Bio: Niki Anderson is the author of bestseller, What My Cat Has Taught Me About Life. For 12 years, Niki taught writing classes at Spokane Falls Community College and teaches at Pacific Northwest writer’s conferences. She attended Northwest Nazarene College and Elim Bible Institute.

Her occupations have ranged from wife and mother, bookkeeper, pastor’s secretary, and missionary to East Africa. She speaks at women’s events, retreats, and schools as both teacher and motivator. She leads Bible studies and has taught Sunday school to adults and children.

Her three books, What My Cat Has Taught Me About Life, Inspur-r-rational Stories for Cat Lovers and What I Learned from God While Gardening, earned the International Angel Award, a recognition granted for works that excel in promoting ethical and moral excellence.

Other publication credits include numerous articles, devotions, personality profiles, book contributions and Sunday school material. She is a past member of the National League of American Pen Women.

The quotation on her author biography best describes Niki’s inspiration for writing: "I delight in sharing the truths that have become vital in my own life." A teacher at heart, she writes and speaks to instruct and encourage.

Her pleasures include Myles her orange tabby cat, her two adult children and granddaughter (not in that order!), reading, gardening (rose fancier), praying (it IS a joy), antiques (lifelong collector), teas and teapots (especially fond of High Tea), friends (blessed with the best), and the backseat of her husband’s Harley-Davidson ("Scoot"-name of motorcycle, not husband!)

The subject of balance is Niki’s soapbox topic though she confesses she often totters. "Like you," she says, "I need Jesus every moment of every day!" The following verse from the Gospel of John prompts Niki to keep writing and to persuade others to write. She agrees with John the apostle-"There will never be enough written about our glorious Lord." "There is much else that Jesus did. If it were all to be recorded in detail, I suppose the whole world would not hold the books that would be written." John 21:25

Topics for writer’s conferences: Devotional writing, the fine points of clean composition, interviewing (Q & As), and marketing. Niki taught "Write to Publish," a daylong writing course, at Spokane Falls Community College for 12 years.

Workshop titles: ---Devotions a la Mode: Get the Scoop Learn the Neapolitan ice cream structure for writing devotions for denominational booklets, devotional compilations, and other devotional collections. ---WORD-working Shop: Skills for Crafting Clean and Colorful Text Syntax, dialogue, redundance, voice, style, personification, openers, titles, distancing; the use of similes, metaphors, sensory words and more. Experienced speaker for women’s events (teas, conferences, Bible study groups, etc.), as keynote presenter, and speaker/teacer at women’s retreats as speaker or workshop leader. Inspirational presentations for general audiences include: ---The Heart, A Human Hope Chest: Hope can be best understood by its four letters. That powerful single-syllable word spells (H)appiness, (O)pportunity, (P)urpose, and (E)xpectation. This message empowers! ---Retreat series: Sailing with Jesus Come Aboard the PartnerSHIP, the ApprenticeSHIP and the StewardSHIP. ---Balanced Believers: A 12-subject selection of teachings about balancing scripture with scripture Living by the Word and not the world (targeted for women). ---Headaches, Highlights, and Helpers: An author’s journey from contract to bookstore ---Various subjects related to flower gardening; information plus inspiration The Salvation Garden: Flowered with joy, fertile with love, brightened by service, fragrant with thankfulness, green with enthusiasm, rooted in prayerfulness and healthy with obedience. ---Any topic related to cats (2 cat book titles); information plus inspiration; topics based on any of the 110 character themes contained in her devotional collections written for cat lovers. ---Seasonal messages slanted for the host organization ---Custom messages suited for theme events

Fees apply. Niki also requests the opportunity to offer her books at an appropriate time following your program.

Niki has spoken and taught for 40 years. She seeks God’s anointing and specific slant for each group.

Listeners describe her as joyful, practical, authentic and compelling.