Writing Contest: The Novelist

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List of stories recently added to the contest

Black Pearl

A mermaid princess is missing and her sister, the queen, wants her back. When she offers a grand prize to the first person to find her, who will win? Seven mermaids, a siren, or a fisherman? Alima ...

A Second Chance

Nicole Black receives a new task: interviewing Ally Strong, the biggest pop star of her time. It would be the opportunity of a lifetime, if it wasn’t for a minor detail – they’re ex-girlfriends.

I Dare You to Love Me

Inspired by Sarah Dessen and "She's All That," this is the tale of the arrogant boy who meets the damaged girl, the dare that results in healing, and the growing pains of teenhood. Brian Royland is...

The Mentor

NYC Detective, Luke Fox was at a cross road in his life and his career. The recent split from his fiancée impacted his work as a cop, and for the first time in his life, he was failing to produce...

The Cliff in Mount Vernon

‘After all, we transform into a single substance in the end—that is worm food.' Straight out of the university, the unnamed narrator moves toward north to start his life in the township of Palette-...

The Rise of Heroes Book 1: The Academy of Hidden Secrets

Considered as Lunar Star Academy's misfits,Team Hero knew that their time there will be difficult until they come across dark secrets of the legends, the fate of their worlds, and the end of them a...

Summit Shock

Brutally raped and beaten by her perverted boot camp captain, a plucky New York State correction officer secretly taped recorded his demented confessions. When he penned ‘In Cold Blood’ Truman Capo...

Tarnished. Book 1 (How I see me)

Have you ever felt like you weren’t good enough? Have you ever been called a freak or damaged? Take a walk with Emma and learn to love who you are on the inside. The feeling of being damaged seemed...

A Compilation

An erotic novel, where each chapter leads you to wonder what the next chapter will hold. We had parted ways so many years ago, but I still thought of him, and I still wanted to be in his life. I n...

The Battle of the Erathiel: Across the Enchanted Sea

The ancient elven race of the Erathiel embark on a journey across the Enchanted Sea to find a new home. With them travel the only remaining dwarves and humans from their land. They are struck by a ...

Starcorp 1: Escape from Sol

Sol System just isn't big enough for the two of them. In the 22nd century, the ultimate division among humans are Earthers and the Spacers. Hatred and fear are what forms the chasm between them, an...

POCKET UNIVERSE

An amulet that contains the baddest criminals of all time? Space eating carnivores and chasms of death? How far will you go to escape the Pocket Universe? When an alien civil war lands John and his...

Dust

Dust is a modern retelling of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, with enough sex, drugs and violencel to balance out the teenage angst. What would you give to stay young forever? What would you take? How muc...

Alliance: A Hero's Journey

Esile peered out from behind her tree at the Drukirds. She could see their gaunt, blue faces, and crude armour. There were many of them. The alliance was outnumbered. There was a time when the Ages...

The Collar and the Cavvarach

Can a teenage slave win the Krillonian Empire’s most important martial arts tournament and gain his little sister's freedom?

Grimm Fantasies: Little Red

The Sacrifice, the lamb led to slaughter. The Protector, the burning light of redemption. And an ancient prophecy that tells of the end of werewolves. Only one human can stop it.

This Is Not A Joke

When you hit rock bottom, the only way is up... unless you find a shovel. A guy, a girl, and half a kilo of methamphetamine. What could possibly go wrong?

Hour Empty Child

In this world, in order to hunt monsters, you need a Class. What happens when you are forced to keep a Class with nothing but question marks!? This story answers you exactly that! Kudo Braven has a...

The Commander's Son

Love, babies, nurses, doctors and heroes combine with evil, heartbreak and war but Jurgen’s only care is Hilda, who he fears loves the Party more than she loves him, causing him to doubt his surviv...

The WifeCycle

Spiralling downwards into the inevitably of death at the hands of one of his lovers’ enraged husbands, can Alexander Hendricks rescue himself from total destitution before it’s too late? Haunted by...

An Evil Family

Set in New Zealand, this is the story of the world of abused and vulnerable children, the impact on the lives of those who try to help them and those who corrupt and take advantage of them. A stree...

My carpet of the rainbows

A vividly vibrant life-landscape of human nature, with the highlighted hills of human aspirations, the greenery of desire ‘laden with cries’, and the dreamy, rainbow depth of barren reality. A woma...

Piercing Chill

Mary-Kate had always felt safe and secure living in Amoris. Until Jason scared her on her way from work. This was only the beginning of an emotional rollercoaster to discovering who she really is.

Relic of Doom

Someone is collecting trophies and relics.. While a group of friends are naively unaware in the middle, the city of Artaura is in the midst of an evil, diabolical scheme of death and power.

Between Dawn and Dagger

A lust for revenge, vampires, fairies and girls training to be killers, this YA fantasy novel has it all! The year is 2065. Plagues of supernatural creatures reside in the remnants of the world tha...

A Soul Divided

Vhy’Rai, the power of the gods, was gifted with 3 restrictions: 1. Restoring life to the dead is forbidden. 2. Vhy’Rai may not be used to take the life of another. 3. No soul shall be divided Vh...

Lorcan's Bane ~ a tale of peril and the right use of magic

Mirren was born to magic. A healer like her mother, she has used spells and herbs all of her life and never questions her place in the world. Nor does she imagine that her skills could lead to murd...

Surviving Cold Lake: Do or Die

Enter a world almost out of oil. A desperate action is taken, igniting a civil war in Canada. Follow a group of High Schoolers who attempt to survive the horrors of war. Drake Tarrage is just like ...

From Here to There: The Story of America's Future

Finally the definitive story about America's future and how a brilliant young woman helps lead her community past the challenges of the early 21st Century into a positive an sustainable city.

From Here to There: The Story of America's Future

A tale of prosperity, mystery and how the actions of the small can cause ripples into the future and change the very course of history. A dwindling America lies in the dust of the nation it once wa...

THE LORD OF RAVENSLAIR

The child he vowed to keep safe is now the woman who stirs a fire in him that cannot be put out. How can he keep her safe , honor her, the Will that could destroy them or bring them together...forever

Kings and Things

Life’s no picnic in a post-apocalyptic tomorrow, even for the elected monarch. Rebels and the common people might trouble him, but at least his own people are utterly trustworthy, right?

Battle of Wills

Delusional murmurs from a wounded stranger, vultures circling above a dead man’s will, can an unsuspecting heroine put together the pieces of a seemingly impossible puzzle before it’s too late? Stu...

Skyreign: Forgotten World

In what was to be a simple rescue mission, Laura and the Skyreign crew find themselves stranded on a desert world, far away from help. From then on, they are beset by assassins, a war between local...

Blood of Thebes

The stories of Ancient Greece are woven from heroism and tragedy - but no tale is more tragic than the legend of Thebes... Before Troy, and the songs of Achilles' wrath and Odysseus' wit; before th...

Abnormal Cataclysm

When a third of the world's population mysteriously develops abnormal powers following a global shock-wave things are only just beginning to get strange. Prepare yourself for Abnormal Cataclysm. Fo...

The Unadjusteds

Genetic enhancements allow butterfly wings and superhuman speed. But what if you're not altered? What if you're just an unadjusted? How do you fight back? Genetic enhancements are a thing of tod...

Daughter of the Damned

Drunkenly making a deal with a Demon Hunter, Maddox Black faces walking monks’ corpses, using dead men’s fingers as currency, burning plague ridden villages for coin & running away from The Grim. T...