About the Author

Nico Lundborg-Griffith

Nico Lundborg-Griffith is a top producing real estate agent listed in the RE/MAX Hall of Fame.

Although Nico is not a veteran of a real war, nevertheless as a veteran agent of real estate, she has earned the equivalents of Purple Hearts, Distinguished Service Medals and Red Badges for Courage while selling almost 1000 homes in her lumiunous career.

Nico sells real estate in Montana where she lives with her husband Gordon and her beloved parti-yorkie, Fannie Mae.

Contact the author: nicogriffith11@gmail.com

Author’s Notes:

Writing PANDORA’S LOCKBOX memoir was years in the making.  I was commuting back and forth from San Diego to Montana and filled my abundant wait time in airports by thinking about some of my funny client experiences.

Finally,  I found myself jotting them down on recipe cards. Writing helped
sharpen the recall as I dug deep for descriptive details for a book that I may, or may not, write some day. More and more frequently, I started waking up with other stories rising from the dark recesses of my mind, insisting on being in the book too.  After 44 chapters and almost 400 pages, I had stop writing and start the editing process.  The editors I hired insisted I compress and combine stories to make a shorter book.  Then I quit writing for over a year after writing one chapter covering my love affair with Jamison.  Even 20 years after his death, I fell back into the pit of despair, reliving those initial memories of him.  I found that the depth of my grief fell in full measure to the height of the love I still carried for him. The jagged edges of his loss had been dulled by time – until my early readers insisted on more, more, more stories about him.  I found it painful, but cathartic, to oblige them.

The most fascinating morsel was that in the middle of writing Chapter Seventeen:  Accomplice to Murder Number Two, I solved a mystery that had always puzzled me.  In a flash of insight, I suddenly realized what happened to Eddie and saw how he had cleverly orchestrated the murder of Sophie’s mobster husband (alleged mobster, of course).  The chapter says it came to me as I talked to Sophie, but truthfully,  it surfaced only last year as I was recalling that conversation in order to write about it. 

In my book, names were changed to protect everyone.  And me, in this case. I wish for my readers to laugh with me, and shed tears with me, as they enjoy my stories.  Rest assured, with over 1000 real estate sales, there’s a 2nd book already in the works.

-Nico