"So Sweetheart, What's your price?" I hear a drunkenly dark voice ask. I turn and look at the man talking to me. He looks to be about 60 yrs old and has a gold wedding band on. I scowl at him in disgust. "Listen Mr. I am not a hooker and if I was I sure as HELL wouldn't give you the time of day!" I spat at him. I go t...
Can a troubled investigator rescue humanity from its mistakes? Bill Taggart lost his wife and his last spark of happiness on humanity's new home. Now as part of the team sent to monitor the indigenous aliens on Exilon 5, the investigator hopes to find a clue to explain her disappearance. But when official reports on t...
Seven children playing in the summer twilight. One harmless game. One horrific accident. Years later, children are dying. Are the deaths accidents? Or are they murder? What is the secret behind the brain deformity all the victims share? Neuroscientist Cassandra Brookes is drawn unwillingly into an investigation that s...
Her name was Gabriella Quintanilla. She was a senior in high school during this time. She had the looks, all the boys, the popularity, the clothes, and even the grades. And in no way was she ignorant of any of these things--quite the opposite. She knew that she was above average in most categories of life, and had no...
It's customary for Gothic romance novels to include a mysterious girl locked in the attic. Hannah Smith just wishes she wasn't that girl. As a narcoleptic and the companion to an earl's daughter with a strange affliction of her own, Hannah knows she's lucky to have a roof over her head and food in her belly when so ma...
There have been no communiques from Earth post Singularity. The Martian colonists wonder if the race abandoned space-time altogether. But for right now, they have bigger problems. Their sun is going supernova—well ahead of schedule. The two greatest minds of the time, one a scientist, the other a philosopher, con...
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What happens when you buy a new pair of shoes? Sometimes you find them a bit too tight, and it takes some time to adjust. What if you wear someone else's shoes? Will you ever adjust? They have a different size after all... Similarly, you can manage a little change in your life, but can you manage replacing it with som...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, f...
THE WIND ON FIRE meets STUDIO GHIBLI's LAPUTA. Tia, a wind magic trainee, desires to leave her life of monotony in a cosy seaside town. When summons arrived for the wind masters, she travels with her mentor to the capital and realises the extent of the great power and responsibilities destined for her in the corrupt c...
Written by Jenny Rosen & Edited/Developmentally Edited by Kristen Maglonzo @kaelking12 Love's a disappearing act, death's an illusion. When Hailey Anderson, daughter of a dangerous D.C. senator, slams into Caleb Evans, a pretty boy with a million-dollar smile and a million ugly secrets, she figures fate has finally gi...
For sixteen year old Peyton Lane, life has never been easy. She's not popular, overweight, and oh yeah, her sister is embarrassed of her. But over the course of a tumultuous year, everything changes for Peyton. Suddenly all eyes are on her and it's not because she's fat. From a pair of handsome twins to a couple of d...
My life changed the minute I met those boys and there was no going back, there was no hesitating. I grabbed his hand and pulled myself onto the ledge. My vision became a blurry mess as I wobbled just a fraction in fear. Nausea set in but before I could follow through, each hand was being grasped and pulled to my predi...
In May 2013, as part of Bundaberg Writefest I attended a masterclass with Deonie Fiford, former commissioning editor at Harper Collins. This is all about what I learned about what Publishers want and how to stop getting endless rejection letters.
*SYTYCW winner* Inspired by a list of confidence-boosting tips in a magazine, twenty-four-year-old Megan Riley decides it's about time she became a confident woman. But after stumbling over the easy points such as buying a bra and learning to cook, how is she going to survive asking a guy out? NOTE: This is a sample o...
30 Before 30. Thirty days in Europe. Thirty inspired moments of adventure to live it up before my 30th birthday. Just the idea of it gave me purpose. Here was a reminder that I could choose a new path, even if it was only for 30 days. A little background first. Ten years ago, if you had told me that at 29, a normal we...
Coralee Bradbury knows she’s a lucky girl. Adopted by Anya and Dr. Peter when she was a baby, she lives a comfortable life with parents who love her deeply and give her everything she could possibly need. In return, they ask one small thing of Coralee - a few vials of her blood every month. For years Coralee complie...
Rory was just figuring out life before life got to him, too young and too fast, he implodes.
Spray Painted Bananas is a romantic comedy about Amber, a broke temp working in a catering firm in London, who after one too many evenings scrounging free wine from wacky art gallery openings with her best friend Farrell, decides there’s no reason she can’t become a conceptual artist herself. A chance meeting with the...
Rolph has a problem. Some Thing is breaking into his hall and killing his men. He doesn't trust this Wolf who has shown up looking for trouble, but it the Thing gets Wolf, it will be one less of his own men who die. Yet if Wolf destroys the Thing, that will be just another kind of trouble. Please Note: I have publishe...
Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toron...
