that.” With three requirements, Nikki began to write. The first requirement of the story was that the hero and heroine are always together. The second requirement is that they are always kind to each other. The third requirement is that the history is in the background not the foreground. She continues to maintain these standards.
Ms. Schofield is the mother of two sons, Rob who lives with his wife Vicki in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Gaven who lives with his wife Christine and three daughters in Mosley, Virginia, south of Richmond. She has five granddaughters, Bridget, Stephanie, Abigail, Gabrielle, and Lily; one grandson, Nicholas; one great-grandson, Gonzalo “Gee” (Bridget’s son); and one great-granddaughter, Isabella “Bella” (Stephanie’s daughter).
Since 1974, Nikki has been the director of the law library at Bingham McHale LLP, the fourth largest law firm in Indiana. When she entered phased retirement to work Monday through Thursday, she accepted a second job as Staff Genealogist at Crown Hill Cemetery on Fridays. Nikki has been a tour guide at Crown Hill, the third largest private cemetery in the country, since 1993.
A member of Speedway Baptist Church since 1990, Ms. Schofield is an ordained deacon, moderator and adult Sunday School teacher. She serves on the Coordinating Council of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship with which her church is affiliated.
Nikki served two terms as president of the Indianapolis Civil War Round Table, where she has also been the annual tour director, secretary and newsletter editor. In period costume, she has given first-person portrayals of Civil War women including Confederate spy Belle Boyd, Lincoln conspirator Mary Surratt, Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, the second Mrs. Frederick Douglass, nurse Clara Barton, and Lucinda Morton, wife of Indiana’s Civil War governor.view less