bits & pieces

excerpts, art, and questions based off my books.

A Different Kind of Us

Fresh out of law school, Sutton is eager to climb the ladder at her new job. But on her first day of work, she comes face to face with an unexpected colleague--her ex-best friend and first love, Ada. Forced to work together, Sutton and Ada must untangle the complicated feelings they've always had for each other--feeli...

Rejection | gxg

*IN PROGRESS* "Once an outcast always an outcast." ~ Savannah Wilde has been shut out from the world for as long as she can remember. Knowing she was different, her friends turned on her and feelings of loneliness and abandonment seeped into her heart. Isolation became her defense and ridicule became a daily occurrenc...

Camping for Morons ✓

Peryn Foster loves cheerleading, America's Next Top Model and camping. So, when her best friend suggests a camping trip, she eagerly accepts the offer because it's a chance to get away from her younger sisters and her mother's plans for the upcoming wedding. Ignoring the fact that her ex-boyfriend and his goofy best f...

Take Me Home | ✔

the road trip of a lifetime. [ cover by blissom / trailer by blissom ] [ started march 30th, 2013 - ended february 18, 2015 © paulina r. all rights reserved ]

THE INFLUENCED

Set in the 1990s, eleven-year-old David moves from the inner city to the suburbs, but the severe beatings escalate, he is still impoverished and wearing mildewed clothes to school has made him a target for bullies. There is one person who brings him happiness, Samantha. David admires Samantha's joy for life, her beaut...

Errand Runners

[Check out BOUNTY HUNTERS, the sequel to Errand Runners] Unlike the other criminals in Nova City, Nole Vale has a curfew. While most civilians just want to survive in their crime-ridden, gang-infested city, this sixteen-year old is determined to conquer the city streets and provide for his brother and sister by any m...

The Wire Hanger

Coby is living a perfectly ordinary life. But then a bleeding woman appears on her doorstep, and her mother inexplicably knows what to do. Soon everything Coby thought she knew about the world she lived in will be called into question as she works towards one goal: saving her family.

Hold tight (gxg)

Jazmine is hesitant to bring others into her life that aren't considered to be the norm, so, maybe it's time that she got a taste of reality. -V Martinez All Rights Reserved Cover by @itsmallyhoe

The Diary Of McKenzie Alverez (gxg)

Read along the pages of a lonely girl's precious journal of secrets. -V Martinez All Rights Reserved -cover by @itsmallyhoe