Chelseah Mikhail

#TheWattys2015 Winner! FANTASY-ROMANCE (SAVING DESTINY BOOK #1) [EDITED and COMPLETED] Supposing your days are numbered, but you're not yet prepared to go to the other world, what will you do? And what if you were given a chance to live longer, will you take it? Meet Destiny Salvatore, isang mahiyaing babae na laging napapagkamalang snobbish at unapproachable. She's trying her best to cope up with the everyday changes of her life, dreading the fact the she had to transfer schools and meet new people. Nang lumipat siya sa Verla Forte Academy, her life suddenly did a 180. Nakakilala siya ng bagong kaibigan at talagang nag-enjoy siya sa bago niyang school. What more could she ask for? Until one day, she found out that her days are numbered. She wasn't ready to leave. At least not yet. Then out of the blue, the God of Death appeared right before her, telling her that there's still a way to save herself from death. And that is if may willing magmahal ng tapat sa kanya at ito ang papalit sa pwesto niya. Meaning, that someone will sacrifice his life for her. But what if her 'savior' ay ang bago niyang classmate, bago niyang seatmate, at ito ang taong kinaiinisan pala niya ng sobra? Kakayanin kaya ng konsensya niya na i-save ang sarili kung ang kapalit naman nito'y kamatayan ng iba, kahit na matindi ang disgusto niya para dito? Or tatanggi siya sa offer ni Kamatayan maligtas lang ang 'savior' niya? [LANGUAGE: TAGALOG + ENGLISH] Copyright © 2012 PROPERTY OF JINXMAGNET DATE STARTED: September 20, 2012 DATE COMPLETED: July 9, 2014

*Once featured in Teen Fiction and winner of The Best TNT Panalo Story at the Wattys 2015* Kung tatanungin mo kung ano ang pangarap ni Mayumi Gonzales, isa lang ang isasagot nya - ang makawala mula sa mahirap at maliit na mundo nya sa probinsya. Kaya naman nang binigyan sya ng pagkakataong makapag-aral sa isang kolehiyo sa Manila, kinuha nya ito agad sa pag-aakalang ito na ang sagot na hinihiling nya. Puno pala ng drama ang buhay na naghihintay sa kanya at hindi sya handa para dito. Ipasok pa sa storya ang isang gwapong gitarista ng isang sikat na banda at talagang hindi na malaman ni Mayumi kung ano ang gagawin. Ano ba ang dapat gawin ng isang promdi na katulad nya para malagpasan ang malulupit na mga pagsubok na darating? (Book one of A Girl's Guidebook)

Its all about the things in the world. Imagination is your limit ika nga. Ginamit mo ang imahinasyon mo para makabuo ng iyong sariling love story pero kung paano nagkakatotoo ang ginawa mong love story? Anong gagawin mo?

***WATTYS2015 WINNER THE BEST TNT PANALO STORY*** Lahat tayo maraming hinihiling sa buhay, pero si Luna, APAT lang. 4 Things TO DO Under the Moon ang pangalan ng listahan nya. Saan sya dadalhin ng simpleng listahang ito?

Dan is different. He's learned to accept that. Well, as best he can anyway, considering he's never really had much of a choice. It's been this way for as long as he can remember, the constant runaround process of trying to feel normal. His life is built around it, trying to trick both himself and everyone he interacts with into seeing him as your average person. The isolation as he desperately tries to keep others from finding out, the bitterness that wells up inside of him each and every time he's reminded that he'll never be like everyone else, the fear that nothing will ever change. He's fated to be this way forever; a misfit from society. Isolation can only go so far though, so when he's struggling to make ends meet and he's faced with the option of looking into a serious job or taking on a roommate, he opts for what seems like the easier option at the time. It doesn't seem so easy ten failed roommates into the process, or when he sits down at a table to meet with prospect number eleven and ends up with a coffee spilled all over his lap. Potential roommate number eleven, Phil, turns out to be an insufferable optimistic ball of sunshine that Dan wants nothing to do with. His options are running out though, as are the savings he's been using to pay his rent, so he finds himself begrudgingly agreeing to let the other man move in. Neither of them have any way of knowing just what they've gotten themselves into as they shake on the matter, but time will tell.

A married writer begins a passionate and destructive affair with a tortured artist, not knowing he has loved her since they met thirteen years ago. ***** Eloise Airens sat as a model for an art class thirteen years ago, where a damaged young artist, Aidan Foley, fell in love with her. For him, she was everything. For her, he was just a face in the crowd. But thirteen years later, Eloise's marriage is struggling and she ends up at Aidan's latest art show in New York. He's immediately drawn to her as he's never gotten over his obsession, and she's drawn to him because despite his pretentious art, only he can make her feel truly alive. Despite trying to save her marriage and stay true to her values, Eloise can't escape the pull of the talented, brooding, yet tortured Aidan Foley. Will she stay with the world she knows, or risk everything? And more importantly, will she do so before Aidan tells her about their strange past? [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]

"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

************************************************************************************** An outcast rogue must break a curse put on his fate, or die on his nineteenth birthday. To survive, he'll need the sword of a maiden, the aid of an immortal, and the power of forbidden magic that could cost him the only girl he ever loved. ************************************************************************************ *** THE JACK OF SOULS won a Silver IPPY this year! *** THE JACK OF SOULS won 1st place in the PNWA Competition in Fantasy! * *** THE JACK OF SOULS won 1st place in the Southwest Writers competition! * *** A "Featured Book" on Wattpad! * *** Now a "Staff Pick" on Kickstarter! * *** Available on Amazon in paper, hardback, and ebook ! * *** My contract with Kindle Select won't allow me to post more than 3 chapters here, but... *** Sign up for my newsletter on stephenmerlino.com for alerts when it's free on Amazon! * MY INSPIRATION I wrote this out of pure love of trickster rogues; I love the wit over brawn motif -- Odysseus over Achilles, Raven over Eagle -- so I like to play with it in my stories. In JOS I set the rogue and con-artist Harric against a foil of warriors in a land threatened by magic and civil war. Whenever possible I turn familiar tropes on their heads: instead of a handsome young Lancelot, I cast a broken-down ex-champion addicted to pain-killing herbs; instead of a dashing Squire Brian, the old knight reluctantly takes an ambitious young woman as squire. Similarly, I re-imagine the standard medieval milieu by infusing aspects of two of my favorite historical periods, Elizabethan England, and The American Frontier. Both eras boast a kind of nationalistic arrogance that borders on hubris, and a magnificent spirit of resourcefulness and re-invention that is fun to play with. SERIES The Jack of Souls is first in a series. I am posting parts of the sequel here now (The Knave of Souls), to help me refine the story.