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Rusty Fis... wrote

4 days ago

Thanks, Mandybeth! I appreciate your words SO...

Rusty Fis... wrote

5 days ago

DON'T GIVE UP!!!!!

cyc wrote

7 days ago

Well, if and when you write it and post it up...

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about me

what can i say about me?

i recently realized that perhaps my dream of becoming a published author is not really my dream anymore. i'm incapable of writing anything new. i am incapable of starting the rewriting process for either of my two existing books. i am incapable of even thinking about ever trying to find an agent.

so.

hmm.

i think i will stick around for awhile and finish off all of the reads i've ever promised anyone. feel free to keep reading anything i have up here. i will probably keep it all up, as this is the only way anyone will ever get to read any of it.

thank you all for your support, especially with "the importance of getting revenge". i hope you had as much fun reading it as i had writing it.

i wish you all luck with your own writing, and would encourage you to do what i dare not do: go out and get yourself published! =d

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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 - S.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
  • Wanted
  • Briget Jones's Diary
  • While You Were Sleeping
  • Some Kind of Wonderful

my picks

Little Miss...Life
Avery Lane is a beauty queen with a heartbreaking past.

Little Miss...Life

by alli_cat

Book

Rank 402 (+56)

Still Around
Sometimes mending a broken friendship will take a whole lot more effort than you think. Especially if you have a time limit.

Still Around

by Selenna Lee Eng

Book

Rank 226 (+83)

Bound Together
Love at the library? <br />Definitely not. <br />Well, maybe...

Bound Together

by rainveins8

Book

Rank 506 (+28583)

my projects

The Importance of Getting Revenge

Book

 

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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. 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 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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When She Smiles

Short Story

Rank 672 (-13)

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When She Smiles

by Mandybeth

Short Story: General Fiction, Romance

About a boy and his desire to see her smile.

That's what I'm doing when I give her a smirk - flirting. She thinks I'm just being cocky and arrogant. For such a smart girl, she sure is clueless when it comes to romance. Not that you could call what we have a romance...

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Once Bitten

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Rank 95 (-5)

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Once Bitten

by Mandybeth

Book: Mystery, Paranormal, Romance

Sarah is about to find out that hunting vampires may not be as easy as she once thought it was...

During the day, she's a full-time waitress at the local burger joint. At night, she's a part-time vampire hunter for the local PD. That is, until she gets fired from both jobs. In the same night.

Now unemployed and late on her rent, Sarah Davis is unable to refuse a job offer as an agent for the Department of Supernatural Investigation – even though it means being partnered with someone she loathes, and possibly alienating her over-protective brother. After all, a girl has to make a living, right?

But then the killings begin. Young women are being found dead, their bodies drained completely of blood, a small set of fang marks on all of their necks. There are no clues left behind. No witnesses to the crimes. Yet one thing appears to link them all to the same killer.

It's not until the case hits a little too close to home for Sarah that she begins to realize that perhaps she's in way above her head. But determined to stop this killer before more innocent women fall victim, she will stop at nothing to find the culprit and drive a stake through his heart - even if it kills her.

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