'Cloud Atlas' meets 'Mad Max'. If you love your novels to be glazed with the future and spiced with the past, get your hands on 'As Yet Unknown' by Wattpad featured author Pix English. It's tasty! The year is 2986. Ping is Nori; upper caste, deadly and fanatical in her quest to protect the fragile Lotus Cities from harm. They're all that's left in a toxic world, perched on Asiatorea, the country formerly known as New Zealand. Wei is pakeha, living an illegal existence in the Badlands outside the Lotus Cities. Ping has sworn to prove his people's existence and help wipe them out, before they can do more damage to an already vulnerable world. She requests permission to embark on a dangerous mission, living outside for a year, globing a doci of pakeha life. When Ping and Wei are forced into an unlikely alliance she is forced to question the benign genocide her utopian monarchy uses to protect the future and in doing so, recreates the past and a new life.

This anthology will collect noir and hard-boiled style stories from some of Wattpad's brightest authors, as well as some up-and-comers that I think we'll be seeing a lot of in the future. This dark group will spread their stories across several different genres, showcasing the variety and power of noir. We'll take a look at how noir has influenced modern media over the years, and see which of your favorite books and movies have been made possible through noir style. And check out the contest that could put your story right beside some great Wattpad writers! Word Limit: 2-10k words Deadline: March 15th

It's the mirrors. Or the shadows that dwell within them... Alice hates reflections. Never being able to adjust to being a twin, she escapes into an insane world of darkness, mad hatters and invisible cats. And she becomes the ruler of it all! What a wonder...! - *Wattpad Fairytale Community's Retelling Awards FCRAs Winning Story!*

** WATTYS 2018 WINNER ** Big Tech meets Die Hard in this techno-thriller Kirkus Reviews calls "a clever, spirited tale with a brainy, nimble heroine at the helm." From IndieReader's 5-star (highest rating) review: "Bond weaves an entertaining tale filled with deceit, robots, Russians, and tech entrepreneurs that all combine to give the reader a reason to flip pages furiously to find out what might happen next." Deb Bollinger has no time for corporate training. Her company's top engineer at just twenty-seven, Deb has blocked off her day for the one project she truly cares about: the launch of Carebnb, an app that finds spare beds for the homeless. When she's told all employees must drop everything for some busywork exercise called Blackquest 40, it's an easy no. Trouble is, her bosses aren't really asking. Blackquest 40 is the mother of all corporate trainings. A near-impossible project to be completed in forty straight hours. No phones. No internet. Sleeping on cots. Nobody in, nobody out. Deb finds the whole setup creepy and authoritarian. When a Carebnb issue necessitates her leaving the office, she heads for the door. What's the worst that could happen? Armed commandos, HVAC-duct chases, a catastrophic master plan that gets darker by the hour - Blackquest 40 is a fresh take on the Die Hard formula, layering smart-drones and a modern heroine onto the classic action tale. Cover design and illustration by Ethan Scott.