Writers have to get their characters from somewhere. Sometimes it's just not as simple as making them up.

Love and revenge don't end with death. Exiled for her mother's sins, Suzume lives in a remote mountain shrine training to become a priestess. She would give anything to return to her old life at the emperor's palace. When she accidently awakens a sleeping dragon posing as the mountain god, she thinks he is the answer to all her problems. But she gets more than she bargained for when she unleashes the Dragon, Kaito. He has been sealed away for five hundred years and now he is hungry for revenge. The woman who trapped him may be dead, but he will settle for her reincarnation and he chooses Suzume to join him on his quest for vengeance. What he doesn't realize is Suzume is that priestess reborn. Now she must find a way to seal the dragon once more before he learns the truth. ***This is a draft version of the now published The Priestess and the Dragon. The published version has added scenes and content. To purchase the revised version please follow the links on my profile.*** ~~~~~~~A DRAFT VERSION OF BOOK 2 IS NOW BEING SERIALIZED ON WATTPAD~~~~~~~~~~

She hums the disco hit 'Rasputin' in class. She has an obsession with turtles. She's mildly allergic to her favorite food. She pinches people with her toes. She dances by herself. She wears her grandma's clothes. She regularly sings Disney songs, when she's tone deaf. She's smarter than everyone else. Her solution to everything is Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey Ice Cream and a Harry Potter marathon. She named her cat Frodo Baggins. Her laugh is repulsive but oddly infectious. She's just...awkward. Yet Stevie Jade manages to attract the attention of the hottest baseball player in school. This is the story of an awkward individual who comes across many life changing events while struggling to remain true to her awkward self. This is a story for many who struggle to belong to somewhere while finding solace in fandoms and the internet. This one is for all the Awkwards.

Olivia's best friend is not imaginary. He’s not a ghost, either. And she's pretty sure he's not a hallucination. He’s just Mason. He is, however, invisible. When Olivia spotted the crying little boy on her front porch at five years old, she had no idea she was the only one who could see him. Twelve years later when new-girl Robin bumps into the both of them and introduces herself to Mason, they are both stunned. Mason couldn't be more pleased that someone else can see him. Olivia, on the other hand, isn't jumping at the chance to welcome Robin into their circle. Jealousy may have something to do with that, but honest fear that Robin's presence will put Mason in danger is soon validated when a strange black car begins showing up everywhere. The race to find out what Robin knows in time to protect Mason from whatever threats are coming becomes Olivia's only focus.

*This is a FREE book with PAID exclusive chapters* [The Dad I'd Like to F*ck] "You should be careful," Devin said calmly, bending over to scoop Rory into his arms. "This bathtub can get incredibly slippery." "So I noticed," she said dryly. Mortified, she noticed how erect her nipples were. They stabbed the air like tiny knives of arousal and she was positive that Devin had noticed. "I think I can walk now," she said quickly. To her relief, he set her on the ground and reached for her towel. "This is the second time I'm rescuing you," he said, in that quiet way Rory was beginning to recognise as his annoyed tone. "Let's not make it a habit." Rory tightened the towel around herself, wincing from the motion. "I slipped in the tub. Hardly a rescue." A dirty look crossed his face. "I haven't had sex in two years, Rory. Consider yourself rescued..." He turned to leave "...from me." She was speechless. For starters, this had been the longest conversation she'd ever had with Devin Shaw and, secondly, she was positive that he wasn't as crazy as he let everyone believe he was...

For daydreamer Maddie, obsessive compulsive Clare, over dramatic Isobel and happy-go-lucky Sophie, life is more a world of tragic than magic. Maddie battles against the constant monotony of a job she hates while her heart aches to follow her dreams of setting up her own cake-making business and turn her talent into a career. But will she escape to the Wonderland world where she feels she truly belongs? Clare's inability to banish the image of the teenage ugly duckling she remembers hampers her ability to believe she is good for anyone or anything. After being coerced by well-meaning friends to sign up to an online dating site, she soon starts to realize that looks are not everything and that she is just as quick to judge a book by its cover. Isobel has the looks, the figure and the confidence...or so it appears. After landing the lead role in a new play written and directed by the beastly Guy Edmundson, she follows her mother's advice to find a gorgeous hunk in time to escort her to the after-show party. But it is only when she cuts herself free from the ties of a fake persona and stops living up to other people's expectations that the unexpected happens. Sophie has everything her girlfriends crave - a job she loves and a devoted boyfriend who worships the ground she walks on. But when she chooses to doubt her own worth and believes in a poisonous rumour, it threatens to tear her world apart. Will the girls ever be able to believe happily-ever-afters are not just reserved for fairy tale fiction and will they find the magic to put everything right?

[Edited] "You had to be extremely low on cash to wank into a cup for it," Dani sneered, feeling like a vindictive bully in a playground. But Carlo deserved it. She felt the first sharp stab of fear that went through her heart when Carlo looked at her with thunder in his eyes. "What are you going to do now? Kill me?" she continued. Fingering the 9mm in her back pocket, she remembered that she'd never even shot the damn thing, despite her brothers' pleas to teach her. Carlo's shadow blanketed her. "Kill you?" His brow furrowed. "Do you really think that lowly of me, cara? I'm wounded." "Then what the hell do you want?" His face flashed with a look she barely recognised - pure arousal. Even when he reached out and pulled her to him, she could feel it. "I realised that the mother of my child is more of a spitfire than I thought." His lips brushed her earlobe. "Call me a pyromaniac." *cover by @bullethood*

Felicity may not have a dashing boyfriend, a glamorous job, or oodles of cash but what she does have, is the home of her dreams. That is, until she meets her neighbour, Thomas Bond. Obnoxious, infuriating and hell bent on making her life a misery, he's the rudest, crudest assh**e she has ever met. Now is the time for Felicity to take control of her life. To fight back stroke for stroke, because home is where the heart is. Right?

[NOTE: This book was written in 2010, a time of long-distance phone cards, weight-loss obsessions, and searching for a man as a solution to life's problems-what a messy time to be alive! In other words, I hope you enjoy this throwback, and while this book does end on a cliffhanger of sorts, the sequel addresses any unanswered questions (which is hopefully fair, given that book 1 is free, ya know?] An awkward family homecoming at Christmas. A humiliating public weigh-in, with two judging parents as the audience. The announcement of a deadline for arranged marriage doom. And that's just the first two chapters. In "Year of the Chick," Romi Narindra must find love before her parents find her a husband. Easy to say, less easy to live through, as this book takes you deep inside "awkward Indian living in the West." To escape her fate, Romi wades through the waters of secret-dating, where self-consciousness is at an all-time high, and experience at an all-time low. It's the sort of thing that would turn almost anyone into a man-crazy freak with romance tunnel-vision, and that's exactly what ends up happening. All the while, a lack of inspiration in her corporate job leads Romi to her love of writing, in what quickly becomes a man-quest play-by-play. From whiskey-breath scum bags to uni-brow creeps and everything in between, Romi and her wingmen come up empty time after time. And that's when she meets a fellow writer. On the Internet. So will it be arranged marriage doom, or an Internet affair that's not as creepy as "To Catch a Predator"? Time will tell in the "year of the chick," a twelve-month quest to find love. Tick-tock. --------------------------------------------- "Year of the Chick" is book one of a series, and book two is available at Amazon! LENGTH: 75,000 words or 285 pages DISCLAIMER: this book contains profanities, blunt accounts of the dating scene, and many awkward family moments. Enjoy!

At 30-years-old, Lydia’s life is out of control in a city that feeds off chaos. The former child pageant star is in a quarter-life crisis when she meets Doberman, a fifty-eight-year-old recovering alcoholic living with his mother in the Bronx and preparing to graduate from bartending school. When Lydia’s pathological fear of makeup leads to her mistaken arrest at Macy’s department store, her stint in Community Service finds her picking up trash outside Doberman’s Bronx row house. This chance meeting between two different worlds takes Lydia on a new path with hilarious consequences. Her best friend is a liar, her boyfriend’s neurotic, and she just hired a bartender who won’t let anyone drink. While Lydia tries to get a new restaurant venture off the ground, a sudden death reveals $60,000 is missing-money that was supposed to pay for the restaurant. Drawing on the only skills she has, Lydia puts together the beauty pageant of a lifetime, New York City Style, to raise the missing money. But she might be trying to get the wrong person out of trouble, and she’s got six cross-dressers and a dominatrix ready to go on stage. Taking its title from a word association, RUNNING AFTER TALL SEXY MEN is a chaotic, drunken comedy that shows us that sometimes the truth can only be measured by how much is left in the bottle. Available in full on Amazon.