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[CLOSED] Open Novella Contest 2025 by OpenNovellaContest
[CLOSED] Open Novella Contest 2025
OpenNovellaContest
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The Open Novella Contest is back for 2025! Join a society of writers and take on the challenge to create a timeless 20,000+ word novella in 12 weeks! Your epic quest begins February 1st, 2025 - so mark your calendars with this date!
Damaged Goods by DebbiMack
Damaged Goods
DebbiMack
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Erica Jensen, a retired Marine with PTSD, struggles with making a living as an unlicensed private eye and overcoming her opioid addiction. When she's hired by a rich business man to find his missing daughter and recover embezzled money, things go south fast when she stumbles across a dead body. As Erica tries to discover why the victim was killed and where the girl disappeared, she ends up being targeted by the Russian mob. However, it takes all of Erica's wits to find out the astonishing truth behind it all.
Rune Mage [Fantasy/Adventure | Book 1 +2 | Complete] by KatrinHollister
Rune Mage [Fantasy/Adventure | Book 1 +2 | Complete]
KatrinHollister
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FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST meets Brandon Sanderson's THE RITHMATIST. Rune Mage: Raising the dead is impossible magic. When Seiren killed her mother and sealed her sister in a stone, she swore to rectify the greatest mistake of her life, even at the cost of her own humanity. She signs up to be a state mage in order to resurrect Madeleine, but the magic-wielding country of Karma and demon-commanding country of Hanna are on the brink of war and state duty prevails over personal desires. Civil unrest and increasing pressure from the king catapults Seiren into a terrifying game of deception, politics, and betrayal. The battle may be against the demon summoners, but the war is against something far darker and more powerful. #27 in Fantasy 30/05/2018. Cover by Stefanie Saw (seventhstar). NaNoWriMo2016 winner. Camp NaNo Apr 2017 winner. Camp NaNo July 2017 winner. 2nd place in the 2017 FreedomAwards. 2nd place in the Quill Award. Winner of Blank Sheet contest. 1st Place in the Sanguine Awards. Also available on RadishFiction, Tapas, and RoyalRoadl.com. Chaos Mage: The rightful punishment for treason and attempted genocide is execution. When Kristen Harred escapes her fate, the magical council and the civilian council clashes. Who would pay for the suffering Karma went through mere months ago? Seiren and Madeleine toe the political line between war and justice in an effort to bring the traitor back, but something deadlier is pulling the strings in this game of cat and mouse -- and they are once again the chess pieces. Camp NaNo Apr 2018 winner.
Datura Autumn Writing Month (AuWriMo) by DaturaCommunity
Datura Autumn Writing Month (AuWriMo)
DaturaCommunity
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Besides friendly ghosts, dancing skeletons, and pumpkins, autumn is also a time to write a novel. Or multiple!!! We have some amazing writers in our community, and this event is for them! We would like to invite you to Datura November Writing Month + Preptober, where you can set a personal word goal (we expect a minimum of 2k words) and write as many words as you want. The event is here to help you reach your writing goal, whether that is a new project or an old one. This event will mainly be held on Discord, but we will also post some on our Wattpad.
Blank Slate | ONC2023 by ToWolfKin
Blank Slate | ONC2023
ToWolfKin
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|| ONC2023 SHORTLISTER x 5 FEATURED || "𝙰 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚎." Denizen is Blank Slate, the number one villain in the region-except he doesn't remember it. With only a cryptic note telling him his eight rules, he sets out to discover just exactly who he is and what he did to become the number one villain. When his first lead takes him straight into the heroes' hands, Denizen struggles to keep his villain alias secret and play the confused and innocent citizen, all the while digging deeper for answers. But as he gets closer to the truth-and the heroes get hotter on his tail--two questions become painfully loud: Is he good? And should he let the heroes catch him? [][][01000101001101100-01101100][][] An ONC 2023 Novella || Round 2 Winner 25/04/2023 || ONC's Ambassadors' Pick 25/04/2023 || ONC 2023 Longlister 19/05/2023 || ONC 2023 Shortlister 31/05/2023 || Featured by Mystery on Curiouser & Curiouser 25/08/2023 || Featured by ScienceFiction on Parallel Worlds 31/10/2023 || Featured by ScienceFiction on Sci-Fantasy 7/9/2024 || Featured by ScienceFiction on Ambassadors' Pick 25/3/2025 || Featured by Science Fiction on Superheroes 25/9/2025 ***Exclusively on W A T T P A D. If you are reading this elsewhere, your device is liable to malware.***
Least Wanted (Sam McRae Mystery #2) by DebbiMack
Least Wanted (Sam McRae Mystery #2)
DebbiMack
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From the NY Times bestselling author Debbi Mack: Can Sam defend two clients of murder before becoming the next victim? Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae's busy, but orderly life as a Maryland lawyer takes a chaotic turn when two clients are accused of murder. A poor, black girl is accused of killing her mother. A young man suspected of embezzlement is accused of murdering his boss. The cases collide in a bizarre way involving girl gangs and computer pornography. Sam ventures into the heart of DC's suburban ghettos to find answers. A maniacal killer who'll do anything to hide them stalks her. After a nearly disastrous confrontation, Sam must do business on the run. As the body count grows, Sam races to learn the truth and clear her clients before she becomes the next victim. REVIEWS AND ENDORSEMENTS "LEAST WANTED is a brave, heartbreaking, and thrilling book with a complex plot that takes attorney Sam McRae on a dizzying tour of several circles of urban hell, against a backdrop of white-collar crime. I loved it, and I admire Mack for writing it without flinching or suggesting easy answers. It's a sequel that outdoes IDENTITY CRISIS and holds the promise of a great series." -- Timothy Hallinan, author of THE QUEEN OF PATPONG and CRASHED "Sam McRae is back and as brash as ever, with a colorful cast, a relentless plot, and enough twists to leave you breathless. Debbi Mack has carved her own niche in the mystery pantheon." -- Scott Nicholson, author of DISINTEGRATION "LEAST WANTED hooks you from the start and never lets go. A fascinating and absorbing mystery." -- Simon Wood, author of LOWLIFES "Fast-paced and brimming with dark, twisting plot turns, LEAST WANTED will keep crime and mystery buffs off balance and guessing until the very end." -- J.T. Cummins, author of COBBLESTONES
They Don't Care About Robots, Do They? by JanGoesWriting
They Don't Care About Robots, Do They?
JanGoesWriting
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Once a cop, now a private eye. Once human, now a cyborg. Dalton Steel had scraped a living investigating the things that were beneath the cops he used to work with. Except those cases that involved bots. Until a beautiful woman, a beautiful bot created to mimic a beautiful woman to perfection, hands him the case of a serial bot killer. The investigation takes him from deepest, darkest pits, to the gleaming, cleanest Sectors of the Tether, where Dalton finds himself involved in a conspiracy that could cost the lives of thousands, millions of humans. Walking a fine line between the human and bot worlds, Dalton must face his own humanity and mortality to bring a genius killer to justice. A hardboiled, cyberpunk, noir detective story, set in the same world as "Anna In The Garden". 🥉3rd Place, The Ōkami Awards, Sci-Fi category - Sept '22🥉 🏵Featured by @BadassReads, 'The Dauntless' Reading list - Sept '23🏵 Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.
My Hero Academia 6 (mha x oc) by bnha-kny-jjk
My Hero Academia 6 (mha x oc)
bnha-kny-jjk
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Hey guys! I'm back with the ninth instalment of Koko's My Hero Academia story. This book will be covering the literally amazing season six. After this, I will not be updating Koko's story until the next season, as I adapt from the anime, not the manga, although I am a manga reader.
My Hero Academia: Next Gen by myheroacamemia
My Hero Academia: Next Gen
myheroacamemia
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Eri had been dreaming of going to UA what seemed like her whole life. Growing up there, she had seen the amazing heroes that came out of the hero program and all of the good that they did once they graduated. Of course, just because she had grown up at UA didn't mean she got automatic admission. She still had to apply and be accepted. Despite the fear of rejection, Eri applied to UA's hero program and prayed for the best. She would work as hard as she needed to in order to reach her dream. But unbeknownst to her or any of the other applicants to UA, a dark power was once again stirring, waiting for the time to strike. #1 in Eri x Kota #1 in mhanextgen #1 in Eri #1 in uahigh #3 in Kota #8 in bokunoheroacademia #11 in UA #28 in kaminari #48 in myhero #49 in deku #169 in bakugo #311 in myheroacademia #405 in MHA #441 in anime #585 in BNHA