The Young Person's Guide to Publishing answers your most burning questions about publishing, describes the publishing options available to someone under 18, and helps you avoid the pitfalls that can keep your book from selling.
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not." - Isaac Asimov This piece is intended as a bit of a Help guide, a point of reference and hopefully something people will enjoy, as ultimately all of you will have different experiences reading...
| 𝟭𝟲𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 · [EDITORS' CHOICE -- NOVEMBER 2020] [ONC 2020 Winner] Two strangers on separate trains, divided by uncaring glass. A bond forms between them. But will it hold when their trains are bound for different destinations? Evan's heart has been bleeding since his little family was torn apart by divo...
Marcy Davins has been a cat person for as long as she can remember. She doesn't like dogs, let alone wolves. But when the pelt of the Talon pack's missing Alpha shows up on her doorstep, she finds herself under investigation by the charming peacekeeper of Connecticut packs, Sheriff Caelan Harlowe. Marcy doesn't want...
They walk among us. All three, living normal mortal lives. Cloe is graduating college; Lacey is getting married; Atria is bar-hopping and breaking hearts. Today, they are human. But they are also the three Fates—the all-powerful directors of human destiny. And they don't even know it. Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos did...
In an alternate reality set in the year 2024, the world's greatest scientific minds the world have gathered on the Sunlit Mariner for the 10th annual Consumer Technology Show where thousands of people come to witness life-changing discoveries. However, what was supposed to be a night of research and innovation, free f...
A Christmas short story, from The F-Files. Christmas eve visit from Santa, or break-and-enter by an overweight perp with excessive facial hair? Or, just possibly, something else altogether? Never fear, Peregrine and Fields are on the case.
If you're struggling with punctuation, dialogue, spelling or grammar, have a read of this simple guide to the components of writing, copyright, and publishing. [UNEDITED VERSION- Full, edited version to be released soon!]
Tobias had an unusual gift, but when Phillip discovers it my mistake, it's too late. He learns that it's really a curse.
Love writing but find it hard to finish projects? Looking for a new approach to telling stories? Embracing serialisation can help you be more productive and get more readers. In this guide I share what I've learned while writing A Day of Faces, my serial which hit #7 in the science fiction chart here on Wattpad, won a...
This book is a collection of numerous short stories I have created, both mini and midi ones, written in the period of the past twenty years. Some of them are award-winning entries in various micronarrative competitions. Others were adapted with the usage of audio and video stimuli thus creating something akin to hype...
Leonard wants to bequeath his tattooed skin to the National Gallery of Australia. He has been almost completely inked by one of Australia's best contemporary artists, but he is a canvas that nobody wants. Strange things start happening to Leonard, Darwin's moth, a tattoo from his calf, flutters around him one night, h...
While a dark and sinister force makes fresh corpses reconsider the finitude of death and escape their graves, Alan Winster, a young student of chemistry, is ripped out of his much enjoyed everyday life of torturing his family with his annoying attitude and behavior. He becomes entangled in the racketeering of an occul...
*2018 Wattys Longlist* Sandelene is self-taught white witch struggling to make a living in Memphis, Tennessee. When a local historical library contacts her about hostile paranormal activity she figures, what the hell, I need rent money, and investigates. Sandy divines the source and steals it back to her home to cast...
'The Initus Mortuis, (Nicknamed 'empty') are found all over the country, and have existed since approximately the 2030s. Their origins are unknown. 'They are capable of hiding their true intentions until attack, but can be distinguished from humans in several ways, including pale skin, dark shadows, black veins arch...
Coming up with five adjectives to describe your character barely scratches the surface. In order to make your character figuratively come alive, you'll need to know them better than they know themselves. The exercises in this book will make you think about your characters in ways you never have before.
Ferya, a human baker in post-apocalyptic Earth, is pulled into a game of universal consequences when she agrees to a deal with Lucifer. Welcome to a post-apocalyptic Earth, reclaimed by a shaky peace between Lucifer and the angelic Council of Twelve. Where they once ruled and consumed the world unchecked, humanity ha...
A book based on actual events, a collection of fantastically odd short stories, a cornucopia of eclectic delights with accompanying images on every page.
A collection of completely unrelated short stories. Each story is based on a word corresponding to a letter of the alphabet.
The guide for aspiring fiction writers who want to improve, sharpen, review, and/or learn. Warning! This book encourages editing and contains many tips that often require revision. Practice makes perfect, and it's good to workout your mental muscles. The more you do now, the better your writing will be later (becau...
Really short stories that I include as a way to save them. They are based on pictures that are supposed to inspire. Warning: These stories can contain mature content.
What would you do if you woke to find a door in your room? No, not an ordinary, well-behaved door that stays in the wall where it belongs, but one standing near the side of your bed that leads to another world. That is precisely what happens to Thomas John, a widowed university professor in rain-soaked England. Lured...
Theodosius is in Hell. Literally. To his surprise, mine, and possibly yours, too, being eaten by a demoness was not the end of his story! He has a thrilling adventure ahead: conferences with the Devil, mystical lawnmowers, cookies...Oh, dear. Follow Theo's journey out of Hell in the second installment of the (mis)adv...
Do you prefer your magic with one or two sugars? Or maybe with a nip of whisky? Days before their father's 70th Drunkening, brothers Artemis and Oleander Trevellian learn that the price of their usual gift -- two barrels of magic -- has skyrocketed, putting it well beyond their meager budget. Rather than find anothe...
Zombies and werewolves and witches, oh my! Dorothy is a normal teenage girl. She goes to school, hangs out and resists the advances of the boys in her year. And she lives with her aunt after the death of her parents. A trip to a mall is brought to an abrupt halt when a freak storm hits. Dorothy is transported to anot...
Five knights tell stories of ancient lands, madness, and terrifying monsters-but no one can top Knight Elric's tale of the Land of Hershel, a monstrous swamp filled with horrifying creatures and an ever-present threat: stop moving and you drown. *Contains some swearing.*
K-8 lives in the future, where the environment has been devastated, and human beings are now clones. And her fondest dream is to see a duck, for real, and not just through memory recording files. Take a glimpse into her life, on the day when her wish might come true. This story is in dedication to the Hawaiian Duck
BOOK ONE OF THE WICKERNHAM TRILOGY - WATTYS AWARD WINNER - - #1 IN SCIENCE FICTION - After a close brush with death, Jarod ends up in a hospital, traumatized but alive. He thinks he is lucky to get off with minor injuries, but he soon realizes that something is wrong when he starts behaving abnormally. Eventu...
