The Watty Awards 2012 round one is well and truly up and running. Come read interviews with authors who have entered the competition. Read about some of the stories entered. Also read interviews from contestants from round one 2011.

Nathan has trained for a singular purpose; his training comes to fruition on an unexpected day aboard a passenger train. Nathan's dream for a life of peace becomes increasingly more like chimera rather than a viable option. In an action filled adventure involving political intrigue and international conflict, Nathan will need more than a pistol to make it out alive. A chimera is an unreachable dream or wild fantasy.

Revolution is a necessary, but sickeningly brutal element of life. Gaston LaFontaine, must live with knowing that the busy Guillotine rolled heads based on his own commands. Gaston may purge the evil of the bourgeois, but can he cleanse the evil within himself? Historical fiction based on the French Revolution.

An amateur agent must protect a fragile woman from the lingering danger of Russian criminals. Why the woman is wanted is unknown, but it is certain that they will stop at nothing. Even more so than protecting the woman, he must also protect his own psyche as he is greeted by death at every turn.

In an attempt to break away from a mundane American life, a man and his female acquaintance take to the unknown--landing in the African nation of Cameroon. Upon arrival, the industries of less-than legal gambling and risk threaten to rob them of their reason. Devoid of emotion, the sanctity of human life is minimal in comparison to the luster of money and the prospect of ivory--essentially, Africa's forbidden gold.

After a nuclear attack on England, a single school chooses ten students to enter into an underground fallout shelter. In this subterranean utopia, the teens will try to rebuild a sustainable, modern society.