#HowToAuthor: Agents & Submission

Advice for writing book-shaped things and getting them traditionally published. This series will cover everything from querying to agent fit, to building a platform and marketing yourself.

The Loneliness of Distant Beings

Seren and Dom live on a spaceship where choice is rebellion. But when they dare to fall in love, the taste of freedom is so sweet they don't care about the consequences. I'll be posting the full story of The Loneliness of Distant Beings on Wattpad before my second book, The Glow of Fallen Stars, publishes on 24th Au...

Trump Temptations: The Billionaire & The Bellboy

He was a billionaire, I was a bellboy, can I make it anymore obvious? It all started one fateful afternoon in summer of 2012. I was working as a bellboy at the Trump Hotel in Hong Kong on an internship program. This was my first time in a big city. It was all I could have ever dreamed of, and more. But little did I k...

Engineering Your Story

Do you want to write great stories with tightly-woven, interesting plots and believable characters? Do you want to develop the tools and discipline to assemble the pieces, and overcome writer's block, disappointments, and technical problems? Then it's time to put method to the madness and engineer your stories. Engine...

Write On!

How to get the story out of your head and on the page. A collection of blog posts full of writing tips and encouragement. Writing is an ongoing learning experience and whether your a successful novelist or about to pen your first book, there's always room for tips and encouragement. I'll be posting weekly instalements...

Mavery

Ally was practically invisible. She had her mom, store clerks, and those moments in school when someone bumped into her. Oh, and of course she had her blog. Ally's blog was actually very popular throughout the city and she would be too if she didn't use her cover name 'Mavery'. Her secret has been well kept for quite...

perfected.

because we teenagers have been perfected.

Growing up (MWL's sequel)✔️

"I want to grow up" Did you say it when you were a kid? I know I did. Have you regretted growing up at some point in your life? Have you wished you could be a careless child once again? I know you have. Everyone has. The more you grow the bigger the challenges, the obstacles, the pain. Life gets serious. You get seri...

Kissing Prince Charming

❝What would you do to find your Prince Charming?❞ Everyone knows your first kiss is supposed to be the most exciting thing in your life. For Grace Carter it just so happened to take place in a janitors closet with a boy she doesn't even know. Now with the memory of a kiss she'll never forget, with a boy she doesn't ev...

James Mandarin

"Everyone has secrets." James has a problem; he cuts himself. He is in love with his best friend, Chloe, but is too afraid to tell her. His father is attracted to the bottle, and his mother wears fake diamond rings on her finger. James' world is crumbling. The razor is his only companion and the slits on his thig...

Passenger

for as long as anna can remember, every song she has listened to has been overlaid with the voice of boy next door, tobias. in the car, if katy perry was singing firework, toby was too. if the fray was blasting from anna's headphones, she could see toby mouthing the words. but when toby disappears one day without a t...

Seeing Things Through Her Eyes

If you had the chance, would you change anything in your past? Everything's different when Rachel loses her parents in a car crash; the two girls stopped being friends, Rachel and her sister are left alone and bullying begins. But Izzy also has her own hidden problems. Will seeing things through the other girl's eyes...

The Fugitive Grandma

Johnny Valentine is a lonely boy who dreams of becoming a hero, just like the masked avengers in his comic books. His feisty grandmother Stella is a retired supermarket clerk and cancer survivor. Running out of time, money and options, the old lady is driven by a fierce sense of justice. Together the boy and his gran...

90 days to love (COMPLETED)

When every last technology-obsessed human is kidnapped from the Earth what choice do you have as one of the last two but to accept the conditions? At the age of 19 years, Lara Hall has seen little of the planet she calls home. When she's called upon to fulfil her 'purpose', unworldly, naïve Lara only has one choice...

He was my Smoke,

Roya just got out of Rehab after fighting addiction since her boyfriend died. On her path to help other people who think drugs are the answer, she'll meet the guy who believes in all the things she doesn't believe in -including drugs- but somehow they click. somehow, he ignores her scars and calls her beautiful. someh...

Community Service

"'Caution. Hotness at work. May spontaneously combust.' I read Ross' neon shirt with something akin to disgust, brushing back my hair and shooting him a glare. 'Really? Really, Ross? I hope you realize that no one's going to find you attractive when you're picking up trash from the ground with a stick.'" When Ross Al...

Within These Walls

April Parker's plan for senior year is to tough it out with her overbearing stepfather for nine more months and move far away from home the second she graduates. It's what drives her to go through the motions every day and the reason his cruel expectations haven't crushed her. The last thing she expects is to end up i...

Reality Check {ON HOLD}

It always replays in my mind. The crash, the shattering glass. It plays like a video stuck on repeat, over and over. The doctor trying to comfort me, after shattering my world. Nothing can wake my father up, nothing can banish the memory. My brother shouldn't have had to feel that pain, no one ever should. Then he bro...

Deadlines

What if we lived in a world where tattoos just randomly appeared on our skin, and we had to figure out what they meant for ourselves? Payton King lives in that world, although her first tattoo has yet to appear. But then her brother ends up missing, the next day found dead. The day after, his death date is inked on th...

The Boy in the Woods (2014 Wattys Winner, Wattpad Version)

A newly expanded and professionally edited version of the Boy in the Woods is now available for sale as an ebook and paperback! Buy it at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and many other online outlets. Winner of the 2014 Wattys Talk of the Town award. After a devastating accident takes Jess's parents, a c...

The Amanda Project: Book One

When enigmatic freshman Amanda Valentino arrived at Endeavor High, she chose three people - Callie, Hal, and Nia - to guide her through the choppy waters of her new school. Except she didn't tell them about each other. When Amanda leaves, the three must reluctantly work together to figure out why. But once they start...

The Game Until 18

The rules to this game: 1. It lasts for six months, until I'm 18. 2. I still have to go to school, but it's a 'safe spot'. I can't be captured there. Other than that, the sky's the limit. 3. I have a budget of $300,000 on my credit card for traveling and food expenses. 4. The game ends the moment I turn 18 and three m...

TMI (2014 Collector's Dream Winner)

One post will change everything... Playful Bailey Grant and practical Megan Farrell are best friends... until Bailey starts ditching Megan for virtual quality time with a boy she meets online. Megan doesn't trust Ryder West and thinks Bailey's making a big mistake.

Illusive Dreams (ENDED)

They say love prevails over everything yet it has brought nothing but misery to my life. Love wasn’t strong enough when lust overtook it and changed a man who was gentle and kind and loving. Love couldn’t bring courage to a mother, who feared being a widow more than preventing a forced marriage upon her daughter.  ...

Making You See

He's gone. Vanished into thin air, only to be found dead. His death is a mystery and there's only one person who can solve it and it must be solved alone. He needs her help, but she can't even remember who he is. Could solving a mystery cause more damage than it would, left alone? And what if the police underestimate...

the journal - h.s.

"You do realize a journal is an extremely personal thing right?" His voice was raspy, low and threatening, making me take a step back in panic as he continued, "so my only question is why the fuck are you standing with mine?" - first book - - instagram acc: @thejournalofficial - - for extra material: ari...

The Criminal Calls Me Cupcake (Watty Winner 2013)

Watty Finalist: Mystery/Thriller, On the Rise I see him vividly in my head. Him. The guy who calls himself A for whatever reason. The guy dressed in a black cloak with a hood that makes his face look like an endless sea of darkness. The guy whose voice is like velvet; so smooth; yet so deep and dark it sends chills do...

[ON HOLD] 36 Students in a Classroom

Update: This story has been discontinued. - I am terribly sorry. Your mother lied to you. She told you that you were unique, and that as a teenager you have a whole bunch of options you can choose from to determine who you want to be. She must have been high. Look, I'm going to tell you this honestly. Somewhere out t...

45 things to do when bored in school

Things to do when you are bored during class.

Unromantic

“I’m a hopeless romantic. Not a prostitute!” You’d think that for a guy who could make the entire female population of our high school drop their pants at the snap of his finger, Adam Flynn would have some sort of charm. Instead, he is the opposite of charming. He’s revolting; he’s mean; and his only saving point in t...