[#ONC2024] The Open Novella Contest is back for 2024 with shiny new prompts to get you out of your dragon cave. Once again, we are here to challenge you to create a legendary 20,000+ word novella in 12 weeks! Your epic journey begins February 1st, so mark your calendars.✨
When Eventyr spirals into war, three young foxes from its divided kingdoms must discover themselves and their united purpose if they wish to save their home from being destroyed. -❈- A reluctant heir. A living mistake. A misguided ambition. One knows nothing but violence, one knows nothing but deceit, and the last is...
It's not the pretty fantasy of your childhood. Humans and magical creatures living together? It's the worst development under the sun, but when the sun's flares obliterated the surface world, they had little choice but to come together. Detective Brady O'Malley lives in this new world with his family. A daughter and a...
When turning back isn't an option, what does it take to delve into the unknown? After a troubled upbringing in the foster care system, Gemma Haywood is used to switching homes. Her latest destination is Milnhome, the rural town where her runaway brother Jacob has resurfaced after five years of silence. With its distan...
Soulmates were a fabled tale, passed down through generations, that spoke of someone with the power to bring you back from death or completely sunder your soul. Ilaria Celestino had never put much stock in the fabled tales as a pair of soulmates hadn't been seen in over a hundred years. Her grandmother, however, insis...
Final Chapters Coming Soon! A kingdom ruled by a king hiding a dark secret becomes the target of a vengeful sorcerer when he transforms the princess into a clockwork automaton. Only an act of true love can break the curse, but what if the princess herself doesn't remember what love feels like? A sapphic fairy tale abo...
A merchant's daughter must join the grueling Frostwing Academy and learn to ride the mighty gryphons to save her family from financial ruin. ------------ Seventeen-year-old Herleva Montrose has lived a life of privilege, but her family is plunged into debt when a business deal goes wrong. Determined to fix her father'...
Attend opera concerts. Run a few errands. Enjoy a luxury apartment, wardrobe, and car, all expenses paid. Sounds like a dream job, right? There's only one catch. After nights of haunting musical messages and retrieving strange, pulsing items for her eccentric employer, Cleo unravels a conspiracy she definitely isn't g...
❝ ᴀ ꜱɪɴɢʟᴇ ꜱᴛᴇᴘ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʟᴀꜱᴛ. ❞ Vesper Anso has worshipped the Goddess of Life for as long as she can remember. Never did she expect to encounter any dark magic with all of her protective sigils and talismans, especially not an assistant of Death himself. With cruel creatures of pure shadow following her around...
| ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ʟᴏɴɢʟɪꜱᴛᴇʀ | ❝ ᴀ ᴍᴇʀᴇ ꜱᴘʀᴀʏ ɪꜱ ᴀʟʟ ɪᴛ ᴛᴀᴋᴇꜱ. ❞ All Elvira Grythras has ever wanted is to climb the ranks of Velux Emporium to become a head perfumer. She has trained tirelessly for her entire life to reach the acclaimed title. Finally, when the day arrives for her goal to come to fruition, it's snatched awa...
Ever since she was injured in a terrible accident, Cordelia Williams has felt adrift. The accident claimed more than her limb; it ruined her reputation and destroyed her dream of becoming a famous painter. Worried that her disability makes her a disgrace to her prominent Regency family, Cordelia tries to find other wa...
| ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ᴀᴍʙᴀꜱꜱᴀᴅᴏʀ ᴘɪᴄᴋ | ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ʟᴏɴɢʟɪꜱᴛᴇʀ | ❝ ᴀ ꜱᴡᴇᴇᴛ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴇᴍɪꜱᴇ. ❞ Deathly Delights is a bakery specialised in the art to kill. Poisoned filled muffins, venom coated pastries, cakes decorated with toxins - if you can name it, Taerane Aviris can make the delicacy designed to slaughter. However...
Danilo's life is a mess, from the drinking to the smoking to the nagging of his mother. It seems nothing is ever going right until he meets Dulnuan, a ghost who lived during the time of American imperialism in the Philippines. He befriends her, and she becomes a light at the end of his dark tunnel with the promise of...
When the towns local Witch goes missing, her two familiars set out to find her. Matias only really likes one person, his witch, Eve. So when she goes missing one day he's determined to find her. Even if that means putting up with the annoying crow of hers. But there's only one problem, Matias has no clue where to star...
In the quaint coastal town of Raven's Cove, the salty breeze whispers secrets to the wind. Scarlett Ravenhollow, a witch who specializes in potions, healing herbs, and elixirs caters to all the whimsical needs of magic wielders at her apothecary. However, her ordinary life's uprooted the moment vampire detective Rhys...
ONC 2024: In college, it was a case of wrong place/wrong time. Eight years later, they have a second chance. But will they take the leap? ___ Prompt 14: "My muse, believe me, waiting for you has been a form of freedom." ___ Excerpt: "Don't look back." Ian stares at me through the screen with his dark, intense gaze. "...
Open Novella Contest 2024 Entry Cassia Rose made a mistake: she didn't believe the legends, but they're real. And learning this truth may just cost her life. After going into the local haunted manor to impress a boy, Cassia sees strange things everywhere, from floating lights to transparent people. When...
Time heals all wounds. When you have the power to rewind it, you begin to wonder whether it's too much responsibility for one person to hold. ***** Sometimes, walking away is the scariest, yet the bravest thing one can do. Iris Fox would know; after r...
Kindness is magic, or so they say. Gabriella has always done her best to turn the other cheek. Even when her family pushes that cheek into the mud she finds ways to forgive and forget. She's got plans to leva one day anyway so what's a few bad days? A chance meeting and a dance at a ball escalates her timeline and she...
Every step away from home is a chance for an adventure and Darcy is on her first one. She's been dreaming of finding her father for as long as she can remember. He's out there and she's got a list of clues and a crappy map, but it'll do. Less than a day into her travel she's accosted by a mango throwing thief and land...
Death is no mystery to Peggy after living as a vampire for over half a century. That doesn't mean the death of her best friend isn't devastating. Add to that the threat of someone going after that friend's great granddaughter, Maya, and suddenly death has a new fear to it. She'll have to push the boundaries of life it...
One is a journalist who writes about movie stars. The other is a movie star who hates journalists. Now their worlds are colliding. Reagan Porter is a small town journalist married, in every sense of the word, to her work. When everything that could go wrong before her Valentine's Day vacation does, she jets off early...
[[ON HOLD UNTIL I FIGURE OUT WHERE THE PLOT WAS GOING]]After the death of his mother, Dan is left to pick up the pieces. Most of those pieces involve a heavy load of debt and a house to sell. That all goes out the window when the strange girl stumbles into his life with a promise of riches for his help in escaping a s...
[[ON HOLD UNTIL AFTER ONC]]Grace finally has it all together. Her smoothie bar is running and generating profit, she's got a second store in the works, and no one is around to break her heart. Not this time. When her coworkers decide she needs a vacation she jets off to Hawaii to refresh and reset. The last person she...
🗝️Detective Ryker Viltarin must uncover dark secrets before he loses not only his heart, but also his life.🗝️ You're on your own, far from home The wind is blowing in the top of the pines A gloomy sky where the sun never shines Deep in the woods, where the night is so cold You're lost, far from home -Mus...
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin meets What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, in this tale of fantasy and intrigue. *** A missing lady. A prince who is accused. A realm on the brink of civil war. Princess Maysa Memor must give her all to prevent a rebellion breaking out in Namiona. When Lord Edmund Eni cl...
Dreams are the greatest power of mankind. In our waking hours, we dream of more, imagining our futures as they teeter on hopes, hard work, and a little luck. But when we sleep, our subconscious mind takes over, and it is a beast that cannot always be tamed. It takes that which is strongest inside of us and unravels it...
In a twisted game of truth and lies, Yuki Kobayashi schemes to win the heart of her academic rival, Rhett Tudor, and the college scholarship with it. But if he sees through her deception, it's game over. *** Yuki Kobayashi is the pretty, popular girl...
SEQUEL TO ROYALLY BUMPED || After a whirlwind of a year, Mila Abbott is finally enjoying her life as a princess and mother. As wife to the new first in line to the British throne, Mila is adjusting to juggling royal work and being a mother, and the papers following her every move. With the royal family finally in a pe...
After one of the most awful days in her life, Eva Romney goes for a relaxing run on the trail behind her house. Cursing her failing life and her toxic boss, she fails to notice the clouds gathering above her. That is until she gets struck by lightning. Overcome by her luck to still be alive after the shock, she leave...