loud poetry from a quiet girl

poetry by a person that's afraid of people. 12/23/15- #1 in poetry

Dissolution

WATTY'S 2017 NEWCOMER AWARD WINNER: What would you sell yourself for? Madeline knows. She's spent the last eighteen years impatiently waiting for her Auctioning so she can sell herself to MERCE Solutions Limited for a hundred thousand credits. But when the Auctioneer fails to call her and two suits show up at her door...

Colourless

At the age of eighteen, everyone's blood changes colour. Whether it becomes blue, green or otherwise, the colour is either hereditary or a random, biological selection. However, when Pearl Damocles discovers that her blood is colourless - in a society where people are segregated by blood colour -, she travels to an i...

For Writers by Hugh Howey

Tips for writers from Hugh Howey, as shared on his blog.

How To Write a Fight or Battle Scene

YOU WANNA FIGHT? FIGHT ME! Or we could have a cup of tea and a biscuit if you prefer. Ever found it hard to get to grips with how to put together a fight scene, or a battle sequence? This guide runs you through the basics, talks about different styles of fighting and weaponry, how to put together fight scenes, plan ou...

Big Data: A Startup Thriller Novel

If you think artificial intelligence is dangerous, then you don't know the real threat to humanity's future... Luna Valencia is the founder of the hottest artificial intelligence startup in history. She's about to become incredibly rich and powerful. But just when she's about to take her company public, her world begi...

The Medium

Seventeen year-old spirit medium Emily Chambers has a problem. Actually, she has several. As if seeing dead people isn't a big enough social disadvantage, she also has to contend with an escaped demon and a handsome ghost with a secret past. And then there's the question of her parentage. Being born an entire year aft...

Secret Stalker

Stalking is dangerous, heart-stopping, and, in this case, perfectly legal. At least, everyone at Washington High doesn't seem to mind that Savannah Shay is the Secret Stalker they can go to for any question they want answered. In fact, the Secret Stalker is the most notoriously popular student in the whole school. But...

Transcend

Caleb Ward doesn't believe in the Underworld. It's the Underworld - abode of the damned, land of eternal sleep, and complete hogwash. But after a chance encounter with a mysterious girl looming over the dead body of his Physics teacher, Caleb finds that the existence of the Underworld may not be such a myth after all...

Dreamscape

[Camp Nanowrimo Project] They watched him grow up from the gaps in the floorboards. They waited for his dreams to die and his hope to wither. They fed on his dying childhood. They. The monsters.

Metal and Flesh (The Rohvim, Book 1)

Aeden Rossam: 17, son of a nobleman, expert swordsman, spoiled, let's face it: he's a punk. Betha Solvinstra: 18, common shopkeeper's daughter, rising star in the Society of Healers. Oh, and she hates the nobility. After the sword tournament in the city of Elbeth, the master healer--leader of the secretive Society of...

Illumination: A Writing Guide

In this writing guide I will be sharing tips, advice and inspiration. There will be stuff on particular genres and on general things such as setting and style. I'll also be sharing any words of wisdom I gain from my degree in English Lit + Creative Writing. #83 Non-Fiction

Girls On Fire (formerly known as Rebel Rebel)

All she saw was blue... Ruth, Megan and Nikita had been friends for years. They did almost everything together. Went to school, ate together and walked home afterwards. One unfortunate evening, however, things didn't turn out like they normally did. The talk of the town was the possible sighting of a meteor flying ov...

Malfunction (Saving Grace Book 1)

Seventeen-year-old Danielle Dimond has spent her life defying authority. She skips school to work out, stays out past curfew, and tunes out when President Gaven gives her orders. So it shouldn’t have been a surprise when a group of rebels fell into her life. Filled with accusations against the president and vice presi...

Soulwoven

The first volume in the epic fantasy series Soulwoven. Litnig Jin has spent his life yearning for the power to weave the souls of the dead into magic. His brother Cole has spent his believing in nothing bigger than his own two hands. When a dragon sinks its claws into their nightmares, both of their lives will change...

Discordia

An artist, a demon, and a world slowly falling into Chaos.

Dust

Kyle's already dismal life takes a turn for the worst when her colony is attacked by Creatures; the cannibalistic scraps of humanity left after a plague wiped out the majority of Earth. Accidently freeing a captured wild boy in her haste to survive the bloodbath, she acquires an odd ally. The pair set off into The Was...

Windswept

Reid has been homeless on the streets of New York for years now, fighting for cash in clubs and sleeping in empty buildings. With his special ability, Reid could have whatever life he wanted, but chooses not to. When Sam meets Reid on the subway, she has a hard time forgetting about him, and not only because he kee...

The Deathless Trilogy

Seventeen-year-old botanist Isla Blume believes every life deserves a chance to survive, even in the apocalypse. So when collector droids kidnap her mom, she knows she has to fight back to save her life. No one returns from being collected, not even her boyfriend Daniel, and after a failed attempt to combat the droids...

Quarantine

When a deadly disease ravages the town of Holmsley, Frankie and her friends find themselves trapped inside a military-blockaded quarantine zone. ***** A story that was first published in 2014 and feels more relevant than ever. Fifteen-year-old Frank...

The Jack of Souls (Multi-award winner!)

************************************************************************************** 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...

The Fires Beneath the Sea (A Novel)

Cara’s mother has disappeared. Her father isn’t talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family’s Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that thei...

Undefined - The Zephyr Book 1 ? (completed)(#Wattys2016)

WATTYS 2016 WINNER Untouchable. Stone. Jewel - these are some of the names used for people who are born with a gemstone at the centre of their forehead. This unfortunate phenomenon cannot be detected before birth, it cannot be prevented, if a family has a Jewelled child, there is only one outcome: Before they're sixte...

Cataindar

#1 for a month on the Fantasy-Action Hotlist. Wattys2015 Winner. Fourteen-year-old Luisa is focused on staying under the radar at her rough London school, relieved that the summer holidays are soon to begin. Exploring the ruin of an abbey at night, Luisa falls into the underground land of Cataindar. The catains a...

Coral and Bone

Her destiny is her greatest fear. ​ Seventeen-year-old Halen Windspeare will do anything to extinguish the flames that spark beneath her fingertips. But, returning to the place where she witnessed her father drown forces the fire to ignite. Refusing to release the rage that burns within her, Halen's hell bent on fight...

Where Dead Flowers Grow

//Werewolf. Runaway. Prisoner// Annabel Young stands on the precarious edge between our world and the Otherworld: a dark, underground society of vampires, werewolves and witches. Ruled by three brothers, - Victor, Nikolai and Ragnar - the Otherworld is on the brink of war. Packs are hunted to near extinction, and Magi...

Finvarra's Circus

Born with a damaged heart, Leanna Weston has lived a sheltered life with little chance at adventure. When she hears that Finvarra's Circus is coming to her small town, she sneaks off to witness the magic first hand, sure that this is her only chance at experiencing true magic-even if the frightening rumors about the...

The Essence of Water

***OLD AND NEW VERSION ENCLOSED*** Marked a Misfit and destined for tragedy. Adie must fight to keep her life. Water will not kill her but, it may be the death of her.

Ophelia Drowned

When Maggie continues to act out glorified death scenes through suicide attempts she is told that she's only looking for attention, and it's probably true. But after she attempt's to drown like Ophelia, by jumping into a river, she is rescued and a new friendship emerges that could change everything.

Paladin

Sam is the most promising swordsman among this year’s crop of Paladin trainees...and knows it. Brash, cocky, and unbeatable with a sword (well, almost), Sam is the kingdom of Thule’s best hope against the violence wrought by demons. The only problem is that Sam is really Lady Samantha, daughter of the seventeenth Duke...