WATTYS 2023 SHORTLIST Sarah Kennedy's life has fallen to pieces. Her family is broken, she's growing apart from her only friend, and it's been a while since she's stopped dreaming about anything better. She embarks on a trip to Latin America, joining a retreat she hopes will mend her dwindling friendship and escape he...
Hello, I'm glad you picked this up. Things you should know about me: I have five kids, and I don't have time to write a poetry book. For the year of 2022, my mind has been on the verge of bursting. The words have demanded to be given their own dimension, and so here I am-typing this from a corner of the laundry room w...
On New Year's Day, a witch, Jacinta, wakes up...to realize that her New Year's spell has gone terribly wrong. She's dead, now a ghost. And only the demon who she's had an one-night-stand with, Raj, can help bring her back to life. *** A darkly comedic short story for the Romance New Year's Fiesta 2023 contest! The pr...
War is coming, and time is running out. Kevin doesn't know this. Despite the boiling global tensions, he dwells on his looming graduation with uncertainty, disillusionment, and the haunting memories of his disgraced father as he struggles to imagine the man he himself will grow into. When war arrives, Kevin, his mom...
[[Unpublished for revisions]] "𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝-𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐚𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞." Emilia Gillen longs to feel a sense of permanence after a lifetime of moving from one foster home to the next. She prefers to keep her head down an...
Figure skating is the most alluring and impenetrable of all sports. When the skaters are on the ice, every twitch of a muscle and every slip of a skate blade is palpable to the world. If skaters are perfect, they become world champions. But if they fall, if they fail a triple toe loop or a lutz, the dejection is their...
𝘼 𝙘𝙤𝙥'𝙨 𝙙𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧'𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙣... After a date gone wrong, Rebecca Caruso encounters a recently dumped stranger named Marco Montanari. Their boozy evening together comes to an immediate deadlock after a botched murder attempt. Marco, an unbeknownst son to a notorious mob boss, co...
💎1st place in THE SAPPHIRE AWARDS 2023 - Historical Fiction With her husband's sudden death, Queen Elizabeth of Hungary knows her life and the Kingdom's future is at stake. Pregnant and with the looming threat of invasion, she must contend with the nobles who see their opportunity to obtain power for their own hands...
Hilltop House always remembered its first, how closely it watched them, how much they meant to it . . . and what it did to them. But Hilltop House has yet to find another like its first, until 𝘴𝘩𝘦 moves in. Cora is angry, and weird, and entirely unsuspecting. Her mother hides secrets, just as her grandmother did, a...
Highest Rankings! #1 cosmopolitan #3 european #3 demise #5 sinful #6 eerie #13 immigrant #25 german #25 liars #28 bloodlines #28 intimate #42 asylum #72 elite #77 wealth #112 smalltowns ༺༻༺༻༺༻ 🥇 Gloria Regali A...
A neglected housecat runs away from his family and is tempted by the alluring world of the ferals, who steal from the human society that cared for him. 🏆AWARDS 1st Place - The Future Banned Writer Awards 2023, Fantasy (Score: 58/60) 1st Place - The Sapphire Awards 2023, Action/Adventure (Score: 96/100) 1st Place - B...
In a valley, dark forces and unnatural forces lay deep within the land, buried deep for centuries. The inhabits finally decide to start digging to uncover these magical properties in an effort to be relevant to the rest of the world. Only if they would have known what their research would unearth. In the aftermath, tw...
**Book 1 of The Shadowed Throne Chronicles** - undergoing edits, only prologue + 3 chapters available - Since birth, Prince Ramiel has hidden behind his dragon-slaying brother's shadow, unbeknownst to the kingdom of Arioch. With no legacy or reputation to uphold, he's grown comfortable with his anonymity. Unfortuna...