Teens Writing For Teens

These are some of the projects that TWFT’s members are working on currently. They’re pretty amazing… no lie!

Chanelle

HAUNTED:

In a world where vampires, demons, ghosts, and sirens exist, sixteen-year-old Harley Crown has the unwanted, and often terrifying, job of moving spirits onto the right dimension. With evil spirits haunting her every move, Harley gets a much needed distraction when she joins an organisation created to purge the world of demonic forces forever. But lines are crossed and morals abandoned when Harley falls for the one thing she was enlisted to kill; a vampire.

THE CITY OF FALLEN FLESH:

When a virus turns most of humanity into flesh eating mutants, the survivors are kept locked away in towns with walls so high the mutants can’t penetrate them. But Melody Queen doesn’t wish for the world she once knew, but information on what the world has become. She gets her wish when her sister finds a way over the wall, and Melody – armed with her best friend and the city’s guards – must find her. Protected by special abilities the virus stemmed in the guards, the journey turns into a war against mutants. Not only does Melody find herself, but she finds love with a guard she never thought she’d have. But she’s not the only one who loves him, and a battle of hearts will end up in a battle to the death.

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Kristin

CITY OF SHADOWS:

In a world that breeds perfection, Dax is a mistake – born outside of government control – and Serenity is the beautiful, high-society girl he dares to fall in love with.

RED INK: (work in progress)

Carter is a rogue Writer who surrendered her pen and her foster home for a school far, far away. But when a distraught mother pays her to write her way into Liam Brody’s story, she is thrown back into the secretive life of the supernatural Writers who influence the world with their red ink.

ANGEL STORY: (work in progress)

Four kids come out of near-death experiences with the ability to see angels and demons.

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Linda

REMEMBER:

Winning a scholarship means Chloe Muehlfelt can pack her bags for boarding school.  To Chloe, it’s also an escape route.
Now she feels alive for the first time, thanks to her new, hard-partying friends. With a fresh start and a new school, it’s easy for Chloe to reinvent herself, and forget about her past.
But then she’s informed that her mother died in a fire–and that’s when all the nightmares come flooding back. While she couldn’t care less that “that psychotic nutcase” is dead, Chloe has trouble facing the reality of the situation. She doesn’t want the fake affections of her new, adoptive grandparents, doesn’t want her classmates’ pity, doesn’t want to explain to the therapist about her cryptic past. She…well, she doesn’t know what she wants.
Until an unlikely friend tells her he can help. The plan involves some explaining, some trust, and a whole lot of remembering. Chloe needs to get herself out of this mess…before it’s too late.

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Rachael

DESTINY: All Claudia wanted was to get her best friend back. That was all. Even if her friend had gotten arrested for communicating with plants. But then Claudia gets captured and has a whole other dilemma on her hands. For the first time, she has a chance to overthrow the government that has been causing all the problems in her life and the lives of others. That chance is Erik, the imprisoned son of the ruler. So all the have to do is escape, travel to the capital, avoid the officials, current ruler and the insane heir. Simple, right? The journey is anything but.

JUMP: When Hannah jumped out of the bedroom window of her two-story home, she intended to end her life — not end up in the hospital in a coma. While unconscious, she relives the events of her life that led her to jump.

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Marina Katura

The 13^th Hour: How do you act normal when normal is something you’ve never known? How can you be truthful when preserving your life depends on how well you can lie? How can you live among humans when you are not human yourself? Where does one belong when they are neither Human nor Spirit – but some cruel in between? (Urban Fantasy)

The Avenger Trilogy: “We come from different backgrounds; varying in age and gender, language and race. But we have all gathered for the same cause, we all have the same goal: REVENGE.” (Fantasy)

Predetermined: When Ivinada Walker was fourteen years and nine months old her parents died. When Ivy was fifteen years and four months old her little brother fell sick and was hospitalized. When Ivy was fifteen years and five months old she got…engaged!? Ivinada needs money to pay her brother’s costly hospital bills, and her rich husband-to-be is loaded. Aleck Blair needs a bride in order to inherit the family fortune. Will this turn out to be only a convenient partnership – or will it blossom into true love? (Romance)

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Terri

Rose Reaper: Sophur is the young government official who decides to make a point by upending the building blocks of society.  Tara is the epileptic dead set on bringing down the Rose Reapers who condemned her. Ggera is the twelve-year-old stranded in the wrong world.  In a world where imperfection isn’t supposed to exist, something explosive is about to blow their lives out of proportion.

Saving Cora: When Morgan Szyde goes into remission after a bone marrow transplant, she thinks her problems are solved.  At the other end of the equation is Corateal Oliver, the marrow donor, a girl drowning in an imaginary hell that Morgan doesn’t understand and wants nothing to do with.  When a return of the cancer once again ties their lives together, Morgan is vexed to find that she’s no longer the one that needs saving.

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Kody

THE DUFF:
Seventeen-year-old Bianca knows she’s the Duff (the designated, ugly, fat friend). So when Wesley, a notorious womanizer, approaches her at a party she knows he wants to score with one—or both—of her hot friends. God, the man-whore’s arrogance really pisses her off! But Bianca needs to escape from some personal drama, like her mom’s abandonment and her dad’s denial, and a steamy fling with Wesley seems like the perfect distraction. Bianca makes it clear she’s only using Wesley, as if he cares. He’ll sleep with anything that moves after all. Unfortunately, the enemies-with-benefits plan totally backfires.

When her mom files for divorce and her father stumbles into a downward spiral of drinking and depression, Wesley proves to be a surprisingly good listener, and Bianca finds out that his family is pretty screwed up, too. As sickening as it sounds, she has to admit that she and Wesley are a lot alike. Soon she becomes jealous of the pretty girls he flirts with and his cocky grin begins to grow on her. Suddenly Bianca realizes—with absolute horror—that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated.

(TWFT Note by tilt: As of 8/09, THE DUFF has sold to Little, Brown’s Poppy line in a two-book deal, out in Fall of 2010.)

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Rebecca

Eye to Eye:

Amanda Cherie always knew the freak was her, but not to the extent she discovers. When she’s swept away from her normal human lifestyle, she finds that not only is she a cursed supernatural, but that she is also destined for the ridding of the evil vampire leader, Veronique Deteste. Naturally, it was never going to be easy. And with so much pressure, Amanda is unsure of whether she can cope.

Amethyst

Amethyst Hackleberry is the daughter of an award-winning, world-dominating superstar actor. You’d think she’d be happy, with all the money and attention…but no. Amethyst is far from happy, being her father’s slave and microphone holder. She confides in her best NON-famous friend, Becca, and the two of them set off to find Ammi a bit of romantic refuge.  Amethyst will have two sequels as part of a trilogy.

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Andrew

Creatures of Night:

Henry Fulton is the son of the president. Everything seems pretty well. He has a good life. Then a race of vengeful aliens from a distant planet called Kylif come in machines armed with ice-shooting guns. Almost all of humanity is wiped out.

Fast forward two years. Henry and his family live in the small town of Healy, Alaska. They are one of the last band of rebels. It is only a matter of time before the Kylifans find them. Then there is a break in security and a Kylifans gets in and Henry successfully kills it. The remaining rebels do not want to do anything. Now it is up to Henry and his friend Cody to infiltrate a Kylifan base in a city formally known as Vancouver. This will give the rebels some much needed time to create a plan to take down the Kylifans and regain control of the planet…

The Whispers:

Lacey has always been aided by voices inside her head dubbed ‘The Whispers’. There isn’t much to it. Until she tries to kill herself by overdosing on pills. She blacks out and has trouble remembering anything within the last month. Then she wakes up in a mental hospital two days after her failed suicide attempt. There, her therapists and fellow patients reveal a more open world to her. But the Whispers refuse to let go of Lacey. She cannot decide if the Whispers are real or if they are a symptom of schizophrenia. She is slowly being eaten alive by the war going on inside her. All the evidence supports the schizophrenia theory. Except one piece, one that could prove the existence of the Whispers, and a higher power within the universe.

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Conner

COUNTDOWN: Jimmy Spencer was thrown against the window between life and death, but somehow the glass didn’t break. After surviving a car crash that killed everyone else involved, Jimmy begins to see glowing numbers floating in front of people’s chests. He is horrified to realize that when someone’s number reaches zero, they die. Jimmy quickly learns that he can change the numbers by taking a hand in events. The numbers are just a way of “keeping track” invented by a being calling himself the Calculator, who is in charge of maintaining the balance between life and the afterlife. When Jimmy’s best friend Kristen is murdered, the Calculator makes a deal with Jimmy – he will bring Kristen back to life if Jimmy kills Card Johnson, the man responsible for her death. Card, after a near-death experience of his own, is able to sense how and when someone will influence the world. He is the leader of an organization dedicated to bringing all human progress to a halt by killing as many would-be influential people as possible. And now that Jimmy had begun to save lives, he’s become an influential person. He’s become a target.

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Sumayyah

THE PAWN: Behzad Abdul Muhaymen is eleven years old and her greatest wish in the world is to be normal. But ever since she was eight she has been plagued with an Otherness about her that prevents her from ever fitting in. Unwillingly linked to a Familiar who calls herself Annahya, she is spirited away to England with the hope that she will be able to reconcile herself to her true nature. Unfortunately, events beyond her control pull her into a world that is dangerous and deadly. First a girl, then a creature and then a pawn, she attempts to tread water in a world that she never wanted any part in.

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Emilia

AFTER CAMERON: Ask seventeen-year-old Riley Tanner how she’s dealing with the death of her boyfriend, Cameron, and she’ll respond with an eye-roll and a “fine.” The truth is that ever since the car crash, Riley has hidden her depression from pretty much everyone. But when she starts getting texts from Cam’s phone number, each one containing an address, her plan to spend the summer absolutely not thinking about him falls apart completely.

Unnerved and desperate for answers, Riley sets off on a road trip with her best friend. At each destination, she discovers new secrets from Cam’s past that manage to further screw up her grieving process. Things only get worse when her best friend heads home after a fight and Riley finds herself stranded on the opposite side of the country. Riley doesn’t think of herself as fixable – but with help from an unlikely connection, she might be able to come to terms with her own haunting guilt… and maybe lay off the sarcasm.