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thanks for your comment on my poem :) (and fo...

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Wow, Chen. Just... wow! Thanks for reading ...

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READ THIS BEFORE MESSAGING ME!!!
1. Sorry, I'm getting way too many messages about reading stuff and I've been burned by people who don't return reads :(
2. From now on, if you want me to read something of yours, comment on something of mine FIRST!! (And no "I like this" or "You are a good writer." Explain why you think so.)
3. Then message me that you commented and which work I should look at.
4. Other than that, I'm happy to read your stuff :)
*~*

thanks for stumbling onto my page. if you can read my book SUMMER FRIENDS and leave feedback, that'll be awesome. i want to edit like crazy. (thanks for all the feedback so far!)

(you can check out my other stuff too :p)
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i'm chen. that's the first "c" in "cyc." i just finished my graduate studies at nyu for english education. (let's see if i can actually find a teaching position in nyc.)

i've written 5 books, all different, all unrelated, all unpublished, all since fall 2007. i try to write a variety, not sticking to one genre. i'm still looking for an agent...
1. Jersey's Girls - love story
2. Lucky Lucy - serious story on a girl learning to be strong
3. Bottled Sunshine, Empty Jars - serious story on a girl learning to be strong
4. Summer Friends - love story
5. Dark Dreamer (A Cat's Nine Novel) - magical/paranormal
6. in-progress...Fire Girl (book 1 of trilogy) - magical/paranormal
7. in-progress...Summer of Firsts (not related to Summer Friends) - love story
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got a lot of stuff to read. lots. so don't worry. i'll get through all of them and leave feedback :)
sorry, i'm behind...family stuff...going back and forth between nyc and delaware...
- jkt315 - truth be told
- Elaine ‘Laney’ Obi
- aLiCe_FrOm_WoNdErLaNd
- musicluver914
- InconstantMoon
- bookworm2
- Jems12
- NYC Peephole
- maggersann94
- AceJournalist

there are bunches of you who haven't returned reads...i'm a little sad :(
*~*

umm...i got a twitter account...weird b/c for the longest time, i tried to stay away. follow me!

my websites

my favorites

books

  • Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
  • The Mortal Instruments Series (Cassandra Clare)
  • Vampire Academy Series (Richelle Mead)
  • The Secret Circle Trilogy (L.J. Smith)
  • Sweep Series (Cate Tiernan)
  • Hush, Hush (Becca Fitzpatrick)

music

  • Lene Marlin
  • Tyler Hilton
  • The Academy Is...

film

  • 10 Things I Hate About You
  • Ever After
  • A Knight's Tale
  • The Descent
  • TV: Glee, Chuck, Castle

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Dark Dreamer (A Cat's Nine Novel)

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Dark Dreamer (A Cat's Nine Nov...

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Book: General Fiction, Paranormal, Mystery, Romance

Move over witches, it’s time for the cats to come out and play...with magic.

Welcome to the world of cats, magic, and nine lives.

Catty Lainey used to have the perfect life that included an attentive boyfriend, a BFF, the high school princess crown, and the normalcy of being a teenager. But after being sent away to a mental hospital for a reason she cannot remember, she loses almost everything and gains many secrets. She has lost a year of memories, she cannot dream anymore, and oh, yeah, she can hear people's thoughts.

Erik Kellen is the leader of Cat's Nine, a coven made up of teenagers that practices magic, changes into cats, and has nine lives (although he already lost two). He, too, has been stripped of memories during the same time as Catty. When Catty comes back home, he believes she can help him find out why. His original plan is pushed aside when a creepy villain, who calls himself Dark Dreamer, shows up in Catty's non-dreams and attempts to kill her as he has done to other girls.

Whether for the sake of his memories or his heart, Erik needs to save her before it's too late.

*~*

This has 61 chapters and 79,000 words. I have stalled on book 2.

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Bottled Sunshine, Empty Jars

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Bottled Sunshine, Empty Jars

by cyc

Short Story: General Fiction

What do you do when the man you love locks you away?

Tilly loves him.

But...

Why does he trap her like a prisoner?
Why does he leave bruises on her body?
Why does she still love him?

*~*
I wrote this short story as a short story for a writing class 2 years ago, but then I started to wonder what had happened before the story and what happened after. So, I actually created a book out of it, keeping the short story as the first chapter.

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Summer Friends

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Summer Friends

by cyc

Book: General Fiction, Humor, Romance

A dropped apple pie, a mudfight, name calling, and a bruised eye. For Mandy, those are the first steps to being friends with a boy.

In the first summer at age 6, Mandy and Sam meet for the first time.

Love at first sight?
Absolutely not.
Best friends forever?
Nope.
Enemies?
Definitely.

Things don't stay that way as summers pass.

*~*

There are 14 total summers and a Thanksgiving, starting on age 6 and ending on age 19. Sam and Mandy will be friends. They will do stupid things. One will fall in love with the other. One's heart will be broken.

Falling in love with your best friend can do that to a girl.

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Summer of Firsts (Sample)

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Summer of Firsts (Sample)

by cyc

Short Story: General Fiction, Romance, Humor

This is NOT related to Summer Friends!

This book is inspired by Vanessa Carlton's "White Houses."
If you read the lyrics, you'll see where this book is headed.
So far, I only wrote Chapter 1: First Choice of Nice Bodies.

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It's about a shy and quiet girl going on a beach trip with her roommate Jenny. Grace never has much of a social life, and her roommate wants to bring the wild side out of her. So they meet up with 3 guy friends of Jenny's. And Grace falls for the wrong guy.

*~*
This draft is really, really rough. So give me any comments and critiques :)

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