A troubled writer and an optimistic editor come at odds with each other when the novel they are editing threatens their grip on reality. Knowing no other way to escape the insanity, the editor swears to destroy it. However, the power between the novel and the author may be a greater threat than the editor had expected... _____________________ COVER EDITED BY EKS COMPLETED and EDITED 2014 EKS WATTYAWARD FINALIST PUBLISHED/COPYRIGHT _____________________ Help this story become a film: http://www.iflist.com/stories/anovelist

On the night of a full moon we were born, born into a nation of royalty, born into the life where there are traitorous people, and those who will stop at nothing to get what they want. As my cries filled the castle walls so did another. My blood sister was born on the same night. As the cries of two newborn babies filled the night, it was also destined that a ritual be set in place. The combination of bloodlines that will form not only one supernatural being but two that shall run the land with knowledge of a thousand years, more powerful than the original witch, and immortal for all time with the power to take away or add time to all life. They named me Anastasia and my sister Kelia. We were placed in the world to rule and be leaders. As the energy of a thousand years filled our bodies the cries grew and the unbreakable spell was fulfilled.

After ten long years, Matt Preston is finally on California shores again. Matt Preston who became a superstar the moment he first held a gold microphone in public. He was discovered by a famous music producer and he sold his first album when he was 9 years old. By age 11, he was all anyone could talk about. He’s the same Matt Preston who lived across our house and first called me ‘Sweets’ in second grade. He was my first guy friend. He was my first boy best friend. He probably would have been my first kiss If only I’d let him. He was the Matt Preston who left me a question, one that until now I haven’t had the chance to answer or even think about. He asked me to marry him someday.

Would YOU trust someone who bought you off Ebay? Grace is sick of being labelled a snob because of her money. She's sick of her backstabbing friends and her mansion of a house. She doesn't know how to tell if people are friends with Grace, or Grace's money, and all she really wants is a fresh start. So she decides to sell herself on Ebay. Setting up a fake account, she sells herself as a teenage dropout who 'will work for money'. When 'Jas737' wins the auction, everything seems innocent. She gets to work cleaning his apartment, and for once in her life realizes how it feels to have responsibility, and a friend who doesn't judge her for her wealth. But unfortunately for Grace, she learns that you can't trust everyone the hard way. Who's not to say there's other people tracking her down with different meanings for "work"? after all, how's a 'helpless teenage drop out with no money supposed to save herself? Will she be able to keep up her disguise? Is Jas737 even as trustworthy as he says he is? Maybe Grace should have thought twice about selling herself over the internet.

Ever since she was young Selene has always been able to communicate with things that normal humans shouldn't see. When she moves into a house with her step sisters, and discovers a portal to the land of the dead in her room, needless to say she's less than pleased. Things get worse when one of her step sister's is kidnapped and taken to the land of the dead and Selene has to rescue her. That's when she comes face to face with death himself who refuses to return her step sister, unless a little condition is met. What could Death possibly want? Why Selene of course. Join us as we follow the story of Selene and how she learns to deal with her life in the land of the living and in the land of the dead. Note: cover image made by sarakay498

Abigail Archer lived a non-existent life. That is until Death arrived at her door with an interesting proposition... He asks her to live. But what will Abigail do when she realizes her only reason to live is Death itself? And what will Death do when he realizes that in Abigail, he has found life?