❝Not withholding the capability to hear the music had become a distant memory. As her fingers danced along the black and white keyboard, so colorfully she felt the vibrations of the piano travel though her fingers and settle into her soul. How lovely a feeling could be to make up for the loss of sound.❞ A seventeen year-old pianist is near to fleeting her broken father and her broken past when she receives an invitation from the Julliard School, offering a scholarship to assist her financial-lack. A successful audition is all she needs to land in the most prestigious conservatoire in America. The only challenge however? She's been requested to orchestrate her very own piano song and like an artist at a blank canvas, the girl allows her hands to lead the way. Remnants of the past she intended to bury begin to rise to the surface, but what she learns is that to escape her past is to approach it boldly and all that she's been frightened to say for so long is whispered in the form of piano keys. ⌣ entry for @beautifultragedies' Summer Contest of 2016.

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021

" Me sentía tan minúscula allí, encaramada sobre la dormida ciudad que parecía que observaba pacientemente mi caída... Una melodía llenó el silencio sepulcral antes de que una voz masculina suave y al mismo tiempo con retazos roncos me recibiera. - Teléfono azul, Greyson. Por un momento pensé que me atendía el contestador, hasta que escuché atentamente una respiración regular al otro lado. " ~ « El Teléfono azul es una línea de ayuda gratuita, abierta las 24 horas del día. Con simplemente pulsar un botón, uno de nuestros voluntarios le escuchará pacientemente para que usted pueda desahogarse. El fin de este proyecto es ayudar a aquellas personas que consideran el suicidio como una alternativa para terminar con sus problemas. Cada 40 segundos alguien en todo el mundo pone punto final a su vida. Cada día, el Teléfono Azul puede prevenir estos actos. Llámanos si te sientes identificado con estas líneas, no estás solo. »

Jayme Campbell's older brother commits suicide on Christmas Day. Except she's not sure it was suicide.

Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.

Amanda Rose is too young for her best friend to be dead. She went to bed to one world and woke up to an entirely different one the next morning when her best friend, Roxanne, committed suicide, leaving Amanda behind with only one missed phone call, a message she can't bring herself to listen to. And then comes in Orion Mathers, Roxanne's ex-boyfriend and the reason why everyone in Madison high school turned on Roxanne. Amanda blames him for what happened since to her nothing was wrong until he revealed her unusual eating disorder. But then, to honor her best friend, a former model, Amanda decides to take part in modeling competitions in her place in hopes that if she won, things would start to make sense again. But she soon finds out, the deeper she gets into the model world, the harder it is to come out. She sheds being Amanda, the boring, shy friend of the dead girl and becomes Mandy, the more outspoken, beautiful girl. Mandy is distant toward her family, develops an eating disorder of her own, and just wants to win. Her family, her wild child sister, and even Orion urge her to stop but she can't now. Maybe not ever. 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 - 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭. (𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐀 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨

They're worlds apart, and this isn't high school, so how the hell did a homeless female writer end up renting a billionaire's mansion? And - hold your breath - becoming his fake girlfriend? ➳ full blurb inside ➳ first reached #1 in humor on july 6, 2015 ➳ first reached #1 in business on august 29, 2023 ➳ winner of best humor book in the fiction awards 2016 ➳ featured by cadbury (marvellous creations) and secret lives of the americans (pivot) P.S. This is a SATIRICAL BILDUNGSROMAN. Proceed with caution. (cover by @glueeater)

Jade Jackson is not what you call a typical teenager. She hates the world and most things in it. Although she could spend the whole day with her friends laughing and pranking each other she can't live without drawing. Drawing is the only thing that helps her escape from reality. Not that she doesn't doze off in general. She has troubles of her own, such as anger management issues, occasional bipolar disorder, that make her feel like an outsider. Drew Walker is the second most popular boy in his school. His dark aura attracts people, but scares most away. His past haunts him and no one can relate. No one truly understands him. His differences with the rest of the teenagers make him feel like he doesn't belong. What happens when Jade's drawings appear in Drew's hands? Well, two odds make one even. Maybe being odd isn't so bad after all. Cover by me. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2013 Dandiloo

Living in Los Angeles and finding herself in desperate need of money, Iris found it the most obvious option to try her hand at acting. Working as an extra on big time movie sets for years, she's gotten the hang of things. She stays under the radar, does her job, and then moves on. She's met her fair share of celebrities but she's found it that the easiest way to do her job is to stay as far away from them as possible. However, once she's noticed by one of the stars of the movie, she can't be unnoticed. Now, Iris has to decide if he's worth all of the risk that comes along with him. She doesn't want to get hurt again-the world as already failed her so much. Not only that but being associated with a celebrity means putting your life on blast too and Iris realizes that she's stuck deciding between a leap of faith to find love or playing it safe to protect her dirty secrets. And like most nineteen year olds, she is absolutely clueless about what to do.