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

When kids are young and full of innocent wonder, they're asked the question that will haunt them far into their adult lives: what do you want to be when you're older? Kyleigh Frost's answer to this very question was that she wanted to be thin. Ever since she could remember, all she wanted to do with her life is to be the skinniest girl out of everyone she met on the streets. If she couldn't be the brightest kid in her school or win the next cycle of America's Next Top Model, she might as well be the thinnest one there. After all, to be fat is the biggest sin one could ever commit in today's society.

Nobody can forget their first kiss. Even if you were only 6 years old. Especially when the person who kissed you was your older brother's bestfriend. After Blair's father died, she became distant and her brother Blake has become very overprotective over his younger sister. His bestfriend, Aiden, was overprotective too. 10 years later, they're having a normal college life. After a few incidents, Aiden begins to look at Blair under a new perspective. But isn't there an unwritten rule about staying away from your bestfriend's sister?

Ever's life used to be perfect but now, she's stuck in this unknown world where she is anything but normal or perfect. She just wants something normal in her life. And she's about to get it...

His eyes, the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They pierce into you, with clear conviction, unraveling all the layers of protection that you have cast upon, until they find your core. He is dangerouse, deadly, but I cant seem to move away. I'm old enough to know life is no fairy tale , that there will be no happy ending, no knight to save me from distress. But he comes anyway. Like night he steals the light, yet I welcome his presence like air. I need him, yet I can have him. I will never have him. He looks at me, his electric blue eyes glinting and sighs. His lip is upturned in a smirk and his raven hair falls into his eyes. Bending down from his 6'4 stature, he levels himself with me, his breathe whispers across my face. Tempting me like the snake tempted Eve. "What am I going to do with you?" He said sounding amused, his accent making him sound elegant and sexy. My heart was racing like the wings of a mocking bird, my throat clammed up and no noise came out. I couldn't reply, I didn't need to. This was the most perfect specimen of mankind I have ever seen. And he wasn't even human. Lucky me.

[Watty Winner 2012, Fantasy / Teen Fic / Adventure / Romance] Stars. For millennia, humans have stared up at the sky watching them light up the night. Unknown to most, they've been watching back, protecting us and keeping us safe from dangers. However, in the land of Astron, two girls are struggling to keep themselves alive. Miriam has a dark secret, living a secluded life with all the benefits that wealth provides. While Annabell is a poor orphan with a natural born gift of getting into trouble. With the help of two handsome lads, they have to uncover the truth about the prophecy that the Elders have worked so hard to hide. They need to find each other before it's too late. Change is coming, and Darkness is growing. In a race against time, they have to find the Rising Star before it's too late. Solem, help us all. [This is the first book in 'The Lores of Lyra]

Scott O'Brian was suddenly lost. His body no longer responded to his rationale side of the brain. His entire being lay still as he watched this girl before him. Is this even real, this can't be happening, can it? Scott looked into the most amazing green eyes he had ever seen. Eyes that reflected all that his heart felt and more; the same eyes that had haunted him in his dreams, along with the sweetest voice calling his name. Could all this be true? Could this beautiful creature before him be the one he had been waiting for all this time? Samanta Monserrate closed her eyes as Scott held her in his arms, helping her to her feet at the beach. Feelings of peace, and harmony surrounded her, and tingles that made her skin break in goose bumps. The electricity flowed in her veins but more than that the tingles that once she had shared since she knew Scott had turned into a strong, heated sensation within her. A sensation she feared in her heart, but had become almost addicted. She had been hurt so much before, her brain told her to run but her treacherous heart and body needed him like air to breath. And the worst part was that she had to probably loose all that she desired in order to protect her family. Being forced into actions that were completely against her nature, she knew she would loose the one gift the heavens had sent her. This stranger whose touch made her feel alive was all she had dreamed off. And in doing so she would end breaking her own spirit, her very soul. Could she be able to live this life? Could she be able to open her heart to this man, knowing she would have to lose him in the end? Or would she run before getting hurt again?

When she finds a man almost beaten to death lying in the middle of the road Sarah Hemish is left speechless and confused. To add to her confusion the mystery man only spoke one thing befor he slipped into a coma...her name. She never met this man in her life and yet here he was almost dead and she couldn't help feeling she was somehow involved with this accident and come to find ot she is. Thanks to her fathers mistakes she is left to pay the price but will she be able to save the man and find out what is going on before it's to late?

Faye Caldwell has never been the same ever since her sister, Terra, killed herself seven years ago. She's haunted by her sister's memory, taunted by nightmares that mock the day her sister plunged to the ground. The fear of falling and ending up like Terra consumes her. Even the slighest falls make Faye scream, the terror taking over her body. Faye doesn't know how much more she can take. What she doesn't know is that those fears and dreams will drive her to do something that will change the way she looks at her life forever. Kole Frost lives a normal life. He has friends that he can (somewhat) count on, and a brother who is always there for him. He doesn't think that being dragged to Xia, a club that allowed minors, would do anything to him. He doesn't want to go, but he goes anyway--just to get his friend off his back. And when his best friend, Terence, gets drunk, he doesn't think anything of it. It's normal. Normal. But little does he know that that trip to Xia is about to change his life forever. The two worlds collide when Faye and Kole meet at the legendary Gate. The Gate, said to be protecting them from a horrible beast on the other side of its borders. The Gate which separates the two genders from each other. The Gate, which no one has ever seen before. That is, until now. Faye and Kole will learn that their "normal" worlds are not so normal after all. They'll learn that Cesve has secrets, ones that have been kept for a long, long time. And they take it upon themselves to find out just what those secrets are. There is one thing that must always be remembered: The Gate keeps them apart.