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**REGARDING READ SWAPS AND OTHER...STUFF**

-If you ask me for a read swap, I'll expect you to go first (and I will soon follow). If I ask you, naturally I will go first. I just think that's the right thing to do.

-I do not do read requests. So PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME COPY-AND-PASTED MESSAGES asking or telling me to read/Pick your book, especially if you don't even mention reading mine. I HATE copy-and-paste messages. They are nothing but SPAM. If I receive a message like this from you, I will not only ignore it, but I will make it a point to never read your work. Honestly, people, you don't have to be so desperate to make it to the Top 5 that you need to message everyone on the site in hopes that someone will read your work. Desperation is not a good color on anybody!

-If you have read and commented on my book and would like me to return the favor, please add that request either in your comment, or in a message. It may take me a while to get back to you, but I will make sure to add whatever you want me to read to my WL.

- I leave HONEST feedback. That means I might comment on your book and tell you something you do not want to hear. If you come to me, asking me to read your work because you want to make it to the Top 5, please do not act offended if I give you constructive criticism! If you do not want people to point out spelling or grammatical errors, or any other flaw your book may have, then don't bother trying to make it to the Top 5!

-With that said, if you find any errors in my story, such as grammatical errors, I would love for you to tell me what they are (not just that they exist, cuz I already figured that)! I'd like to use this place as an opportunity to fine tune my work some more, so don't be afraid to point this stuff out to me!

-I accept every friend request I get, so feel free to add me. :)

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I'm a 29-year-old woman who loves to read and write. I write primarily Young Adult novels. I guess I really miss my days of being a teen, so I tend to live vicariously through my characters.

I have had 2 of my artworks made into book covers for Amelia Atwater-Rhodes ("Persistence of Memory" paperback edition and "Token of Darkness" hardcover edition) and hope to someday have my own book on bookshelves (with or without a cover made by myself :D). In the meantime, at least I can say that SOMETHING I've created has made it to bookshelves. :P

"The Importance of Getting Revenge" is my second finished novel, but by far my most popular. I have been overwhelmed by the support and feedback it has received on other sites, and needless to say that my readers have all come to be very near and dear to my heart. Also needless to say, if you read/comment/Pick my book, I will love you forever.

My dream, of course, is to someday get published. This may never happen, because I'm too chicken to send out a manuscript to anyone. In the meantime, I enjoy providing my writing for free on the Internet. :)


my websites

my favorites

books

  • The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  • My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
  • The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
  • Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  • The Outsiders - H.E. Hinton
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

music

  • Mew
  • Death Cab For Cutie
  • Alanis Morissette
  • Imogen Heap
  • Coldplay
  • Muse
  • Lifehouse
  • Ours
  • Sarah McLachlan

film

  • Run Lola Run
  • Fight Club
  • Memento
  • Mirrormask
  • eXistenZ

my picks

Incubus

Incubus

by flying2far4u

Book

Rank 29 (-5)

Summer Friends
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.

Summer Friends

by cyc

Book

Rank 8 (+15322)

Demon Made
Astrid Fray is your normal, average teenage girl.  Well, except for the fact that she's a demon.

Demon Made

by elizabethmay

Book

Rank 121 (+15209)

The Seven Flaws of Holden Hollingsworth 
One boy, the girl he loves, and the seven flaws that make him.

The Seven Flaws of Holden...

by jkt315

Short Story

Rank 216 (+15114)

my projects

The Importance of Getting Revenge

Book

Rank 6

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The Importance of Getting Reve...

by Mandybeth

Book: Romance, Humor, General Fiction

She wants revenge. He wants the hot cheerleader. Pretending to date each other could give them both what they want. Or then again, maybe not...

16-year-old Lexi Turner has just been dumped by her boyfriend of two years...on the day she was going to, well, "do it" with him. And to make matters worse, he dumped her for a life-force-sucking demon!

Devastated by this turn of events, she decides there is only one way to deal with the situation: get revenge!

Enter Jase Holloway, Lexi's former childhood friend and adversary to her ex. The plan is so simple: just (somehow) talk Jase into pretending to be her boyfriend for a while to make her ex-boyfriend jealous, make him regret dumping her and to make him come crawling back to her on his hands and knees, begging for forgiveness...

Okay, well, maybe not the last part. But with Jase on board, Lexi is confident she will get the revenge she feels she deserves. But life - and love for that matter - is never that easy, and Lexi will soon find out firsthand that sometimes what you want is not always what you get - and that sometimes what you get is what you really wanted all along.

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