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Discover a growing list of published books that were workshopped on TheNextBigWriter by their up-and-coming authors.
These are just some of the books workshopped on TheNextBigWriter that are now published. If you have a published book that you workshopped on TheNextBigWriter, let us know and we'll add it to the bookstore.
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The Promise Cassie Jayne Bishop grew up in the sleepy town of New Salem, NC, the only non-believer in the tradition and power of the town Coven. When a stranger comes to New Salem, everything she thought was normal about her life unravels around her. Ethan makes her question everything, even her sister’s death in a car crash years ago. As Cassie discovers the full truth about her heritage, and the clues start to pile up, she becomes determined to find out if the Coven was actually involved in her sister's death. What she uncovers terrifies her. Her fate lies at the very heart of the secret the Coven protects. It’s the reason she was born. Now, betrayed on every side, can she find a way to survive or will she be the catalyst that triggers a centuries old act of vengeance. |
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Caprice What if your office crush almost killed you with a kiss? Danny Marx has an innocent infatuation with the cute, quirky new girl, Caprice. When she meets him in the stairwell one day and surprises him with an unprovoked, yet passionate kiss, he thinks his fantasies have finally come true. That is until moments later when he becomes violently ill and collapses. |
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Terror Cruise The Unity Sphere, an alliance of worlds making a stand against the organized crime blighting the starlanes, breathed a sigh of relief when terrorist mastermind Hetz and his organization, the Black Diamond, Perished in a Unity Fleet assault. Despite overwhelming evidence, Tac-team Captain Axel Fargo - his wife and friends victims of Hetz's predations - never believed his enemy had died. In a direct violation of orders that puts his future within the Unity Fleet at risk, Axel makes one last desperate attempt to end the life of the man who has caused him and countless others so much pain. Alone and against overwhelming odds, Axel realizes too late his best may not be good enough. And this time, far more than his own life may be lost... |
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The Bum Magnet Charisse Tyson’s got it all going on . . . She’s a savvy, successful real-estate agent with a quick wit, a low tolerance for BS, a gorgeous size-14 body, and a thirst for top shelf vodka. Despite her dream house, luxury car, and appetite for life’s best—like fine dining and hot men—she seems to have her own special talent for attracting players. Why do all of her ex-lovers belong in the Losers Hall of Fame? There was Lamar, the hazel-eyed Adonis who sowed more wild oats than Quaker. . . Sean, an expert at juggling relationships . . . Marcus, whose lips wandered as often as his eyes . . . and others, too. But just as Rissey swears off sex and vows to dump her emotional baggage, she meets house-hunting client Dwayne Gibson. There’s no way she can resist his seductive smile and rock-hard body. . . . Will Dwayne turn out to be the biggest bum of them all? Or will this time be different? |
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A World Within This is the story of Aurora Swift, a gifted psychic who is chosen to save her fellow clairvoyants and telekinetic friends from pursuing governments who aim to disarm and imprison those they deem to be threats to their power. In a plot that spans millenniums, space-time portals, travel across the planet, fantasy worlds and parallel universes, twists and turns abound. |
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Static Mayhem Harrisson Cody is driving home from work when the world as he knows it suddenly ceases to exist. In a blink, everyone disappears and the landscape is reduced to a smattering of random buildings and fragments of highway. Harrisson appears to be the sole survivor and he spends his days cruising I-91 in New Hampshire, finding dead dinosaurs, advanced technological gadgets, and lights that function without any apparent source of electricity - but no other people. This all changes one day when he hears a woman's voice on the radio, urging all survivors to head towards Chicago. What follows is an epic journey through a bizarre landscape populated with advanced technology, dragons, magic, and destruction. Through the journey, Harrison learns that scrambling the world was just the first part of a horrific plan. The second part of the plan will destroy every remaining survivor. He is the key to stopping it but doing so will come at an unbelievable sacrifice. One he might not be willing to make. Static Mayhem is a #1 Novel on TheNextBigWriter.com, a semi-finalist in Amazon.com's Breakthrough Novel Award contest in 2008, and the 2008 Winner of the Strongest Start Novel Competition. |
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The Coffee Diary Two years after her father's brutal murder, Veronica returns to Guatemala to decide whether to sell her family's coffee farm. Stumbling upon the journal from her teenage years, she recalls crucial events from the past, in particular the arrival of her younger, illegitimate half-brother. This trauma changes her, and forever links her family to Jaime, the man who later becomes the town's corrupt mayor. Born into the lower class and yearning for respectability, Jaime turned to illegal activities to break the inevitable cycle of poverty. Now he is determined to have Veronica's farm by any means possible. During the years she lived away, memories of her country faded: the haunting landscapes, the beauty of the coffee farm, traditions, and faith. Upon returning she discovers, despite corruption, violence, and organized crime, a sense of belonging not experienced elsewhere. The country casts its spell on her and she realizes that Mayor Jaime, the villain she thought threatened her, is just a man shaped by the unforgiving nature of Guatemalan society. |
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For the Love of Babies What takes place in the neonatal intensive care unit is the high drama of real life. The author pulls back the curtain to show the inner workings of this area in the hospital that is unfamiliar and frightening to most people. Hall, a longtime neonatologist and former social worker, writes with caring and compassion about the challenges each fragile baby must surmount in order to survive and thrive, all the while conveying a sense of life-and-death urgency that permeates neonatal intensive care. She expertly weaves the social and emotional threads of each family’s journey into their baby’s story, and also speaks candidly about the stresses and difficult decisions that neonatologists and their tiny patients’ parents routinely face. This book is for anyone who has wondered how doctors and nurses work under intense pressure to diagnose and treat the smallest of patients, and how parents of these infants cope with the emotional ups and downs that are part the daily rhythms of life in the NICU. |
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This Time You Lose Lisa Kaamp operates a small childcare business out of her home in the sleepy little town of Nogeksum, Michigan. Highly respected and known for going the extra mile for her daycare kids, Lisa thought she had handled every daycare emergency possible. But nothing prepared her for the nightmare she now faced. Lisa awakes one morning to find herself bound and gagged, four strange men in her home, and the daycare children being held hostage in the next room. Terrorized by her captors as the authorities work to meet the ransom deadline, she tries negotiating with the men for the release of the children, and soon realizes that at least one of them has no intention of letting anyone go. With the deadline quickly approaching, Lisa must do the unimaginable to protect the children and get everyone out alive. |
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Gladys Tripalong's Private Journal NOTHING is his fault—he didn’t ask to be born. As a single mother raising a teenage son on her own, Gladys Tripalong practices what she preaches as she stumbles down a never-ending gravel road. Devoted to her son and close to her two sisters, Gladys is nevertheless her own person. A Gemini, she is strong willed, calm, high strung, confident, and clumsy. If you believe her fanciful memoirs, she was kidnapped by gypsies when she was ten years old. As an adult she aspires to become a famous ballerina, or a renowned trapeze performer. Her elder sister Carol and younger sister Ev, by accident, stumble across Gladys’ private journals. Ev reads some of the entries aloud: “Life with the gypsies was paradise; I didn’t have to go to school." "Finally at thirty-four years old I got my dream job—chauffeuring a guy named Big Dick. And best of all, I met and fell in love with Joe Little." The cloak-and-dagger of her odd life including her zest for adventure are revealed in a funny eleven-chapter novella. Gladys is a dreamer, not unlike the fascinations of Walter Mitty. Her escapades include hanging out with Big Dick and Nick, and driving a get-a-way car. Hilarious schemes and unexpected saga guarantees a wild ride well worth your money. |
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See You in Hell See You in Hell, is a completed thriller/ suspense novel and runs to 80,000 words. Ralph Beaumont yearns for the family life his friend, Gerald enjoys. When terrorists attack and kill Gerald at the Robotic Research Institute in Berkley and steal a new invention of his, Ralph initiates his own investigation with a vow to avenge the death of his friend. The stolen invention is a robotic butterfly, capable of flying at incredible speeds or flitting like its namesake and of surveillance through miniature cameras and responds to commands from over two hundred miles away. Ralph and love interest Laura travel to Iraq and in a series of adventures rescue the robot from the neighboring city of Tehran. His interest in the project takes him to the Indian Ocean, aboard a freighter where he uses the robot to thwart a hijacking by Somali pirates The terrorist leaders consider it an invaluable tool in helping Taliban insurgents increase networks that produce improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan. The tactical use of the butterfly could bring the conflict to a speedy end or protract it if it falls into the wrong hands. Bent on revenge, Ralph follows the terrorists to Kazakhstan where they are trying to smuggle tons of uranium ore into Iran. He derails the convoy of trucks carrying the ore. The terrorists now target Ralph with the fervor of a Jihad. In the final conflict Ralph uses the robots to get even with the terrorists who killed Gerald. But it’s Laura who strikes the decisive blow. Ralph tries to pick up the pieces of his life with Laura wishing for a family of his own. |
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Get the Picture When surgeon Jack Lansing is just getting his life back together following the death of his wife, he happens to meet beautiful Erica Anderson, and it seems at first just what the doctor ordered. But then another woman enters the picture, one from out of his past, and Jack suddenly finds himself hunted by a powerful U.S. senator and members of organized crime. Though he learns his involvement in a drama of revenge and murder was no accident, it is too late to back out now. ultimate targets of the killer, Jack must face the fact that events in his past, for which he was unwittingly responsible, are the cause of the rampage. Available in Paperback |
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State of Mind This is a story of obsession, revenge and murder. Three men, each from a different background and part of the country, have lives that fatefully intersect, leading to tragic consequences. When patients of surgeon Jack Lansing are murdered one by one, his town in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania is gripped in terror. And when it appears that he and his wife are the ultimate targets of the killer, Jack must face the fact that events in his past, for which he was unwittingly responsible, are the cause of the rampage. Available in Paperback |
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Songbird There are defining moments in life when everything changes. For Dani Mays, it was the day she witnessed her brother's murder. Afterward, she bounced between her alcoholic mother and foster homes until she found a permanent place. And a reason to want to stay: Reece Tyler. He's her best friend, yet Dani wants more from him. Faced with losing Reece, Dani struggles to escape her memories, even as people from her past reappear. Available in Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle and Nook |
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Eolyn "Vigorously told deceptions and battle scenes will satisfy fans of traditional epic fantasy, with a romantic thread."– Publishers Weekly Available in Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle and Nook |
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The Grateful Undead: They're So Vein Be careful what you pray for. I merely asked to live a long healthy live and hinted that I wouldn't mind starting over while keeping the knowledge I had accumulated in my 58 years. And if a better set of tits and less wrinkles were involved, I certainly wouldn't complain.
Well, I'm here to tell you, God does listen… to everything… and he's got quite a frigging sense of humor.
I'm the undead proof.
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Laid Out and Candle Lit What do Sweet Thangs, Orgasm Pie, and a murder in Brownsboro, TX all have in common? Tizzy Donovan. Tizzy is a small town girl, a widow, single mother, daughter to the best baker in town, sister to the county Sheriff, and also known as the local girl who talks to the dead. After almost five years without a man, she’s pent up and hot to trot! And in small town Brownsboro, population 854, pardon 853, the roster of available men is just plain lousy. Available in Paperback, Kindle, Nook. |
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The Rupert Chronicles The hysterical misadventures of Rupert, a six foot, two inch drag queen and his two, one-eyed pussies. Life will never be the same once you meet the mother of all drag queens, with a heart bigger than his 38 D-Cup blow up bra with plastic nipples. |
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Alzheimer Diary - A Wife's Journal "The doctor tells me I have Alzheimer's." The truth of my husband's words shook our world. This is my diary written for a time during the ten years of his spiral into another space. I began writing to vent my frustrations, sometimes anger. After a year and a half of writing, that anger had turned to acceptance. As our relationship turned from mutuality to one-sided dependency, my emotions changed as well. My husband's core personality remained intact throughout. He did however become more childlike, requiring me to reclaim my maternal instincts. When Dave was settled in the living room watching the news, I would go to my office to write. The events of the day often lead me to the memories of our earlier life. Often too, those memories would be a springboard for others--those of my childhood. I soon began to realize our experience could be of help and comfort to those who are close to a loved one with this strange disease. |
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The Cloud In August 2013 a dark cloud appears over the skies of Las Vegas. Thought at first to be just another weather incident, the cloud ultimately becomes a concern for both science and religion, as over the course of several months, it only moves a few miles at a time, always returning to a similar position over the city. The ten award winning stories from members of TheNextBigWriter.com explore how the cloud challenges religion, science, culture, and human behavior. |
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Priscilla the Great Did you ever want a blowtorch for a finger? Meet Priscilla Sumner, an ordinary seventh grader with extraordinary gifts. As if middle school isn't hard enough, not only does Priscilla have to fight pimples and bullies, but genetically enhanced assassins trying to kill her and her family. Armed with wit, strength, and a genius best friend, Priscilla must defeat the Selliwood Institute, a mysterious organization with a mission of turning children into killing machines. Priscilla the Great is the winner of the 2010 Strongest Start Novel Competition. |
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What Scottland Taught Me Fresh out of high school, Eva Sonneborn is headed to Scotland with her best friends: scholarly, sarcastic Laurence; gorgeous, ghost-seeing Amber; and responsible, sweet Shannon. They plan to spend the next six months in Edinburgh, enjoying an adventure-filled work-abroad journey before parting ways for college. |
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Fallen By midnight he still hadn’t killed anyone. Dr Dakota Thomas isn’t prepared for the gunshot victim that rolled through his emergency room doors. Michael Ricco looks like an average young Marine. His dog tags, however, tell a different story. How could this fresh faced Marine have a birth date of 1898? What was he doing wandering in the desert at night, alone and wounded? And why were thirteen people murdered to try to keep his secret? In a world were genetic experiments push the boundaries of how far someone would go to live just a little longer, the main question is… how many must die to keep one person alive? Winner of TheNextBigWriter's 2007 Strongest Start Novel Competition. |
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Sensing Passion: Travels of a Fifty-Five Year Old Divorcee Lynn was floating contentedly through life when she crashes into the downsizing of her job and her husband's desire for a divorce. While attempting to regain her equilibrium, Lynn slips further into an abyss and can't seem to find her way out. She is thrown a lifeline by the ghost of a man she met on a plane two years earlier. He challenges her to search for the passion she has lost. Lynn grabs the lifeline and travels with her otherworldly guide. Winner of TheNextBigWriter's 2009 Strongest Start Novel Competition. Available in: paperback. |
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