We hope you'll be inspired, shocked, amused, and touched by this selection of letters from the DearTeenMe.com website. 'How awesome would it be if authors wrote letters to their teen selves?' A year and a half later, you can pick up DEAR TEEN ME from Zest Books, read more on the website, or just kick back and enjoy the selection we'll be posting here. Co-curators: E. Kristin Anderson and Priya Chand. The individual letters are property of the contributing authors. We can't guarantee your head won't explode from the mix of angst and excitement, but you *will* enjoy the ride.

[A psychological thriller] When you can't even pay for a bottle of water, you might want a friend like Casper. This may be hard considering he's the God-given prophet of Seabrook high; the type of kid who offers existential philosophies on a Monday and spews poetry the next. Friends are a select few for Casper, and Holden doesn't have the right kind of luck for a golden ticket. But he isn't worried. After all, to win the heart of a prophet, all you need is intelligence. And intelligence is all he's got. Cover credit: Photo by Martin Stranka. Design by toska_. Trailer Credit: Clips from Xavier Dolan films. Made by me.

"POETRY IS THE CLEAR EXPRESSION OF MIXED FEELINGS" -W.H. Auden A poet should have bigger thoughts and a wide imagination power to analyse the emotions, everyone can write poems, right? Only if they try... "POETRY IS A MATTER OF LIFE, NOT JUST A MATTER OF LANGUAGE" It's about writing on our life, our feelings, it gets our emotions out of us. It makes us realize our own self... "BEING A POET IS NOT A JOB OR PROFESSION BUT A WAY OF LIFE" -Kathleen Raine I may not be a perfect poet, but I will never stop writing. I will be perfect one day, my fame may spread along the way. Don't stand in the corner and look at me in disbelief walk with me in my journey through poems.

Willow Fields has always hated her sexuality. With growing up in a devout Christian home, she is conflicted on what is right and wrong. Just as she starts to embrace herself, her parents find out and send her to a boarding school on the other side of the country. Adelaide Park is her teacher. Who helps her overcome her self hate and learning to accept herself. ***This book will end in the middle of the school year. This is a story that I love so much, but want to make many changes to and I didn't want to continue a story that was going to change anyways. This book just got to a point that I didn't intend and I didn't know what story it was anymore.*** SEVERELY UNEDITED

Love Has No Gender Copyright © 2012 Charlie Kingston has been fighting with her sexuality for the past year. Her family is religiously Christian and she's known since day one of her confusion that liking girls is a big no-no in her town. But when Lacey Trent comes around, everything Charlie has been doing to pretend she's straight comes tumbling down the second they meet. Charlie knows it wrong because everyone has told her it's wrong, but what if what she has been taught is wrong? What if she's right and everyone else is wrong?

Annifer can put it off no longer. The time has come for her to journey north to the snow-covered land of Crosstain and marry the loathsome Larnick. Meanwhile, deep in the heart of the Great Forest, all is not well in the Wise Women's Village. A powerful magical artefact has been stolen and a dangerous prisoner escaped. Dark clouds are gathering over Sacred Mountain. Could it be that their most deadly enemy is back? Book Three of the Annifer Trilogy but you don't have to have read the first two books to understand it. #17 in Fantasy 23d January 2020 #9 in Mystery 23rd January 2020 #3 in Action 29th May 2021

[C O M P L E T E D] Finished on 1 Jan 2019 It is now the 22th Century and the year is 2112. Times are extremely different from the 21st Century. Now, the world is divided into only four continents- and Alara Berrera resides in Excidium. In Excidium, children are kidnapped from the low-class families who live in the rural areas. This is done to 're-populate' the upper-class families of Excidium- as well as the Governors, who rule this particular country. At age eight, Alara Berrera witnessed the kidnapping of her brother who was kidnapped by the Amorals. After the traumatic incident, her mother fell ill and the Berrera family collapsed. The Amorals are a group of people working for the Governors- the ruling party in Excidium- and do their dirty work for them, such as kidnapping young children from poor Exicidiums. Ever since that fateful day, Alara is determined to fight against them as she believes that she will have a better life once that is accomplished. However, what will Alara do to get what she wants, and what will it cost her? What secrets would she uncover as she tries to reunite her family? WINNER of LITWITSAWARDS (2018-2019) action category: 1ST PLACE WINNER of AURORA AWARDS (2019) action/adventure category: 3RD PLACE - h i g h e s t r a n k s (2019 -2020) (12.04.2020) #8/285K - MYSTERY #11/353K - ADVENTURE #215/33.9K - DYSTOPIAN #110/10.7K - FANTASYADVENTURE (06.04.2020) #6/352K - ADVENTURE #222/284K - MYSTERY #94/10.7K - FANTASYADVENTURE (20.02.2019) #1/14 - FLOADV2019 #39/380 - BEGINNER #211/ 2.31k- SADSTORY (9.05.2019) #1/16 - FLOADV2019 #270/321k - ADVENTURE (21.09.2020) #4/377K - ADVENTURE #75/4K - EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER #276/306K - MYSTERY #84/13.3K - FANTASY ADVENTURE (29.11.2020) #1/619 - HERBS #2/987 - SPECULATIVE #11/313K - MYSTERY #8/272 - COMPLETESTORY #875/26K - SERIES

"Never underestimate the power of a decent vocabulary." • • • Imagine if you could hear everything your neighbor did on the other side of the wall. Cook - clean - masturbate? Detective Russell Crane quickly deducts that the wall in his new apartment is surprisingly thin. And that his female neighbor has a fondness of vibrators. How much would you listen to? And more importantly; How would you react if you heard your neighbor moan your name after having just met her once?

This is a spinoff series of "Assisting Miss Adams" (GirlxGirl): After moving away from Baldwin the summer after graduation, Sam and Megan embark on a brand new journey with new challenges around every corner. While Sam learns how to successfully manage "Jinx 2", Megan continues to pursue a higher education at Mizzou University. This series of shorts take place an entire year after moving to Columbia.

Maia, 19 years old, is a average she-wolf or so she thought. Bright and tough, she's ready to take on anything thrown her way. Austin, 22 years old, is the Alpha. Owning and living in Werewolf Academy. He has been searching for his mate for over 4 years with no luck. But one day a girl is chosen to attend Werewolf Academy and she changes his life, his own mate. ______ Ranking: 8 in #soulmates 9 in #luna 2 in #kid 9 in #soul © COPYRIGHT 2018 by forest_wonders1 (C.Jones)