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Nicole

Please - A little less love, and a little more common decency. Vonnegut - Slapstick

About Me


I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !
My novel, All Encompassing Trip is available from Shocklines
or on Amazon
Reviews and Interviews:
Review on Shelfari Author Review
Review on Dream People
Review on Drive By Booking
Review on BlogCritics
Review on ReaderViews.com
Review and Interview on Bookwyrm US
Advance Praise for All Encompassing Trip
All Encompassing Trip is a trip! Imagine Kafka, Kerouac, and Douglas Adams on the road, and you'll get a feel for this completely original, witty, and wild book that's (thank goodness!) anything but normal. Del Sesto's prose sparkles. What a great debut. -- Lori Jakiela, author of Miss New York Has Everything
Del Sesto pays homage to Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore in this clever, insightful, and flat-out hilarious novel while maintaining an entirely original point of view, making All Encompassing Trip one of my favorite books of the year!
Jen Lancaster - author of Bitter is the New Black and Bright Lights Big Ass
Normal isn't taking any calls here. There's a reason this genre is called Bizarro and a fun book like All Encompassing Trip fits right in. Robert Tacoma .. author of Key Weird, Key Weirder and Key Witch
Meet Nikki Nasco: 40, single, obsessive, neurotic, unorthodox and really kind of fun. She is having a very normal day. She goes to the gym, she calls her mother, and she stresses out about not having her Top Five Desert Island CD’s selected.
Meet Amber Lawson: 35, lesbian, driven, aerobics instructor. She too is having a very normal day. She attends law school, teaches Boot Camp and receives a phone call from Nikki, the purpose of which she never fully understands, but knows there is a deserted island involved.
And then the darkness comes …
In a world where coffee is no longer available, the only television shows are reality TV re-runs, and the animals are talking back, Nikki, Amber and a singing Coyote in a do-rag are out to restore the light (and hopefully prevent Nikki’s eyes from being stolen by an Irish midget.) Normal is missing.
Reward.
Field Trip
Road Trip
Cross Country Trip
Trip Down Memory Lane
Side Trip
Trip the Light Fantastic
Head Trip
All Encompassing Trip

My Interests

Let's let blog history repeat itself
How To Be That Guy

Who's That Girl?

Dear Potential Friend ...

Stereotypes and the Women Who Date Them.

Breaking News: Bad Employee Morale Plagues MySpace

24 - Season 6. Jack Bauer Saves MySpace

Dreamy Craig Ferguson: A San Francisco Treat

The Bloomin' Onion Letters

Where's Redd? (And a a fun new blog game!)

Shhhhhh(eepish) Confessions.

The loop has spoken, and I was voted out of it.

Stuff that makes me want to vomit and other non sequiturish stuff

6 Things Blog Tag - I may or may not be "it"

Get Bloggy Wid It. (I know, that's awful.)

Semi-Homemade with Nikki D

The People's Republic of Davis.

Why Corporate America is nicer to penguins than people.

A Travelblog - Random Things I've Learned While Traveling

I'm an Author? Huh!

Blog Podge - A Mishmash of Hogwash (dot com)

The Blues, The Pinks ... whatever.

The Soundtrack of My Life.

The Great MySpace Experiment.

Alphabet NAME THAT TUNE - Answers.

Coming soon from Afterbirth Books!

I'd like to meet:

The person who hands out the checks at the lottery office

Music:

My favorite music includes: Pearl Jam, Joni Mitchell, The Doors, Bob Marley, Sublime, Zero 7, Morcheeba, X, Norah Jones, Crosby Stills Nash, Stevie Wonder, Alice in Chains, Beck, Tori Amos, Jeff Buckley, Beatles, Elton John, Alanis Morissette, Natalie Merchant, Pretenders, Nirvana, Roxy Music, INXS, Godsmack, Fiona Apple, Lakshmi Devi listen to a sample here: Lakshmidevi.com

Movies:

My favorite movies are:Fisher King, Slingblade, Titanic, Excalibur, Untamed Heart, The Saint, The Doors, Wuthering Heights, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Il Postino, Singles, West Side Story, Splendor in the Grass, 12 Monkeys, Same Time Next Year, Fiddler on the Roof, The Big Chill, Bulworth, The Bounty, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Stealing Beauty, A Touch of Class, Home for the Holidays, Nightmare Before Christmas, Run Lola Run, Edward Scissorhands, Fight Club, Moulin Rouge, Leaving Las Vegas, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss SunshineTOP 3: The Doors, 12 Monkey's, Excalibur

Television:

I love love love TV! Current favorites: Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Idol, Dexter, Survivor, Weeds, Entourage, Big Love, New Adventures of Old Christine, Heroes, Amazing Race, The Office, Big Brother. 30 Rock

Shows I miss: Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Sex in the City, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, China Beach, American Dreams, X-Files, Arrested Development, Huff (sniff cancelled without resolution), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl

Books:

I am both a writer and an avid reader.
My favorite authors are:
Christopher Moore, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams, Jonathan Carroll, Matt Ruff, David Maine, David Mitchell Colleen McCullough, Haruki Murakami and Marion Zimmer BradleyOther authors I love to read are: Kurt Vonnegut, Joshilyn Jackson, Jen Lancaster, Janet Evanovich, Chris Genoa, Clive Barker, Maeve Binchy, Jasper Fforde, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jeff Lindsay, Gregory Maguire, Chuck Palahniuk, Jennifer Roberson, Margaret Atwood, Kate Atkinson, JoAnne Harris
My top 10 reads of 2007: (in no particular order)
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Likely my most favorite of the year)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
Everything I read in 2007 can be found here
Check out Shelfari and join the 50 Book Challenge !Bookcrossing is fun, check it out:
Nicole's Bookcrossing page
Amazon is my friend
Currently Reading:

Heroes:

The person who hands out the checks at the lottery office, Tina Fey and Charles Darwin. How's that for a mixed bag of heroics?

My Blog

May 1, 2003

May 1, 2003 ..> U.S. Deaths By Month/Year: ..> Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2003 0 0 65 74 37 30 48 35 31 44 82 40 2004 47 20 52 135 80 42 54 66 80 64 137 72 2005 1...
Posted by Nicole on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:23:00 PST

Six Word Memoirs, Everybodys Doing Them.

So this new book is out - it is a bunch of people's 6 word memoirs. Naturally, I've been trying to figure mine out, and this is what I came up with:"Laughed at myself, laughed at others."And then I re...
Posted by Nicole on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:47:00 PST

What were your favorite books of 2007?

My top 10 reads of 2007: (in no particular order) Black Swan Green, by David MitchellThe Dogs of Babel by Carolyn ParkhurstThe Road by Cormac McCarthy Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Likely my most...
Posted by Nicole on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:56:00 PST

A Very Scary Hairy Tale

Please enjoy the Music from "Hair" during your excursion through the Nicole Del Sesto hair museum. For those of you who read my Super Seventies Weekend blog, here are the photos from Baby D...
Posted by Nicole on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:40:00 PST

New review of All Encompassing Trip plus an interview on Bookwyrm US

Read it here Jen from Bookwyrm US was kind enough to review All Encompassing Trip (now available for the low low price of $10.17) and interview me as well.  I hope you'll check it out! ...
Posted by Nicole on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:56:00 PST

Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting.

Truth be told everybody wasn't Kung Fu Fighting.  It was just me.  I was Kung Fu Fighting.  Everybody else was just laughing at me. I've been having a Super Seventies Weekend ... In my ...
Posted by Nicole on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:02:00 PST

Dear Cold Remedy Providers

Dear Benedryl, WTF?  Is your company completely unaware of the symptoms associated with the ailments which prompt one to take your products? Here's a visual: Throbbing head pain, runny nose, sn...
Posted by Nicole on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:11:00 PST

Defending Your Modern Romance in America.

Several years ago, I wrote this poem as a tribute to three Albert Brooks movies.  Modern Romance, Lost in America and Defending Your Life.  If you've not seen these movies, (or don't re...
Posted by Nicole on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:41:00 PST

Who's that girl? (A Sequel)

First a PSA:  I don't know how or why (but I like it) I'm getting upwards of 100 blog views a day even on days that I don't blog.  Whoever you are ... thank you!  And please - feel fre...
Posted by Nicole on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:39:00 PST

The Way I See It

Personally inscribed copies of All Encompassing Trip are now availble for pre-order from Shocklines This is an entry in Last Blogger Standing 2  Please join the group because we need lots of...
Posted by Nicole on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:50:00 PST