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Monday 8 July 2013
Saturday 6 July 2013
Author Spotlight - NetsuroIchini
Perfect
His dream of being someone lies beyond the walls of Walter High. Ethan is a nerd yet not in measures of a cliche being in the society... He wants change... He wants to defy paradigms... and he will do anything to say his soul in front... He will do it his way.... his manner... his words.
Interview
I am Netsuro Ichini, my pen name obviously. I am a struggling writer and is willing to learn more of writing. I am not a usual boy oyu would see in the streets. I am unique not weird. People call me gay but I bet the meaning of genuine shifted to gay now. How dynamic english is. I am 15 year old boy that loves Glee especially Chris Colfer.
2. What types of books do you write?
Actually, I am a poet. I usually write poems but Perfect is a teen fic. I am also eager to learn thriller and supernatural.
3. How many books have you written?
4, including my poetry collection. I haven't finished writing even one of them. They are Perfect, Innocent Sword, Poetry Collection of me, and Scarlet
4. What movie and/or book are you looking forward this year?
My own book being published. Well, The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer that second book and Pitch Perfect Part 2 and Insidious Part 2 as well. I am also looking forward to Glee season 5 on September!
5. What type of books you enjoy reading?
Books with heart. No matter what genre, as long as I felt a heart in the story, I'm in.
6. If you're stranded in an island, what 3 things would you want with you?
Seriously? Ok.
1. I want a shelf full of books
2. If a person, Chris Colfer and Parents. If thing again, a helicopter (LOL).
3. My loptop? Or my notebook with tons of pens.
7. Are you considering a sequel?
Perfect will be a trilogy.
8. What inspired you to be a writer?
I can take that as what and who inspired you. First, I am bullied. No one listens to my ideas. In writing, my book listens to what I say. She may not respond but she is always there when I call her. Second, Chris Colfer inspired me to. He is perfect I guess. He has a beautiful voice, a talented writer and my number one idol. He inspired me to be myself and write my very first novel.
Excerpt
“I-I-I am Ethan. Ethan Colchester,” A boy stuttered in his feminine voice.
“He is Ethan from James Chadwick Academy in Streamwood, Illinios.” Ms. Adreanne announced with a stretched hand towards a boy in his 18s. “He is our newest transferee and is expected to finish his high school with us here in Walter.” She put her hand down and continued tallying the attendance.
Ethan held his breath. Without exhaling, he walked down the platform with his head bowing down and hands like ice. He was nothing. He thought it that way. A gay kid in his white blazer with a red scarf wrapped on his neck or a doormat dirtied with mud and other stuff is all his new classmates could see as he walked. Those whispers, those judging stares and those penetrating glares, it all sent chills that froze him from maintaining his head to look straight at his seat in the farthest corner of the room.
Tuesday 2 July 2013
BOTW - Space Family Robinson
Space Family Robinson
Teen Science-Fiction
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
ON HIATUS
2866 A.D. Earth's moon is now an inhabited planet, part of the Terranean empire, with its own space stations sending its own missions into deep space. Nova Robinson becomes an accidental stowaway on one of those missions, a mission which becomes a disaster when the spaceship crashes on a deserted planet.
While her parents and grandmother search for her and run into trouble at every turn, Nova and the two other survivors struggle to stay alive and escape the planet... which is not as deserted as it seems.
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BOTW - It's All In Your Head
It's All In Your Head
Teen Romance
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
I knew it would end like this. It was part of our agreement. I would be at her bedside and she would be dying. I just didn’t know it would hurt this much. It was 4 and ½ months ago when I met her. I remembered she was the strangest person I’ve ever met. She said it was the side effect of being pre-dead.
Beau Acres only wanted to be a screen writer. He wanted to spend a year between high school and college to save enough money to go to the film school of his dreams by living with his two best friends and constantly looking for jobs because he can't hold one down. That is until he sees an ad in the paper that offers any payment for a four month job: Being a "life guide" to a 17 year old girl with brain cancer. It seems easy enough. He only has to follow 2 rules: Always be on call and don't get close. Then again, rules are made to be broken.
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BOTW - Journey to the Center of Attention
Journey to the Center of Attention
Teen Fiction / Humour
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
Things had to change at Abby West school. The nerds have had enough. A miracle is what it'll take to turn things around? So be it. This season, nerds are the new 'center of attention', nerds are the new 'it' crowd, nerds are the new 'popular', nerds are 'cool'...
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BOTW - Errand Runners
Errand Runners
Teen Action / Mystery Thriller
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
In Nova City, sixteen-year old Nole does what he has to in order to provide for his brother and sister. But after coming into contact with a mysterious teenager, their stable way of life begins to crumble when Nole is suddenly targeted for a crime he didn't commit. With lethal gangs and brutal city Enforcers, he must navigate his way through the corrupt city system in order to keep him and his siblings alive.
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BOTW - Mystifying
Mystifying
Teen Mystery / Thriller
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
Clara finds a bracelet with her name on it in the middle of nowhere. Something is strange about it and she is trying to figure out what that "strange" thing is!
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Monday 1 July 2013
July BOTM - The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Book Blurb from Goodreads:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
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Wednesday 26 June 2013
Author Spotlight - ShaylaRah
Vampiru
Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, 2012.
Dani Tamari's life is ordinary enough. But when she makes a simple decision - to skip school so she can go bird watching - things begin to change. New people, secrets, accidents, and mysteries come pouring into her life.
The so-called David Cross doesn't regret killing his abusive father. Instead, he's happy he rid the world of such a man. But the authorities on his home planet don't see it that way, and now he's on the run. He chooses Earth to hide, and lands in Enniskillen. He doesn't realise there are unpleasant surprises waiting for him there.
Dani and David find their lives a mess as their worlds collide, with disastrous consequences for some people. Dani doesn't know what she's getting into, and she wouldn't want anything to do with it if she did. But she's in too deep, she knows too much, and there's no way out. Will she survive?
Interview
1. Please tell the readers a bit about yourself.
I'm fourteen going on fifteen, I've been to two schools but now I'm homeschooled, and I love writing, reading and drawing.
2. What types of books do you write?
Science fiction, vampire, historical, horror, and mystery.
3. How many books have you written?
I haven't finished a book, yet, but at the moment I'm writing Vampiru and hope to finish it sometime this year, I've put Space Family Robinson on hiatus until I finish Vampiru (and I may never get back to writing it), and I have three stories planned, one of which I've started writing but haven't published on Wattpad yet.
4. What movie and/or book are you looking forward to this year?
I don't even know what books/movies are coming out this year...
5. What type of books do you enjoy reading?
Science fiction, vampire (but not the Twilight sort of vampire, the Dracula sort of vampire), horror, mystery, crime, fantasy, anything that isn't romance or badly-written, really.
6. If you were stranded on a desert island what 3 things would you want with you?
1. My computer
2. My sketchbook
3. My notebook.
7. Are you considering a sequel?
Yes, I intend to make Vampiru the first of a series and I've got a sequel planned.
8. What inspired you to become a writer?
A writing exercise at my first school, where we had to imagine backstories for characters in a book we were reading. That got me interested in creating characters and eventually stories.
Excerpt
The man sat up, suddenly wide awake. But what had woken him?
He rubbed his eyes and looked around, and then he knew. His son was leaning against the door, holding something behind his back, a look of hate on his face.
"Wha' y' doin' 'ere?"
"Getting rid of you."
His son lunged at him with a knife before that fully registered with his hung-over brain.
"Oi! Jis' a momen'!" he slurred, dodging more through luck than anything else. "Wha' all this 'bout?"
The only answer he received was the knife through his heart.
~~~~
He hadn't done anything wrong. He had done the planet a favour, in fact. But the Intergalactic Police Service didn't see it that way. So now he was on the run, hiding on first one planet, then another, trying to get to a planet that was not under their jurisdiction.
As he ran his eyes down the list the computer had generated, one name, for some reason, caught his attention.
Earth
Native Species: Human
Similar To Vampiruans: In appearance
Language: Several hundred, depending on region
On InGEN's List: Yes
Acknowledgement Of Existence Of Other Life-Forms: No (majority)
Planet Can Sustain Vampiruan Life: Yes, in some regions
Obviously, humans (why were they not called Earthians?) were not advanced enough to realize how much easier it was for everyone to learn one language, but were advanced enough to have those meddling nuisances on their planet. And, if they refused to believe in other life-forms, it was likely there were a good deal of those other life-forms hiding on Earth and passing themselves off as human.
After a moment's thought, he set the controls on his starship for the planet known as Earth.
There was no one around when he crashed. That was a good thing, of course, but it meant that InGEN had tracked him and warned everyone to get out of there. Unless Earth settlements were always so deserted.
The first thing he noticed about the new planet was how warm it was. Well, there was snow on the ground, but it was much warmer than Vampiru. There was a strange, metallic smell in the air (possibly the fuel humans used for their vehicles) and a strange bird was singing somewhere overhead. There was a forest to one side, and not far away, running water could be heard. That was a most unwelcome sound. He didn't know if water on Earth was poisonous, but fear of the deadly water on their own planet was too deeply ingrained in every Vampiruan for them to see it as anything but an enemy.
As he looked around, he saw something that until now had escaped his notice - a human. It was asleep, or at least it seemed to be. And it was lying on the snow!
Very strange creatures, he thought with a frown.
Vampiruans might like cold, but very few would choose to sleep in the snow unless they wanted to catch a nasty chill.
He took a step toward it, then another, watching it warily all the time in case this was a ruse. It never moved.
It looked like a female, but then he knew nothing of humans and it could be almost anything. It/she was still alive - he could hear its heart beating and its blood rushing through its veins. For a moment he entertained the thought of drinking her blood, but dismissed the idea almost immediately. A dead body was just the thing to set people of any species on edge.
He thought quickly. InGEN would soon be here, and they'd take his starship and him too if they found him. However, they couldn't take him if he wasn't here. And if he scanned this girl's mind, he could learn the language spoken here and the social customs and he'd be able to fit in.
Now that he'd decided what he would do, he picked the girl up and headed towards the forest. There was no way he could move the starship - it needed repairs. He could only hope that the forcefield preventing anyone else from entering was still in place.
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Dani woke with a start. Oh, no. Professor Avalon warned me what would happen if I fell asleep in class again, and I have. Wonder --
Her thoughts broke off mid-sentence as she took in her surroundings. She wasn't in school. She wasn't at home. She was lying under a tree in the forest.
She stared. Since when did someone fall asleep under a tree in the middle of winter? And why did her ankle hurt when she stood up?
How very odd.
How very stupid, you mean, her inner critic snickered.
Dani scowled, wishing there was some way she could shut him up.
I must have tripped and hurt my ankle, and then sat down here to rest, or something. Yes, that's it. And then I fell asleep and dreamed all that stuff about the street being empty.
After consulting her watch and realizing it was almost teatime, and long after school ended, she decided it was high time to return home. If her parents were arguing she could always make herself a sandwich and go over to Steven and Gareth's (her friends from school) house.
She limped (she tried to skip, but her ankle protested and put an end to that idea) through the forest until she reached the path along the river, down the path, out the gates, down the street and towards home, oblivious to the fact that the street was still empty.
~ Excerpt from Vampiru Book 1 Chapter II - In Trouble ~
Tuesday 25 June 2013
BOTW - Then In Rome
Then In Rome
Historical Romance
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
In Ancient Rome, Princess Meroe ( Meroe is not a real name ) of Kush is kidnapped by the Romans and sold into slavery. While enslaved she falls for her master's son Lucas. but to be together, they have obstacles and people standing in their way. will true love win out?
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BOTW - Trapped Like Crazy
Trapped Like Crazy
Teen Science-Fiction
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
Eleonora Schneider is in her first year of college, determined to make a new life for herself after an unfortunate tragedy. While trying to start over, she meets Carlisle Evans, a sweet sophomore who is hell bent on befriending Eleonora and making her believe in true love. Just as Carlisle and Eleonora see hope, their relationship takes a big hit.
One of them is trapped in a parallel universe and the other must race against time to save them. Faced with the possibility of death and much more, they both have to consider two very important questions.
How far will they go to save the person they love? And which one of them is crazy?
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BOTW - Death Has A Face
Death Has A Face
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
“I thought the military would come by now or some transmission telling us we’re safe. Am I really that stupid? The dead have risen and have eaten half of the population. There is no military, no police, no anything, just dead. But the dead aren’t as bad as the living. With the dead you know what will happen, they will bite, chew and swallow your flesh until there is nothing left but your bones, but the living? They are unpredictable. Hell, I could be sitting with a bunch of traitors that would push me to a crowd of wanderers and watch me getting eaten alive.
Sigh. Why am I even doing this? Why I am writing my thoughts down on a cheap notepad? Is it because deep down I think this will just be history? No, it’s something I will live everyday. I’ve been giving myself false hope...but I won’t stop! The dead have done one thing right. They have convinced me to live.”
As a handful of very different teenagers are forced to work together to survive, they have to make the hardest choices they have ever made in their entire life. You never know who will put a barrel of a gun right between your eyes and blow your brains out.
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BOTW - Perfect
Perfect
Teen Fiction / Coming Of Age
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
His dream of being someone lies beyond the walls of Walter High. Ethan is a nerd yet not in measures of a cliche being in the society... He wants change... He wants to defy paradigms... and he will do anything to say his soul in front... He will do it his way.... his manner... his words.
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BOTW - Curious
Curious
Fantasy / Mystery / Thriller
Book Blurb from Wattpad:
…and entering a world so much more fantastical, so much more magical, so much more perfect than his own. Only this eerily beautiful world has it’s own dangers, and a ruler much more powerful and crueler than anyone he could ever imagine.
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