Hi everyone! We've got a big introductory post coming up soon over at the blog, but I wanted to set this nomination thread up in advance. Though we can't promise that every cover nominated here will get a book cover (man, that'd be great, though, right?), we can promise that we'll be taking all of them into consideration (by monkey rochambeau, Real Steel-type boxing matches, serious examination of DNA base-pairs...who knows? Only the Baty knows...)
We totally encourage nominations of other synopses you think would make great covers, and are up for self-nominations, too! You gotta talk yourself up, buddy-o's.
Please include the following information with any nomination, and please make sure that the novel hasn't been nominated higher up in the thread!:
User name: Title: Genre: Synopsis: Region: The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
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Synopsis: Generations ago, a god was born. Her name was Qadr and she had seven children with three mortal men. Each carried within them a piece of her power, and they passed it on to their own children. As her power was diluted among the people, Qadr founded a nation called Haskat, a land of many villages, and the people there worshipped her unconditionally. When the power of her children threatened to overwhelm her, she punished them and made the practice of their powers the gravest of sins. The world was peaceful, until a Carpenter named Hale kidnapped a Laborer named Cris because he was in love with her. Qadr, now called the Supremity, decided that all of her grandchildren must be killed and set her loyal worshipers to the task. Now separated, Cris and Hale must gather up his kin and prepare to do battle. But waging war against a god is a painful business, and it seems impossible for anyone to make it through alive.
Region: USA::Maine
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe a dark-haired Sophie Turner?
Synopsis: Mia Wilkinson is going to turn 35 on Christmas Day and she's not looking forward to it. Why should she? She isn't having the best of years--she just lost her job thanks to missing a deadline, her affair with a married man is kaput now that his wife is pregnant and he's decided to stay, all of her girlfriends are married with children and seem to have forgotten she exists other than when they need a babysitter or want to complain about their husbands. All she wants to do is spend Christmas and New Year alone and hope that the new year will be better.
So she does what any self-respecting 35-year-old who wants to avoid her friends and their single sympathy does: she secludes herself in her grandmother's house in a small town in Vermont. But her plans of a solitary Christmas don't go as planned--especially when a gorgeous South African photographer shows up on her doorstep.
Region: Europe:: Sweden
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm... for Mia, I could imagine Sanaa Lathan, for Hannes the hot South African...maybe Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ("Jaime Lannister" in Game of Thrones).
User Name: Jerhansolo Title: The Book of Raven: Descent Genre: Mythically Endowed Psychological Thriller, re: Jungian Archetypology Synopsis:
Beware the Shadow thief.
He flaps his blackened wings, and his feathers stir the air; spreading confusion and deceit. As winter breaks he descends, as a specter, upon the slumbering town of Bryhurst, which had lain dormant for many long winters, alone in blissful silence. There was a reason they had cut themselves off from the world.
As the town celebrates the rite of spring, the shadow evokes his troubled spell, and the Myth awakes renewed. Most are oblivious to the song, but three youths- Kari, Wylan, and Baryn- hear the call, and these heroes find themselves locked in an ancient dance-- a mythic tale that portends tragedy.
The myth is a tale of three brothers. A bear, a wolf and a fox who fight each other for one beauty. Each brother receives both a blessing and a curse, and the raven--the shadow thief, preys upon their weaknesses and jealousies. He promises the ultimate reward, but leads them to their demise.
These newly initiated heros find their lives mirroring the ancient script, and as they fight to discover themselves, they struggle against the myth that shapes their destiny. But they cannot stop, manipulate, or deny the momentum of their fate. Passions rise, and upon these passions, the shadow plays. He extorts the growing rifts within the town, and strives to summon the beast. The hero’s rivalry blossoms as the beast rages. And with each incarnation, the beast grows more subtle and dangerous until he threatens to overwhelm, and tear apart the valley. A book of Sorrows. A book higher love. A book where heroes discover inner meaning, and loose themselves into the archetypal fabric of the ages.
Region: Pacific Islands Actors: Kari (fox): James Macaby- with red tussled hair Baryn (Bear): A younger Joaquin Phoenix, with a few more pounds Wylan (wolf): A brooding, teenage Hugh Jackman Varis (raven): Any one who could sneak around in a black cloak, and could mix sinister with soothing in their voice would do. Johnny Depp?
Synopsis: In the distant future, a group of scientists in CERN discovers life after death. Based on the idea that our soul is an energy entity, that since energy cannot be destroyed, our "soul" has to go somewhere. Simultaneously, across the globe in China, another group of scientists discovers how to turn off the gene that causes us to age.
When death becomes not just an ending but literally, a beginning, and immortality an option to keep hold to the life that one have in this world, all hell breaks loose. Laws fall apart, governments lose control, factions supporting living or dying forms, in no time at all, war broke out.
Amidst the chaos were two men, Adam Entheson and Tianfeng Lin, the first being a young scientist at CERN and the later an orphaned teenager in China due to the riots caused by the discoveries. As the war grew worst, the two crossed paths.
Region: Singapore
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sean Bean as Adam and Hu Ge as Tianfeng
Your synopsis sounds interesting. I can't help but notice one thing though. You start off with present time, and then switch to past in mid sentence. (in no time at all, war broke out) From there on you continue with past tense. You might want to fix that, it's confusing. :)
User name: Juanamac Title: Undercurrent Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: Charlotte has been on top of the world. After swimming her personal best, she wins gold at the National Swimming Championship lands a place in the NZ Olympic squad, set to prepare for the Olympic competition in London. She has just become engaged to her boyfriend, electrical engineering prodigy Shahid. Her final year at University seems to have started well, and her life course seems well planned.
However golden her life appears, struggles beneath the surface begin to pull her under. Shahid strives for excellence, but has hit a wall with his current invention. Charlotte is struggling to keep on top of her studies, her training schedule and her job. Her parents have their own worries, and do not support Charlotte.
Then, everything hits a wall when Charlotte discovers she is pregnant.
The story will be told in a non-linear fashion, looking at one calendar year out of sequence. (This way I can control how the reader views Charlotte..............)
Region: New Zealand :: Wairarapa
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Saoirse Ronan, Annasophia Robb or Dakota Fanning. The main character needs to look like a very young, naive girl, rather than her 21-22 years.
Synopsis: "Ridiculed for her ability to see spirits, SADE KAMP would like nothing more than to pretend they didn’t exist, but when their presence destines her to accept a world others can’t, Sade is forced to live in the land of the dead to save our Earth."
(*SPOILERS*)
ARSIS CALLANTRO has had enough of being just a spirit, longing for his former glory of being the darkest Lord in Razna; he has sacrificed the last remaining member of his family to be temporarily back in the flesh and able to hunt down that which he’d lost years ago: Sade.
As more spirits start to invade Earth, people begin to forget who they are, and Sade realizes she has no choice but to venture into Razna, the so-called land of the dead, which isn’t as dead as it would seem.
Dreams begin to overtake Sade, and it isn’t long before she realizes there is a connection between her and Lord Arsis that she doesn’t want, and one he doesn’t fail to use against her, making her believe her brother, ALEX KAMP, is dying.
The dreams turn to anger and start to consume Sade. After a heated argument with MAX WEST, the handsome, rather fiery demon hunter Sade has come to adore, she ventures off to find her dying brother.
It’s not until Sade becomes trapped in Razna, and aware that Alex is not dying, that the connection breaks, and she is left alone, scared, and hoping Max can figure out what has happened. But he thinks she’s gone, left as if to sweetly say to him, ‘I don’t love you anymore.’
It is the land itself that has brought Sade to walk amongst the forsaken, wanting her to restore Razna to its former beauty, a magical pillar in the land beckons to her. It is the very thing which Max wishes to destroy, and has sought to do so for years when it claimed the life of his mother, and Arsis’s former lover. Fearing the same fate for his still beloved Sade, Max unknowingly sets out to dismantle the very system which prevents Arsis from murdering her...
Landing in the middle of doubt and fear, just what will it take for Sade to pull through?
Region: United States: Atlanta
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: There's a movie adaptation??? I'd have to say Emma Watson.
This sounds great! Lots of twists and turns and conflicts! Has the potential to be un-put-downable! I like the similarities to the 'Persephone and the pomegranate' myth as well :)
Sorry if I double posted but I can't find my old one :P
User name: 7Epona7
Title: The Last Shadow
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: It is the year twenty-four forty-nine of the second age. Three kingdoms, led by the Elves, Humans and Half-elves, compete for power in various- and numerous- wars. In the middle of this conflict is Tam Lowell, a boy in the Elfán army. Only seventeen years old, and he has already been assigned General of the army by Princess Ophelia III, the ruler of the Elfán kingdom. He recently won a war between the Elfán and Human kingdoms that got him the honoured title of Third Hero. He still has his life, his future, ahead of him. What could happen?
Enter Darhhkenbael Aneiugari, a mysterious boy from a distant land, who's come to the Elfán kingdom with a single purpose in mind...
Region: USA:: Alaska
The actor(s) who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaptation: Tam Lowell: Logan Lerman Princess Ophelia III: Helena Bonham Carter Darhhkenbael Aneiugari: A younger Zac Efron?? I dunno he has to look like a teenager but I don't know of enough young boy actors :P
Synopsis: Tam Lowell used to think he knew what it was like to lose your family. He lost his mother when he was a child, and his older sister vanished mysteriously not long after. But his loss seemed to be nothing when he met Darhhkenbael Aneiugari, a mysterious boy of a strange race known only as the Shadows, who lost not just his family-- but his people. All of them. Darhhkenbael is locked in the castle dungeons by Queen Ophelia III, ruler of the Elfán kingdom of Iwaku, after a "supposed" assassination attempt on Tam's life. Tam, recently named Third Hero of Iwaku, sneaks into the dungeons to see Darhhkenbael-- and so starts a series of complex events, involving rebellion, vows, secrets, and the revelation of a terrible truth concerning what really happened to Tam's lost sister. In this confusing world of betrayal and secrecy, there is only one thing that Dark, the last true Shadow, seeks. Vengeance.
Synopsis : Riley Snow was abandoned at the Norhtwestern Memorial Hospital when she was three weeks old and promptly thrown into the foster care system. When she was ten she was labelled a "problem child," removed from the system and placed in a group home. Fast forward sixteen years and she's receiving a bundle of letters from a mother she never knew about a past she thought she could leave buried. The story her dead mother shares appears to be something pulled right from one of her romantic suspense novels, but the details she provides about Riley's life in and out of the system are enough to convince Riley the letters are real. Riley's mother was MI6 and her father was FBI. They met on assignment, and when things went south her father was captured, assumed dead, and her mother was hunted down and killed. But not before sending a purple envelope crammed full of letters to her daughter. Riley takes up her mother's search for her father, and is promptly joined by her old friend and mentor, FBI agent Sam LaClaire, and his much younger - and much more attractive - co-worker,Luke Anderson. With their help Riley will embark on a journey that will change everything.
Region : Canada::Ottawa
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation : Either Jewel Staite (with dark and curly hair) or Stana Katic
Synopsis:When biochemist Elizabeth Tyler realizes her employer is more interested in weaponizing the newly isolated Romero virus than in developing a cure for the affected soldiers, she steals a sample of the virus and goes into hiding. Tyler seeks help from Mama Clotille Gravois, an ancient voodoo practioner who provided invaluable information on botanicals and organic materials for Tyler's thesis. With Mama Clotille's help, Tyler takes on the persona of Lisabetta Timo, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.
Region: Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Watson or Ashlynn Ross
Synopsis: Dina was eleven when she witnessed her parents murder, right after she saw the mark on her mother's arm that labeled her a heretic. She hid the secret for years, because if her people knew that their High Priestess had converted, Dina's life would be in danger. Forced to join the Otwlh, an army of female soldiers, Dina gains access to the palace and learns that everything is not as it seems. Before long, a coup takes place, and Dina finds herself on the wrong side of everything she has ever known. Now, with three races on the brink of war, Dina finds herself questioning everything - especially the supposed heresy of her mother, and which side is the right one.
Region: USA::Oklahoma::Tulsa
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Angelina Jolie - not because she looks like the image in my head, but because she can pull off the physical and political sides of the story.
Sounds very interesting! I know this is nearly irrelevant, but I'd like to propose Michelle Rodriguez as the actress of choice instead (depending on the image in your head, of course). She usually plays the tough gal, but she is genuinely strong and has a heart as well as an activist's presence, politicially speaking.
User name: Goddess-Diana Title: Draken Genre:Fanatasy Synopsis:There has not been a Draken-the human nahual of a Drake- in over a thousand years. It is believed that the mystical animals have died out. But not all..... Ellie, a sixteen year old girl, wakes up on her birthday feeling like the top of the world. She's going to be engaged today, start her new job in the palace infirmary as a Healer, and today she gets nahual. She doesn't feel like anything could go wrong, especially not on the day of her Promising to her childhood sweetheart, Nichola. But that all ends when she meets a jealous Kai-En, a Drake intent on claiming the fiery pint sized girl as his own. With her magic wanted all over the country, she must flee her beloved Draguwen and seek shelter else where. Running with her fathers best friend Myrn, she has no idea who is friend, who is foe, and where home is. Region: USA: Michigan The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: hmmmm.......I don't know........I always pictured her a bit like myself so there isn't really a movie star like me, but if I had to pick, Ellen Page.
Synopsis: Boy meets girl... Nick was an ordinary guy. He loved to hang out with his friends and do the every day things that the people of Coos Bay, Oregon do. Then, one day his eyes land on a girl he's never seen. The girl, a small and quiet person, held a daisy in her hands, never letting go for anything. It was natural curiosity that drew him to her, or even more than that. Days later... Nick finds his life to be spinning out of control and he doesn't know what to do. But, all he can think of is that girl with the daisy. She seemed to have been a pretty girl with a dark secret. He should have seen it all coming. The days get dreary... With his friends, Nick leaves Coos Bay to try and discover the truth behind the girl with the daisy. But, nobody ever said it'd be easy... "We will forever wither."
Region: USA::Indiana::Bloomington
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: That's a toughie...I suppose for Nick, he would be portrayed by Logan Lerman, but with chestnut hair. *shrugs* I can't find anybody else that would fit Nick as I see him.
As for the female character (the girl with the daisy), I can see a blonde actress like Annasophia Robb or Sara Paxton. I have three other characters that are pretty important. For them, I can see Brett Dier, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Emily Browning (but with long black hair).
Sounds very interesting. Partially because I've been to Coos Bay so I can see how anything out of the ordinary could catch your attention. If I've ever seen a town that looks straight out of a Stephen King novel it was Coos Bay.
Sadly I've never been there. But, I'm trying to get enough research and not be so cliche considering it's Oregon. Maybe one day I can visit though and get a true feel of the place. :)
Synopsis has a changed some: In the city of Coos Bay, Oregon, four teenage friends live with average circumstances. Then, one of the teenagers, a boy named Nick Reid, meets Victoria Powell. Victoria, with a daisy that is dying before his eyes, is a mystery to him and he wants to figure her out. No matter how far he has to go.
During this time, his friends deal with their own personal problems. Holly Stein, the quiet one, tries to make everybody proud and ends up going through all types of obstacles to let everybody have what they want. Chloe Murphy, a girl with a knack at being tough, deals with her mother’s death and a secret romance with a boy who shouldn’t be hidden. And Caine Murphy, Chloe’s twin brother, must overcome their mother’s death and help his boyfriend fight a drug addiction.
When Victoria suddenly dies along with the daisy, the mystery thickens and situations become more hostile. Their lives begin to spin out of control and they don’t know what to do, eventually leading them on a journey to the golden state. Not only to escape for a little bit, but to also find out who Victoria really was and what she was hiding.
I actually lived in a town an hour away from Coos Bay for a year, and still live in Oregon, my favorite state I've lived in. My dad grew up 30 mins from there. Essentially, when he was a kid 30 years ago, it was an industrious logging town. Business was booming. Now, from what I've seen, there's still a mill or two, but they aren't as busy as they used to be. It's always grey and cloudy, and chilly but rarely freezing. Everything looks run down and outdated. I can't remember the population, but less than 100k for sure, but big enough to stretch several miles. It's also essentially merged with the city of North Bend, its sister city. There's less than a mile gap. Anyway, if you have questions about the area, feel free to pm me. Sounds like a good book!
Wow. Thank you for this information! When I revise my novel, I'll try to incorporate this information into it since I think it kind of makes Coos Bay a little modern than it sounds. And, if I'll be sure to PM you for any questions. Anyways, thanks again!
Ooh, sounds like a good book. Plus I've lived in a town an hour and a half away from Coos Bay for 15 years, I go there every couple months because it has the closest shopping mall so it would be exciting to see a book set there.
User name: AnniKat Title: On the Road For Rory Genre: YA Synopsis: Through the jungle and the desert Traveling further than I can measure I get so lonesome, I start to miss you But I think, what else can I do? Because would travel 1 million miles Just to see one of your smiles. I love you Aurora! See you tomorrow!
When Luna Carson’s baby sister, Aurora, is diagnosed with cancer, the whole family is devastated, but what breaks Luna’s heart the most is when they tell the 7 year old that her biggest wish isn’t obtainable, so she does the only thing a big sister can do. She takes her video camera and sets of on a journey to show Rory the world. Through videos and blog posts, always signing off with the same poem, Luna is determined to show her sister the world outside of her hospital room and starts on a journey that will end up changing them both.
Region: USA::Indiana::North
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I could see Alyson Stoner playing Luna in the movie.
Whoever (or whatever) decides which books get chosen, if you do not choose this one, we will rebel. Teeth will gnash, tears will fall, and fine point black ink pens will shatter against painted walls. Yes, I went there. That's how serious I am. If my book isn't chosen; heck, even if it is, I demand a cover be made for this one. The people are on my side with this.
This is amazing. It's kind of scary that a story I wanted to do last year was so similar to this one... There aren't nearly enough family stories out there. I'd nominate this in a heartbeat.
This sounds like a beautiful story that will definitely worth every penny once published. I would love it if this book is given a cover. I sure hope that the "powers that be" will pay attention to those of us posting and rooting for you!!!!
User name: ReeReevil Title: City of the Seerer Genre: Post Apocalypse/Sci Fi/Urban Fantasy
Synopsis: Braelyn has spent most of her life living in the colonies. One of the only places untouched after the government collapse of 2026. But when her dad dies she has to move to the city with her mysterious godmother. A women Brae has never met. Brae is also a Seer, born with the gift to see into the future, and the souls of the dead walking the earth. Distinguished by a birthmark on her face and arms. Because seers are second class citizens, and often killed, most cover the marks, her godmother doesn't. Brae has to find a way to keep her and her godmother safe from the legion, the militia force owned by the cities richest family; not only because they are seers but because she runs an illegal fortune telling business in the abandon apartment next door. And Brae herself has become friends with an unsavory cast of Characters. The infamous glint dealer, Lucas and his mother Laverna, the self proclaimed Goddess of thieves. However when her godmothers friend Clara is killed by the legion Brae decides its time to be less passive. If the Seers want any rights or freedom they will need to fight for it, and in this fight its kill or be killed.
Region: Wisconson:: Kenosha The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Katie Melua
User name: brightshadowsky Title: Echo's Call Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: Nur always felt she had it lucky. Not all those who found themselves without parents grew up in an orphanage as safe as hers had been. Fewer still would discover a stable life as an apprentice to a decent human being. Nur was happy in her corner of the bakery, lost in the rhythmic process of kneading dough and never having to say more than a few words to anyone. Somewhere deep inside her she suspected that it could never last - that something would destroy her idea of an idyllic and predictable life. That it finally happened was not surprising. That she had a history that she was unaware of was not surprising. What she didn't expect was how hard it could be to survive, politically and literally, once you suddenly became someone... Chand and Lu have the near impossible task of stabilizing a country that will soon be left without a royal heir. With recent war a memory that is still healing in the minds and hearts of the people, only a legitimate claim to the throne has any hope of keeping the love and faith of the populace. If a true heir doesn't exist, they will have to create one so convincing that even the new royal has complete faith in their identity. Of course, all the belief in the world cannot make a person a good ruler, or make them able to withstand the deep-rooted schemes and manipulations of the Court, or give them the ability to evade an assassin plot...
Region: USA::Oregon::Lincoln County The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: best pick right now: Keisha Castle-Hughes.
This is too cool not to try for, so i'll suck it up and nominate myself. ^_^
Synopsis: On Li'et, humans have the ability to manipulate the elements around them. There are six elements: Rock, Water, Wind, Life, Light, and Shadow.
Light is considered a holy element, a blessing on humans by one of the divine. Those with the Light element are thought to be chosen by the goddess to purge evil from everywhere they go, creating a perfect world.
If Light is considered holy and gifted by the Fair Goddess Eritela, where does that leave Shadow users? -=-=-=-=-=-=- (A teenage Shadow user finds himself unexpectedly, and somewhat unwillingly, caught up in the largest conflict his world has seen in centuries, one that could be resolved in only two ways: the total elimination of the Shadow, or the defeat of the Light.)
Region: USA :: Oregon :: Portland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm.. Dakota Goyo? Chandler Canterbury? Asa Butterfield? I'm just looking at lists of people. I don't actually know of any young actors. My actor knowledge pretty much starts and ends with Lord of the Rings.
Synopsis: On the planet Eris, a young healer by the name of Hayden Thor discovers his role in the effort to stop the power-hungry Praedictians from wiping out nonbelievers all across the world when the messenger archangel, Nyxaius, tumbles down, wounded, onto his doorstep. After nursing the archangel back to health, Hayden teams up with the messenger to find six others who have also been chosen to maintain balance on Eris. In his quest, Hayden delves into the past to find out just how he was created - because he soon learns that he isn't an average Erisian. Fueled by determination - as well as a tremendous urge to protect Erisians everywhere - Hayden begins a journey to take down the Praedictians, who have just succeeded in creating and controlling their own powerful deity.
Region: USA::Georgia::Atlanta
The Actor who would play your main character: Probably Mitch Hewer or Alex Pettyfer.
Synopsis: In early 1841, eccentric plantation owner Charles Congdon sells his holdings and frees all 107 of his slaves, so he and his young daughter, Myra can have a new begining in Oregon Territory. With the prospect of even greater freedom and the ability to own their own land, nearly a third of Congdon's former slaves join him for the cross country journey.
The nuisance of traveling from Richmond, Virginia to Independence, Missouri finally behind them, Congdon and his party get a late start on travelling the newly cut Oregon Trail. Several catastrophies, both small and large, set the party even further behind schedule. Realistic enough to know the folly of continuing the journey through the Rockies in midwinter, they decide to spend the winter in the vicinity of Fort Hall, Idaho.
Falling ill that winter, and dying shortly thereafter, Charles has left his thirteen-year-old daughter with the responsibility of not only taking care of herself, but his large estate and also the welfare of their good friends and former slaves.
Never actually making it to Oregon Territory, Myra still perserveres, she and her good friends and new family claiming homesteads in unsettled western part of Dakota Territory, which would years later become known as Montana.
Region: Arizona: Elsewhere
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: An until now unknown young teenage girl who would become rediculously famous because of this novel/movie.
Okay. So, after I came up with this great story and even nominated myself, I have suddenly felt the presence of the Holy Spirit pressing on me to do another story. While I still intend to write the first story, I am now doing another one for NaNo, and have changed my novel profile to show this. Henceforth, I am re-nominating myself for this one. So, here goes:
Username: robinr515
Title: Crusaders
Genre: Christian Fiction/Young Adult Fiction
Synopsis: Two high school students start a nationwide crusade to not only bring other young people to Christ, but also legalize and mainstream prayer, devotion, and Bible Study in public schools.
Region: Arizona: Elsewhere
Kirk Cameron in the late '80's or early '90's would have been perfect for my main character. He's a little too old now though. I'm not sure now who'd do best--I'd want it to be a Christian though.
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User name: amino
Title: The Blood Feud
Genre: Family saga (insanity, romance, mystery, humor)
Synopsis:The Lundquists and Martins have been feuding for centuries. This is strange, considering the founders of the respective families were best friends. What no one alive knows is that the entire blood feud is a sham: concocted to keep the Martins and Lundquists in power, fame, and fortune.
When Frederick Martin, the owner of the Martin Estate, finds a piece of paper that hints at the unveiling of this secret, he snatches at it, forcing Jakob Anderson, a journalist, to scout for him on the Lundquist Estate. But the Lundquist Estate is in turmoil: the heir, James, has died, leaving Henry, a shy second cousin, to learn how to run the equivalent of a very small country. As Henry struggles with learning, he must also act as ambassador for the Lundquists, which leads him to meeting Marie.
Not only that, but as near-head of the Lundquist household, Henry must make sure that his second cousin, Natalie, doesn't go overboard with this new-fangled romance she has going on with Grigory Martin, Frederick Martin's brother.
And through all this, Gerald Hughes, one of Grigory, Frederick, and Marie's second cousins, is hearing voices… telling him to kill people.
The novel is told from the viewpoints of all the above characters, as well as the ancestors of the current Lundquists and Martins.
Region: I am traveling the world from Oct 16th to January 2013, but I will be in Japan, China, and Tibet (hopefully) during November, if that helps. ^_^
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: (selected by looks only because I don't know actors. XD) Frederick Martin: Bryan Greenberg Gerald Hughes: Ryan Gosling James Lundquist: Chris Hemsworth Henry Lundquist: Josh Groban (right eye is blue, left is brown) Marie Martin: Milla Jovovich Natalie Lundquist: Blake Lively Grigory Martin: Josh Hutcherson Jakob Anderson: Jason Momoa (with dreadlocks)
User name: persephoneshell Title: Chasing Sunsets Genre: modern fiction Synopsis: Blake, Briar, and Chase have been best friends since middle school (Chase and Briar since infancy), but a vicious fight the summer after high school ended tore them apart. Ten years later Blake is left at the altar. Devastated, he spirals into a dangerous depression. Chase and Briar come to a reluctant rescue, suggesting they take off on a road trip they'd once planned but never took. They'll have to either face their differences or history is bound to repeat itself and leave them scattered once again. Region: USA:Oregon:Salem The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Blake would be played by Tom Felton, Chase is Darren Criss, and Briar is Leighton Meester.
Synopsis: There has been a war against magic for Katherine's entire life - ever since the King outlawed magic 18 years ago, after the murder of his young bride who had been heir to throne & supposedly murdered by a band of rouge warlocks. Katherine is tired of seeing her friends and family's lives always in danger and living in poverty - she knows magic isn't inherently evil and is itching to join the war and set her people free. Unfortunately, she's unable to leave her father's side, an alcoholic battling depression. But when he's arrest for a crime he didn't commit, she wastes no time joining the war and attempting to rescue her father from execution. But when Katherine learns a shocking truth about her past, it changes everything.
Region: USA :: Wisconsin
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Nina Dobrev
Bullets fired into a crowd. Screaming. Blood. Police sirens in the distance, coming closer, making me cringe against old memories. Making me skulk into the shadows, hunch down in my hoodie. The last place I want to be is the centre of attention for the cops again. I sink back into the fabric, shying from the broad helicopter searchlights. But there are people bleeding into the gutter. Children screaming. Women crying. Men crying, too, not that any of them would admit it. The scent of gun powder, rotting garbage, vomit, and misery.
If this had been before, I might have leapt into action with one of my trusty gizmos. Or, failing that, at least with a witty verbal assault that would have left the moron too brain-befuddled to resist when I punched him in the oesophagus.
But this isn't before. This is after, and I am a supervillain no more.
... let me tell you about before.
Region: Toronto::Canada
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Benedict Cumberbatch as "The Prof", with Jennifer Connelly as the love interest.
I think this would be a great read but i feel that the synopsis is mostly in the second part and that the first part doesn't really explain the plot. Maybe you could go more into depth just a bit. :)
Synopsis: LuAnn is an ordinary housewife living and ordinary life. Except, she is harboring a dark secret: she witnessed the brutal slayings of her cousin and their friends in a cabin in the woods. She managed to survive, but not escape. The man who killed them is now her husband. Seven years in a captive marriage have taken their toll as LuAnn, haunted by visions of the past, loses her mind. Her only hope for survival and escape is Rev. Thomas Bentley who discovers her secret. Can he help her accept and escape the past before she, too, becomes a brutal killer?
Region: USA:Texas: Austin
Acotr who would play the main character: Winona Ryder
Deneol, a boy of seventeen and an orphan, finds himself fleeing home a fugitive—wrongly accused.
The murder of Collin Fossburi, brother of Civil Peace Militia’s (CPM) captain, Landry Fossburi, is pinned on innocent Deneol. As Landry sets out to avenge his brother’s death, Deneol must run. With the help of close friend, Browan, he is able to evade the CPM and flee to the nearby forest. It is in the forest that Deneol discovers his ability to specimorph—to change from one species to another. With this newly found ability, the war for Deneol’s soul begins.
In his journeys, Deneol encounters some unlikely characters who shape his destiny. From Bartholomew, the not-so-hermit-like wizard, to Ariax the Fox. These heroes, villains, somebodies, and nobodies all have ulterior motives—great and small—for befriending Deneol. Save for Esmerelda.
Esmerelda is the beautiful daughter of the late Collin Fossburi, whom Deneol is accused of murdering. Through a series of unusual events, Esmerelda falls in love with Deneol. However, Deneol is preoccupied with his abilities, and Esmerelda’s patience is tried. Her love for Deneol remains regardless of the path he chooses to tread.
When Collin Fossburi’s real murderer is discovered, the charges against Deneol are lifted. Deneol must decide whether or not to return home. And if he does return, will he forgive Landry?
Region: USA::Florida::Brevard County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe Ryan Gosling with long hair, a little more "golden." Also, no facial hair.
Synopsis:20 years ago, Garanth's father killed Garanth's mother and cursed the land, opening a door for the spirits of the Void to begin consuming the spirits of the land.
Now Garanth's half-brother leads an expanding army driven mad by fear and hunger consuming village after village in a quest for absolute power.
To save the land, Garanth must defy his mentor (the man who killed his father) and claim the seat of power before his brother reaches it, though it will cost him his humanity.
Region: A fantasy version of a middle-eastern bronze-age culture
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Perhaps Ashley Sawdaye if he had long hair and a beard
Synopsis: Caileigh Leann Griffin has always been annoyed by Jonathon Freeman. Everything about him has always irked her, especially his bad boy reputation and sarcastic, could care less attitude. One day, she gets in...credible news, though. A teenager at a neighboring school was in a car accident, which means that she can have a heart transplant.
When she recovers, she slips pretty seamlessly back into the old habits and patterns of her life. Slowly, though, she finds that a few things are off. She suddenly loves sushi, she hates pop music. But most importantly, her heart, or, rather, Marjorie's heart, nearly jumps out of her chest when she sees Jon. Caileigh must learn how to cope with her now-turned-around life. One without a heart murmur, one with two sets of 'parents' who want to help take care of and raise her, and a life with a strange attraction for a boy she knows she used to despise. As she learns more about Marjorie, and her new self, she begins to realize that no matter how much she changes; there are a few things that will never change, and some that haven't really changed at all.
Region: USA: North Carolina: Fayetteville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Dianna Agron with light blue color contacts.
Interesting idea. There have been previous stories regarding transplant recipients developing aspects of the organ donor. I like your version of the idea.
User name: lymbic Title: The Shadow and the Light Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: Compulsive pixie Xara has lived a charmed, if secluded life. As the daughter to Queen of the Pixies, her days were filled with magic and beauty, and her nights with a secret battle with OCD. When the day arrives for her rite of passage, she refuses out of fear of the world outside the pixie grove. Her younger sister had no such qualms, and ran off to complete the task that Xara should have done. Forced to head out into the world she fears in order to search for her errant sister, Xara encounters new peoples and harsh realities as her struggle with compulsion grows. When she meets an invader from the North who captures her heart, she must choose between the man she loves and the people who have taken her in; between searching for a sister she may never find, and searching for calm within herself. Region: USA: California: Orange County North The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Joanna Krupa
Synopsis: Anonymity is the world's worst enemy. It can lead to manipulation and ugly situations. So, when the lovely and always anonymous "girl" meets Adam in a wet sandbox the summer after kindergarten, she refuses to tell him her name. The girl then proceeds to befriend Adam and, of course, consequently falls in love with him. Adam's life is a constant guessing game, but when a bout of cancer and a cold winter interrupts a stumbling teenage relationship, it gets a whole lot more complicated. The girl and him, through a string of meaningless words and names, neither come of age, nor question the meaning of life. Rather, they do all they can to avoid being normal. And they do succeed as often as they can.
Region: USA :: Ohio :: Cleveland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Joan Cusack (20 years ago, of course); she has a sensitive side, but also pulls off that ominous darkness we all love so much.
Synopsis: Abandoned at birth by high school sweethearts, telepathic twins Krystal and Pepsy have been raised by the ever elusive (and soda swilling) Sweet Home cult. After twenty-two years of a quiet and sheltered life they have finally been sent on an undercover mission to infiltrate the rival group Peppery Inland, and so find themselves cut off from everything they know when calamity strikes. Planet Earth has suddenly been attacked by an unknown ninja species armored in aquatic gear, and in the ensuing turmoil all communication is down. Without Sweet Home to direct them the twins decide to abandon the sugary sweet life they've always known to work together with Peppery Inland and attempt to use their abilities for the good of the human race. As they struggle through the confusing maze of the world they were never allowed to experience they find themselves in a series of events that not only bolster their sense of individuality but cause them to question their very origins. Once it becomes clear that the Aquatic Ninja Aliens are targeting the worlds breweries Krystal and Pepsy struggle to hold on to the wholesomeness of their upbringing while preventing the rich headiness of the A.N.A.'s mission to fill their minds.
Region: USA :: Colorado :: Denver
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: This was a tough one, but I would like to think two "unknowns" would play the twins. If I had to choose someone I think it would be Olivia Wilde for Krystal Jackson Rathbone for Pepsy. (Although they are substantially more attractive than I picture my characters!)
Synopsis: Seth never really pictured himself working in an office. Somehow, that's exactly where he ended up, and he's got the suit, the bad coffee, and the ugly name plaque to prove it.
He does not remember applying for this job, or even how he got to this office. All he knows is that he has the one qualification required to work in this strange place. He's dead.
After all, it wouldn't be suitable for a living, breathing person to be a Death Agent, now would it?
Seth can't remember how he died, but the more he works, the closer he comes to facing the truth about his death, and why his new job is not a random occurrence.
Region: USA::Texas::El Paso
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A younger Jay Hernandez
Synopsis: Two hundred years ago, the Chiron was lost in space during its mission to study Alpha Centauri. Emma had built her doctoral dissertation on the theory of what happened to the ship and its crew. But right after submitting her theory, a settlement was found, filled with the descendants of the Chiron crew. Emma is given the opportunity to set her facts straight by journeying to the first discovered life-bearing planet, where she will work as a spy to infiltrate the Shield of Chiron, a resistance group causing trouble for the North American Union. Hopefully, she can complete her mission and make it home in time to finish her degree.
Region: USA: Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: This is tough. I guess the best match that I can find right now is Scarlet Johannson.
Synopsis: The late Victorian world is a time of prosperity and creativity. Cities are expanding. Science is discovering. Freedom is spreading. Yet, all are unaware that their future rests in the hands of the hidden vast empires of aeronauts, aquanauts, terranauts, and polarnauts, The Alliance in Aether has one united goal. To remain hidden from the rest of the world and live as they wish. They have employed decades of secrets to keep their modern advancements of aether and clock powered wonders from the doors of the rest of the world. Other than their desire for secrecy, the hidden empires keep to themselves. The Alliance is threatened. The Confederacy of Aether Dominance is banned and suppressed by the Alliance for aiming to utilize aether powered machines to control the world. The Confederacy has been growing and assassinating Alliance operatives in the Victorian world. When the assassinations reach a staggering toll, the Alliance must unite as the last line of defense for the world against the destruction of the Confederacy.
Region: USA::Utah::Utah County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Christopher Plummer for the father, Dianna Agron as the daughter, and Ben McKenzie as the unexpected hero.
I'm not entirely sure what happened to my first post...anyway here it goes again.
User name: maris_can_fly
Title: Death, Incorporated.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Seth never pictured himself as an office stiff, but somehow he's ended up as one. He has the suit, bad coffee and ugly name plaque to prove it.
Seth doesn't remember how he found his new employer, much less every applying for the job, but he does realize one thing. He has the only qualification required for the job: he's dead. A living human could never perform the duties of a Death Agent. Unlike his co-workers however, Seth can't seem to remember how he died.
The longer Seth is on the job, the clearer the circumstances of his death become, and the more he realizes there are things about his life (and death) that he must come to terms with.
Region: USA::Texas::El Paso
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A young Jay Hernandez :)
User name: Jazza Title: Angel Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: Katie has a perfect life for the past she has. She's angel like and is doing really well in school. Until a new girl comes. The town turns evil and her friends become harsh but at the same time weird things are happening to her. With no friends, no parents and just her grandmother she is lost in disappear and then her grandmother has a heart attack. She then finds out her destiny and sets out to restore her life. Making it better in the process. She reunites her family and comes to terms with her father and brother's deaths. Region: Melbourne The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Angelica Panganiban
Synopsis: A group of Neo-Communists called Daybreak 13 have taken over the world. The main character, Logan (age 23), with his best friend Sophia (age 21), have sworn to take down Daybreak 13 at any costs. However, every member of Daybreak 13 is a gifted killer, and the company holds more than meets the eye...
Region: Northern Europe (England, France, Germany)
The actor playing the main character: Aaron Johnson
Synopsis: When the earth had seen it's fiftieth winter, Cardinal (the creator of The World) went through the world and captured all of the evil and malicious spirits that existed there. Now, Laurelynne Elizabeth Dawnbright, a nine-year-old girl, mistakenly crosses into the prison. She must escape, and help Christian, a man who was trapped there by chance. The prison changes itself to appear like Laurelynne's home, attempting to fool her into staying. Drawing on all of her strength, Laurelynne keeps reality and uneality separate, and vanquishes the spirits that contain her. With the help of Christian, Laurelynne destroys the remains of the prison and disposes of the key. Now, with a newfound confidence, Laurelynne goes on to live in her own world, and begins to make friends and enjoy school.
Region: Elsewhere (Uijongbu, South Korea)
Actress: A more muted and solemn Joey King, but with a bright and imaginitive mind. <3
Synopsis: Recently divorced and tired of living in a goldfish bowl, Beth goes in search of a new life. There is a long-held dream she has decided to chase. False Friends covers the laughter and tears, the highs and lows of learning to live life in another country, and speak another language. But the most important part of Beth's adventure is discovering who she really is.
Region: Caribbean
The actor who would play my main character in the movie adaptation: To be honest, I haven't a clue. Hadn't even considered it.. But it would have to be someone earthy with humour and some vulnerability. Maybe a Meg Ryan type.
Synopsis: As if Jemma's life couldn't get any busier, her best friend moves away, her step-brother skips his annual visit-before-school-starts-for-Jemma, and then one of her remaining three closest friends turns up dead. Then when a photo of her mother in a wedding dress next to someone she doesn't know at all turns up, she looks for some answers. But when she discovers the identity of her mother's first husband, the only answer she has is who is killing her friends. The pressure mounts as the trio is whittled to a duo, the police are stumped, and the only person able to answer her remaining questions may be the one who is killing the girls.
Region: Current region: Kentucky::Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A tall, willowy Indian woman. I have no idea about specifics yet.
Synopsis: As the youngest daughter of a king, sixteen-year-old Audra knows that their homeland is coming apart at the seams. At fifteen, her closest friend Lucy believes it. More rumors of bloodthirsty witches arrive every day, and growing hostility from the country to the north is fast becoming a threat. Audra believes that her sickly brother, the crown prince, will one day put a stop to the danger, but yet another illness has forced him to stay bedridden, and weakened his power in the eyes of the court. When her brother falls into a sleep from which he may never awaken, Audra receives a cryptic message that Lucy believes is meant to take them out of the palace, to a legendary place where there is water with the power to heal. With their reluctant friend Christopher, the two set out for a mysterious city deep in the swamplands, neither knowing what they will find when they arrive. Audra hopes it will be a cure for her brother; Lucy hopes that it will be answers, that she will learn more about the dreams that wake her each night. On a journey filled with dangerous street performers, clever dragons, and one very deadly baroness, the wry princess and her talkative best friend wrestle with questions of identity--and how far is too far when saving someone that you love.
Region: USA::North Carolina
The actor who would play your main character in a movie adaptation: Audra--a brunette Emma Stone. Lucy--Dakota Fanning
Synopsis: He had the perfect future planned. It had all been going right for the street urchin turned spy. Then his lucky glove was discovered and the truth of what it was sent his world spinning out of his control. Martin Santer has reluctantly admitted that he is the crown prince of Aeterna but he refuses to tell anyone else. There were questions he needed to know the answers to first. Why had Terk, the Mad General of Venter, kidnapped him as a child and changed his face? How much more powerful would his already strong magical abilities get? And how was he to get his reflection back? In this installment of Martin’s story, the young spy is out to find his reflection, realize that love could be a part of his life, encounter known enemies and unlikely allies, and discover the truth of his dark past that will shape his future.
Region: USA:: Idaho Falls, ID
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Zachary Levi.
Title: 'Tattered Feathers of a Broken Wing', or 'The Sorrow of Datura.'
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Datura lived on a small island, alone with an old sailor for company. She watched a bird fly far above each day, yearning to join it. Her own wings, for she had wings, were tattered and broken, and it pained her every time she unfurled them to fly away from the island. She had been banished to the island though, and there was no escape for one with such unnatural abominations. Her name, Datura, had been given to her by those who banished her here. It meant suspicion, and death. One day two young men find her on the island, after one of her failed attempts to fly. Unconscious from the pain her wings had brought her, the boys placed her in their boat and took her home with them, only to be greeted by anger and hatred around them. The girl is unable to see any good in the people around her, as a result of a curse a man who banished her laid on her. She would see no joy in people, nor would she see kindness; only evil. Datura, the girl with wings, is beaten and mocked openly, fueling a hatred and unquenchable fear inside her.....
Region: USA::Colorado
The actor who would play our main character in the movie adaptation: Honestly? I don't know. Maybe Emma Watson? I just can't think of many that could pull of the bitter, broken girl that Datura is. And besides, in any case, the writer doesn't technically get a choice in the matter. However, if I had to choose (besides myself, even though I do act ;-)), it would be Emma Watson.
Synopsis: Borea was once a paradise of eternal spring and day. The townsfolk lived long and happy lives, isolated from the outside world. Unable to leave by foot or by boat, the only other option is to fly, but knowledge is prohibited. When one of Broeas's direct descendants comes into possession of a book, The Eye of Boreas, they must decide how to shape the "paradise" known as Hyperborea.
Region: USA: Oklahoma
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Evanna Lynch
Title: Plenty of Fish in the Sea: But Why are They All Bottom Feeders?
Genre: Chick Lit
Synopsis: One woman's quest to meet the man of her dreams while navigating the waters of online dating.
Fawn Berekoff is a mid-twenties, working woman and single mother who is recently single and ready to hit the dating scene. She turns to online dating in hopes of meeting a decent man in her spare time. Her outlook on dating is to give everyone a chance because you never know who you will meet and when "the one" will turn up. She ends up going on a series of hilarious dates and nicknames each of her potential suitors, like "One-arm" and "Navy guy". In the end, she learns that if you manifest your desires the end result is much better than ordering off an online menu of men.
Region: Victoria, BC - Canada
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Reese Witherspoon
User name:Child.of.Aphrodite Title: PK-Agent Genre: Science-Fiction Synopsis:I had finally met this boy after he graduated high school. I knew all about him: his schizophrenia, his incredible powers, and about Dr. Octavian. In fact, Octavian was an old colleague of mine and we had been friends for many years and that is how I knew about the boy. And what he had been destined to do. Finally I get to meet him, and ask about the story in his point of view.
From what I knew, Patrick was an above average student in both his athletics and intellect, had schizophrenia but was able to keep it under control with medications, and had been living through the foster care system is whole life. Since he was eight, he has been moved around home to home because of complications the foster family would have with Patrick. Apparently, Patrick has behavioral issues and also no one wants to deal with his every-now-and-then schizophrenic episodes. Since they noticed that he didn't have a stable home and he was schizophrenic, the state placed him in therapy. That is all the records had told me, but I knew the truth about Patrick.
He was a science experiment. During college, I remembered Isaac as a brilliant-minded man who was very optimistic for the future and all of his goals revolved around making the world a better place. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that he would take his name in fame, but before we graduated I had noticed something had changed about him. His smile wasn't genuine anymore, it looked cynical. I kept in touch with Isaac, but as I lost contact with him I decided to investigate on his whereabouts. That is when I found out about the experiments and Isaac's motives. I tried convincing him to stop. That what he was doing was disastrous and will not make a better world, but he just smiled at me and said,
"See that's the difference between you and I, you don't know everything, but I do."
It was already too late, PK-Agent 230 was created. He was a human who had opened up a sixth sense and was able to use pyschokinesis, only a theory in the parapsychology world but had finally came to life. His strongest psychokinetic trait was telekinesis, but with improvement and growth to his abilities he would be able to levitate himself, exhibit pyrokinesis and cryokinesis, influencing the probability in events, biologically heal himself, phase through matter, and more.
But Isaac wanted to use him for other purposes to "better the world," it was this ability PK-Agent 230 had which was able to tear things apart molecule by molecule. The last I heard about Isaac was that PK-Agent 230 had escaped and made a new identity, Patrick. After finding out that Patrick had escaped I kept a close eye on him with the help from the CIA.
Now here I am, finally meeting Patrick in person. Isaac had believed that Patrick was destined to be the final destruction of mankind, but I knew Patrick was destined to protect it
Region: USA::Ca::Modesto The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: a young Joseph Gordon
Synopsis: November is comprised of thirty days where thousands of people around the world subject themselves to a blissful obsession with words, a panic-inducing race with the clock, and lots and lots of caffeine. This journal-style book delves into the chaos of word-count goals, rebellious characters, forgotten plot twists, and (hopefully) that unforgettable moment of "I DID IT!!!"
Region: USA-Colorado Springs
Actress: ...One who can portray a wide range of emotional states, from frantic, to ecstatic, to drained, etc.
Synopsis: Ninety percent of Scotland is owned by foreign land owners: Arabs, Americans and Japanese.
Who decided the land could be sold? Under what rights can anyone who neither lives in Scotland, nor contributes to Scottish society ever claim long term ownership of the land?
In The Great Scottish Land Grab, one man begins to fight for Scotland's people to regain control of their land.
Centuries of tradition are about to be overturned but is this an impossible dream? One doomed to failure? Join the struggle as Scotland as a nation decides it wants its land back...
Region: Europe :: Scotland :: Glasgow and West
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Liam Neeson
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01 n/a will be voted on within the next seven days work-in-progress Austria The Invisible Man
Synopsis: Dante, Jessie, and Ulysses are typical college drop-outs. They spend their days sharing a loft apartment and just try to live through life on a day-to-day basis, hoping for one day to make a big break. They have big plans for the near future, but a financial tragedy threatens to ruin those plans. In desperation they resort to something vile: they fake a religious miracle in order to scam people out of their money. The "miracle" goes off well, but things quickly turn south, and they are forced to put into question their friendships, their plans for the future, and what religion means to them.
Region: USA: Wisconsin
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I really have no idea; I'm not really up-to-date on actors and actresses. I suppose Micheal Cera for Ulysses, but I'm drawing a blank for Jessie and Dante.
Synopsis: WereWolves, and Vampires. Two races that used to coexsist peacefully. Now they are at war. The Coast is home of the Vampire clan, the Blacklings; Werewolf Hunters and 1 of the 5 'royal' families of Vampire decended from Dracula. Elliot Blackling and his other half, Daimon, are sent inland quite a ways for training and schooling with his bodyguard, a 9 foot tall Winter Troll named Lewis.
It's Inland where they find a wolf pack, The Night Pack, which openly accepts Vampires and even has a Wolf and Vampire pair dating eachother. This Pack is the home of Ebony Marsh, the 'runt' of 6 children. her 5 elder siblings are highly protective of her, but as the pack accepts Elliot/Daimon and his guardian Lewis, the threads of fate are being woven and a war could start up again at any moment, or with one wrong move.
Region: USA :: Michigan :: Ottawa County-Grand Rapids
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I really don't know. Keeping Track of Actors isn't my thing, but if I gotta put names.... For Lewis - Robbie Coltrane (mostly for the height). For Elliot/Daimon - Elijah Wood For Ebony – Aja Bair or Davida Williams
Synopsis: According to Rachel Marconi, chocolate heals all wounds. That and throwing darts at a picture of her ex-boyfriend. Burned by yet another bad relationship, Rachel decides to reprioritize her life, putting her dream to compete on a Food Network Challenge at the top of the list and dating at the bottom crossed out with red Sharpie.
But what’s a girl to do when a certain sexy guy keeps asking her out? Cue in Graydon Gretski, a former pro-hockey player turned restaurant owner. After a lot of persistence and humorous teasing, he finally convinces Rachel to commit to a date. Just when things begin to warm up, threatening notes directed at Rachel arrive. When her bakery is vandalized, Graydon’s protective streak goes on red alert. Is it her obsessive ex-boyfriend stalking her? Or maybe a challenger trying to sabotage the competition? Either way, Rachel is definitely going to need some more chocolate—perhaps drizzled over ice cream and devil’s food cake.
Region: Missouri: Kansas City
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Isla Fisher as Rachel Marconi; Vin Diesel as Graydon Gretski
Synopsis: The world is now free from the taint of humanity. Terra has recovered from the devastation left after the Rejuvenation. It is now a wild and terribly beautiful landscape full of life, wonder, and magic. Humankind is now scattered across the earth in small bands and villages, fearful of the faeries who have reclaimed their position as the dominate species. A war between the Unseelie Court and the Seelie Court, one that has been raging since the dawn of time, is threatening once more to destroy the delicate balance of Mother Nature. KISA is a half human half faerie mix searching for answers hidden away with her long lost faerie father. She travels in the companionship of Landon, a faerie hound with immense knowledge and patience. Together they will begin a quest to search for Zoll, the diminutive faerie who laid with Kisa’s mortal mother, Meridith. Felix is a half blood living among the humans of Hawk Camp. He too is searching for something. He has been given the task of defending his human neighbors from a curse that has begun to kill their lands and cause their nightmares to become reality. When Kisa comes to Hawk Camp to fulfill a contract to do exactly that, Felix is forced into a situation he has no control over. Delfei is also a half blood living at Hawk Camp. But she seeks an escape. She lives every day with a powerful and terrible secrete, one that could change the fates of Kisa and everyone who comes into contact with her. The Prophet is a mysterious figure lurking in the background of all of Kisa’s misfortunes. He is always one step ahead of her, always moving closer to his ultimate goal. Stopping Kisa from fulfilling The Prophecy circling around the realm of Faerie.
Region: USA :: Washington :: Vancouver
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Milla Jovovich (played Lee Loo in Fifth Element) has all the qualities that I envisioned in Kisa.
Synopsis: The twelve animal gods of the Chinese Zodiac get together once every few hundred years for a competition to see who can win over a lost soul. This time the Rat has found a man who comes to a dingy chinese take-out restaurant in a shady part of town every day for lunch. Soon the little hole-in-the-wall restaurant becomes the stage for an other-wordly occurrence that only a few humans bother to notice at all.
Region: Pennsylvania: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: The Rat- Tom Waits. The human? Someone unknown and unremarkable; a middle aged asian man.
'Chang Chow's and the Zodiac' sounds fun I bet the graphic artists could have a field day with this as a book cover. I would like to read this story if it were to be published. Good luck :-)
Title: About a Boy: A Year in the Life of Alex Scott
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Hi, my name's Alex Scott. I'm your average teenage boy, and until recently my life was pretty normal. The last year's been a bit crazy though. I lost my best friend Danny to suicide, I've battled with bulimia and I finally got Summer to go out for me (she's the girl I've only had a crush on for forever.). It's been pretty hectic. All the while I've been growing, morphing, changing. It seems so surreal, looking back to who I was a year ago. I mean, I look the same but that person is a world away from who I've become. I've been torn down and had to build myself back up from the pieces. I've learned a lot, and it hasn't all been good.
This is my story. It's not always a happy one, but then again, life isn't always happy.
Region: Europe :: Northern Ireland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I'm not sure, maybe Logan Lerman
User name: Title: The Dystopian Paperboy Genre: Sci-fi Synopsis: A ruined world. Fire in the streets, blood in the sky, and things you would no longer call human prowling in the shadows. All caused by a newspaper.
They say there was something hidden, in the final edition of "The Rich and Wealthy". One copy printed, no copies sold. What could be in that paper though? Some say money, some say power, and some (the stupid) say love.
Paperboys. That's not their real title, but as an ilegal organization, they don't have many real titles, apart from outlaw, or fugitive. They deliver packages no-one else is willing to. Riding across the broken landscape of a once beautiful world, they are the only communication left with the rest of the world. And they know it.
Soon though, everything will be changing. Region: UK::London The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Elijah Wood
Synopsis: A story revolving around a young man, Kilian Harkin, who discovers that the very species he hates, is the one he belongs to. Follow him on his journey over the ‘Mississippi Wall’ and into the heart of his new Alpha.
'From goofy smiles to a noble knight, Madden Aelius seemed a perfect catch.
So I, being the wonderful pessimist that I am, immediately knew there was something very, very wrong with him. Like his obvious fascination with lycans.'
Region: USA:: North Carolina
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I'm not sure about actors, but there are two models in particular that I used as inspiration for the main character and his love interest. Bernardo Velasco and Lasse Pedersen.
User name: plastic.santa Title: Speed Trapped Genre: Thriller/suspense/crime Synopsis: A small-town police officer is going nowhere fast as he spends his nights speed gunning cars on the state highway that divides his tiny city in two. After his cousin's body is found in a shallow grave under his back porch, he must put his job and his life on the line to avenge her death and clean up a drugs- and corruption-plagued town. Region: Arkansas/Fayetteville:NWA The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Charlie Sheen
Synopsis: Gavin Marx wanted to be a police detective. Gavin Marx walked his beat and paid his dues. It all seemed so easy, until the day Danny Mulligan put a .22 caliber round through Marx's skull and landed him in a coma.
A year later Marx is back on his feet, but off the force due to the side effects of taking one to the brain. Shaky hands. Hallucinations. Nervous ticks. And he never falls asleep.
Still, a private eye who never sleeps is a big selling point, and his private practice is going well until the day a sharp-dressed man with a homemade watch asks him for his help tailing a beautiful woman with a dark secret. At the same time a designer drug that only affects the user's dreams is making it's rounds, and before long the sleepless private eye, the unlabeled businessman, and the dreamy dame are all locked up in a nightmare of violence and betrayal.
Region: Washington, DC
Actor: Gavin Marx - Jospeh Gordon-Levitt, or maybe James McAvoy
Synopsis: A young man receives a letter addressed to his dead father from the town of Sage Sky in the New Mexico Territory. Among the secrets of the town are one or two belonging to his father and the mother he never knew.
Region: USA :: Arizona :: Phoenix
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Taylor Kitsch
Synopsis: Just under three hundred years ago, a research colony and human settlement on the planet Viridia was cut off from the rest of humanity by an event now known as the Silence. With no more trade from other planets, the people of Viridia learned to get by without a stable supply of industrial metals but with abundant agricultural resources and a magic-like planetary life-force called gaia. The colony's research center focused on making the most of available resources, and the colony, called Paolo, thrived for generations separated from the rest of galactic civilization. Now a discarded research clone named Reynard from the center that has come to be known as Arandee has found something that should not have been buried in Paolo's junkyard: a starship's navigational android unlike any documented pre-Silence technology. As he repairs her he realizes that she holds the key to reuniting Viridia with the rest of humanity - but Arandee is not willing to give up control of the planet so easily.
Region: USA::Ohio::Columbus
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Considering a sad lack of young redheads, I'll just go with Rupert Grint.
Synopsis: Two sisters, Violet and June, are sent to stay with Crazy Aunt Cora for the summer. Violet discovers a Door in the middle of the woods, seemingly leading to nowhere. But behind the Door she discovers a fantastical world of faeries, goblins, and trolls. There she meets Finnch, a roguish Fae who leads her into an exciting adventure. But when Jane is stolen to pay Finnch's debt, Violet has to go back through the Door to rescue her sister, and suddenly sees the very dark side of the world behind the Door. Violet must find courage she never knew she had to survive in this dark world and rescue her sister from the labyrinthine prison in which she resides.
Region: USA: Virginia: Shenandoah Valley
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Probably Georgie Henley, Lucy Pevensie in Chronicles of Narnia
Synopsis:The Human race has expanded beyond Earth, with many major settlements on nearly every planet with Saturn and Jupiter the only exceptions. Many small colonies have also been established within various asteroids and moons. The Earth itself has become a collective of nations working together to fund expansion across the solar system. Large corporations have also joint funded establishing settlements, with the colony of Hermes on Mercury being the best example of their potential dominance.
Jericho Peirce is a medic on board the state of the art research and exploration vessel North Star. Born on the Moon and raised traveling with his parents aboard a spacecraft for most of his life, Jericho easily picked up many of the skills required for space life as well as learning the harsh realities of humanity's expansion beyond Earth. When the North Star's field doctor is killed during an excursion to investigate the loss of contact with a Colony Ship set to establish the first colony on Saturn, Jericho's experience and expertise leads him to being promoted to the new field doctor. With the question of where the colony ship disappeared to, and what exactly caused the disappearance, still undiscovered it becomes the mission of the North Star, its crew, and Expedition Team to uncover this and other secrets that lurk through the solar system...and beyond.
Region: USA :: Tennessee :: Knoxville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I am honestly not all that sure who would play Jericho. Maybe Alan Tudyk (Wash on Firefly)? I haven't fully thought out his character yet.
User Name: kcrisman Title: Something or Other Genre: Literary Magical Realism Humor Synopsis: While vicious dog attacks dominate the local news, an aged detective solves an ill-defined mystery while residing in a run-down motel. The motel's owner, sleepy Ahab, forces the guests to clean their own rooms with a staff of clones of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Region: Undetermined The actor: Harrison Ford
Synopsis: Have you ever lost the one you love? Have you ever lost the one you love to magic?
It was six months before Lillia began to believe that Michealis was no longer who he used to be. The man she had once admired and loved was lost in the demon who had taken over. Now her long-time friend, Jonathan, was urging her to kill him—to save the world, he said. But she wanted to believe that Michealis was still in there, trapped somewhere beneath the surface, trying as hard as he could to get back to her.
It was at the eight month mark that war encompassed the life she had known.
A whole year had passed before she decided to end it.
Region: USA::Florida, Orlando.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Holland Roden would be my top pick for Lillia.
Synopsis:The bored Prince, Lazarus Lanistter, hates the idea of the ball his father is throwing. He does not wish to be married at such a young age – really, he is only a couple hundred years old! – and would prefer to not be forced to make such an important decision, anyway. When he called Chastity back, it was not with the intention of making her his bride, but somehow, the thought enters his mind… But things become tangled and twisted as devious plots are uncovered during this Masquerade.
The banished seamstress, Chastity West, returns to Lanistter castle in America for the grand event to take place there. She has been called back by her former boss, the Prince, for an unknown mission, and must keep her intent a secret from her best friend, Marie. There are strange things afoot at the vampire castle, and Lazarus is entrusting Chastity to the task of making sure his sister is safe…
Darius Hassanpour. Princess Marie’s best [male] friend. He has never been liked by Lazarus, or Chastity, but he never cared. As far as he is concerned, they can deal with their problems with him on their own. He has far more important things to worry about. For example, his boss is pressuring him to carry out a mission that has been ten years in the making… But how can Darius complete a mission that would require breaking the trust of someone he cares deeply for?
The vampire Masquerade has begun, and there seem to be shadows watching the royal family’s every move. As for those close to them, they had better look out: someone is after the royal crown, and will kill anyone in their way.
Region: USA :: Nevada :: Las Vegas
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Elizabeth Hurley for Chastity West, William Levy as Lazarus Lanistter, and Orlando Bloom as Darius Hassanpour.
Synopsis: Robin is a disillusioned dancer, determined to leave performing and competing behind forever, and Evan is her ex-rival, determined to prove her worth in the ballet world, even if it means hiring the one person who she could never beat to be her mentor.
Region: USA:: North Carolina
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: For Robin, maybe Rooney Mara. For Evan, Antonia Thomas.
Synopsis: The first time Zee Khalil saw a mermaid scalp for sale, she was ten. Six years later, the mermaid tourist trade is the only thing standing between her small fishing town and subsumption into one of its larger neighbors. Though the town has received some negative press, Zee's never seen a problem––mermaids are legal prey, and traps have come a long way since the first mermaids were netted. She should know, after all; her dad was one of the first fishermen to adopt and promote the new humane policies.
Then his body washes up on shore, wrapped carefully in mermaid hair. All of a sudden, the town is flooded with big city reporters and the governor's being pressured to shut them down. Someone's not following the rules. And Zee plans on finding out who.
Region: Europe::France
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I...I don't know! Not Dakota Fanning (although I'm sure she'd be good at it). An unknown, I think, because I don't know how popular this movie would be with mainstream audiences, but whose performance leads her to bigger and better things.
Synopsis: The world as we know it has taken a turn for the worse... people are not just made fun of for being unique anymore...they are being deported...and not across state lines..but to Mars! Trevor Heart and his sister Angelica(aka Angel for short) find this also includes them...as they are sent skyrocketing into an adventure neither one of them could have expected! Imperfect Paradise is the first in a series of books telling the story of Travis and his sister's journey to the twin planets of Dailorn and Darthir each in a race to collect the 10 shards of the Jewel of Eden...for very different reasons! Who will get them first and what will happen when they do?
Region: USA::Idaho::Boise
The Actor who would play main character in movie adaptation: Zac Efron would fit the part perfectly!
Synopsis: A regular joe named Paul, bureaucrat by day and gardener by other times, discovers the incredible fecundity of marigolds: one plant produces hundreds of seeds, each of which can produce hundreds more. He hatches (or plants) a plan to change (or at least brighten a bit) the world with marigolds. He starts his little revolution solo, planting seeds wherever he can, but soon discovers his noble but (frankly) pathetic efforts barely make a dent. The world is still the useful, practical, prosaic place it has always been. He finds a group of (somewhat) like-minded people who, next planting season, join the quest. The small group, by the third year, becomes almost an army (a word Paul hates because it’s the antithesis of everything marigold), a veritable congregation of marigold planters, determined optimists who only want a world with a dab of color and poetry. His revolution grows to sizes and takes him to places he never dreamed he’d get to, so much so that he almost loses himself and everything he values most in the process.
User Name: Jerhansolo Title: The book of Raven: Descent Genre: Mythically Endowed Psychological Thriller, re: Jungian Archetypology Synopsis:
Beware the Shadow thief.
He flaps his blackened wings, and his feathers stir the air; spreading confusion and deceit. As winter breaks he descends, as a specter, upon the slumbering town of Bryhurst, which had lain dormant for many long winters, alone in blissful silence. There was a reason they had cut themselves off from the world.
As the town celebrates the rite of spring, the shadow evokes his troubled spell, and the Myth awakes renewed. Most are oblivious to the song, but three youths- Kari, Wylan, and Baryn- hear the call, and these heroes find themselves locked in an ancient dance-- a mythic tale that portends tragedy.
The myth is a tale of three brothers. A bear, a wolf and a fox who fight each other for one beauty. Each brother receives both a blessing and a curse, and the raven--the shadow thief, preys upon their weaknesses and jealousies. He promises the ultimate reward, but leads them to their demise.
These newly initiated heros find their lives mirroring the ancient script, and as they fight to discover themselves, they struggle against the myth that shapes their destiny. But they cannot stop, manipulate, or deny the momentum of their fate. Passions rise, and upon these passions, the shadow plays. He extorts the growing rifts within the town, and strives to summon the beast. The hero’s rivalry blossoms as the beast rages. And with each incarnation, the beast grows more subtle and dangerous until he threatens to overwhelm, and tear apart the valley. A book of Sorrows. A book higher love. A book where heroes discover inner meaning, and loose themselves into the archetypal fabric of the ages.
Region: Pacific Islands Actors: Kari (fox): James Macaby- with red tussled hair Baryn (Bear): A younger Joaquin Phoenix, with a few more pounds Wylan (wolf): A brooding, teenage Hugh Jackman Varis (raven): Any one who could sneak around in a black cloak, and could mix sinister with soothing in their voice would do. Johnny Depp?
Synopsis: Dacia Depaz had never dealt with anything in her life. She is the youngest in her family and had pretty much lived a carefree life. But her family life changed drastically when she overheard her twin siblings talking one evening. Her oldest sister eloped and her parents were constantly fighting. In a home where life seemed picture perfect to any outsiders, was anything but to those who lived there. Dacia was resolved to be the perfect child that would make her parents proud. The one who would never be the cause of any drama. But she quickly became the one child that would never be noticed.
Region: USA :: Arizona :: Phoenix
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Selena Gomez
Synopsis: In a world of horses, blades and bows in the Kingdom of the king's special forces units collectively called the King's Rangers holds a triple trial tourney to select new members, called the Trial of Threes. But girls are not allowed in the tourney. So what happens when one girl hides her identity and competes in these trials? If she passes will the Rangers change their ways and allow woman into their ranks or will they deny her? And what of the rumor about how some that are listed as passing latter don't join the rangers? Why is that? Why would they get listed as able to join them and then change their minds? And what of the Rumors saying that all Ranger seem to have a strange ability? What is this Ability and how do they come to have it?
At Denten's Academy of Arms boys and girls, starting as young as eight, are taught the skills of war and leadership. Meet Crystal "Crys" Blackstone, the highest rank student of the senior class at the academy and her best friend Jenny "Jen" Caseville. See what happens when these two strong willed young ladies learn of the discrimination against women fighters in the best fighting force in the lands. See what they decide to do about it and see what happens to them as they try and prove that women can sometimes fight as good as any man.
Region: US: Michigan: Ann Arbor
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Well as the main characters are in late teens would have to be young woman new to the action scene. Though if age wasn't an issue Jennifer Garner as Crystal "Crys/Chris" Blackstone and Drew Berrymore playing her best friend Jenny Caseville.
User name: KittiAutumn Title: Cirque De Mort Genre: Fantasy/Dystopian Synopsis: There's a circus, a darker one than the others. Most people call it Cirque De Noir, but those who are in it... they call it Cirque De Mort, Circus of Death. Once accepted into the circus, you can't get out. When Annike is accidentally sold to the circus as a piccolo player, she sees the real behind-the-scenes view of Cirque De Mort. There are people sawed in half, acrobats jump off of their bars, people voting on who should be killed next. Annike and her fellow carnies must find a way out, for people are becoming so desperate to escape that sometimes, their vote is on themselves. Region: USA: South Carolina : Greenville The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm, I'm not much of a movie watcher, but I guess Emma Watson (I'm dreaming, right?)
User name: Omega 89 Title: The Torturer and the Prostitute Genre: Horror/sci-fi/comedy Synopsis: Claret Deep loves her job. Walking the streets of a cold city built upon a drifting asteroid, getting paid for selling her shapely and agile body to men...what more could a girl ask for? One thing's troubling her, though. Where are the other prozzies? Why is she the only one left hanging around on street corners? Her investigations lead her to the twisted lair of insane sadist Grimmbourne Smeeg, and Claret learns that prostitution is a dying trade,,,literally! Region: Stayn Ivel The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe Kelly Brook or Karen Gillan?
Synopsis: Shane Addams is a sixteen-year-old train-wreck. He's a drug-addict, a cutter, a shoplifter, and a general ne'er-do-well. When his actions catch up to him and the police get involved, his rich and absent parents send him to Holiday Hospital (a world renowned rehabilitation center/mental institution). The place is impressive enough to begin with. A large, historic building on sprawling acres of Adirondack land. But as soon as Shane's parents leave him in the staff's 'capable' hands, things turn ugly. The therapists are cruel, the treatments are medieval, and punishments are severe. When the therapists try to treat Shane's cutting habit, he is horrified at the abuse he has been subjected to. With the help of his new friends and a love interest, Shane organizes an escape attempt. But the staff doesn’t like it when you try to leave…
User name: poiama Title: Cherry Pies & Gunpowder Genre: Historical Fiction/LGBTQ Synopsis: 16 year old George joins the army in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor leaving his 4F boyfriend, Harry behind. After eceiving many care packages always containing a cherry pie the packages stop. It's not until George gets home that he finds out Harry has passed away from Leukemia. The story then follows George's life through the fities and early sixties, when he meets Jack at an anti-war rally only to have Jack drafted to Vietnam. Region: Massachusetts: Elsewhere The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Johnny Depp
Synopsis: It is about a young woman who discovers that she is a magical being from two of the races created by God to help protect and defend mankind from the demons that prey on their souls. She is sent/finds (still working on that one) an ancient book which is the gateway to hell and according to prophecy she is the only one who can both open the gateway AND destory it.
Region: Earth: Lowcountry-SC, Other dimensions will include Heaven and Hell.
The actor/actress who would play my main character in the movie adaptation, hmm....I would have to say Dakota Fanning.
User name: LadyAislin Title: Telling the Bees Genre: Literary Fiction Synopsis: Haunted by prophetic dreams, Appalachian twentysomething Rue Strongwall's efforts to escape her past are stymied by family crises. She must choose between the person she thinks she wants to be and the person she was born to be, whether to deny her past and family or to embrace them. Region: USA: Indiana: Evansville The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Not sure, possibly Saoirse Ronan if she can do the right accent.
Synopsis: It's called the Rebirth program. Take a small country, remove everyone, and reload everything to make it a better place. But during the removal, rumors circulate. What if you don't return after you get taken away> Jasmine Dosner doesn't want any part of the Rebellion her set friend is urging her to join, but when the Removal process hits home, she decides to help break in to the Containment INstitution and becomes roped into something that could cost her her life.
Region: USA: Missouri: St. Louis
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Probably someone that has never been heard before, but for a famous actor, Ashley Greene perhaps
Synopsis: The son of a powerful dark mage wants to learn magic, but to prove he is worthy, he must accompany a band of magi into enemy territory to acquire an artifact. The King wishes to use the artifact to defeat the enemy, but the dark mage wants it for himself. The boy mage must cooperate with a group of people who despise his unwelcome but necessary presence. The boy mage learns of the artifact’s true power and how the enemy plans to use it to defeat his people, but he realizes that no one should command its terrible power. Faced with defeat on all fronts, the boy mage makes a choice and unleashes a great, dark power that changes the written fate of both sides.
Region: USA::Missouri::Springfield
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Anthony Hopkins voice would be excellent. His voice is what I invision when I think of that character. I'd prefer the movie be animated rather than live action.
User name: shana.m Title: Red Hot (An Alice Maxwell Mystery) Genre: Murder Mystery Synopsis: After losing her best friend and roommate in a house fire, Alice grieves her friend and tries to put her life back together as she adapts to living alone in an unfamiliar neighborhood. Not ready to go back to dancing after the West Coast Swing regional debacle, Alice has been lying low. But...murder isn't that far away from Alice and while hiking with a new group of friends (exercise is supposed to help ease stress, right?), they stumble across a body while out on a group hike. The victim is the sister of one of the hiker's boyfriend, and Alice unwittingly finds herself drawn to the mystery of why Laurel was killed and who did it. Even though she was not the intended victim (not like last year...), Alice, yet again, finds herself in danger as she begins uncovering clues and uncovering the identity of the killer. Region: Seattle! The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Christina Hendricks
Title: The Chronicles of Bryce Year 1: The World Underneath
Genre: Fantasy/ Young Adult
Synopsis: Bryce O'Neil is a sickly 11 year old girl living in Ireland. But when her parents are killed in a tragic accident she is forced to live with her aunt and uncle in Indiana. While the couple are kind Bryce finds herself miserable. Until, one day, while playing in the garden, a small brown rabbit begins to follow Bryce. To her disbelief the animal follows her every move. When she finally decides to bring the rabbit in she sets in on her bed and watches it transform into a young girl. The girl explains that her name is Chess and that she has been sent by her mentor to find a child who will help save their world. Chess thus takes Bryce on a journey to the world beneath ours: Rivier. Now Bryce is on a journey to learn the ways of this strange world in order to help find the long lost prince and save their world and ours from an evil sorcereress. But what happens when her and Chess become entangled in a complex web of secrets?
Region: USA- North Carolina
Actor who would play character in movie adaption: Well she is too old but Kacey Rohl.
Synopsis: Alice Selma Harvey, a young and strong-willed female bounty hunter, in hopes of improving her reputation, assists an older man (Theodore Levi Cooper) track down the man who paralyzed his right arm, murdered his wife and raped his six year old daughter.
Region: USA: NY: Albany
Actors: Alice Selma Harvey- Rooney Mara Theodore Levi Cooper- Phillip Seymour Hoffman
SYNOPSIS: The cops called him an Arsonist. The shrinks called him a Pyromaniac. The social workers called him a Firebug. The foster kids called him a Freak.
Tyler called them idiots.
Arsonists needed matches and gasoline to start fires. Tyler just needed to be in a bad mood and his mind did the rest. Tyler had never heard of a Pyromaniac with a body temperature so high that it rivaled a fever. Firebugs couldn’t put their hands into a lit furnace and come out unscathed.
But an Elemental could.
After 15 years of life as an outsider, Tyler is about to discover a home where being a freak is normal. Unfortunately for Tyler, a world where Elementals keep the rest of the supernatural in check will prove to be a far deadlier place to grow up.
REGION: USA - CT - Shoreline
ACTOR WHO WOULD PLAY MAIN CHARACTER: Dylan Minnette
Thanks so much! I'm really excited to finally write this story. It's been kicking around in my skull since high school. Good luck with your own novel writing endeavors as well :)
Thanks! I'm happy there's someone else out there working on fantasy that can think beyond vampires and werewolves LOL. I never understood why Elementals weren't more popular. I think they are pretty damned cool :)
Good luck with your feverish fire Elementals as well! When the NaNo peeps (finally) get around to getting the writing buddies section working I'll be sure to add you :)
'Elemental' Loving this too, once again a great idea and Tyler sounds like a very strong character. I know from working in a school library this style of book was always popular with teens and adults alike.Good luck:-)
Thanks so much for the well wishes! Gosh everyone on here is so nice. I'm really happy someone commented about Tyler's character. I had a pretty happy teenage experience so it's a bit of a challenge getting him to sound so disgruntled lol.
I take it as a great compliment that someone who actually knows what's interesting to teens liked the teaser summary. You never know if people are just being nice or if they really have a background with books. I don't think you can get anymore knowledgeable than seeing what books kids check out and which ones collect dust on the shelf. My library card is always checking these types out :)
Thanks again! Good luck with your own work as well! I'll be sure to add you to my buddy list when the NaNo techies get around to getting that up and running again :)
I'm am already so sucked in by this whole idea and I will be cheering you on. I can't wait to see this one published and then eagerly await the next ones that come after it!
Got my e-mail this afternoon saying that mine was one of the summaries up for consideration. Thank you all so much for your lovely comments. I have a feeling they helped more than the story description :) Thanks again.
User Name: naturalred78 Title: Retail Therapy Genre: Mainstream fiction Synopsis: Chaos ensues when a group of retail workers have had it with rude customers and a company that only cares about profits, profits, profits. Mara leads the way to prank wars against management and ungrateful customers as she tries to find a way out of a job that just doesn't seem to cut it anymore. When you work in retail for 10 years, you're bound to lose your mind at some point! Region: USA: Wisconsin: Kenosha/Racine The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone or Anna Faris
Supnosis: James Thompson, the leader of the king's Elite Guard, the hands of the soverign himself, punishes those who defy the emperor.
Rachel, the leader of the rebellion (all those who poopse the king and his empire) has never tasted bondage, but is willing to risk her life to secure the freedom of others, and seeks revenge for her lost brother.
When they meet on the field of battle, strength against wit, the empire will never be the same
Reigon: USA Las Vegas
The actor who would play your main character in movie adaptation: Russell Crowe
Synopsis: Soraya Edwards is blissfully happy with her life. She has flaws, her life is NOT perfect, but she finally feels like she's living her life how SHE wants to. Three weeks after she's supposed to be married....her husband-to-be dies in a car crash that wasn't his fault. The only thing for her to do is to seek comfort from her best friend since childhood, Benjamin. Yet, every step she takes towards Ben, makes her feel that she's cheating on Tyler. What can she do?
Region: Europe! England! Kent! The Universe! :P
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I have THREE main characters so here goes!
Tyler: Chris Hemsworth (That guy from Thor!)
Soraya: Emmy Rossum (Christine from The Phantom of the Opera! Dun Dun DUN!!)
Benjamin: Taylor Launter (The werewolf from Twilight, you can't miss him. He's usually shirtless. **dead-pan**)
User name: useyourlove Title: Love Letters to Vincent Heart Genre: Science Fiction Synopsis: Paige Parker's cult sci-fi television show "Heart Star" was cancelled without warning and she finds herself working at the local grocery store. When a mysterious man in black walks in and insists she take a ride in his government issue helicopter, she thinks at first it must be a practical joke. But when she ends up installed behind a communications hub in Houston, relaying information from the Starship Destiny to the skeleton NASA night shift in the midst of the first manned mission to Mars, she thinks this is anything but a laughing matter. Especially since it's now her job to converse on a regular basis with her childhood crush, the poster child for space exploration: Jordan Welles. With all communication devices and legal documentation confiscated so as to not run afoul of the national unions (which only allow work from 9-5), Paige essentially no longer exists. As she struggles to come to terms with the implications of being a non-entity, she turns to the only people who will understand her and feed her need for escapism at the same time: the local (and equally illegal) baseball team--The Nasty Astros--and their player-manager Clancey Shaffer. Region: USA :: North Carolina :: Chapel Hill The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Paige is a Barbara Stanwyck type, Jordan I see as a 1940's John Garfield, Clancey Shaffer is more Gregory Peck or possibly Gary Cooper. And I prove yet again that my film knowledge is temporally limited. Sigh.
User name: grenouille Title: Paper Roses Genre: Literary fiction Synopsis: Sometimes the things we are looking for are not so far away... Paloma only knows her parents from one photograph. She‘s spent years fighting to become part of her foster family. She‘s longing for affection, real relationships and attention.Things that are so hard to find in a circus fighting for its own survival... Meeting a man who knew her mother turns Paloma‘s life upside-down. It‘s the beginning of a long chain of events, of questioning her life‘s values, of the strangest friendship of her life, and of a quest to find out who she really is. Why do a certain gang‘s members recognize her on the street even though she had never seen them before? Why doesn‘t she resemble any of the people in the photograph? And why does the circus‘ owner hate her so much? Every person she meets opens a new door to the past of her parents. But some doors should stay closed forever...
Region: Europe::France The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Veronica d'Agostino
Synopsis: Samantha (Sammy) have wait for so long for her birthday (she is turning 15), but in the day of her birthday nobody say happy birthday to her. She is mad and unhappy, so she runs away from her house. She goes to Alaska and find people who love her and take care of her, but it was not long before her mother take her back home. Sammy is been force to move back with her mom and when she goes back something terrible is waiting for her. Once again she escape from her house but this time she takes her two little sisters with her. Everyone is looking for her and her sisters, finally Sammy remember where she went the last time she run from home. They find the place and a old lady adopt them. They live happy and safe, their mother try to ruin their life but fail to do so.
Region: U.S.A: Alaska
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: hmmmmm.........I think it could be Selena Gomez for Samantha
Synopsis: After the death of her fiancée, Leann buries herself in her work: creating the perfect dresses for the perfect brides. But when Callie waltzes into her life, her world is turned upside-down. Leann finds herself enchanted with the quirky, dancing bride-to-be, and falling head-over-heels in love with her. She struggles to let go of her dead fiancée, to come to terms with her feelings for Callie, and to make the perfect dress for the woman with whom she has fallen in love.
Region: USA::New York::Buffalo
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: Natalie Portman
User name: melania_3000 (I think...) Title: (provisional) Just... perfect! Genre: some satire, some humour and some parody... Synopsis: A non-perfectionist gets a job in an all perfectionist environment. All hell breaks loose... Region: Central & Eastern Europe, Romania The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I'll let the buyer of the rights decide...
User name: Laughing-Mockingbird Title: Of All the Ways to Die Genre: Fantasy Synopsis:Imagine a world... ...where the rapists who stalk naive blondes down ominously shadowy alleys are not men, but incubi and succubi. ...where children are snatched from their beds by ravening wendigos or tricked into following a smirking, sadistic shapeshifter to a fate they cannot even imagine. ...where humans stumble obliviously through their lives, never knowing that they dance on strings pulled by an unknowable power. ...that is about to end.
The incubus Izaiah Cassius and his lover, the shapeshifter Leo Marcellus, have spent two hundred years preparing for a singular event: the birth of the child who will save the world...or destroy it. But mere hours after the Antichrist is born, Izaiah's father slaughters the parents and carries the child to the smoky depths of Hell, where he can raise the child to lead an army of sinners and demons against his enemies. If Izaiah and Leo can't stop Jacobin, the world will soon be set afire and washed away in a sea of ashes.
But suppose they could stop Izaiah's father. It would be difficult. Dangerous. It would require the help of a young succubus, the dangerous vigilante Alexandra Tannison, and her human half-brother Cooper. The four heroes would have to follow Jacobin into Hell, braving horrors the world has never seen so the world would never have the chance to see them.
What's life without a little adventure?
Region: USA: Michigan: Upper Peninsula The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Misha Collins.
Synopsis: Sutton December knew that his father couldn't be serious. After all, life wasn't based off of a lame, romantic novel by Nicholas Sparks. There had to be a catch in this plot she had been written into. Who was serious about hiring someone to be his son's fake girlfriend?
However, the plan seemed easy enough. Pretend to fall madly in love with this boy; let him fall madly in love with her; earn five hundred thousand dollars; break up with him after the holidays. As long as this boy was dumped by [i]her[/i] it was fine.
That’s how it was supposed to be, of course. But, just like the book, there’s always a plot twist
Region: North America: United States: Nebraska
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Alexandra Chando
This isn't my story, but I think it deserves nomination - the synopsis is short but luring.....
User name: Guen
Title: Penchance
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Ian Knochenmus isn't like other guys. He’s part of a huge, multiplayer, multinational game called Penchance, where getting the right cards is only half the battle. There’s also a little rule about never using mechanical transport. And did we mention the one about never bringing non-players into the game? But Chance herself isn’t that affectionate. Players are always after the perfect hand, be it their own or that of someone else. To stay alive, keep in the game, and maybe win a boatload of cash, you have to keep your wits –and your cards- about you. Blackmail, death threats, stalkers and professional killers are all part of the game.
Region: N/A?
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sean Bean
After losing their parents in a car accident, brother and sister, Quinn and Skylar are left to fend for themselves. With no money left behind and the bills piling up, Quinn took to the streets to make money stealing cars. Without knowing, Quinn stole a car that belonged to a member of one of the worst gangs in the area, which in return cost him his life.
Now left all alone, Skylar became reckless and out of control. Using the skills Quinn taught her, she followed in his footsteps and started stealing cars. Through the barrage of broken laws, stolen cars, drugs, and meaningless sex with random women, Skylar's only real escape was her love for photography.
After a chance encounter at a new photography store with Addison, a straight edge college girl that played by the rules and could do no wrong, Skylar began to question her reckless lifestyle.
Addison knew just from looking at her that Skylar was trouble. As much as she was drawn to her, she knew nothing could ever be, because of who she was.
Skylar wanted to pursue Addison with pure intentions and needed to change her ways. After trying her hardest to live a normal life, Skylar's street life past seemed to keep coming back to haunt her.
With her hardest decision yet to make, Skylar must choose between her new love and finding her brothers murderer for the closure she so desperately needs.
Which will she decide?
Region: Seattle, WA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Skylar - Ruta Gedmintas. Addison - Mandy Musgrave
Synopsis: Emma Eaves is a struggling photographer in Atlanta when she learns of her great-aunt's death. To her surprise, she's been left a crumbling old home in a rural Alabama town, as well as a small fortune. The only stipulation is that she must live in the creepy farmhouse for a year before she can sell the home and claim her money.
She reluctantly puts her life on hold to move to Alabama, and as she begins to repair the old home she uncovers a small family cemetery hidden by years of growth. When she begins questioning locals about the family she never knew, a stranger shows up, a man who knows an awful lot about the dark dreams that have visited Emma ever since she moved into the house. What's more, he hints at a sinister family secret, one that will soon arise if Emma can't protect the cemetery from an approaching enemy.
When dark apparitions begin appearing in her photos, Emma knows that the danger is near. But can she trust this mysterious stranger to help her fight an enemy she's never even met?
Region: USA: Alabama: Montgomery
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I can't think of someone off the top of my head, but it'd have to be someone fresh, young, and with a good dose of real talent.
User name: Adifferentdrum Title: Darkmore Genre: Paranormal Erotic Romance Synopsis:
When the Category 5 Hurricane Gerda decimates Port Isabel, Texas the locals are not the only ones left with the shattered timbers of their lives. Just twenty miles to the southeast and beyond human comprehension but not immune to the wrath of mother nature, the vampire city Darkmore lies in exposed ruin. Among the dead is Darkmore’s King Louis Marate, and the city is in a panic.
Like the humans in Port Isabel, their crucial needs are compromised. Food, shelter, and safety are all mandatory, but unlike their human neighbors, no emergency aid is coming.
Decades pass of Darkmore making do with what they have, and what they have is very little. In memory of the deceased Louis, his daughter Sevon has ascended the throne as a cruel tyrant. The nobles and royal houses live in passable comfort while the commoners struggle and scrounge for their very existence. They are all merely surviving, and Sevon must save her people or risk losing her crown or worse her fangs.
Sevon and her council conspire to invade the shifter refuge of Priagust and take the well protected city as their new home. Sevon vows she will usher in a new era for Darkmore and her dying people under any means necessary. The vampires will live even if that means crushing a civilization.
When Sevon’s armigers capture a native from Priagust, a shifter named Jack, he claims he merely wanted to see with his own eyes who would dare tarnish Louis Marate’s good name. He wanted to meet those responsible for the assassination of the good king that protected them.
More than anything, Jack wants to spit in the eye and piss on the grave of Darkmore’s new queen for grinding it into the dust.
Sevon is not only insulted but intrigued. Who is this little maggot to presume he knew her father? Sevon will drag the truth out of Jack one way or the other, bit by bit, finger by finger, tooth by tooth, eye by eye…
Queen Sevon Marate does not tolerate secrets.
Region: Florida::Northwest
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: If she had kept her long hair (like in my user icon) Emily Maynard, the 'winner' of Brad Womack's season of the Bachelor would be perfect for Sevon. For Jack, I always see Hizumi, the lead singer of the Japanese Rock band Desparis Ray.
User name: olive_fruit Title: The Masquerade of 1000 Days Genre: Steampunk/Sci-Fi Synopsis: Emilia Halladay solemnly swore that she had nothing to do with the war between the Grand Sir and the street sweepers.
Emilia Halladay was also a notorious liar.
An underground resistance group, two sisters, and a copper pistol all play pivotal roles in this alternate-reality, steampunk take on 19th century England, where identities are best kept hidden and love, avoided.
Region: Canada:: Ontario:: Elsewhere The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Elle Fanning. With brown hair.
Genre: Fantasy (with colorful splatters of action/adventure, romance, and mild horror)
Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Lily Pembroke has never really figured out who she is or where she belongs in the world, and now she's done what her father always feared she would: discovered Izaderra, the world she was born in. Finding friends she's never had, meeting creatures she always thought were invented by her father, and exploring a whole new world, Lily feels like she finally belongs... until she discovers that Izaderra isn't as wonderful as it seems.
Izaderra is inhabited by five clans of people who possess powers to command air, fire, earth, water, light, or dark; however, there is severe injustice against the people who don't exhibit any powers, like Lily. Safe from persecution only until she turns 18, the age at which she will receive her full power inheritance if she has any, Lily desperately devotes herself to identifying how she transported herself to Izaderra in the first place—a feat she realizes she shouldn't have been able to do without some power—and how to do it again. Before she learns anything, Lily is pursued by the Sepherid, the fire clan that stole control from the others through sheer determination and blood-thirsty violence. But they seem to want more from her than what meets the eye...
Region: Vancouver, WA U.S.A.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: While I would prefer a new actor to grow and gain maturity and a sense of independence along with my main character, Ellen Page would basically be perfect (maybe with a mix of a younger Evan Rachel Wood).
Synopsis: Lady Serena has it all, money, parents who are society leaders as well as being the Lord And Lady High Paladin on the Lowlands Republic. She has wonderful friends, and is skilled at school in making clockwork jewellery. At a hunt, one of her suitors, pays particular attention, and as her parents approve of Malken, she forwards the acquaintance, despite misgivings. They attend a ball not long after, where she meets another young man, who fascinates her. He's not like the others, interested in all the new steam machines and clockwork devices and having the heads of magical creatures hung on their walls. He's just like the young man she dreams about night after night in her sleep. They talk, and later in the evening, share a kiss.
And that's where it all goes wrong.
Because what Serena has no way of knowing is that she's from a bloodline steeped in magic, in a republic where being a mage is punishable by death. The kiss awoke the spark within her, and as she strugles to hide it, struggles to control it, her parents find out. By chance, Serena overhears them discussing how to kill her so that their reputations will remain untarnished. Who can she go to to get help? The only person who can help her is the woman she's been taught to regard as her enemy. Will the woman and her nephew, the boy who set everything in motion help her escape? Or will the fanatic suitor who also knows her secret get to her first and seal her fate?
Region: Europe :: England :: Oxfordshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Michelle Dockery
LocationPhysically I am in Manitoba but my mind is in Ireland and elsewhere in the world
JoinedNovember 23, 2010
Posts6
This sounds really intense! Would love to read what you have so far, and I definetly hope that you get published, because you have hooked me already. Best of Luck!
Synopsis: Alucion Recardio randomly shows up one day on the steps of a school called The Academy. The Academy takes in and trains elementals, or people with power over a certain element. Alucion controls the shadows. Not one single person knows why Alucion is there, except Alucion himself. Alucion is planning to destroy The Academy and all of it's followers. Throughout his time at The Academy, Alucion befriends ten outcasts. He later takes these individuals and they leave The Academy and form a rouge group called The Resistance. Alucion trains them all and they go and fight The Academy. But, before they can, The Resistance learn of a new threat. There is a world parallel to the one they know. In this world, there are creatures of shadow, with intentions of destroying Alucion's. After learning this, Alucion and The Resistance go out on a quest to find the 6 blades of power and destroy the shadows. But the shadows cannot be destroyed. The Resistance fights and fights, but there is no end to the evil things. In the end, Alucion makes an ultimate sacrifice to seal them off.
Region: USA :: Alabama :: Auburn
The actor that would play my main character in a movie adaptation: hmm... i would probably play Alucion, considering he is based off of me.
LocationSomewhere between a docu-drama and a parody.
JoinedNovember 9, 2008
Posts23
User Name: Writers_Bloc
Title: Anachronism
Genre: Satire, Humor & Parody
Synopsis:
Castles next to confectionaries. Salons across from saloons. Where pandas hire attorneys, PI's track down princesses, and it's a rule of thumb never to leave the house without some anti-mutant spray.
Welcome to Anachronism.
At the heart of this hodgepodge world is The Blank Page, the bar where all characters are welcome and all bets are off, since that is where most creatures and cretins learn the bludgeoning truth: the authors of each of their novels have hit Writer's Block, and until the Block is cleared, they're stuck in limbo. In hell. In Anachronism.
Along for the ride is Lit, one of those exceedingly rare characters who has lived in Anachronism as far back as the pages turn. While tending bar and watching the people come and go and empires cease daily, he spends time snitching to a fellow 'Chronie, Derring, the head of an exhausted police force that shoulders the ridiculous task of keeping peace amongst the pandemonium.
The hapless new arrivals can't help but wonder--is there any plot to all this chaos? Lit suspects there might be; all it takes is a little reading into.
Region: USA :: Massachusetts :: Elsewhere
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Someone who's good with sarcasm, and preferably lesser known than someone like Ryan Reynolds.
User name: TarnishedHearts Title: Immortal: In Moonlight Genre: Modern Fantasy / New Adult (Higher Brackets of YA) Synopsis: Immortality is not always a gift, especially when it is in the form of reincarnation. A Soul remembers its past and the body must learn from its memories. Only these memories will stop history from repeating itself. They say that these memories are to be treasured. What happens when you remember things that seem entirely impossible? What if, you are remembering each and every one of your deaths? To save the world from imminent armageddon, our heroine must remember every past life she has experienced so that she does not make the same mistakes again. Even the Immortal cannot survive the true death that awaits the world. The Unseelie corrupts one while the Seelie saves another. Each a half of the whole, can they survive their brutal transformations?
*note* this is NOT a vampire novel...
Region: Canada :: Ontario :: Brantford-Norfolk
The actor who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaptation:
Molly Ackmore played by Cate Blanchet, or any young looking redhead female* Caine played by joe manganiello or someone similar* Dante played by Keanu Reaves(like the Matrix) Jaylah played by Eliza Dushku (DollHouse) or Cote de Pablo (Ziva from NCIS) or someone similar Adonis played by Jake Gyllenhaal
User name: WittyandorIronic Title: Visions of Iris Genre: Steampunk/Science Fiction
Synopsis: Aboard her modified Gazer Class Zeppelin, Sky Captain Evangeline "Mickey" McGlynn leads her small crew on easy, mostly legal cargo runs across the In Between, the rustic, lawless land between the Iris-strangled coasts of North America. She mostly tries to avoid notice, especially from the super computer Iris who controls everything connected to the electrical grid and forces the population into submission with technical manipulation and Enforcers. A debt leads Mickey to take on her most hated type of cargo, passengers, and she plays pilot to Cyrus Lockehart's gentleman adventure until he leads her ship and crew into danger and trouble. Caught up in treason and coercion, Mickey and Cyrus encounter steam powered tinkers, underworld hackers, and most disturbingly - high society. As they work to foil Iris's sinister plans, it seems like they are following someone's script, but who?
Region: USA:: Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Mickey = Jessica Alba; Cyrus = Gerard Butler
(More back story) Iris was created to end WWIII when humans nearly annihilated themselves. Now, Iris's iron fisted control has forced a regression in public conduct to Victorian standards, but private lives are more wild then ever. In order to elude her control the tinkers have embarked on steam-powered tools and nano-mechanics, while the hackers try to outmaneuver and outsmart her. The Technocracy exploit their influence and power, according to their proximity to Iris. Most people just try to stay out of her Enforcer's way. But is Iris the enemy, or those that would kill to protect their privilege? (It is Steampunk meets post-apocalyptic Eagle Eye.)
User name: Glowininja Title: Version 1.9 Genre: Science Fiction Synopsis: In the year 3007, the Earth was dying. Great measures were taken to thwart the exhaustion of natural resources upon the planet. One of the measures which was put into place, was a quick way to desalinate water for the masses. After a few months, a sickness spread from the desalinated water, which caused the victims to have significant brain and nerve damage, as well as an acceleration in the "need" to consume food. With the brain and nerve damage, this hunger was dangerous. While this didn't infect every human who tasted the water, the percentage was high enough to cause panic. It is now the year 3011. Humans have moved off of Earth so the restoration process can go unhindered. The damaged humans still roam outside of the terraforming colonies, in hopes that time will heal the damage. In one of the colonies, however, one particular lab is not committed to making the grass grow tall, nor the air smell fresh. Their goal is to rebuild the unpeople into functional humans once more. Their latest subject has been treated with version 1.9 of their methods. He's the first who can speak, think, and function. But a stutter and some strange brain activity alert the scientists that he may be close...but he may still not quite be considered human. Region: USA :: California :: Elsewhere The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sam Huntington (would play the guy who's "not quite human" - aka the lead)
Synopsis: In a world that has outlawed Bibles, religions and diversity in general, a baby girl is given up by her parents to an old religious man. She grows up learning Scripture and how to fight in secret. When she is barely old enough to make it on her own, her guardian gives her his life-long task of finding the Armor or God and with it, saving the world. She must fight the Things and face indifference by the very people she is trying to protect, while sticking to the morals she's been taught. Along the road to finding all the pieces of the Armor, she finds adventure, romance, terrors and herself, but not before having a final showdown with the Things.
Region: USA::Fayetteville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Natalie Portman
(I realize the synopsis is a little random and quite hole-y (no pun intended) but it's still being pieced together in my noggin.)
User name: clmbr121 Title: Hells Bells Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Synopsis: When Hell comes a-knockin' it's time to leave town for a while.
The seals keeping demons from freely entering reality are weakening, and using mortals as hosts, they are beginning their initial push into the world, signalling what may be the beginning of the Final War.
And all Langdon Jeffers wanted was a cappuccino.
Drawn into this supernatural conflict that is raging just beneath most people's awareness (if just barely), Langdon must now figure out why the demon horde has taken a special interest in him, protect his loved ones, and find a way out of Philadelphia before they literally use him to bring back the Watcher.
What's a slacker to do? His mother always said he was special...just never to who.
Region: Philadelphia
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Bodie Olmos
Synopsis: When Dara Harper loses her partner in a horrific accident, she vows to never skate pairs again. It doesn't matter that she is horrible at singles or that her days are lonely. She is determined that Mike will be her only partner, in life and in death. Shea & Sheridan Monroe are the unstoppable brother-sister duo, until illness brings an end to her career. When he finds Dara practicing at his home rink, Shea knows there can be a chance for both their dreams to live on. In a world where risk is everything, will trust survive?
User name: Hemlock Key Title: Paper Girl Genre: Fantasy (Children) Synopsis: Brigitte knew all along what she wanted in life--to have an adventure. Her parents, mild-mannered government clerks, have something else in mind.
Brigitte ends up a clerk-apprentice, a job she is quite convinced is the most boring job in Ausberg. To make manners worse, her control over the ink spirits -- the beings which allow ink to dry on the page and letters to be written -- is loose at best, so she's not even very good at a job which should be as simple as breathing.
A chance encounter while following a coworker sends Brigitte's life in a new direction -- but is adventure all it's really cracked up to be?
Region: USA: Ohio
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation? Chloe Moretz I think Region: The actor who would play your main character in a movie adaptation:
Ian Knochenmus isn't your average guy. He’s part of a huge, multiplayer, multinational game called Penchance, where getting the right cards is only half the battle. There’s also a little rule about never using mechanical transport. And did we mention the one about never bringing non-players into the game? But Chance herself isn’t that affectionate. Players are always after the perfect hand, be it their own or that of someone else. To stay alive, keep in the game, and perhaps win a boatload of cash, you have to keep your wits –and your cards- about you. Something isn't right, though. Players are missing, hands aren't cashed in, and someone has tampered with the game itself. The wife of a former player, Laura, has discovered the truth about Penchance, and will do anything to stay out of the competition. When Ian crashes unexpectedly into her life, bringing the game and all its dangers with him, Laura is thrown forcibly back into the world she thought that she had escaped. It's time to show the world that the rules of Penchance aren't what they seem, and the stakes are far, far higher.
Region: USA:: Maine
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sean Bean (think Brendan from Stormy Monday with James' hair from the Dark)
User name: Kaliena Title: The Road Back Genre: Fiction (General although possibly Religious?) Synopsis: The wife of a Protestant Pastor suffers silently through an abusive marriage until her husband unexpectedly dies, leaving her to deal with her mixed emotions about his death and the raising of her young son. When a new love interest is sparked too soon for anyone's approval, she struggles to determine her own heart and faith in the face of an increasingly hostile congregation. Region: Northern Virginia USA The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Alisen Down http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235888/
Synopsis: When stubborn, intelligent, seemingly emotionless Diggory Janssen wonders away from his class on a trip to the Border Ranges National Park in New South Wales, he stumbles through two 70 million year old Beech Trees which together form a portal to the late Cretaceous Era. While Diggory is lost in the Dinosaur-infested past he meets Ethene Pena, a girl who has been lost in the Cretaceous Era for almost three months now. Ethene is fiery, ardent and hot-tempered; in almost every way she is Diggory's opposite, but they are forced to work together to survive. With ferocious dinosaurs on their tail and their feelings towards each other growing, will Diggory and Ethene escape or will this twisted love story have a tragic ending?
Region: Australia :: Melbourne
Actors: Diggory - Alex Pettyfer Ethene - A 16 year old Dania Ramirez with frizzier hair.
Synopsis: History has a way of repeating itself and the town of Eldon is not different. The whispers of a past that only nightmares are made of slowly spread is this quiet paradise. Talks of faeries and war slip past the guards who attempt to prevent a repeat of a history that the great storyteller forgot to tell. Krys is just this normal seventeen year old who is interested in hanging out and boys. She has no idea why she keeps having the same dreams over and over again. Or even why when she wakes up screaming only to find out she doesn't remember what the dreams are about. She must remember for Eldon's sake. She must work hard at figuring what is happening to her and why she blacks out. All of Eldon is in danger and she's the key. She's the only one who can prevent the past from become the present and only one who has the power to prevent a future where humans are slaves once more. The whispers aren't lies. It's the truth hidden deep within a tale lost that a storyteller never spoke of or as the rumors say lost her life before having the chance to tell.
Region: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Actor/Actress: AnnaSophia Robb or someone that looks similar to her
Username: daltont Title: Cafe Americano Genre: Thriller Synopsis: Lance Venturini has been in the business of confidence tricks for as long as he can remember. But when he accepts a job in Sicily, Italy, his view on the con will be forever changed. After getting in trouble with the Italian Mafia, he will have to con... to save his life. Region: Michigan: Ann Arbor Actor that would play my main character: Maybe a dark-haired Leonardo Dicaprio
User name: ameskitty Title: Wing of Light, Cloak of Shadow Genre: Fantasy (with some Religion, Spritual, & New Age overlap) Synopsis: Atalissa thought that everything was right in the kingdom she was soon to rule as a child of the Light. Using the wisdom of the Books, the Clerics worked with the kingdom to ensure an atmosphere that would stomp out any rise of the Maledict, an ancient evil that had been lurking in the shadows since the beginning of time. But one day, when a woman named Dina, sentenced to death for practicing illegal sorcery, is brought to the castle square to be executed, a horde of demons attacks the castle, killing the rulers of the kingdom (Atalissa's parents), and countless others. Atalissa and Irfan, an ambassador from another land, somehow escape with the help of a mysterious white dragon. When they come to they find themselves far away and, to their great surprise, under the care of Dina. The unlikely trio ends up traveling together. In searching for the source of the Maledict's rise, meeting the reluctant Caller of the dragon that saved them, and finding a way to restore the kingdom to its former glory, the three will form unbreakable bonds, discovering things about their world, each other, and their true beliefs that are at once painful and more beautiful than any of them could have ever imagined.
Region: USA :: Iowa :: Elsewhere The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: IMDb time! Sienna Guillory for Atalissa, Anna Paquin for Dina, and Richard Madden for Irfan.
16-year-old narcoleptic Melika Hale wakes up in a field beneath Mt. Rainier, covered in blood, with no memory of the past hour. She soon learns that her classmate, Hope Min, has been murdered. But Melika has a closer connection with her than anyone knows. Hope was Melika's first kiss.
Desperate to find the killer, Melika drives the local police crazy with her theories. Meanwhile, Melika's usual sleeplessness-induced hallucinations are getting worse. When Melika dreams a warning from a superstitious former neighbor telling her that the gods have chosen Melika as the pawn in their next reenactment, her search for a culprit takes her into the shelves of folklore.
The more Melika learns about the ancient legends of the Pacific Northwest, and those of her parents' native Hawaii, the more she starts to wonder if the answer lies closer to home. After all, the gods often hurt the ones they loved...
Region: USA::New York City
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: a young Carrie Ann Inaba or Agnes Nalani Lum
Synopsis: Everything seems normal when Audrey Powell arrives at Mt. Moosilaukee Prep School in the mountains of New Hampshire for her Freshman year - until the night she discovers that she has the ability to talk to the forest animals. Eagle has gone missing, and the Woodland Council needs her help to find him.
When students start disappearing too, Audrey discovers that the woods are not the only place to fear as she begins to suspect one of her professors of being involved. Embroiled in a life or death game with witches and Wendigos, Audrey must rely only on herself, her best friends Rachel and Jeff, and the animals of the Woodland Council to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Will Audrey defeat the evil that lurks in the West Woods, or will she lose herself along the way?
Region: USA: Tennessee: Nashville
The actor who would play your Main Character in the movie adaptation: Audrey: Hannah Marks, Rachel: Molly C. Quinn, Jeff: Josh Hutcherson
Synopsis: After running away from an abusive family, a teenage girl doesn’t know where to go. After wandering lost for days, she finds herself in Chinatown. But this isn’t like any Chinatown she’s ever heard of: the buildings are crumbling, the paint flaking, and hardly anyone walks the streets. This is the Old Chinatown, the first Chinatown, the one that lost its vibrancy, the one that no one remembers, the one that she will come to call her "home away", her real home away from the one she escaped from. The New Chinatown is the bustling and colorful vision she has in her head. But she soon discovers that this place isn’t what it seems to be, and that the people here are more real than any she’s previously met. They take her in, give her an abandoned apartment, and she survives off of their hand-me-downs and the meager tips from occasional customers until she secures a job for herself. As she grows more accustomed to this way of living, she begins to wonder why these people are so different from anyone else she's ever known. And then she realizes that they all have dreams that they hold onto that keep them going. There’s the kind butcher, with the heavenly voice, who dreams of seeing a real opera someday; the girl with the headphones, who wants to dance in a traveling theatre; the maid who wants to be a painter; the old couple who own the sushi restaurant, madly in love with each other, who want to live together and die together; the sculptor at the antiques shop, who wants to be a teacher; the struggling girl who wants to be a writer and actor; the wild little skateboarder who wants to be a doctor; the ancient owner of the souvenir shop with the nimble hands, who wants to be a puppeteer; and of course the boy, whose dream she doesn’t know, but feels that she does, deep in her heart. All of these people and others come together to form a small community, and she wonders why she feels like she doesn’t fit in with them, although they have all welcomed her as family. Then she realizes that she doesn’t hold a dream deep within her. Or maybe she does, and she just isn’t meant to discover it yet, and as they all toil onward, the Old Chinatown begins to regain its previous color and life, and great events occur that may finally put their dreams into motion.
Region: USA: Minnesota: Twin Cities
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Teenage Eliza Dushku
Doing a little shameless self-promotion, but it would be the highlight of my month (possibly longer) to have a cover designed for my novel by an artist that knows a thing or two about design. User name: T.A. Olivia
Title: GAWD Machines (Working Title)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Evolution explodes as the 22nd century draws near. Class warfare takes on a new face as lines are resketched according to the measure of individual intelligence. Humanity is on a path toward global civil war as man struggles to survive amongst GAWD Machines.
Region: USA :: Florida :: Brevard County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Viggo Mortensen
Synopsis: Jennifer finally forgives Eric after 20 years for betraying her with her best friend Annie. The story works itself backwards in time to 20 years ago, the year after their marriage. Then the book jumps back in time to when Eric and Annie were a couple, and Jennifer was their best friend, slowly working itself forward to the moment when the betrayal took place. The one thing linking all of these events through time is a small tree, planted by Eric and Jennifer, as a testament of the strength of their love.
Region: USA: Michigan, Ottawa County-Grand Rapids
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Tom Hanks
Synopsis: Documents found in the stones of an 11th-century monastery tell the story of Zaida, the daughter of Mu´tamid the Poet-King of Seville, and how she came as a prize of war to the north of Spain. She was kept by King Alfonso VI, the Christian warrior king, as his lover and bride at a monastery where she is hated for her race and religious background. Still, she is the only one of the king´s women to produce a male child. History says she died giving birth, but the documents assembled here by the Moor herself show how Zaida challenged the fates laid out for 11th-century women and brought poetry, plumbing, and compassionate Christianity to a boomtown on the medieval Santiago pilgrimage route -- and eventually gave every ruling family of Europe a blood tie to the Prophet Muhammad. (Based on a true historical character and setting.)
An ordinary girl, a protected secret, a world of dreams and the reality that is about to change it all. As Gemma Star wakes up to a world of dreams, she must face a reality that is anything but ordinary. Old friends she just met, a grandmother who seems delusional and legends that become more than a bedtime story all hold the key to discovering who she has always been. Gemma must choose to believe in the dream or awaken to a land that has never been her home. The fate of both worlds depends on the choices of this would be hero, the last of the dream keepers.
Region: USA: Memphis
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I am leaning toward an unknown up and coming young teenage girl. This would be her debut movie. Every young girl I think of comes with a preconceived image to overcome.
Synopsis: Two college seniors decide to vacate in Uganda for two weeks. While bivouacking through the African vegetation, they discover that there is a high percentage of malaria victims who are unable to afford any kind of medication for the “incurable” disease. After being agitated by the sight of thousands of suffering children, the two students determine to tackle the quest of finding the cure for malaria and bringing it into the medical market. Unfortunately, the business giants of the global economy will not let them start their business for one simple yet flagitious reason: It is illegal to cure the disease.
Martin and Tom encounter the dark secrets, obscure organisations, and evil schemes that lie beneath the one thing that keeps this world going round: Money.
Synopsis: Lyn grew up knowing that she was going to be in an arranged marriage with a man of her father's choice. She considered herself lucky he didn't tell her to pull together a dowry. Once she is married off to Ethan Sewick, a wealthy man living in a small town, she hears lots of gossip of the many times her suitor has been married and the disappearances of his wives. Her best friend, River, is determined to investigate the cases. Lyn is certain he couldn't have done anything horrible, he seems very much human to her. Seems completely normal, that is, except he prohibits her from going into the dungeons of the Sewick castle. He leaves off on a business trip one day, but with River's urging and her own curiosity she eventually opens the dungeons to find the dead bodies of her husband's past wives along with notebooks journaling the experiments he did on them and the results. She also finds that each of his wives were, according to her husband's notes, fey or fairies. Horrified by the crime Ethan has committed, Lyn has to find a way to reveal him to the world, and a way out of her marriage.
Region: USA::Ohio::Oxford
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A Redhead Kerry Ellis
Username: emilyyettadenny Title: Geek Genre: Humour, Satire. Synopsis: PJ Pathis, an akward and ordinary High School Senior makes the startling discovery that his ancestors were responsible for some of the biggest breakthroughs in human history. He sets out to find the truth about his family and himself and write the wrongs of his past by writing a book to hopefully land his family name in the history books. Region: USA::New Jersey The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Um.... Vincent Martella
User name: Super5454 Title: Death's Rose Genre: Adventure Synopsis:The year is 2503, the year when medical advancements reached its peak. All children are now grown in labs with no medical problems. The only problem in this seemingly flawless operation is that the population of what is left of Earth is now raging out of control. To control the size, all residents are executed when they turn eighteen years of age. One week after their eighteenth birthday, they are taken to “the row”, where they are promptly “controlled.” Maxine Adams-Harrison and her group of “rebels” were children born in labs, raised in the masses, and are now eighteen. They are exactly like every other citizen, except for one crucial difference. They aren’t going to “the row” that easily. Region: USA::Michigan::Other The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Bella Thorne or Emily Browning... Haven't decided between the two of them
I hate this whole self-praise thing, but a cover would be pretty cool.
User name: holtemore
Title: La Zurda
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis: In the year 2023 a group of Argentina’s most renowned neurologists, psychologists, and anthropologists directed a study to discover the true nature of handedness. They called it Project Bonaparte, named for the left-handed French leader who arrogantly sought to take over the world. Their hypothesis: Those who are naturally inclined to use their left hand also have a natural inclination to contradict and oppose all forms of restriction, but lack the mental capacity to improve their situation, thereby causing more harm than good. Unfortunately for all left-handed citizens and their loved ones, this hypothesis was proven to be true. In a world where being left-handed is illegal, a small group of rebels struggle to maintain their identities and rights, in a fight for freedom that may never be won.
Region: USA::California::Central Valley
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Zoe Saldana
Username: Rosaline924 Title: Paradox Genre: YA Fantasy Synopsis: All her life, Fiona Sargon grew up on fairy tales. Not the Grimm Tales or even the Hans Christian Anderson versions, but epic detailed stories told by her grandmother, Mama Lucia. Stories that stayed with her when she returned home to her parents after spending two months of summer with her favorite relative.
Upon learning of her grandmother's sudden and tragic death, Fiona and her family race to Mama Lucia's house, which is deep in the mountains on the edge of a dense forest. When they arrive, they learn that Lucia did not die naturally. When a dark figure appears in the window one night, Fiona follows it , ending up running deeper and deeper into the woods where she discovers an entrance to another land.
An entrance to Geminisa, the land from her childhood stories.
Suddenly trapped and an the hunt for the dark figure, she learns her grandmother's stories were not fairy tales, but rather history lessons on the royal family. Her family. With new knowledge, new friends and a new foe, Fiona must decide if becoming the next in line to rule is her destiny or if her fate lies back in the world where she grew up.
Region: Washington, DC The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Brittany Robertson :)
User name: cidercupcakes Title: The Raven And The Wolves Genre: Young Adult Synopsis: December, 1810. Anna Thorburn, part of a line of vampire hunters known as Ravens, has never been more unhappy -- that's why she went to the trouble of working that spell in the first place, to take her far away from London. Her chances of an ordinary young lady's life are as dead as her first love (and, like him, they're dead by her own hand), but Anna can still get to someplace where she can't hurt anyone else, where she can hide from what she's done in the name of duty.
But there's a reason the first lesson she learned as a Raven was never to assume things can't get worse. Instead of the empty Ravens' sanctuary in the North Sea she was aiming for, she's in Lisbon, and with the Lines of Torres Vedras keeping Napoleon's forces at bay for the next few months, the city is swarming with redcoats. Trying to lay low is difficult enough when she strikes up a reluctant friendship with an officer who might give her away at any moment. But as spring approaches and she meets a girl with demons of her own to battle, Anna finds that her vow to leave off the business of world-saving is becoming ever harder to keep. Region: Northern Virginia The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Agonizing over this one myself! I'm thinking Naya Rivera (Glee) or Antonia Thomas (Misfits).
Synopsis: Lisa's life was going nowhere fast. She dropped out of music school, moved back in with her parents and got a job that barely paid the bills. At 23 she wanted more. After fight with her parents was what finally sent her over the edge. She grabbed the essentials and raced out of town, with no clear cut destination in mind. Only freedom. Except she ended up in a place she didn't think possible. The 1960s.
Region: All across the US. From New York to California.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Uh. Natalie Portman. Why? Because she's awesome
Synopsis: Young Morgan leads an unusual life, dragged around the world by her manic-depressive, drug-addicted writer mother. The depths of her suffering are tremendous, but she survives her mother's emotional roller-coaster, her genius father's absence and suicide and her own destructive behaviors to ultimately discover a sort of normalcy in life and love after years of trying to find answers.
Region: USA :: New Jersey :: Central
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Abigail Breslin as the teenage Morgan, Drew Barrymore as the adult Morgan, Meryl Streep as the mother
I would really love to see what kind of cover an artist can come up with for a mainstream fiction novel like mine. I can't imagine it would be easy!
Title: Mind (Will be part of a series-- Mind, Body, Spirit)
Genre: Action/Supernatural
Synopsis: 13 year old Amelia "Amy" Laurel is quite annoyed that her mother made her move from her homeland Las Vegas, Nevada to rainy Coquitlam, British Columbia. She is now a student at Delphi Academy, a boarding school for "special students". Amy meets lots of new people, from 2 hot guys, a preppy princess, creepy teachers, a scary Asian to an old man who's awfully familiar. Then one night, she wanders into a hallway with 5 doors, each engraved with a symbol. It is that night that she discovers that there's a lot about herself that she never knew and a chilling prophecy. As time goes on, people start getting killed at her school. The massaccre goes global, and no one knows the cause of the deaths. Amy and her newfound friends decide to solve this mystery, but when they find the culprit, everyone realizes that the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance....and they will be the ones who decide it.
Region: Canada::Vancouver
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Er....I'm edging towards Hailee Steinfield. Tee hees!!!
Synopsis: Born and raised on Oahu, Kana was well known and loved as a beach boy and confirmed bachelor with an inconceivable number of past lovers. East meets West and sparks fly when Bruni, a passionate Italian American business woman from Salem, Massachusetts, and a good witch, discovers Honu while vacationing in paradise. Their paths cross when she fulfill's her dance partners promise to check out the swing dance scene and accepts an invitation to dance with swing dancer extrodinaire, Kana. He invites her to Thanksgiving ("La Mahalo", in Hawaiian, literally meaning "the thanks") dinner. A romance blossoms and deepens. The couple commute the 5,000 miles and suffer the 6 hour time difference until they can no longer stand to be physically apart. Kana leaves the island to help Bruni arrange to come back with him to live together for the next 15 years. This is how long he believes he has to live and he promises her every day until the day he dies. A deceit is revealed and tension and struggle follows. Kana doesn't play fair and Bruni has to decide if she was duped from the beginning or if Kana is worthy of her love and trust; can she live with the truth? The introspective Bruni spirals emotionally and physically out of control, losing her compass. Kana is a simple man who has complicated her life by informing her that he fell out of love with her, leaving her with no compass and little hope. She must decide if listening to her heart was a mistake or if leaving him would be the bigger mistake.
Synopsis: "When the lines blur and fall, people become animals, heaven becomes hell, worlds die in a ball of gas and a single word can mean so much more." In a world where you are known only by your first name and a serial number, going against the norm is a distant memory in the eyes of parents gone. Instead, you follow the rules, obey the guidelines, and never, ever break curfew. But six teenagers are desperate to make their mark on the world and change something for the better. Together, they lead their friends into a world of danger and risk, running from a government who don't abide by their own laws and leading a revolution that only the youth of a generation can lead.
Region: Australia:: Melbourne
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: Dianna Agron and Lea Michele, plus any baby girl, similar to Mia Talerico
Genre: Fantasy (very much contemporary fantasy though)
Synopsis: 18 months ago Bill resigned from his senior post in the Security Service (MI5) in protest at what he saw as dangerous experiments in harnessing paranormal forces 'in the national interest'. Feeling stressed and guilt laden at his former life, he takes refuge in a monastery where an old friend from University is the Abbot, and lives a hermit-like existence in a little hut in the grounds.
The story begins when Bill is visited by his former boss from MI5, who brings him the news that what he feared has now come to pass. One of the paranormal experiments seems to have gone badly wrong. Bill is forced to help investigate exactly what is going on. He discovers that his former colleague and lover is confined to a private hospital where she raves about an invasion of malicious beings from another world. The area around the secret facility where she worked is plunged into Arctic like conditions, and the unseasonal snow and ice keeps spreading. Then reports start to come in of sightings of strange creatures, some with terrifying supernatural powers, roaming the highways and byways of Britain.
Bill comes to realise that he must undertake a quest, not only in this world, but in another that he has only ever visited in dreams and imaginings; in order to defeat the forces that threaten to overwhelm the world as we know it.
Region: Europe::England::Bristol & Bath
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: In my head I see Bill as being a bit like Peter Capaldi - though possibly just a little younger.
Synopsis: In the year 2043, the United States has merged with Canada and Centeral America to form the United Americas. Europe and Asia have merged to become one large country, prepared to bring ultimate devastiation upon their enemies. And their enemy just happens to be the UA. After the war takes a turn for the worse, the government is forced to take average children between the ages of 10 and 18, bring them to the newly formed training camps around the country for one month, before releasing them into the cold, hard frontlines.
Andie Stone and her sister Jane are only two of the fourteen thousand kids at the Los Angeles training camp. Andie is determined to keep her and her sister alive, even if it means risking the lives of other kids. She’s prepared to accept her future as a UA fighter, until an unlikely event changes things at the training camp. When she discovers a twisted plot involving mysterious WonderDrugs and newborn babies, she makes up her mind to escape and figure out what's going on, bringing her sister and three friends along with her. But as she collects more and more information, she uncovers something far more sinister, including a corrupt government with warrants out for her arrest.
Region: United States:: Califonia
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Andie: I'm unsure, although if I absolutely had to pick, I suppose Saorise Ronan (if she had dark brown short hair) would work. Troy: Logan Lerman Jane: Rachel Covey Skylar: Haley Pullos Kendall: Zane Huett
USername: whippersnapper Title: The Mercenary Genre: Sci Fi Synopsis: Six large star nations represent the great powers of the future, with hundreds of other smaller nations scattered across the stars. The Forge Region, a cluster of hundreds of worlds, is at the centre of a growing conflict between the Imperium of Perlorth, the People's Republic of Daltar, and the Terran Federation. The Forge itself is home to a collection of pirates, revolutionaries, rebel groups, and mercenaries all looking for a way to profit from the coming conflict. Enter Captain Scott Flynn, former soldier, leader of the Gryphon Mercenary Corporation, and in a position to decide the fate of the Forge through his actions.
Synopsis: Magi once freely walked the kingdom of Patrienne, until their King, maddened by his own untamed powers, waged a war on their kind for 150 years.
Nearly 1,000 years later, magic is slowly returning to a world much changed. A once united land has been splintered. The Towers that had trained the Magi are left to the callous mercies of nature. Those who try to restore their Towers are answered by the army of King Gouel.
In the kingdom of Chataigier, Lady Juliana Clarke has convinced her cousin to reopen the Croceus Tower, guided by her own blossoming ability to See the future. She has begun training a few students, sent to her by parents desperate to protect their children, including her own son and daughter.
Lady Clarke knows it’s a race against time. Can she understand the tomes written by teachers over ten generations ago and train these children before the war she foresaw engulfs her home?
Region: USA - Michigan
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Olivia Wilde (with violet contact lenses)
This is a very neat idea and I look forward to seeing the covers for everyone that's lucky enough to win!
Synopsis:Monica Beechwood thought her life couldn't get anymore perfect. Great home. Great school. Great friends, absolutely perfect life. Until she recieves the biggest blow any parent could give their child. A year in the incomprehensible wild. No phone, no internet, not even any electricty. Monica must leave her suburbian eutopia for a unknown and miniscule tropical island, inhibitated by only 9 others- Dante- A true to his heritage black kid growing up in the heart of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Camille- possibly the most spoiled girl in all of the world (Not just Paris),Brian- A genius who lacks in social skills but makes up for it with intense wit every time he does speak Jessica- a free spirit who travels the world with her equally unpredictable mother, Sam- the typical country gentleman from Alabama, Amy- The down to earth christian girl that will do anything for anyone, Jonathan- A misunderstood teen who lived the hard life before being adopted. Sarah- Jonathan's twin sister who lived the same way he did, and Austin- The rich kid from L.A. that just might end up stealing Monica's heart. but we never know. Monica may just find something in her life that she did'nt even know she was missing. But the question is, will all of them survive?
Region: U.S.A. :: Michigan
The actor who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaption: Monica: Saorise Ronan Jessica:Ariana Grande Amy: Dakota Fanning Sarah: Lily Collins Camille: Abagail Breslin Sam: Lucas Till Jon: Drew Roy Dante: Bobb'e J Thompson Austin: Anton Yelchin Brian:Micheal Cera
Synopsis: Two hundred and fifty years after the United Sectors of Peace and Harmony took control of a post-apocalyptic Earth, art has been eradicated from human knowledge and memory. Social castes are strictly enforced and people have been genetically pooled into two groups; Blue-Eyes and Brown-Eyes. Violetta Gregorovich was just your average Blue-Eye, living in the lap of luxury inside one of three City-Domes controlled by the USPH, until one night when she's snatched from her bed and dragged into the barren landscape that once was Earth. Forced to live in the rebel camp, she learns of a deadly secret that her parents had been hiding from her for nineteen years: She's heterochromic.
Region: North America (post-apocalypse)
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmmm...Evan Rachel Wood or Brittany Snow
Synopsis: "Name: James Cleveland Age: 15 Resident in: Boston, USA Likes: boys People who know it: none People he wants to tell: everybody People he plans on telling until his sixteenth birthday in two weeks: everyone"
Region: Boston, USA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Logan Lerman
User name: sleevi Title: The Dead March On Genre: Sci-Fi Synopsis:
The dead prey on the living and the Last City is nearly empty, crumbling into the sea. One by one, the residents leave, wandering alone into the desert now that the age of humanity is over.
Kesla joins a mass migration of children, hoping to find a mythical city of humans completely untouched by war, plague or famine: a new Last City. But thousands of miles lay between here and there, to say nothing of the tribes of warring sorcerers, hordes of the feral undead and countless other atrocities intent on finally ending the human race for good.
Region: Iowa: Cedar Rapids
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Asa Butterfield (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2633535/)
Synopsis: Ever since childhood, Jovie has directed her own destiny by daring herself to do the things she wants most, the things she needs most, and sometimes the things that scare her most. When she was younger, she dared herself to climb the tallest trees she could find, to talk to the classmates others avoided, and to keep her parents from knowing she could hear them fighting from her room. Now that she's older, the dares are getting more serious, the stakes higher, the trees taller. These self-initiated challenges always made her feel secure, but when circumstances suddenly force her to look herself clearly in the eyes, she is faced with some things she would rather leave unseen. Will Jovie's dares alone be enough to help her through, or will she be forced to look outward for the strength to grasp the next branch?
Region: USA :: New Hampshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ellen Page
Synopsis: Having spent 8 years hiding from the authorities in a secret room, 18 year old Leo is finally let out and allowed to become the baker's new apprentice. Not knowing he should keep his own creativity in check for the sake of his survival he bakes a different bread than the government approved recipe stipulates. For his own protection he's brought in to join the resistance movement. There he has more innovative ideas. The bread and his ideas are a success at first but eventually brings down the secret police on him and he no longer knows who to trust in the resistance.
Region: Europe :: Sweden
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Freddie Highmore
USER NAME: russianfreak373 Title: Theory of Everything Genre:somewhere along the lines of gothic fiction Synopsis: Arlington Nicholas Sterry's only title in life had been the one on his birth certificate.He never was the handsome athlete his brother Georgie was or the saintly child his sister Holly was. No, he was just the dreamer, the kid who ran away to Memphis to study philosophy, a dream he had only truly shared with his grandfather. But when his beloved granddad passes, he leaves Arlington him only a bottle of moonshine and a ticket to NYC with a note on the back telling him to "conquer Babylon for me." After recovering from the hangover induced by his granddads departure gift, Arlington begins to notice he knows more about his loved ones than he should. In fact it seems he knows everything there is to know about them...relationships become strained as Arlington is forced to pretend he doesn't know the deepest darkest secrets of his mother and siblings alike, and ultimately he escapes to New York. But there, surrounded by the world elite the temptation to use his new talent overwhelms his innocence and through a dark and twisted web of extortion and influence Arlington effectively becomes the puppet master. But as his power grows a different side of the timid grad student is unearthed; a side obsessed with control, of those he hates, fears, and loves.
Region:Usa:Alabama The actor to play my character in the film: Arthur darvill (Arlington) andJames Mcavoy(Georgie) and a side girlfriend character named Fritz (real name Francesca) definitely mary elizabeth instead
User name: Quo Title: Iridescent Genre: Supernatural Synopsis: There are girls who have it all, everything anybody's ever wanted. But not Ronnie. She was born into a once happy family, until it was consumed by the aftermath of the recession. Her father forced to take job after job until he became the delivery man of a drug dealer. Her mother gave up on the family she once cherished, and has taken up a side of prostitution to survive. She doesn't come home for nights upon end. And Ronnie's little brother grows in this environment that will one day shape him. Ronnie herself cannot do a single thing to help them. In fact she's dealing with her psychotic stalker that attempts to rape her. She turns to suicide as a last hope to escape, instead she finds him. He offers to change her life, to change it into the life she's always wanted. In exchange? Only for the one thing that's still left, her soul. Ronnie takes the deal and laughs as she plunges herself into the bottom of the river, thinking the man was probably a crazy homeless. Instead as she passes out in the river, moments later she wakes up in a bed overlooking the entire Manhatten. It turns out, her life has changed. Now she's one of those girls, who has everything and so much more. Veronica ("Ronnie") goes to prep school, her parents are in love and her little brother is fine. But as time goes on Veronica has to learn that even when things turn out the way she wanted them to, it's never the same as she imagined. Region: China; Shanghai The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A brunette Britt Robertson would be absolutely perfectly for the role of Ronnie.
Synopsis: In a culture where masks are as much a part of a person as their own skin, true identities are concealed, manipulated, and stolen. When fifteen bodies are found dead and maskless within the span of only a few months, the mystery of their deaths goes unsolved and the bodies are never identified. Years later when the Maskless Fifteen are but a grotesque memory, a house is found with a room in which sixteen masks are discovered. Though the murderer had just passed away, the mystery is revived and the nephew of the man who wore the sixteenth mask begins to notice oddities in the deaths of the fifteen and the disappearance of his uncle. He sets out to discover the intentions of the murderer and how exactly his missing uncle is involved. Reaching all the way up through society to the highest class of elites, the ruling monarchy, this mystery brings peril to the young man and all those he seeks out for help.
Region: USA::California::Humboldt County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Eddie Redmayne
Synopsis: What if your world was populated by the characters who populated the pages of your novels?
A writer in New York, struggling to make ends meet as only a writer, finds in his office a man who looks oddly familiar, Simon. He is the main character in the narrator's unfinished novel, a thirty-five year old secretary who remains a child at heart. The writer runs. Hallucinations aren't good for anyone; he tries to clear his head, ignore Simon and now his other character, Arthur. But it doesn't work. As he investigates why his characters have manifested themselves in the flesh, he must work through his own life--his relationships, his job, his writing--and find out what (and who) he is really living for.
Region: USA:: Illinois
The actor who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaptation: Tim Roth as narrator, Michael C. Hall as Simon, Benedict Cumberbatch as Arthur
Andrea Pereria, news woman for Channel 10 finds herself covering not only the biggest story of her career, but the biggest story of the year when she is assigned to the murder trial of Andrew Cruz. The only problem, she can't seem to jump on the media bandwagon with everyone else and assume that he is obviously guilty, as all the evidence shows that he isn't.
As she sits through his trial and hears witness after witness declare his innocents. She hears the stories of neglect and abuse that the mother had actually inflicted on her infant son. She hears of back room deals made by the mother made with State Prosecutors so that she could be acquited, and through it all Andrea can't help but to see the obvious flaws in the justice system. Putting her job on the line, she reports on what she feels the true story is in the case, the claiming of this man's innocents just so that someone will serve jail time. Through getting to know him, they fall in love, and must wait for the verdict together, hoping it won't end their romance forever. The verdict, comes back proving everything that Andrea thought the entire time, he wasn't innocent until proven guilty, he was guilty until proven innocent. Sure the State put someone in jail for the crime, but it wasn't without taking the innocents of man who didn't commit it.
Region: Massachusetts - Cape Cod
The Actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: FMC - Andrea Perreria - Lyndsy Fonseca MMC - Andrew Cruz - A scuzzed up James Franco with an additional 30 lbs or so
Title: Whitley - The Daughters of Aphrodite Series
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
Synopsis: On the morning of her sixteenth birthday young Whitley Monroe is suprised by the appearance of a well known, and fabled goddess, Nyx. She is a descendant of one of the gods and summoned to the prestiegious halls ontop of Mount Olympus.
She has a choice, attend a year long semester on Mount Olympus and receive immortal life along with with unbelievable power, or renounce her birthright and return to a normal life. Spend a year on Mount Olympus and follow Whitleys every move. Region: U.S.A. - California -Sacramento The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sara Paxton or Kerti Pahk
User name: rchambers12331 Title: Soul Jumper Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: I was born just like any other human. I was conceived by a woman and a man, grown in a womb for 9 months. My mother was rushed to the hospital and gave birth to me. I was born in April 20th 1920 and my body died September 4th 1945. My soul on the other hand found a family that was not wanting their 19 year old daughter to die. Their daughter’s soul was ready to move onto heaven…So, my soul took her place. It is 2010 and I am on my 6th body. My soul is 88 years old. I travel from body to body when a family isn't ready to let go of a loved one, but the original soul is. I am a fill-in.
Region: USA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Amanda Serfried
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, a little horror thrown in here and there.
Synopsis: "Becky Lockhart's grandmother had said Hitler was bad, this was much, much worse."
It is present day in London, yet it doesn't look like the city that we are used to. A revolution has taken place, Vampires, once merely the creatures of myth have climbed out from the shadows and taken over. Humans are now either kept as slaves, confined in hospital like "farms" or are hiding, waiting for their day to return. But they can't do it alone, they need a hero, someone who has the strength to overpower the vampires. Enter Bearins Foxxe, a freedom fighter who, among the vampires, is regarded the best detective in Britain, he harbours a great secret, but will it be more blessing or burden when it comes to leading a revolution?
Region: England, UK
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Foxxe is a sort of mix of some of my favourite characters from TV and novels, He's a sort of Jack Sparrow, Sherlock Holmes Hybrid. I think he would have to be portrayed by an actor with a rugged, yet friendly face, not only because of the "older than he looks" thing, also because he's a bit of an alcoholic. I'm thinking Jim Sturgess or Henry Cavill.
Username: WerewolfFreak13 Title: Dark Survivors Genre: Supernatural/Horror Synopsis:
Pack Comes First.
That's what Lucifer Hohn has been taught all his life.
Lucifer's the middle child in a family of werewolves that are well loved and highly regarded in the pack. He's popular, captain of the football team, beautiful girlfriend. But he knows this world can come crashing down with one little thing, one slip up. One mistake. He knows the ledgend of a pack that's not suppose to exist. A pack that if you have a blood line from this pack, they will come for their own. And kill every wolf they find.
Kill or Be Killed
That's what Hollywood Hemming's been raised in.
When Hemming's is forced from her home in midst of a war, she finds a small town that she knows she'll be safe in, where the horror of her once-pack won't touch the brothers she swore to protect. But she doesn't know pack life always finds it's ways into a werewolf's life. And when you've been marked by a pack that will track you down and kill the entire pack, you're never safe, and you'll never get away. Esspecially when you're in the bloodline of the Alpha.
Region: Peoria, Illinois The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Lucifer: Avan Jogia Hollywood: Victoria Justice
Joyce Nelson begins her life as an ordinary person until she meets a man who changes her life forever. Together, they descend into a world of lies, deceit, and identity theft. She discovers she is quite good at it -- until one of their victims confronts her and puts her and her family’s lives in danger.
Region: USA: Illinois: McHenry County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm.. I could see someone like Hilary Swank or Jodie Foster playing the main character’s role – someone who could look deceptively timid and ordinary, but who is really calculating and powerful.
User name: Christine-Frances Title:The Groac'h of the Isle of Loc Genre:Fantasy
Synopsis:The Groac’h of the Isle of Loc is a short French fairy tale. This is an embellished and expanded re-telling of the little known story. For two young friends, life starts out with the promise of happily ever after. However, when Gabriel and Alexandra each lose their parents, those plans to marry and live on a little farm seem lost. The two teenagers are starving and destitute. They have to live as servants and are mistreated. Gabriel leaves to find a better way of life, while Alexandra promises to wait for him. She gives him two gifts to carry with him. The first is a dagger. When touched to enchanted objects it breaks their spells. The second gift is a bell. It is only to be rung in the event of danger, but it will be heard by Alexandra across any distance. The last item of value that they possess, a stick, Alexandra keeps because it will carry her to Gabriel when he needs her. Gabriel’s journey brings him to the edge of a tranquil lake where he finds a beautiful boat shaped like a sleeping swan. When he steps on board to check out the boat it awakens to fold its wings over Gabriel. She swiftly and safely brings him to the Isle of Loc. There he meets the Groac’h , a rich and powerful fairy that convinces him to marry her. He is intoxicated by the immense wealth and material trappings and agrees. He temporarily forgets about Alexandra. Gabriel eventually realizes that things aren’t all that they seem. He remembers Alexandra and her gifts. He uses the dagger to disenchant a net of fish and discovers that in reality, it is filled with sailors and fishermen. He realizes that he is in danger and rings the bell to summon Alexandra. Across the miles she hears the bell. She uses the stick, and it becomes a swift horse that carries her many miles. When she reaches a deep ravine, she transforms the stick into a giant bird to carry her across to the other side. On the other side, she lands in a giant bird’s nest and finds a little man. He explains that he is the King of Loc and the husband of the Groac’h. She tricked him into marrying her and is keeping his kingdom as her own and has stolen his powers. She imprisoned him on the cliff in the nest with only cabbages to eat. The spell keeping him imprisoned can only be broken when the Groac’h is no longer married to another man. He promises to help Alexandra free Gabriel, thus freeing himself. They devise a plan to trick the Groac’h. The King takes four hairs from his head and Alexandra, with her stick, turns them into tailors. Using cabbage they make a suit for Alexandra. She uses the stick to transform herself into a man and the giant bird into a fish to carry her to the Isle of Loc. Once there, she meets the Groac’h who asks Alexander (Alexandra) to be her husband. The Groac’h uses the net to turn Gabriel into a toad. Alexander finds Gabriel’s dagger and pockets it for later. Alexander agrees to marry the Groac’h if she agrees to let him use the net to catch fish in the pond. The Groac’h agrees. Alexander uses the net to turn the Groac’h into a toad. She uses the stick to transform herself back into a woman. When she finds the toads she touches them with the dagger and they become men again, her beloved Gabriel included. With the Groac’h imprisoned as a toad and unmarried, the King returns to rule his kingdom that she has stolen from him. As a reward, the King gives Gabriel and Alexandra a ship filled with treasure. Out of gratitude, the freed sailors and fishermen sail the couple home. Gabriel and Alexandra marry. Instead of buying a little farm to live on as they had originally planned, they build an expansive kingdom. They reward the sailors and fishermen each a piece of land to farm as a reward for helping them return home and build their kingdom.
Region:USA :: Pennsylvania :: Lehigh Valley
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Male Lead-Gabriel:Jackson Rathbone Female Lead-Alexandra:Nina Dobrev
Title: The Memory Keeper, Book One in the Reach Trilogy
Genre: Mainstream/Dystopian
Synopsis: Holden Macdermott is 16 when an outbreak of a mutated strain of tuberculosis wipes out a quarter of the world's population and shuts down the global economy. Thrust into a world where surviving is all that anyone can do, Holden takes it upon himself to care for the other orphans of the outbreak in hopes of giving them a chance at a decent life. But when a caravan of strange men arrive in their sleek black Towncars a year after the world shut down and stand to threaten the only life the children have, Holden must find a way to keep his new family together and prevail against tyranny that is masquerading as much-needed help.
Region: USA::Illinois::Naperville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jeez, that's a tough one. Maybe Christian Cooke? (http://shechive.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/eye-candy-christian-cooke-1.jpg)
User name: Lois Demi P Title: One Week To Oblivion Genre: Young adult and youth Synopsis: A young attractive teenage girl believes that all that can be done will end in oblivion and that there is no purpose. This is confirmed to her when her grandfather, the only parent like figure in her life, dies. It isn’t long until she decides that there is no hope left therefore plans to kill her self on her 16th birthday which is one week away. The day after planning her own death she meet a handsome boy (her age) who also feels the same way and wishes to join in with her plan, this leads to the there worst fears been recognised, they fall in love. The day arrives and they both don’t know what to do as they wish to be together but feel there is no point. Region: Europe::England::Yorkshire The Actor who would play my main chaacter in the movie adaptation: Dakota Fanning or Lucy Hale (can't choose)
User name: marianna-p Title: Orphaned Genre: Modern fiction Synopsis: Two characters: their lives woven together as each share their stories. First, dear reader, you meet Raul. The honest and raw accounts of this 30-something playboy reveals the fallout of his rocky upbringing, marginally rambunctious wild teen/early 20s years, and finally, now an educated journalist, his mid-adulthood philosophy looking back on life. (He thinks he’s reached midlife, figuring he won’t make it past 40). Then you meet Lilith, a.k.a Lilly. Also a survivor of not-so-ideal beginnings, among the most significant, her well-meaning parents that inevitably cost her years and thousands of dollars in therapy. Responsible, eclectic, artist and musician at night, cubicle-dwelling paper pusher and bored-to-tears by day. The friendship of the two characters leads to a budding relationship, but as journalist-becomes-boyfriend Raul interviews her about her life, inevitably it brings forth a dark secret.
Region: USA / Oregon / Salem
The actors who would play your main characters in the movie adaptation: Joseph Fiennes, Kate Winslet
"After many hurdles in her life, thirty three year-old Amanda Mitchell is ready to have a second chance. She has twin boys with her predictable husband of thirteen years and a successful designing career, but she wants more.
She knows exactly where to find it and with the pretext of attending a conference in Washington DC she leaves her family behind for a weekend of romance and freedom.
Amanda never imagined that her actions would have landed her into the custody of the Department of Defense where her present and future would collide causing world-wide repercussion."
Region: USA::Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Eric Bana & Jennifer Connelly
Synopsis: Samantha Albright "says funny shit." Annette Green is a loner spending time at the shooting range. Hank Spinoza spends his days meticulously grooming his lawn - by hand. These disconnected neighbors lives are about to change when Juliette Reynolds moves in to the vacant house at the end of the street. Juliette's abilities to sense truths people would rather hide threatens the daily drone of this quiet hodgepodge neighborhood.
Region: USA: Portland, Oregon
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Juliette Binoche (Juliette - no, I didn't plan that!); Kathy Bates (Annette); Whoopi Goldberg (Samantha); Alec Baldwin (Hank)
Brief Synopsis: What started as an unconventional date turns into a harrowing, life-changing mystery.
What do you do when your date turns up dead and you have zero recollection of how it occurred? Follow along with our heroine as she fights for her freedom while unravelling the past of her dead 'date' to clear her name...
Actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Benedict Cumberbatch as Liam, and Keri Russell as Ali
Synopsis: Imagine being sent to another planet, with someone you've never met, and being told you have to figure out your way back home?
That is what Gage and Alaryn face when they arrive here on earth from their planet of Gilese...20 light years away.
Desperately and with minimal guidance, the pair search for any clues that will bring them back to their world. However they find themselves torn when they realize that their spirits occupy the bodies of living human beings. Death is not final, but simply re animates them years beyond their last memory.
How will they ever be able to figure this out and return to their bodies, with their own families, in their own place in the galaxy?
Region: Toronto, Ontario CA
The actor who would play your main characters in the movie adaptation: Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Gage and Evan Rachel Wood for Alaryn.
Synopsis: Peter is running away from anything. To the owner and tenants of the apartment building he’s staying in, there is not much known about him. He keeps himself closely concealed behind the mask of a carefree young artist, making only weak connections with those around him; they suspect that not even he understands his inner mind. Though he’s a charming young man, no one can help but feel a sense of danger, as if something shadowy lurks just beneath his peaceful facade.
Ilya, the middle-aged alcoholic son of the apartment’s owner, can see this hidden anxiety in Peter and finds it almost a wonderful breath of fresh air. Though neither of them long for any sort of friendship, they do find a meaningful companionship. Ilya carefully analyzes Peter and makes connections he could only ever dream of.
Something about the sea draws Peter to it. He mentioned how he’s always loved the ocean and it had always been his dream to move to a coastal town like this one, but Ilya thinks there’s more to it, although he’s not entirely determined to find out.
But when Peter’s art becomes darker, it’s clear to Ilya that there are explicit physical manifestations of Peter’s mind in the world around him.
Region: USA::Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Possibly a younger Andrew Garfield... Evan Peters could work, too :)
Synopsis: It's not often little girls are haunted by Death, but that's exactly what Oliva Swarhitz's problem is. But what is she to do when the one person who believes her is shot dead? Enter Frankie, an autistic detective with an ego the size of a small planet. The investigation gets underway, but it seems that Death isn't finished claiming bodies just yet, claiming those of Oliva's uncle, father and almost her doctor, and Death definitely hasn't finished haunting Oliva either. From a sleepy manor to a pursuit through the war-time escape passage, it does seem that Death always claims you in the end.
Region: Europe :: Wales
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: For Oliva, it would be Ramona Marquez. For Frankie, Ruta Gedmintas.
Synopsis: The rise and fall of a 1980s New Wave rock band. Four marginally talented friends from the Bowery couldn't get a break to save their lives until they met Colin Hastings, a British newcomer whose voice and stage presence catapulted them towards the stars... and whose fragility brought them back down again.
Region: USA :: California :: San Bernardino
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Adrien Brody
Synopsis: Metropolis grew out of the smoldering rubble that was left of America after the world fell apart. now people live in an actualized utopia under the rule of The United Company. In the mist of the city lives, Ivy, a pessimistic fiction writer. an idealist at heart Ivy will have her life turned upside down after she finds a book from the old world in the library.
Region: North America: Massachusetts; Berkshires
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Meagan Parker
Synopsis: Werewolves are real. It started as experiments in Nazi Germany, trying to cross wolves with humans. The scientists working on the trials were more startled than anyone when they were successful.
That was then. 70 years later, America still doesn't know what to do with the "Mongrels" among us. They are isolated in self-governed cities throughout the nation. Rumors abound that ground werewolf fangs will cure illnesses. Now werewolves are hunted as well as hated.
Cecile is seventeen. She has terminal cancer. Her father is a senator in the lead running to be the next president. His party is conservative and anti-werewolf. No daughter of his is going to undergo illegal fang treatments.
And then she meets two werewolf brothers. They both fall in love with her, pulling her into a world of violence and darkness.
Region: USA :: Oregon :: Portland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Katie McGrath
Synopsis: As she expects, every day at noon, a freight train passes beyond the school yard. “I don’t count train cars,” Tish explains to the girl. “I couldn’t bear it if someone died,” she says, “besides, it’s just plain ol’ bad luck.” She plucks another seed and sets it free. Her classmate shakes her head. “I don’t get you, Tish,” she says. “Nobody does. You’re just too weird.” The girl walks away leaving a pocket of silence in her place. “Sure,” Tish says. Tish closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. “I understand. You have to go check the time.” She tosses aside the half-picked dandelion. Every nerve stands on end as the train’s horn echoes in the distance. “You wouldn’t count them either,” Tish whispers, “if you knew.”
Fears and superstitions are only the beginning of Tish Macintosh’s problems. As if it isn’t enough to have more ticks than a mangy dog, her father, the self-proclaimed “Gnome of Vermont”, has taken off again, hiking in the hills. Her mother, who left them both, had insisted that they keep the “Palms Read Here” sign hanging above the porch. “ In case you need quick cash,” she had said. And to top it all off, Tish is about to turn 13. For a triskaidekaphobe, this year is destined to be nothing short of a personal apocalypse. But the wind is shifting, and with it comes Oren Pasherday, a medium who glides into town, sweeping the porches and kitchens across Brattleboro. She is the perfect hippie in her decades-old paisley kaftan, and she just may be the one person that can help Tish find the path to the truth about herself. All without having to step on a single crack along the way.
Region: USA:: Southern Illinois
The actress who would play the main character: Without a doubt...Saoirse Ronan!
Synopsis: A man goes to a party, samples an unknown drug, winds up in a coma. While his body is unconscious, he dreams of being other people, in other situations. Lucid dreams that all end in the death of his 'host'.
Region: Canada::Manitoba
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Luke Wilson with a full beard
Synopsis: A rock star's life is hard. You have practice, tune your instruments, organise your gigs exercise in hot venues for extended periods of time and then go to an after party. It's even harder when your lead singer's a d*** head. Daniel Hasey's that lead singer. That's why he's been kicked out of the band until he can sort out his act. UK hard rock band "Knotted Up" have left Daniel in the Nevada desert in a small, isolated town on the route to their big show in Las Vegas. With the help of a gay Mexican man and some good-old desert heat, Daniel's about to learn a whole new lesson.
However, every action has its consequences, some worse than others. Will "Knotted Up" survive their smaller shows before their Vegas concert? Will Daniel learn his lesson? Is that Mexican really that gay? Was the Norway tour really that messed up?
Region: Europe::England
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ewan McGregor if he could do angry...
Synopsis: What everyone thought was going to be an ordinary mission turned out to be their worst mistake. Zeph and his team hadn't been expecting to uncover something deadly when they went to steal a dangerous ancient artifact from the most well known, well protected man in the country. And what they unleashed spread fast and out of control. It didn't take long for their world to turn upside down and now their only mission is to survive. Strange, deadly creatures roam the planet freely, transforming humans into one of their own to increase their numbers. They say being prepared is the best way to live. But being prepared isn't an option anymore.
Zeph is trying his hardest to keep everyone together. But that's a little difficult when they are constantly on the move. They need to find a way to repair the damage they've caused- or everyone will be wiped out.
Region:Europe::England::Kent
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Craig Horner for Zeph, definitely.
Synopsis: What did you want to be when you were young?
An astronaut?
A princess?
A dictator?
Me, I always wanted to be a detective. A private investigator. A gumshoe. Call it what you will, but there's something about solving a mystery, catching a thief, or apprehending a murderer that made me feel happy inside. Solving puzzles and tracking clues to get the culprit and solve the case; thats the business.
'Tec explores that desire, which is shared and made real by Mark who has recently lost his job and has a meaty redundancy package which is burning a hole in his pocket.
Of course he won't be going there alone. He'll take his best friend and failed stand-up Danny, and Alice, a jaded nurse who is looking for some excitement and an escape from the Accident and Emergency room.
Join them why don't you?
Region: UK::Edinburgh
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jonah Hill or a young Nick Frost
Synopsis: Eva Norris hates moving. She hates trying to make friends. She hates the small towns her dad gravitates to. Most of all, she hates the fact that everyone inevitably knows her as "the preacher's daughter."
Enter Thomas, the charismatic young slacker in Eva's ten-person advanced placement literature class. What he lacks in motivation he makes up for in talent, and Eva can't help but be sucked into his social circle. This circle - an underground tarot-reading, divining, spirit-contacting oasis in an otherwise staunch Southern Baptist town - is thrilled that they've got "the preacher's daughter" in on their adventures.
And then, all hell breaks loose. Literally.
Region: USA :: North Carolina :: Raleigh-Durham
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Alison Lohman
i'm liking the sound of this one! i got into the southern gothic/supernatural genre when i read Beautiful Creatures (one of the best series ive ever read now), and your book sounds slightly similar, and id love to read it!
Title: Co Ed [or] Georgie Pie [I haven't decided yet]
Genre: YA Real Life / Science Fiction
Synopsis: Georgia's in college, and having a pretty good time. It's weird being considered a 'hot girl', and not being the teacher's pet is more annoying then anything, but all in all college isn't so bad. If only she could come up with an experiment idea, maybe Dr Bohr will get off her case.
At an innocuous party, Georgia runs into Deb and Frisco, a pair of siblings who are too weird to simply explain away with 'theatre kids'. A bit of unconventional snooping and Georgia finds out:
Deb and Frisco are actually aliens, sent to infest the entire college.
That's a pretty kick-ass project, don't you think?
Region: Canada::Alberta::Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone. Though she's prolly sick of playing young'uns. :P
LocationSomewhere between a docu-drama and a parody.
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Nominating a fellow writer...
User name: bobo_the_bard
Title: But That Wasn't in the Book!
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Jason is an obscure character who would do anything to be a Hero. Destiny is a self-conscious heroine who strongly suspects that she's a Mary Sue. All of this fades, however, when an evil wizard deposes the Narrator, the ruler of Storyland, and imprisons him in the Writer's Block. Cracks start appearing in reality. Plot bunnies start dying, riddled with plot holes. Characters are shaken out of their stories, and start questioning their purpose, deviating from their Authors' wishes. The Maguffin Market starts to go out of business, taken over by the sinister Twisselhoft Industries. Things fall apart. Even the all-powerful Authors cannot stop the chaos. Accompanied by an existential Grim Reaper whose greatest desire is to die, and the sadistic bodiless spirit of a dead princess who just might be an Evil Stepmother, the two MCs have to save the day...before the Wizard kills every story ever to exist, and enslaves everyone into his own, the last story in the universe....
Region: Not sure, actually.
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: That'd be up to bobo_the_bard...
User name: WaffleofDestiny Title: Of Men and Angels Genre: Science Fiction Synopsis: Only Archangels have blue eyes. Every Angel is told this from the time they are able to fly to the time that they finally join The Holy One in Bliss. In the year 1900, an Angel with blue eyes was born in the land of Feiraga. She was named Mikayla. Thirty-three years later, Mikayla comes of age and the image of a dense, spiked wheel appeared on her left palm. She was sent with her friend to the island of the Guardians for her training. During this time, Mikayla's mentor, Lord Elsar, returns from a recon mission on the Dragons. The Dragons were the main enemies of The Holy One in the Great War one thousand years ago that was fought between The Dark One and The Holy One. Wanting to get the truth about the Dragon's activities, Mikayla and Elsar snuck onto the Dragon's planet and destroyed their major weapon. However, in the process, Elsar was killed and the Dragons declared war on the Angels and The Holy One. Mikayla, acting as the Archangel of Fire, commands the army against the Dragons until another secret weapon is reveled, Raslon. He was an Angel created by the Dragons to be the most powerful being in the galaxy, strong enough to overthrow even The Holy One. Using her wits and the army of the Mongolian and Roman empires, Mikayla was able to defeat the Dragons and banish them to the frozen planet of Pluto. However, the Angels are still without an Archangel of Fire. Mikayla is forced to take the test to become the most powerful Archangel in the galaxy. This test brought her to the brink of death and later lead her to her destined mate. With the help of the other Archangels and her new found mate, Mikayla was able to seal Raslon. Apparently forever... Region: USA:Georgia:Kennesaw The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ummm...Karen Gillan
User name: mapple Title: Super Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: For the past 50 years in the United States, any super-powered individual who wishes to use their abilities without being arrested has had to join a chapter of the National Superhero League. It's a widely-respected institution, with Junior Leagues to train supers to be adult heroes, merchandise, movies, comic books, and more than a few tabloid rumors started by the people in marketing just to get a little more press.
Emmeline Eddings is a bit of a late bloomer, as supers go, already 17 and a half when her electrokinesis manifests. She's enrolled in the New England League of Superheroes and begins training to not only be a hero and fight against the mundane and super villains of the world (or at least New England), but to be a public entity as well. Between meetings with the stylists and hand-to-hand combat training, Emmy gets to know her fellow heroes, and starts to see that being part of the League isn't what she thought it was, and that many of the super "villains" aren't who they're made out to be.
After a fight goes south not long after her official presentation to the public, Emmy flees the League, hoping to disappear. But the urge to help people is overwhelming, and she finds herself trying to play the hero anyway - and unwittingly lands in the underground world of non-League heroes, some of whom are the very "super villains" the League tries to defeat. Taken under the wing of the wealthy (and quirky) Roberts-McGillicuddys and partnered with a telekinetic named Jo, Emmy learns how to really help people, without gimmicks, stylists, or catchphrases.
But when Jo and Emmy learn of a threat looming over the world, Emmy must contact her old League team for help, and convince them to act against the corrupt, controlling League that's run their lives for years. And even if she succeeds, will it be enough, or a case of "too little, too late"?
Region: USA::Ithaca, NY
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jennette McCurdy, I think.
Pirkko Stone is stuck. She has a shoddy apartment, a dead end job and a dead end relationship. One day while she is being ignored by her boyfriend in favor of a football game, she finds a hidden door behind a bench in her walk-in closet. Unable to sate her curiosity, she crawls through the doorway into the capital city of Seregon. Before she can figure out if she’s having a delusion or if she walked into a parallel universe, she is swept up by a group of thieves fleeing from the Seregonese enforcers.
With no money, no place to stay and no idea where she is, Pirkko is allowed to stay with the thieves – at a price. In exchange for their protection, she is taught to pick locks, steal and con the rich. One day during a routine job with a fellow theirf, something goes terribly wrong. Feeling in danger of her life, Pirkko’s emotions run high and a shock wave is released from her body. Though she is confused about what happened, her comrade reveals that she is one of the few in the realm who has magic, a powerful but illegal force. She is taken to Galadriel, a power sorceress who has been in hiding since the purge of magic twenty years ago.
As Galadriel teaches Pirkko to harness and develop her power, Pirkko learns about the corrupt government which has oppressed its people for the last two decades. Infuriated by what she’s discovered, Pirkko decides to join with her thief friends to go on a quest to overthrow the tyrannical leader of Seregon. However, as she finds herself mired in political intrigue from which she may never escape, Pirkko has to decide if she can trust her mentor, if she truly has what it takes to complete her mission or if she should cut ties and find the portal back to her old life.
Region: USA: New York City
The actress who would play Pirkko would be Lisa Ray.
Synopsis: Brian is a boy, that guy with that hair and those shoes, with no physical descriptors apart from his glassy orb eyes. He is a wonderful storyteller and is loved and admired by his peers, as his belief that weaving a good story is more important than the truth allows him to weave a great story. Brian recalls his memories so often and with such passion that he alters them to the point where they are merely disguised lies, but he remains convinced that he is truthful. Will Brian see the light and remember the boy he once was, or will he lose touch of all reality, and become more intrigued with his story and the character he has created for himself?
Region: London, ON
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: That guy in that move, you know? That guy that you recognize but can't place his name, so you have to wait until the credits roll, and then everyone goes, "Ohhhh, that guy!" That's Brian.
User name: bellumina. Title: Die Young and Sell Your Soul. Genre: YA/Fantasy Synopsis: Even vampires get stuck in mid-life crises, and Flynn's is more destructive than most. When he spirals too far out of control, he's removed from his high-ranking position at the vibrant epicenter of the vampire empire -- Las Vegas -- and is sent to build a satellite colony in Boston, MA, which is not quite the honor Flynn thought it was.
Boston's a lot of things: young, fresh, small, and unfortunately for Flynn, very diurnal. But while he and his crew are sitting around grumbling about the vast differences between their old life and new, they run into a far more serious problem: slayers. And up until a few months ago, there had been no such thing.
C.C. Howlett is one of those soulless slayers, accidentally "recruited" when a demon asks her an innocuous, trick question. But during the process of extracting her soul -- her conscience, her free will, her personality, her passions, her self -- something goes wrong. She's left clutching the remnants of her soul and her self.
When C.C. gets captured while raiding Flynn's hideout, it becomes abundantly clear that neither of them are each other's enemy. Flynn wants safety, security, and to destroy what could be threatening his entire empire; C.C. wants her soul back. And to get what they want, they have no choice but to collaborate.
Region: Boston, MA.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Off the top of my head ... Emma Stone could make a pretty good C.C., with Alex Pettyfer as a punked up, blonder Flynn. :)
User name: teosocrates@yahoo.com Title: On Earth Genre: Anti-apocalyptic thriller
Synopsis: Michael Alastair, a PhD student in comparative literature with ties to the native American community in Oregon, receives a magic ring on his 31st birthday (which he later finds out is the fabled ring of Solomon.) He begins to dream and is inspired to write a book of “new age” spiritualism which strikes a nerve and makes him famous overnight. Meanwhile cataclysmic events begin to occur.
Behind the scenes, a group of 2,000 year old priests survive by ingesting human blood using a cell-regeneration technology that was given to them long ago. They are secretly grooming humanity to become a slave race for the returning alien planet. Michael’s mission is to locate a lost, heavenly sword (provided by an angel to Abraham, left in the rock which inspired the “Dome of the Rock”, taken by Jesus – an event later echoed in King Arthur literature – and then lost by St. Paul when he shipwrecked in the isle of Malta) and defeat the king of scorpion-esque creatures tormenting mankind. Pushed into a role he didn’t ask for, given unbelievable powers, and facing enemies on all sides, can he overcome the vampire priests, monsters, zombies, angels and aliens, and finally Jesus himself, and save humanity from divine destruction? Is humanity even worth fighting for at all?
“On Earth” ends with a temporary triumph, although the entire conflict is just warming up. The 2nd and 3rd book will focus on a world-wide quest for ancient instruction tablets that combined unleash absolute power; the zombie-apocalypse foretold in the Bible (the dead shall rise from their graves); the collapse of civilization as we know it; and Michael’s journey into the underground to restore to life an ancient race of “giants” that had been turned to stone.
Region: The events will span the globe, and discuss the history and legends of mysterious sites and ancient cities in Peru, Oregon and the USA, Japan, Malta, Israel and more.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Tom Sturridge
User name: InspiredEmily Title: Memory Lane: The Lost Years Genre: Sci-Fi Synopsis: Alannah Tabraugh has always wanted to accompany her sister-in-law, Everlight, on an adventure to another world. Finally, she gets her chance. What neither of them expects is to land in the middle of a war zone on the ringworld Prometheus, or for a warring faction to kidnap Alannah in an attempt to coerce Everlight to give up her teleportation technology. Racing the clock, and an evil empire's sadistic tendencies, 'Light and her friends must use all their powers to save Alannah...before it's too late. Region: USA:Seattle The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hard to tell...there are multiple main characters. But for Alannah...hm...A red-haired Irish girl with plausible acting skills. Please, trying to find a good child actor these days is impossible. I'd rather have an unknown. :D
This is a dark sci-fi that deals with Virtual Reality (VR) and Conventional Reality (CR) and a VERY evil empire. Thus far, my characters are self aware A.I., but without knowing that their world is virtual. Prometheus is in CR, and when my characters are pulled out of VR, they have no clue what's going on. When the empire from their world is pulled onto Prometheus, things go bad in a hurry. Alannah will never be the same. Ever.
User name: HeathertheLOSER Title: Finding Rylee Neil Genre: Young Adult Synopsis: Rylee Neil is like every other girl who is 17. She has friends, she hangs out, she worries about boys and school. But aside from all of that she keeps feeling like she isn't in sync with her true self yet. So she writes down what she considers to be major moments in her life and tries to find the big moral she should learn. After she finds out who she wants to be and what is right she needs to find where the real Rylee Neil fits into it all. A book that shows the struggle of every teenager to find themselves and how they fit into society. Region: USA: South New Jersey The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I can't really see this person. Maybe Emma Watson. With the short hair, maybe a little longer.
User name: esbekia Title: Green Genre: Gay Literature Synopsis: Molly and Waverly met after their families abandoned them. Together, they were able to get over the nearly insurmountable pain that comes from being rejected by their own families. But now that they've found each other and found a world that will accept them without predjudice, their families want them back. Family hurts the most. It's going to be hard as hell to give them a second chance, and likely as not, they will need each other to get through the ordeal whole. Region: USA:Virginia The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: The actress who played Juno would play Molly, and Kimberly Williams-Paige from The Tenth Kingdom could play Waverly, but she'd have to dye her hair green.
Synopsis: In 1889 Seattle, Civil War Veteran Tom Clay joins forces with Pauline Lefleur, a head-strong young Native American woman, to bring down railroad tycoon D.W. Townsend and his web of crooked cops and corrupt politicians. They both have their reasons; Tom lost his farm and everything he held dear when Townsend's railroad came through Montana, while Pauline is fighting to keep her people's reservation from suffering the same fate.
Region: USA:Washington:Seattle
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Tom Clay - Terry O'Quinn
LocationEveryone spends their entire lives inside their own heads
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User name: Misunderstood Dreamer
Title: Flickering Blaze
Genre: Horror & Supernatural
Synopsis: Sequel to Within Darkness “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell” – Oscar Wilde
It is said in China that it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. But what if the darkness smothered the candle? What if you never possessed a candle in the first place?
Flair has stepped fully into the world that rests just beyond the one we know. She has proven herself strong, brave and intelligent. But sometimes that is not enough. Flair has left the light behind her and when you’re the living dead, it’s difficult to hold onto your own. She must try not to succumb to the darkness that not only surrounds her but also lives within.
And while she struggles not to lose everything that made Mary Smith special, another much older shadow is moving swiftly closer. A shadow that terrifies even the Vampire Council.
Will Flair be strong enough to halt the growing darkness? Will she be able to stop it taking those she cares about? Most importantly, will she want to?
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.
Region: Lancaster & Cumbria
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ellen Page
How it started has all been lost. How it ended has become more fiction that fact. Seven hundred years of war, strife and lengthy pauses left humanity searching for a way to start again. So they went back picking the best of a time long-dead, planting the seeds of a future that would flourish in a way that hadn't been dreamed of in a thousand years.
Welcome to the Gardens, where antiquity is rarely thought of except in whispers. Clockwork and steam power this world and mankind has found new outlets to explore, taking care to avoid those lines of inquiry that could send them back into chaos. In this future there will be a talented few whose sole duty is a dark and dangerous one: to protect the timeline and the world from those people and monsters who seek to undo it. They are called Happeners and Livia Funar stands tall and proud amongst their number, willing to give her life in service to their cause like so many others before her. Handed a mysterious mission on the eve of her promotion, Livia makes a mistake that can cost her more than just her job, but her very existence. Accidentally dragging her target from the past back with her into the future, she is now in a race against time to get him home and straighten the situation out before it's too late. Seeking out the guidance of her estranged family, Livia ultimately must choose if this future is one worth saving or if it would be better if she should let it all fall apart.
Region: USA::Illinois::Chicago
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emily Blunt.
Synopsis: Like any fifteen year old girl, Naji is a little awkward and very self-conscious. Naji is also 6'9, able to lift three times her weight, and half troll. Born in a shell of stone and raised by her headstrong, but loving, mother, Naji has been feared and humiliated by the townspeople her entire life. Things get worse, though, when she is accused in a series of crimes and is forced to defend both herself and her mother.
Now on the run, she is determined to start a new, peaceful life. However, the world is changing around her and has extremely different plans in store. With a cast that includes long last relatives, an adventuring priestess, a sarcastic feline, an inventor king, secretive royals, and twin of ghost sisters, Naji is set to have a life she has never imagined.
Region: USA :: Missouri :: St. Louis
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Actually, I would choose an athlete (they would need some acting classes, of course)! I like the way Sylvia Fowle, player for the Chicago Sky, looks and one of the tallest teens in the world, Marvadene Anderson, would be perfect.
Synopsis: Before she met Lisle, Piper been obsessed with books. With a best friend to hang out with, though, that meant less time for curling up alone with a classic and more time dressing up together to make vlogs.
When Lisle is taken out of school in their junior year for health reasons, Piper is beside herself. She can't even make new videos without her best friend around to inspire her. Instead, she turns back to her old paper friends... only to discover that the strict new principal at their private high school had banned most of her favorites!
A bout in detention--over reading 'Catcher in the Rye' on school property--has gained Piper the attention of Casey, one of the guys in the school band. As Piper lends her personal library to Casey and the rest of his group, she finds new friends with similar interests and forms a secret book club in the band room. Soon, most of her class is reading like never before. Piper finds she is strangely popular, with a bit of a rebellious reputation following her. And Casey has been spend a lot of time with her, not just to talk about books!
Life seems good again, maybe even a little magical. Until an abandoned and angry Lisle returns to school... and finds a stash of banned books in her locker, where Piper had been hiding them while she was away. Piper's new friendships, budding romance with Casey, her books, and even the teacher who was protecting them may all be on the fire over Piper's mistakes....
Region: USA::Central New Jersey
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Nina Dobrev
Synopsis: Kallani Fulmen has traveled a long way since she first discovered that her father was ill. She learned that she is a possessor of great magic, a young woman specially chosen to be humanity's last chance for change. She has traveled a long and dangerous road in trying to save her father, and now she finds herself at the dawn of a new journey, one that will test the very strength of who she is as a person. In this sequel to Valley of Vengeance, Kallani must come to terms with the relationships she was with the people in her life, as well as embrace a darker element of magic straight from the underworld itself. A man known only as The Lord, the ruler of the underworld, has emerged from the stories told around campfires to spread his own twisted ideology of how humans should view death. He is creating an army of lost souls, souls that feel no remorse, souls that act without consequence, and souls that will carry his bidding to the farthest reaches of the earth. Kallani has begun her battle against the dowfall of humanity, but she cannot know that along the way, she will eventually lose all that she loves most, leaving her to ultimately question whether or not good can ever triumph over evil.
Region: USA: Wisconsin: Platteville
Actress who would play main character: Jeananne Goossen
User name: laura-elizabeth Title: The Last of Silence Genre: Young Adult Romance Synopsis: Ryder finds that he doesn't have time to be afraid when his best friend, Lacey, is clinging to life, and he is the only one who knows what her sporadic ramblings are trying to say. Region: Arkansas The actor who wold play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ryder would be played by Logan Lerman (or an actor that looks like him)
Synopsis: There was once a time when the elves and the crites lived in peace. However, in fear of the crites' questionable ways and ominous atmosphere, the elves attacked their dark counterparts. Everyone chooses sides and soon a war has broken out. The only way to truly end the crites' power is to destroy the darkness itself. However, only the darkness knows where it truly lies.
Sydin, the elven princess of Xyvia, is the daughter of king Therrhin, an Elenta. An Elenta is one of the most powerful elves of light who bares a sword that gives it's wielder the powers of the light. Sydin is a master of elvish magic and the sword. She feels physically unbalanced because of the war and sets out to fight for the critish kingdom of Kiem. On the way she is joined by Chetone, a shape-shifter that turns into a dragon, and Inxis, a critish warrior.
Region: USA::Pennsylvania
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I'm not a movie buff, so I literally don't know any actresses besides the majors like Kristen Stewart and Jennifer Lawerence, so instead, here's a description:
Eyes- Opal (blue and green swirls with flecks of purple) Hair- Dark brown to her midback, although she cuts it to her chin with one long piece in the front Complexion- Pale Build- Medium height, lean Clothes- A dark blue cloak with a gray shirt that has slits at the shoulders, black leather boots, black pants tucked into the boots, and a white sheathed sword at her waist with a hilt and detailing the colors of her eyes. Other- She is an elf, so she has pointed ears and high-ish eye brows. Sydin also rides a black stallion with silver eyes named Tahz.
User name: valente Title: Flexible Survival Genre: Sci Fi Synopsis: Hardened operative adventures through the wastelands at the whispered urges of his superiors, making friends with mutants, and shooting others in the face, as he tries to nudge the world towards a better place the only way he knows how. Takes place in the remains of California. He is armed with an assault rifle, a cynical humor, and an ear mounted radio against the world. Region: USA::California::East Bay The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Johnny Depp
Synopsis: On Halloween night, thirteen-year-old Kathy and her friends decide to smash the pumpkins that were used to decorate their school courtyard. While breaking into the school, things get out of control and Kathy goes missing. In their search to reunite, her friends, family, and Kathy herself each have their own adventures.
Region: USA: California: San Francisco
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: (young) Dakota Fanning
Synopsis:The rising of an ancient stone temple from the sea has caught the attention of the world. Scholars speak of an age-old prophecy that heralds the end of mankind - unless the Chosen One can prove humanity's worth.
Far, far away, a young man named Alex has started having dreams and visions of the temple and what is sealed within. He feels drawn towards towards the temple, as if something is calling to him. Will he answer the call, and learn the secrets of what lies inside the temple before it is too late?
Region: Australia :: Brisbane
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I want to say Ryan Carnes. A younger Ryan Carnes.
Synopsis: The Kingdom of Tuchwald is a strange place, where weaving is magic, the trees control the economy, and the dangerous Otherlord, Emerlich, decides who rules, and who dies. Enter Odelya, clever heir to the throne. What can she do when a plague hits the land, her father goes mad, and the trees start a recession? Why, marry, of course. But when prospective groom William, from nearby Dolfin, starts helping her change Tuchwald for the better, and some magic items reveal a mystery that may be worth dying over, what's a clever princess to do?
With fairies, magic, sedition, love, plagues, weaving, miracles, politics, puppetry, chases, escapes, sewing, sojourns, cooking, lies, pretty dresses, fishing, and ultimately cake, where could things possibly go wrong?
Region: USA:Oregon:Portland
The actors who would play the leads:
Odelya - Tough call. Needs someone very clever at dialogue, but mature enough to play romance. Emma Watson? Mollie Quinn? Millie Innes? All good young actress with some humor behind them.
Emerlich - Need a villain with a tongue of silver. Benedict Cumberbatch of Sherlock fame. Yes, indeedy.
William - Agh. I don't know any young actors who are better with banter than they are at taking off their shirts. Help?
Synopsis: In the 700 years since the Guardian's War, the Blood - the magic of the Realms - has become twisted and labeled as Profane. Knowledge of the Faith was lost when the Guardians sealed the Blood from the physical Realm and blocked the pathways to the other five Realms. Now, those seals are crumbling, and the Blood is seeping back into the world. The Guardians are Awakening one by one, but in a world where everything they have ever known and believed in is shunned, what is their purpose?
And it's not just their own place that's uncertain. Children are disappearing along the fringes of the kingdom, and the cause is rumored to be those descendants of the Realms-born trapped in the world when the pathways were sealed. But when the culprit strikes closer to home, the newly Awakened Guardian Lithal is sent to uncover the truth, and perhaps redeem the Faith of the Bloodless and Blooded alike against all odds.
Region: USA: Central
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe William Moseley
Synopsis: Artie Brown is an emotionally fragile obsessive compulsive mail room clerk living in south Philadelphia. On top of a stack of overdue bills and a girlfriend who despises him, Artie believes he suffers from the world's worst luck. After years of awkward social graces, a tumultuous childhood and a deep desire for a better life, Artie decides to spread his bad luck by robbing unsuspecting neighborhoods of all their most prized possessions, including money, jewels, furniture and even family pets. Artie finds a disturbing amount of pleasure out of embodying the bad luck that has plagued him for nearly three decades, that is, until he crosses paths with a homeless young man and his dog. After a foiled pick pocketing attempt, Artie succumbs to a tremendous amount of guilt after beating up the young man, realizing that his crimes affect him much less when he doesn't come in contact with other people. Artie begins scouring the city in order to make amends with the boy and attempt to reverse the effects of his crimes, one victim at a time.
Region: USA:: California:: San Diego
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Edward Norton, James McAvoy, or Charlie Day
Username: Brightdreams Title: White Phoenix Genre: Fantasy/Romance Synopsis: Clea is a slightly less than average girl. Magic that comes naturally to others is an act of will for her. However, when the boy she has loved all her life is chosen to become a Necromancer she must use her strong will to pass the test herself and follow him. And follow him she does, all the way to the School of Evening set between the world of the Living and the Dead.
Accidentally blinded, there is the promise of healing, but she must begin classes without her sight. The school is strange and frightening, peopled with students that are both exceptional and reserved, and strict, secretive teachers who seem to have an agenda all their own. But she has one ray of hope. She has found her childhood friend, the one she followed here. Or as she?
Brennan, now called White Hawk, is not the same as she remembers him and stranger still are the warnings she receives from her classmates to stay away. Haunted by eerie screams at night and rooms that change at whim during the day, Clea will discover the truth behind the whispered rumors of the Phoenix. In the end she will have to make a decision which could change the school and her world forever. Will the strength of her love and the power of her will be enough to save the one she loves from a fate worse than death?
Region: USA:New Mexico:Elsewhere
Actor who would play your main character: Maybe a young Karen Gillan?
Synopsis: Sia ignores terrorist propaganda claiming the Talkerians, the benign protectors of her planet, are really their brutal jailers but when she witnesses Talkerian guards beating her father to death she is forced to face the truth.
Sia joins the resistance and is assigned to protect the infant crown prince of the Cranan. When she and the prince are kidnapped by Talkerian guards, Sia learns of the Talkerian’s plan: to use an ancient chain of portals connecting the Cranan planets to travel to the Cranan Homeland and seize ultimate control over her people.
Sia’s knowledge forces her into the front line where the resistance plan to fight their way into the communications centre to warn the next planet in the chain to lock their portal. With the imminent arrival of Talkerian backup forces, Sia realises though they won’t get the message through, they can destroy the portal. But while that would stop the Talkerian’s advance, it would also cut off the flow of life force that keep their planet alive. Cut off from the rest of her unit, Sia alone has to decide if the freedom of her race is worth the death of her planet.
Region: Australia :: Brisbane
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Summer Glau
User name: YtonKratz Title: The Lament Genre: Fantasy/ Mainstreamfiction mix Synopsis: What if mermaids were discovered and they were unlike anything we expected? How would the world respond? Region: PohangS. Korea I would love a cover with a very modern girl dressed up as a typical mermaid side by side with a grey skinned, kelp haired, shark finned, clawed mermaid girl who looks confused and bewildered, as this is a main part of my plot. Please consider me! Thank you.
Synopsis: The lives of the people in Tragron are about to be turned upside down by the revelations of a popular, mysterious mayor and the secrets that lurk in the depths of the world.
No-one expected this to befall their lives, apart from Ogian, an elder of the world perhaps. Ogian must now stand firm to help Tragron survive the misery and heartbreak which comes round and maybe divulge some of the well-kept secrets that he has known since the beginning.
As the time draws closer the citizens of Tragron are forced to defend themselves in a stronghold of their own making...can all of them survive to join others of the world in the fight to survive what may become the last fight the world will see.
Region: Europe::England::Elsewhere
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Dustin Hoffman - Ogian, Tom Hanks - Mayor, Then Tom Felton - a heroic type character (no name yet)
User name: bexb (If I don't, who will?), but please, give my author a real name, like, say, mine: Becki Brannen Title: Breathless Genre: Chick Lit Synopsis: What happens when an ordinary girl meets the man of everyone’s dreams? Keeping secrets is never easy, especially when you're on the cover of every magazine and this year's "Hottest Hunk under 30." Good thing Carly is so out of the loop when it comes to celebrity affairs, or she'd realize she was in one!
Region: USA::Georgia The actorS who would play the main characterS in the movie adaptation: Gennifer Goodwin & Robert Pattinson
Synopsis: Bryce Thorn had always wondered how he miraculously survived the car crash that killed his parents. Now, fifteen years later, another tragedy strikes when his girlfriend, Emma, dies in a car accident as well. Shocked and angry that he had not protected her, he suddenly discovers that he can travel to the past. He then decides to try and save Emma, as well as his parents. The only problem is that Bryce couldn't control where in time he would appear and that every time travel he does makes his life a year shorter. To make things worse, he discovers that he will only live for thirty years, and he's now 21. Will he be able to save his loved ones or will he die trying?
Region: Philippines
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Logan Lerman
Synopsis:Evelyn is an 18 year old shop girl in turn of the century Boston. She hates her store, but feels stuck there after her father passed away and left it to her. All she really wants is to be an airship captain like her brother Patrick, but girls simply aren't allowed on airships. Wyatt Sterling is the last person Evelyn expects to see, especially 6 months after a forbidden kiss on her brother's airship. But it isn't Evelyn's heart he's after, it's Patrick. He's missing and may be in danger. His airship was found crashed out west, and his company, the powerful Veldt Aero Company is after him. Evelyn and Wyatt must find Patrick before Veldt and his men do, even if it means breaking all the rules, even the ones they've set for themselves.
Region: USA: Ohio: Cincinnati
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Bryce Dallas Howard
Tucked away in the mountains, a day's journey from the shore, is a country called Tarran. Women are the monarchs, and men are their advisors, called Rulers. It is forbidden to attack the Queen or the Princess, but the men are free game. Prince Dustin is next in line to be the Ruler. But what will happen to him when a secret society comes out from being hidden and prepares to destroy the royal family, starting with Dustin.....
Built into the rocky cliffs is an undercover protection society, the LPSA. Boys and girls live and train deep inside the mountains. Each one has the same goal: to Protect. Bern has lived in the cliff for a long time. No one knows where she came from, but one day, ten years ago, she was found hiding in one of the nooks along the road. She had one thing in her hand- a small necklace.
When Dustin and Bern meet, they don't get along. Dustin is spoiled rotten. Bern is hiding from something, and is running from it. What has brought each of them there?
The actor(s) who would play the main character(s) in a movie adaption: Bern: Me (or Chloe Moretz, with darker and longer hair) Dustin: Braeden Lemasters
User name: Momodee Title: Shades of Grey Genre: Young Adult Synopsis: Grey is 16 years old and has never kissed a girl; he’s not even sure he likes girls that way. So far he’s lived under the radar, his good looks winning a lot of female attention and providing an adequate smokescreen. When his father is killed in a work accident, Grey is sent to live with his grandparents in a small town in the middle of nowhere. One Sunday morning, an obligatory visit to church gives Grey a reason to keep coming back.
Landon has lived in Atwater most of his life and it’s the sort of place where you don’t let differences show. He does well in school, obeys his parents, has a faithful girlfriend (whom he’s never even kissed), and goes to church every week. This week was supposed to be no different, until he caught the eye of a newcomer to town. All through the service, he couldn’t keep his eyes off this boy and it seemed the feeling was mutual…
Region: Canada, Montreal The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Harry Treadaway as Grey open to suggestions for Landon:)
Cities are independent moving communities powered like a giant machine.
On their 17th birthday every citizen is allocated their job for the rest of their life, based on earth, sea or air. Gaia and her best friend Ari are allocated their jobs;Ari, as a typical 'tech' is assigned Earth as a city engineer and is happy with his career, while Gaia is less pleased with being assigned working on the airships. While at work she witnesses an airship explode and she later discovers her father was on board. After learning about her father's anti-government activist past, she discovers that his old friends with similarly politically controversial backgrounds were also aboard the ship. Gaia heads to the city council to explain her theory that the explosion was intentional.Here, she discovers that the council were aware of this and had a part in planning it. Gaia decides to leave the city (an unheard of notion) to find The Board, the body of people who govern and control all moving cities. After convincing Ari to come with her, the two set off on a restored transport pod Ari was building, they know that once they have left that the city will move on and may be impossible to find again.To leave the city, they must cut out the tracking chips implanted into their arms at birth, which provide all contact with home,according to government data they are now officially dead.They leave and join a gang of Outsiders, groups of people who have for some reason left their own cities and are living outside.With the Outsiders, the two friends travel across the country, hiding on tech shipments and catching lifts from rogue airshippers.They finally reach the city of The Board but what they find there changes everything.
Region: Europe:England:Oxfordshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Really tricky! Gaia would have to be someone like Evanna Lynch, someone confident but a little outside of the norm. Maybe a young Helena Bonham-Carter? Ari would have to be a skinny young guy ,Elijah Wood a little younger, perhaps?
PS. I adore this idea :) and good luck everyone!
PPS. Any other young people doing this with me? I'm 15 and I'm the youngest I've found so far!
Title: The Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible
Genre: NF/Religion and Spirituality/Witchcraft
Synopsis: Finally! All of your spell crafting correspondences in one place! The Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible will save you a lot of time, frustration and money. There's no need to spend years of difficult and frustrating research and experimentation trying to figure out just the right correspondences for your spell crafting. No need to spend hundreds to thousands on acquiring multitudes of books, e books or membership fees. With the Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible, you will have every correspondence you could ever want in one place, right at your fingertips. As a practicing Witch I have spent my entire magickal life researching and experimenting with correspondences and am thrilled to share my extensive knowledge with you. Inside The Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible you will find beautifully cross referenced correspondences for: Animals, Archangels, Astrological Hours, Astrological Signs , Aura Associations, Birds, Body Parts, Chakras, Color, Color Hues, Days, Directions, Elements, Energy + Quality, Energy II, Feathers, Genders, God Forms, Gods, Goddesses, Gums and Resins, Herbs, Hours of the Day, Images and Symbols, Insects, Intentions, Keywords, Magickal Tools, Metals, Moon in Zodiac Signs, Moon Phases, Musical Instruments, Mythical Creatures, Numbers, Pagan Holidays, Personality, Places, Planets, Points in Life, Reptiles, Retrogrades, Scents and/or Oils, Seasons, Senses, Sephira, Shells, Specific Moons, States of Matter, Stones, Tarot Cards, Temperatures, Tides, Times of Day, Trees and Barks, Vegetable Drugs, Weather and Winds.
The Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible makes finding just the right correspondences for your spell work easy and fun!
Region: USA: South Carolina: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Non-Fiction, so no actor. Yes, I'm a rebel.
User Name: Samwise Gamgee Title: Korah Harmon: The Room of Bacthium Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: Korah Harmon leads a hard life. He never knew his father, his mother must work to support them, and he is weak, and frail. He is pushed and tossed around by bullies, and he hates his life. He begins to lose hope, but an encounter with an unknown creature changes that. Suddenly, Korah is thrown into a world of fantasy, that he could only dream of.
But all is not fun and games in this knew world, called Braisonia. This world is threatened by an unknown animal. Korah, and his friends Idelle, and Jon must discover the cause of this threat, and destroy it, or it will destroy them. They will all be pushed to their utmost, and all they can do is hope that they will survive.
But Korah has other things on his mind. He can't get the words that the Soul-Seeker said out of his mind. "Blue Fire...blue fire will come." But as Korah struggles to discover what that means, he finds something more. He realizes that strength is on the inside, not the out.
And he discovers that friendship, not strength, is what will bring them all through the night.
Region: Orlando USA The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Asa Butterfield
This is my, not totally shameless self nomination, if you can even nominate anyone anymore.
Synopsis: Ever is an Echo, a perfect copy of herself.
Created on the cusp of the Final War, she is the carrier of eight lifetimes worth of information, and as mankind struggles to survive in space, she is their best hope for an improved future. When an unexpected plea for aid comes from a source outside Earth's own solar system, Ever is called upon to help, but as the information unravels she begins to realize that not everything is as innocent as it seems on the surface. The conspiracy she uncovers will send her on a journey to the far reaches of the universe and into the cold, distant wilds of space. And while she attempts to discern the extent of her own involvement, and struggles to unearth the hidden depths and sordid secrets locked within her memories, she begins to find that the enemy might be closer to Earth than she thought.
Region: USA, Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Abigail Breslin
User name: Yoda47 Title: Threat From The Past Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Ensign Evelyn Mills is excited about her first assignment aboard the Goddard, until the ship is almost destroyed while investigating the mysterious disappearance of a cargo ship near a supposedly uninhabited planet. After making repairs, the Goddard returns to the planet with several Guardians, humans with mysterious powers who were former protectors of the peace on Earth, to investigate the threat, which the Guardians fear might be a old enemy who they thought they had defeated long ago.
Region: Michigan-Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Gee, I don't know. I'd look for someone unknown. (Hey, it worked for Star Wars...)
Synopsis: Avi Ponds is a skinny little girl with a big head and a huge imagination. When she is 8 years old, she finally loses her first tooth! The next morning she is shocked to discover her adult tooth has completely grown in. While investigating this oddity she ends up pulling out the new tooth. To her surprise it didn’t hurt at all. To her even bigger surprise the tooth transforms into a pearly-white enameled troll, that’s just her size. A little scared, a little excited, and completely baffled her adventure is just beginning.
Region: Pacific Northwest
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Mara Wilson in 1998.
Synopsis: Hana Rhys, a gifted violinist, impulsively abandons her studies at America’s most prestigious music academy for a chance at love. But when she shows up at Dylan Saunders’ doorstep to seduce him, things go horribly wrong. Hana vows revenge, and armed with the intimate knowledge of Dylan’s dream to take first place at an upcoming gaming tournament, she soon finds herself immersed in the cutthroat competitive world of real-time strategy games.
Richard Connor, an elite gamer, is known to prefer cold hard logic over sentimental emotions. To his surprise, Hana manages to coerce him into becoming her reluctant coach, and he discovers that hidden deep beneath her need for revenge lies a natural talent and love for the game itself.
Under Richard’s tutelage, Hana takes the gaming arena by storm and is soon poised to become one of the top ranked gamers in the world. But when tragedy strikes, Richard will have only one chance to not only save the life of the woman he loves but to show her that dreams can indeed come true.
User name: mad_ned Title: Elder Eye Genre: Science Fiction/Mystery Synopsis: Elliot Macklin came back from the dark depths of Alzheimer's disease thanks to an experimental genetic treatment, one that transformed his mind into a razor sharp tool with perfect recall, but left his body crippled with a degenerative, fatal disease. While contemplating ending it all, Elliot stumbles on to mysterious clues to the sensational "perfect crime" of the century. When is only living relative, Jondy, is kidnapped while investigating, Elliot must move beyond the assumption that his life is over, and begin a strange and dangerous new adventure in living again.
User name: spiritiris Title: McAllister Academy Genre: Young Adult/Youth Synopsis: Astrid is a thirteen-year-old about to embark on a journey into the secretive, elite McAllister Academy where they exclusively train psychic spies. She makes amazing friends and is having the time of her life when something sinister threatens the McAllister Academy, and she and her friends must accept a mission to find out what and whether they can stop it. Region: Virginia The actor: A dark-brunette Willow Shields or Amanda Seyfried
Synopsis: Adam, a fifteen-year-old clarinetist, loses his vivacious and popular girlfriend, Caroline, to an amateur guitarist. Full of adolescent, misplaced anger, he takes to recording his thoughts in a composition notebook. Soon, his thoughts shift focus to a vaguely punk girl in his English class, who he takes to calling Rainbow Hair, due to her multi-colored locks. As his writing begins to revolve more and more around this mysterious outlier, we are introduced to her perspective. These two radically different people find themselves asking the same questions: "Who am I?" and more importantly, "Does anyone care?"
Region: Suburban America
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Logan Lerman or Keir Gilchrist
Lydia Wolfsbane is a Witch. Not just any your average run of the mill Witch, but an elemental Witch. Her element is Spirit. This means that she was born with the mastery of the other four elements; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. She lives in a grand old Victorian house with beautiful gardens along with her familiar, Fred.
Fred isn't just any old familiar either. He is an Irish Cunning Cat. Irish Cunning Cats are only born once every thirty-three years, in one litter, which always has five kittens. There is always four males and one female. They are all born with very special magical abilities. Fred can fly and shape shift into any other creature. His sister, Eloise, can become invisible and walk right through solid objects. His oldest brother George, can breathe fire like a dragon! His next oldest brother Ian, who causes earthquakes to happen and make any plant grow. His younger brother Cedric, can control the weather. The male Irish Cunning Cat lives for exactly ninety-nine years, no more, no less. The female only lives for thirty-three years.
Join us in their story, if you will, about how Lydia and Fred find the young boy who calls out to her in her dreams and rescues him from his horrible fate.
Synopsis: In the city of Alden, characters are so lifelike, they come out of books. Literally. Not that anyone wants them to, of course. After a character comes out of a book, the story stops changing each time you read it.
Jasmine thinks she's going to have an awesome summer. She's got a job at her favorite bookstore, her mom is in Greece, and her dad is working. Things start getting weird when she hears her boss threatening people in an empty office with a book in her hand. Sooner rather than later, Jazz meets Tom Sawyer, discovers that her boss sells book characters into slavery, and travels out to middle-of-nowhere Iowa to uncover the dastardly plot. Oh, and freeing the hundreds of enslaved book characters that are working on a "project" is on her list too.
Region: USA: Virginia: Northern
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hailey Steinfeld
User name: DrElementary Title: From Orc to Orc Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: A young Orc by the name of Gromsk embarks on a journey to find fame and fortune in the lands of the humans. He signs on to the leading expeditionary force assigned to scout the land and opposition before the first wave arrives. Before he can even step onto the boat, however, he meets a grizzled, one-eyed veteran who takes him under his wing. The veteran alternates between dispensing sage and somewhat prescient advice and driving Gromsk insane with rage. Times are not all fun and games, however, as soon after landing Gromsk participates in his first horrific battle. Before long the entire land is in turmoil as a volcano erupts and magic returns to the land in a devastating wash. Can Gromsk live long enough to return home? And, more importantly, what is the veteran's strange obsession with pineapples?
Region: USA::Missouri::Springfield The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Chris Pine
Synopsis:15 year old Jacob Sumner has been having strange dreams. Dreams of flying and cataclysmic explosions. Jacob has discovered that he has abilities no human should possess. Then he meets a group of teenagers who have varying abilities like him, including a particularly 'fiery' girl named Anna. The teens show Jacob what has happened to him, what kind of new world he's become a part of. Their peace is short lived when Jacob's house is invaded and his Uncle Darin kidnapped. Before he was captured, Darin told Jake that superhuman abilities ran in their family's blood. He told Jake that, if anything should happen to him, to find his older brother Danny in Los Angeles. Jacob learns that Darin was kidnapped by a government agents that operate under a group that calls themselves "MASSIVE GENETICS". With the help of his new friends, Jacob plans to make his way to Los Angeles and find Danny, hoping to work with him to find out what happened to Uncle Darin. Little do they know that their every move is being watched and that, soon, they will be the ones being hunted.
Region: USA - California The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Logan Lerman
Synopsis: The rising of the Ice Moon marks the beginning of a great journey. A journey traveled by one of the most malevolent creatures known to man; a monster capable of ruining the lives of innocent people and even capable of wiping out entire species, but he is also the keeper of Balance throughout our Universe: he is the Devil. This journey is a rite of passage completed by all Great Devils throughout history. When the time comes, the Devil is given but one chance to find a Vessel that will carry his child- the heir to the icy throne. The Devil’s job, along with his sword, Sin- the creator of all past Great Devils- is to keep a stable symmetry among the different planes of existence. If that balance is disturbed, the Universe, along with all other dimensions, will implode on itself. The present Devil, who also calls himself David in the human world, must travel to the planet called Earth in order to find the Vessel for his son. It is because of Earth that the delicate balance of existence has been challenged. With all the Good emanating from the planet, the Devil must increase his Evil in tenfold. By finding a human so pure of heart, so full of Goodness to harbor a child so Evil, the balance will be restored for millenniums to come. But trouble arises when David meets Kate- the Vessel. He has only been capable of feeling hatred, anger, and fear for most of his life, but when he encounters the strong feelings of love and passion- feelings he had loathed for his entire life but never actually experienced- he begins to second guess his mission. Once his son is born, he will be unable to bring the Vessel back to his dimension with him no matter how much he wants to. Is he willing to destroy all of existence just for a little more time with the human he has come to love? Or will Sin force him to complete the task?
Region: USA: Illinois
Actor who would play the main character (The Devil): Paul Bettany!
Synopsis: Growing up in the Core, Nixie has always felt a bit out of place. She seems to be the only person who notices anything unusual, like the beauty of old buildings as they fall to pieces. Or the way her baby brother has become listless and dull. More than this, Nixie hates being connected to the Core. It terrifies her to know that every move she makes is monitored and recorded, even though she never does anything wrong. Despite her fears, Nixie accepted all these things years ago, believing nothing would ever change.
But now she’s noticing a strange owl symbol scrawled on sidewalks and on the buildings she loves. They lead her to a spirited graffiti artist named Rya who tells her about an underground movement of others like them – artists, readers, people with questions the Core won’t answer – who have done the unthinkable and disconnected. And when a man throws himself off a bridge in the first suicide in Core history, his death sets in motion events that will change everything in Nixie’s world and force her to make the kind of choices she never knew she could have.
Region: Dallas, Texas, USA
Actress: I was going to say short-haired Emma Watson but I actually think Chloë Grace Moretz would be perfect.
Synopsis: 300 years in the future, the Disney corporation has taken over the United States of America. What used to be a democratic country is now overseen by a corrupt executive board. Citizens have been stripped of their rights, subjected to government interference in daily lives, and forced to listen to old remixes of Disney Classic songs that have been around for centuries.
In the midst of the growing civil unrest, college student Tod Therinton joins a group called the Revivalist Movement. There, he works alongside others who share the hope of one day reclaiming their rights. Dealing with an unexpected day job for a man who hates everything the Movement stands for, increasing national paranoia, and a very awkward love triangle {which does NOT bear singing about, thanks ever so much} proves far more difficult than he thought.
And that's not even counting the Villain who follows him around and constantly threatens to eat his dog.
Region: USA:: California :: Humboldt County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ugh, jeeze, I don't know. Someone with full cheeks, grey eyes, blonde hair, and an ability to be both awkward and kind of a badass.
Synopsis: Conor Balesman is an outcast, and he knows it. Of course, Conor thinks it is because others are jealous of his brilliance. The others all just think he is a freaky know it all who tries too hard to be included. What they don't know is that Conor has a plan, and very soon several co-workers of his are going to have their lives upended and destroyed. At first no one will suspect anything is amiss, that is they won't until the pieces start clicking together. A series of tragic events leads back to TriTerra Labs and what could be the source of a horrific chain of events occurring around some of the key researchers there. Will the trail lead back to Conor, or will others be suspected? Did Conor actually do it, or did something else occur that he is blameless for?
Region: Michigan: Elswhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Steve Buscemi
Synopsis: It has been twelve long years since the incident in Rome's catacombs nearly tore young Georgiana Brezza from her guardian, airship captain William Hale. Concerned for her safety, the Captain left his young ward at a girl's school in Lodnon while he resumed his search for the powerful artifacts of resurection necessary to bring back his lost love. Captain Hale remained in steady contact with Georgiana, sending her letters and telegrams whenever he was able to... until 3 months ago when all communication was lost.
Now, night after night Georgiana finds herself dreaming of strange and powerful objects, of Captain Hale dying a thousand different ways, of a firece tiger fighting to make an escape, and of deep, mysterious eyes promising help and love. Georgiana must hurry to puzzle out the meaning behind her nightly visions as she makes her way around the globe searching for the Captain. If she can't, she may lose more than those dear to her.
A steampunk inspired sequel to last year's novel "Vestiges of the Dead."
Username: hawkpath-tail Title: Exusta Genre: fantasy (i guess) Synopsis: An old Gotokuneko, known as the Elder to his village, is dying, and he watches his very last Fire Song, the story of the Fire Wars. He is the very last connection to the Fire Wars on the planet, and his village gathers to hear his last words. What follows is an amazing story, filled with rage, blood, deceit, terror, and love. He tells them how it began, by a simple scare gone awry, and how he lost a battle, but won the war. His life was scorched, in other words: exusta. Region: USA::Colorado Voice of my main character: Wentworth Miller
i dunno if it sounds like it, but the parts with the Elder only takes up the prologue and maybe the epilogue. his whole story is the main thing, and it's told in first-person point-of-view.
Synopsis: Karen and her brother Andrew grow up in a family fractured by divorce. But their mother, Lucie, remains determined to keep them a strong family unit. At the age of 64 Lucie contracts a disease that destroys life as she once knew it. She and Karen have always been unusually close, enjoying that mother-daughter "best friend" relationship. But now, as she watches the physical and emotional toll her mother's struggles have on her, Karen's strengths are called upon. Karen, however, has always seen herself as needing to lean on others, but in this situation she learns much about herself that is a surprise. As her mother becomes weaker and weaker, Karen witnesses the devastating changes that overtake her, "The Thin Thread" advances the idea that someone's weakness can be their strength.
User name: bythegodsbecks Title: Doing Time on Planet Earth Genre: Young Adult & Youth Synopsis: Ancient Greece slipped away into time, but it was what happened out of humanity's sight that truly changed the course of events. Rhea, mother of Zeus and guardian of the Big Twelve Olympians, decided that she had had enough of their bickering, and so they have been trapped in a cycle of mortal resurrection. They are born mortal, separated from their brothers and sisters. They live until their mortal deaths, only to be born again in another mortal life. Centuries have been spent attempting to break the curse but to no avail. Now the year is 2011, and a young man claiming to be Hermes' mortal vessel is assembling the Big Twelve. They must work together to break the cycle and regain their immortal kingdom. But, between years of failure and time-torn loyalties, the great deities of Ancient Greece have lost their faith. Region: Canada:Alberta:Elsewhere The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I have twelve main characters. I have a few faces picked out: Shelley Hennig, Callan MacAuliffe, Troian Bellisario, Thomas Dekker, Rooney Mara, Lily Collins, Laura Vandervoort, Matt Lanter ... I should probably stop. (:
User Name: mardillo1 Title: A Better Fate Than Wisdom Genre: I've listed it in Supernatural/Horror, but it's really a mix of that and your standard YA novel. Synopsis: When Amy Stuart's father gambles away her soul in Reno, the devil decides to strike a deal with the sixteen year old girl: allow a newborn temptation demon to shadow her (literally) until he's learned the ways of the world, and the contract will be torn up. The devil even promises that it won't disturb her daily life at all, but the demon turns out to be more trouble than either of them bargained for... Region: USA: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The who would play your main character: Hayden Panetierre? Someone soft, but fiesty.
User name: JacobTWhite Title: Blue Hour Genre: Fantasy / Mystery Synopsis: Tarak is a misos, a half-breed relegated to the status of a second-class citizen by the Sultanate of Theurich, simply due to his impure parentage. For the past three years, he has faithfully served on a clean-up squad within the port city of Nerthus. Their objective is simple, police themselves and the rest of the local misos community in order to prevent falling under the destructive eye of the leadership of the Home Guard. Tarak himself has silenced over one hundred of his own kind, including his own brother.
When a soldier turns up dead in a misos district of Nerthus, Tarak and his team find themselves working under the clock. The 3rd Home Guard is already on the march, only two days out. Without serious clean-up, the entire district will be cleansed in order to remove the cancer. However, the secrets that Tarak's team discover while trying to solve this murder will rock the entire misos community to the core, if they survive to share their story. Region: USA:Virginia: Elsewhere The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Truth be told, not really all that sure.
Heaven Hope is an orphan, escaped from her Foster home hitchhiking across the country. Sheriff Hunter watches over the citizens of Mapiya - an unremarkable, Minnesotan suburb. Motega and Alina work on a science experiment under the watchful eye of the F.B.I.
On December 3rd, 2012 suddenly they and half of Mapiya disappear. There is no explosion, no survivors, no clue left behind as to what happened; just a pile of rubble as if the town had been wiped out by a small nuclear disaster.
On June 11th, 2098, while investigating the town's disappearance for an assignment in science class, Micaden Farrell flips a switch bringing the town, and all of its 2012 inhabitants, back from suspension.
Now both Old and New Mapiya must learn to reunite to cope with a natural disaster. And the state of Mapiya for the last 90 years hints to impending doom for the town once again.
Region: USA :: Minnesota :: Twin Cities
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Edward Norton
User name: Madsandninja Title: The Chase For Wings Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: The odd thing wasn't that there was a prophesy, nor was it the adventure. No, neither of these on their own would have been any trouble for Araleigh and her friends. It was the moment that the two combined that the trouble began. Prophesies are known to bring forth unexpected turns, but when this prophesy pulls Araleigh into a almost sci-fi future, she discovers that there is very little chance that she will be able to return to her own world! Even more, there is a plague lurking in her home of Kressentia, ready to strike down the entire race, and it just so happens that only Araleigh can prevent it. How will she return to Kressentia from a magicless future, while also trying to flee from those who want to capture her and take her wings?
Region: USA :: Idaho The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Alexandra Daddario
Synopsis: Following the devastating effects of the Nerve-Suppression Flu Pandemic, Charlie West Cradle is the only person on Earth who knows how to love. Living a life of voluntary seclusion, he hides away in his home and avoids all contact with the rest of the world, too heartbroken to face how cold humanity has become. That is, until he meets Penelope Moon. Charlie embarks on a self-led mission of love and determination, trying to prove to Penelope that everyone has the capacity to feel compassion, that love is alive.
Region: Europe::England::Yorkshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ryan Gosling, as long as he could do a good English accent.
Effie Anderson is trading office supplies for official secrets…
Effie is good at her job, managing the fund of an eccentric billionaire, who seems determined to throw his money away. But she dreams of adventure, stuck in a rut at home, at work, and with her boyfriend. The last thing she needs is a suspiciously grown up “work experience” boy on her plate. But it turns out Ben Samuels is good for more than just making the tea. He’s working undercover, spying for the government, who want to know what’s really going on with Jeb Drislow’s billions. What is the secret behind his latest obsession, ballooning to the edge of space?
Effie is dragged into espionage, stumbling through a world of danger, double-cross, and really bad outfits. Can she hack it as a spy? Will she learn to go with the flow? And could Ben finally be ready to come in from the cold…
Region: London, England, Devon, England and Space.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Michellle Dockery
User name: Pixystickpixie Title: Mutant Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Synopsis: In a world where genetic manipulation has become commonplace we have to ask ourselves the moral question: Where does it end? Inara is a recent grad who has risen to fame within only a few short years of research on genetic manipulation. She has hopes and dreams of being able to help people overcome natural disadvantages by increasing aspects of their genetic profile. As of late, her dreams have seemed to dwindle away as her research proves unsuccessful time after time. A mysterious man appears in her life offering a simple solution to her problems and wealth and power beyond her imagination. Her decision will change the world forever for every man, woman, child and animal in existence for years to come.
Region: USA :: Minnesota :: Twin Cities The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone!
Synopsis: The court of Henry VIII was full of intrigue, drama, and the cutthroat politics of kings. Amidst a king's quest for an heir, one if his queen's ladies in waiting makes a dangerous gamble and allies herself with the king's new flame. In the process of the upheaval caused by Henry's break with the Church, Anne Underhill must learn to make her own way and follow her heart, no matter the cost.
Region: USA::Alabama::Birmingham
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: the closest in looks would most likely be Holliday Grainger (as a blonde)
Synopsis: Ana was a test subject in a highly secret, very dangerous psychological experiment led by world-famous scientist, Darien Pagualo. That was, until Pagualo died while working in his lab, with no explanation. But when the man rises from his grave a few weeks later, he is the first of a race commonly feared would come alive: a zombie. Now that Ana is free, she must escape the zombies, save her friends, and decide exactly what is worth the struggle.
Region: USA::Seattle
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: hmmm...probably Ellen Page. She seems exactly like I imagine Ana :)
Synopsis: Average is Tessa Roger's middle name. She is just a normal teenager, hanging out with her friends and giggling about boys. Until she sees a girl who looks identical to her. Who is she, and why has she suddenly appeared out of nowhere? The answers to those questions may just be murder as Tessa digs deep into her childhood and discovers things that someone doesn't want her to unearth.
Region: Ottawa, Canada
The actor to play the main character in the movie adaption: Probabbly redheaded Anna Sophia Robb or maybe a auburn Ashley Benson.
Synopsis: The journey of a young disabled man from his early years in Africa where he suffered discrimination and abuse to a random chance that lead him to the opportunity to travel to Canada where he encountered a world of success, opportunities and riches, dysfunctional erotic relationships, challenges, heartbreaks, and a great loss that haunted him as he searched for redemption in misadventures.
Region: Toronto (Ontario) Canada
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: The main character in my book goes through three different phases. Childhood, teenage years, and finally a late 20-something, and since I don't really know any major actors with physical disabilities (I'd love to see someone with an actual disability play the role than someone just pretending), I find I can't answer the question :-| ...suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
Genre: Christian Romance/Historical and Biographical Novel (is that enough genre's? I could throw in a few more I'm sure)
Synopsis: The year is 1889 when May deLacey and her God-fearing family convert to the much despised Seventh-Day Adventist sect after hearing the Three Angels Message of Revelation 14 preached near their home in the British colony of Tasmania. They tremble when they hear, "Every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people will hear the everlasting Gospel!" "Repent for the hour of judgment is here!" and the last and most dire of the three: "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God."
May's faith is sincere, but with it come choices she never dreamed she'd have to face.
Pursuing a career as a bible instructor in Melbourne, Australia, May falls in love with Arthur Currow. A handsome young doctor-in-training with plans for the mission field, May is sure God has answered all of her prayers: a career converting souls and a helpmate and man to love. But before Arthur makes his intentions known May is handpicked as the caregiver and companion of Ellen G. White, the Adventist's prophet, and she knows her life will never be the same.
Not long after moving into the White home, Elder W. C. White, the prophets son, suddenly proposes marriage, and May is faced with a decision to marry the very man she vowed she'd never marry, or Arthur - the man of her dreams. The choice seems simple. But choices are never simple.
Widowed with two young girls, Elder White is separated by an ocean and continent from his daughters. They need a mother, and the only mother he wants for them is May. Even though Elder White stands for everything she vowed she would never marry (a minister, a man twice her age, bearded, and short) she can't turn away from the Messenger of the Lord's own son so easily, especially a man she has learned to call friend. May desires to truly give her life to Gods work, but the man her heart desires is Arthur Currow.
Stuck between her own passionate desires and the desire to be a woman of faithful obedience May is unable to make a decision on her own. So, she does the only thing she can think of: she makes three deals with God, and when she does May finds out what happens when you bargain with God.
Region: USA::California:Sacramento County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: America Ferrera would be perfect for May.
Genre: Chick Lit (though really Women's Fiction/Mainstream...just with a lead female)
Synopsis: Mia and Tom meet in college and quickly become best friends and the other's sounding board for everything. Tom's going into the Roman Catholic priesthood, so there's no chance of anything happening between them - though the one time they come close sticks with Mia for a long time (and Tom though he won't admit it until much later when he's questioning everything). One night, Mia is brutally raped, and Tom is obviously the one she turns to for support. When her eventual reaction leads to a blow-up, Mia tries to deal with everything on her own for a while, but eventually realizes she can't do it alone and he stands by her and helps her. They do eventually go their separate ways - Tom to the priesthood and Mia to get her degree in psychiatry. But they're never far from the other's mine and life.
(And no, there is no romance that happens between them. They really truly are simply best friends.)
Region: New York City
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emily Skinner
Synopsis: The trials and tribulations of Laura, a not-so-average college girl working as an assistant to the band Devil's Fire. This story follows Laura from her first concert to touring with the band and beyond, including all the challenges she fought along the way. Meet the band and travel along with them in this young adult novel.
Region: Canada :: Ontario :: London
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Mary Elizabeth Winstead
First off, Everyone please forgive me! I clicked reply to the wrong post the first time I listed my nomination, so this will hopefully end up where it's supposed to because, this time, I have two nominations in one! :)
User name: Scripted Silence
Title: Razna
Genre: Fantasy/Young Adult
Synopsis: "Ridiculed for her ability to see spirits, SADE KAMP would like nothing more than to pretend they didn’t exist, but when their presence destines her to accept a world others can’t, Sade is forced to live in the land of the dead to save our Earth."
(*SPOILERS*)
ARSIS CALLANTRO has had enough of being just a spirit, longing for his former glory of being the darkest Lord in Razna; he has sacrificed the last remaining member of his family to be temporarily back in the flesh and able to hunt down that which he’d lost years ago: Sade.
As more spirits start to invade Earth, people begin to forget who they are, and Sade realizes she has no choice but to venture into Razna, the so-called land of the dead, which isn’t as dead as it would seem.
Dreams begin to overtake Sade, and it isn’t long before she realizes there is a connection between her and Lord Arsis that she doesn’t want, and one he doesn’t fail to use against her, making her believe her brother, ALEX KAMP, is dying.
The dreams turn to anger and start to consume Sade. After a heated argument with MAX WEST, the handsome, rather fiery demon hunter Sade has come to adore, she ventures off to find her dying brother.
It’s not until Sade becomes trapped in Razna, and aware that Alex is not dying, that the connection breaks, and she is left alone, scared, and hoping Max can figure out what has happened. But he thinks she’s gone, left as if to sweetly say to him, ‘I don’t love you anymore.’
It is the land itself that has brought Sade to walk amongst the forsaken, wanting her to restore Razna to its former beauty, a magical pillar in the land beckons to her. It is the very thing which Max wishes to destroy, and has sought to do so for years when it claimed the life of his mother, and Arsis’s former lover. Fearing the same fate for his still beloved Sade, Max unknowingly sets out to dismantle the very system which prevents Arsis from murdering her...
Landing in the middle of doubt and fear, just what will it take for Sade to pull through?
Region: United States: Atlanta
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: There's a movie adaptation??? I'd have to say Emma Watson.
Synopsis: Vampires. The silent predators, ruling humanity from out of the shadows. Powerful, ever-hungry and deadly.
No more. A century ago, humanity discovered that vampires existed. More than that, they discovered that vampire fat could be rendered into the most amazing anti-wrinkle cream EVER! Vampires became the hunted, and what humans lacked in superpowers, they more than made up for in numbers and ingenuity.
Now, only one colony of vampires still exists in the UK. The humans call it a Reservation, but in reality, it's a farm, run by Vampismooth Incorporated, the makers of the beauty cream. The vamps are sealed off, allowed to eat only from vats of cow, sheep and pig blood to survive. This is the world Romana Lox has grown up in. This is the world she is desperate to change, to break out of.
When she counter-ambushes a human poacher who's broken into the compound to bag himself a vamp, she finds she just may have the chance.
With the human unconscious, she feeds from him. He's... DELICIOUS! Unlike anything she's ever tasted before. And with his blood comes the power of the old vampires. Power that most of the still-living vamps thought was just a myth. Suddenly, she can run faster, jump higher, lift heavier things than she ever thought possible. She can turn into mist. A bat. Even a wolf. She can creep into the minds of humans and befuddle them, persuade them, make them see what she wants them to see.
And, once her friends have drunk from the human too, so can they.
The balance of power has changed, even if the humans don't know it yet. And now it's Vampismooth's turn to be hunted...
Region: England: Macclesfield
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I don't know I'm not her! :) I had to nominate it because it's a nice twist to the vampire fad and because Vampismooth is hilarious!
Annnnndddd they STILL didn't go to the last page....oh well, at least I replied to the right post this time! :) Sorryyyyyyyy *passes out* I blame the Nanoness of it all. *raises flag*
Well, I don't have a whole lot of this worked out yet, obviously, and I'm sure I'm already too late for this, but here goes:
User name: anonymoose Title: After Images Genre: Mystery / a hint of SF Synopsis:
Cam's life has always been difficult. Being abandoned by her mother as an infant was only the start. But she has used the ability/affliction which has made her an outsider and turned it to art. She has drawn herself in - into a home she rarely leaves, and a solitary life with as few ties to others as possible. However, the one person she has let close before - and the one person who has most disappointed her - comes to her for help. Because he needs Cam's sight.
Cam's particular curse is to see the trail left behind anything that moves. Shadows hang in the air as a ghostly record of all movement, lingering for days. Seeing things that aren't there anymore, flinching at actions that happened days before, and feeling overwhelmed in a crowd on an empty sidewalk aren't things she can talk about with anyone. Life is much easier far away from everyone and everything else, such as the dangers of crossing a street full of the shadows of every car to pass for a week or the headache of navigating the sea of images of moving bodies anywhere she goes. The horrors of using a public restroom aren't to be considered...
Reluctantly, Cam gives in, and helps Mark one last time. But when Mark disappears and Cam's life is threatened, she finds out his simple favor wasn't quite what it seemed. Forced out into a world she has avoided for so long, survival depends not just on coping with her unwelcome gift, but on trying to find anyone she can trust in a life she has nearly stripped of human contact.
Region: USA :: New York :: Buffalo
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe late-20's Emma de Caunes?
User name: Jake S. Title: Shadow King's Gambit Genre: Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery Synopsis: Years ago, the evil King Malice of Nordgrind was banished from the world Kronea. His most feared weapon, the Runesword, has been hidden, putting Malice into a deep sleep.
Now, a man, finds the Runesword, and it's power has awakened it's master.
The King will stop at nothing to find his weapon, and conquer the whole world. It is up to a failed ranger, a thief who has lost everything, and a mage who faints when spell casting, to destroy the King once and for all.......if they live.
Region: USA: IDAHO: BOISE The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sam Worthington
Synopsis: A teenage girl with lots of sass from a small town is tired of her boyfriend teaching her about weapons, thinking it will never prove useful. But, late one night while she is babysitting, waves of zombies rush through, and she is trapped in an attic of a strange, old house with two kids. She must take authority, find hope, use the resources they have, and take the young siblings in as her family. Will she ever see her true love again? Will the three survive to see the next week?
Region:USA::Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe Abigail Breslin (if she's old enough by the time this might happen, then definitely), Emma Watson, or Emma Roberts
Synopsis: Rebecca Bristol, high school junior and vengeful Goth, has an eleven-year-old grudge against her classmate Tyler Ingert, the one person that made her happy, and also broke her heart. Perhaps it's ironic that Tyler is also the young man that can save her. If Tyler told her what he really is - a healing wizard respected in the magical underground community - and what he does - living costume crafter, doctor, clinical psychologist - then things would turn out alright. Alas, nothing is simple.
But things change when Rebecca steals an object from Tyler, one magical item to bring them both together and partially amend their long avoidance, starting with Rebecca transforming into a mermaid for the night and going to camp with other troubled teens and adults, and put her on the right path.
How Rebecca will accept his help will be hard to grasp. Small steps towards a healed life.
From the author of Mana Pool comes a new series of magic, redemption, and self-discovery.
Synopsis: Suspense and Genetic Science served on a hot plate of Espionage.
The more Ulyn tries to escape the imprints of his past, the more they become a part of him.
Ulyn Gant was living the life he worked hard to earn. As a merchant vessel captain for Usius Corporation, Ulyn Gant's only concern should have been loading cargo and where to take it. However, when he arrived at the docks, he is informed that the cargo is missing. His contracted load had been offloaded to someone else. What is usually considered a typical pay-out at a dock to guarantee another payload becomes trouble for Gant, when he learns that the payout was used in a well designed trap to appear like a bribe. Facing a Smart Parole review for crimes he was forced to take part in from his past, this is his last review, his last chance to be freed from behavioral implants called Tricon. Failing his review could mean his imprisonment in a cryoprison or worse, since he is a clone, a life sentence in experimentation labs.
Labs cloned Ulyn and pirates used him for Trade. Calling him his son, Forten Juless rented Gant to Krege terrorists for per job basis. His last stand on a ship, he shot a man he knew as his brother, another Krege, who was going to kill a captain. At fifteen years old, he ran away from both factions and tried to get help from station personnel. The people he ran to for help, Planetary Defense security, instead imprisoned him, and in a political flury, he was made an example of and placed in an experimentation lab. Two years later, a compassionate PDC captain took Gant to his father's ship. Despite opposition, Ian McSwaig, Gant's true father and the owner of StatCom Covert Agency and Private Military Group, called in the best specialists and reformed his son. Gant proved that with Trades, the reform was possible. Not wanting to work for his father's company, Ulyn studied shipping and certified with Usius Shipping as a Merchant Marine. He earned his status as Captain the hard way, through scrubbing decks and hitting the books. He returned his father's favor by hiring reforms as crew for his ship.
This book starts with Ulyn at age twenty-five, during his last haul before his final review, Gant, learns that pirates and Kreges are back to hunt him again. With a bribe-set vote on the blocks to end reform efforts, it is obvious that if Kreges can prove Gant never reformed, their next target could be his father or his father's agency. However, Gant knows the attacks will not stop with his father. While checking a damaged cargo container, he finds proof of that fact: two child cygents in cryostasis. Sleeper cells, who later tell him they have both broken the programming via a code, a code that can be sent over a signal, or transmitted through the smart parole implant. The Kreges do not want any agent having that code. The children had traded the cargo container numbers so they could be put on Gant's ship.
Meanwhile, two ships follow Gant and sabotage tears through his decks. Gant does not see any hope of his being paroled. He questions his own reform, given the thoughts in his head.
Instead of review, Gant is asked to leave his captaincy behind and return to the enemies he ran away from. He considers the alternative is far worse, and agrees to return. This time, the people he once lost the most trust in now have to trust him, as he infiltrates a Krege ship, as a spy for Planetary Defense.
Region: USA: California: Central Valley
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ulyn Gant: Burak Özçivit ( Ozcivit, turkish actor)
Synopsis: Ravens is a collection of 18 3,000 word stories, each one loosely based on stanza of Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven. The first short story is based on the first stanza, the second story is based on the second stanza and so on, and so on.
Region: Detroit Michigan!!!
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I don't have one main character, rather each story has one. But I think I'd love for Collin Firth to play Nathan, the main character in my second story.
Synopsis: It was supposed to be another routine job. Emphasis on 'supposed'. But how was I to know that this would happen? Especially since I'm not very good at this myself? Originally, it was a suicide. Then murder. Then everything just happened. Thanks to whoever that I used to believe in that there was someone who could help me. Someone who had the brains (but not the energy) to help figure this out. Someone who didn't mind dumping all the credit on me. Someone who could actually catch the demented culprit running around town. Someone who would be able to pin the blame all on me in the end.
~Smith.
Region: [REDACTED]
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Uh...no one I can think of, actually. I based Smith off a fictional character.
User name: Alli Kubo Title: memory Genre: Scifi/mystery Synopsis:Society has given up memory for immortality. Every one lives for 35 years, then their bodies stop functioning and die. To rejuvinate them and thus sustain the human population, the Sanction allows for their bodies to be recycled and rejuvinated so they come back as spry teenagers but their memory is completely erased. Two lovers have been brought back from the dead and don't remember anything but each other, struggling with memories not their own they continue on a doomed romance as they discover a deadly secret which is their own tragic end. Region: Dystopian city and surburban neighborhood. Somewhat like Chicago and the surrounding towns. The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Janice- AnnaSophia Robb Raul- Skandar Keynes
Synopsis: Four years ago, Kendall Hart was falsely imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Now, as her execution approaches on Death Row, she gets sick and has a one-week reprieve. A week later, she's been giving a chance to prove her innocence with a catch. She would have only 72 hours to do so under protective custody by a U.S. Marshal, and a few hours of home arrest. If she fails, she would be executed by lethal injection. After she re-teams with her ex-boyfriend, Gary Walker, when she's under his watch, her trip back to Virginia Beach wouldn't be easy. People still want her dead, once they've learned she wasn't executed.
Determined to stop at nothing, she would go out and go undercover for three days and three nights with three aliases. She would learn who betrayed her and set her up, while she discovers who framed her, and why Gary betrayed her, when he arrested her and then broke her heart. With few friends and more enemies, she's dealing with a lot, since she haven't recovered from the car accident that almost claimed her life and put her in a coma. Plus, she remembers the assignment she was assigned to, at the local newspaper, as a successful and well-known photojournalist, and somehow people she knew and the evidence she had disappeared. She would learn why she was treated like a "puppet" and who derailed her future with Gary, four years ago. She would fall in love with Gary again and trust him, once she discovered what made him leave the police and join the U.S. Marshals.
During the past three days, proving her innocence gets harder, as her lawyer files an emergency appeal and asks for her to be paroled. She would learn why the military and the police and other heavy-hitters have deemed her as public enemy one. Before time runs out, she would have to stop the clock with Gary's help or die trying, right down to the final minutes of the zero hour.
Region: Ohio: Akron
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Clive Owen or Gerard Butler
Synopsis: Four years ago, Kendall Hart was falsely imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Now, as her execution approaches on Death Row, she gets sick and has a one-week reprieve. A week later, she's been giving a chance to prove her innocence with a catch. She would have only 72 hours to do so under protective custody by a U.S. Marshal, and a few hours of home arrest. If she fails, she would be executed by lethal injection. After she re-teams with her ex-boyfriend, Gary Walker, when she's under his watch, her trip back to Virginia Beach wouldn't be easy. People still want her dead, once they've learned she wasn't executed.
Determined to stop at nothing, she would go out and go undercover for three days and three nights with three aliases. She would learn who betrayed her and set her up, while she discovers who framed her, and why Gary betrayed her, when he arrested her and then broke her heart. With few friends and more enemies, she's dealing with a lot, since she haven't recovered from the car accident that almost claimed her life and put her in a coma. Plus, she remembers the assignment she was assigned to, at the local newspaper, as a successful and well-known photojournalist, and somehow people she knew and the evidence she had disappeared. She would learn why she was treated like a "puppet" and who derailed her future with Gary, four years ago. She would fall in love with Gary again and trust him, once she discovered what made him leave the police and join the U.S. Marshals.
During the past three days, proving her innocence gets harder, as her lawyer files an emergency appeal and asks for her to be paroled. She would learn why the military and the police and other heavy-hitters have deemed her as public enemy one. Before time runs out, she would have to stop the clock with Gary's help or die trying, right down to the final minutes of the zero hour.
Region: Ohio: Akron
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Clive Owen or Gerard Butler for male lead Female lead would be Reese Witherspoon or Sandra Bullock
Tonight a choice shall be made, And the price will be paid, It won't be forgotten for generations to come, Peace shall be found when all magic becomes one
Years ago, a choice was made. The three magical races, Dragon, Elf, and Magmor met at the Glass Pool, where the guardian of magic, Fate, appeared to them. The elves, whose powers had weakened over the years offered their immortality to one of the other races in exchange for protection. In her anger of not being chosen, Reyna of the Magmors destroyed Fate, shattering the glass man. The pieces of Fate were scattered and throughout the years the greed of people have driven them to find the pieces. Aileen, a half-elf, grew up in the city of Doulurn a small city by sea. On the night when the choice was celebrated, the city was attacked and all in the city fled. Alone due to the deaths of her aunt and uncle and with only the strange guidance of a crazed storyteller, Aileen sets off to find an elven city in the forest of Ilvar, hoping to learn more of her past and what she can do help restore the magic destroyed so long ago.
Region: USA :: California :: Santa Clarita
The actor that would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Liv Tyler as Aileen, mostly because I love how she played Arwen in Lord of the Rings. Either her or someone with similar features.
Synopsis: Arliss is vain, irreligious, and apathetic of much of the world around him. So when he is badly scarred by the mustard gas of the trenches, he proclaims with complete confidence, he would rather live one day with his perfect face, than the rest of his days a monster. As a result of that statement he later finds himself skeptically accepting an offer by a mysterious doppelganger: "I will give you my face, if you will give me your fate."
The last thing Arliss Ayres wanted was immortality.
And so begins a search for answers, for a loophole in this twisted contract with an entity that seems to not even exist. What follows is a journey progressing through the first half of the twentieth century, as a grim world of dark magic, amaranthine, and the macabre reveals itself. But decades can change a man. As a now increasingly distant objective justifies a tangled web of lies, avarice, and contracts, he realizes, He traded a grotesque appearance, for being a monster of another kind.
Region: USA :: Chicago
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: maybe a younger Jim Caviezel
User name: Pointy-Hatted Geek Title: The Abnormally Brief and Briefly Abnormal Life of Alyssa Ray Genre: YA Fantasy Synopsis:
Welcome to the life of Alyssa Ray, an extraordinary young girl. She is the oldest of four children, a brilliant student (even though for the sake of appearances, she doesn't publicize that fact), and possibly the most exciting thing ever to happen to her town of 764 people (and some cows)--and the premonitions don't make her any less extraordinary.
However, it takes an arrow fired by an angel for Alyssa Ray to be hurled into the most exciting (and last) adventure of her tragically short life. What happens when you throw a teenager with a rebellious streak and a knack for seeing the future into the middle of a war between the forces of Heaven (the bad guys) and the Devil's ragtag army (the good guys)?
All hell breaks loose.
Region: USA :: District of Columbia
The actor who would play my main character (Alyssa Ray) in the movie adaptation: Hard to say, because they have to be fairly young, which really narrows down the possibilities. Ellen Page or Emma Stone if they could pull off Alyssa Ray's bit of edge well enough. Otherwise, I think Emma Watson could do it. (The setting would have to shift, though.)
Synopsis: Ever since Audra had taken Lex’s hand, it seemed all she’d been doing was running. Running from The Elite who only wanted her because of her parents. Running from The Academy who, even though they were the good guys, were trying to conceal the truth about her parents from her. Running from the truth, because even though she needs to know, she’s not sure if she really wants to. Running from her feelings because even though they felt right, they were oh so forbidden.
Audra O’Neal’s life had never been and would never be what most would consider normal. She lost her parents in a car accident when she was twelve. She has never been to a public school since her parents had insisted on a boarding school far, far away. And though her guardians are nice, they can never replace the loss of her parents. Things become even less normal when she discovers that they were spies and comes home to find that her guardians have been murdered.
She is then catapulted into a hectic world filled with spies, lies and the not so occasional murder. Where the only “normal” thing left in her life happens to be Lex who helps her every step of the way to try and discover what really happened to her parents, and if they’re even really dead.
Region: USA::Ohio
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: I would have to say Kaya Scodelario, (but with red hair) just because she would have to be young and I rather hate of the young, famous actresses that would be able to play the part.
Synopsis: Rocky and his nomadic parents explore the world, moving at least once every year. Although he's done it many times, moving was never easy on Rocky, especially with his lack of confidence and horrible social abilities. His last move really hit him hard and he wonders if he will ever be able to recover from the loss of his best friend ever, Alex. The memories of their four months together won't leave him alone. The appearance of a new friend, Jack, won't rid Rocky of his past. Even Alex's summer visit dosent help to relieve Rocky of the memories, but worsens them, making him feel less confident than ever. But when he's really needed, will he be able to rise to the challenge and stand up for himself and others, or will he not find the couage to help even himself? And what will he do when he has to move again?
Region: USA: Texas: Houston
Actors: Joel Courtney as Rocky, Chloe Moretz as Alex, Isabelle Fuhrman as Jack.
User name: lizfountain Title: The Life and Death of Saint Guinefort Genre: Literary fiction with a speculative bent Synopsis: Guinefort – known as Guinn – finds herself responsible for the death of a child. Ready to do herself in as penance, she is offered a deal: Take over for Death, who is pining for an early retirement, and leave the world without risking the eternal damnation that follows suicide. Guinn agrees, believing her life is over; then, in carrying out her Deathly duties, she falls in love. With a human man. She can’t touch him, or he’ll die. Guinn has to figure out how to love him in a way that allows him to live. Meanwhile, it turns out he’s the only human who can see her; and his relationship with Death will change his Life. Region: Seattle The actor who would play my main character in the movie adaptation: Guinn would be astonished to see Jennifer Jason Leigh playing her onscreen. Lewis, the man she falls in love with, could be a slightly younger David Morse, and his best friend, James, is Mark Addy (from The Full Monty). (Oh jeez. what do I know... I write, I don't cast! :-))
Synopsis: A slightly off-beat young professional named Margaret Louise (MarLo to her friends) is making her way into adulthood. Four years out of college, she’s keeping pace with the music industry in Seattle, WA as a New Media promotional assistant, a job she enjoys, with the anticipated possibility of promotion (if the office co-irker doesn’t get to it first). Having just attended her best friend Kate's wedding, Margaret must adjust to their changing friendship, as there isn’t as much room in her BF’s life for her as there use to be. After a blind date fails to show up, Margaret hits a low point until a kind stranger takes the date’s place. A friendship slowly kindles between the two, but there’s something about him that she doesn’t know. As things heat up at work and Kate announces the impending arrival of her first child, will Margaret and the gentleman stranger’s friendship stand a chance at being something more? And when Margaret finally learns the truth, will she even want there to be?
Region: USA: Texas
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Amy Adams
Synopsis: In the wake of the outbreak of infection, Z-class citizens are trying to find their place in the new world. Segregated into habitats, their contact with Pure Beings is limited to an absoloute minimum while The Extermination Proposal is awaiting its verdict.
Young Zombie Twyla has come to terms with her grim fate, but all that is about to change. She is about to rediscover her will to live, but can a romance between a Pure Being and a Z survive against all odds?
Region: Australia, Melbourne
Actor who would play your main character: Jodelle Ferland
Synopsis: Anna and Janine have been best friends since schooldays. In their twenties, they work together in a busy sales office and spend much of their spare time playing an internet based game called Small World, where they can create a life full of excitement and magic, experienced by their own avatar. Jezebel is Janine's avatar and Angel is Anna's.
Without warning Janine disappears and Anna, bereft by the loss of her friend, escapes to Small World with increasing frequency until she finds herself transported, through a portal, into Small World, taking the place of her avatar. In Small World she is reunited with Janine, (now Jezebel), who tries to help her adjust to her new life, as she, herself, has.
Unable to accept that she will live in Small World for ever, Angel teams up with Tom and, together, they vow to find the portal that can take them home, avoiding many dangers along the way.
Eventually, they find the portal but, at the same time, they discover a horrifying truth..
Region: Kent, UK
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Watson
User name: AMKoenig Title: Sword of Justice Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Ione Praetor, young paladin of Robu, the Mirror Eyed, goddess of Justice, accidently becomes involved in a plot that shakes the very foundations of her temple.
During a simple tasking to stand vigil over a dying mercenary, Ione is visited in a vision by what appears to be one of the forbidden Elder Gods, none of which are pleasant to behold or easy to understand. The confrontation leaves her with a visible mark, a curiously cold artifact and numerous questions. The quest for the answers to those questions take her on a journey that will lead to the edge of the world.
At first glance this story appears to be simply an old fashioned yarn about good versus evil. But this tale of high adventure, complete with shadowy villains, cryptic visions and mind teasing puzzles reveals itself to be much more. Questions don't always lead to pleasing answers and visions don't always lead down a righteous path
Katrina, in a riveting encounter with death, is forced to revisit her not so pleasant past. She faces her demons, and her truths, while on a desperate quest. It is her sudden reality, her stream of consciousness that pulls her deeper into the chilling unknown.
Desperate to find some calm in life she tries to start writing again, a pastime that was once her passion, her guilty pleasure. This time around though she is writing out of control; the words come fast, as fast as she can type, words that she, the author, is terrified to read.
Caught living in apprehension; feeding her fears, she finds herself fighting back unwelcome instances of former lives. It’s not until she finally realizes that her every move is being meticulously tracked … that she finds herself playing the most dangerous game of her life.
Region: Anywhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Julia Stiles
User name: paperback-writer Title: A Time of Horses Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis: Lando Cruz cannot sleep at night. He is haunted by a recurring dream of wild horses running through them. A colleague at his construction job site commiserates that the dreams might mean that he is confronted by an overwhelming power beyond his control. Later that morning he is provoked by a discriminatory inspector, “Red”, who is making life hard on his Spanish-speaking crew. It is then that real overwhelming force in Lando’s life emerges—his out-of-control anger. Lando not only has a meltdown, which hurts his cause at work and threatens his job, but he wrecks his car on the way home.
Out of the smoldering wreckage, Lando is captivated by a herd of magnificent horses crossing the highway that stopped traffic. He follows them to a mysterious rancho, once belonging Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, where horses are a measure of influence, power, and wealth. Lando meets a disillusioned young officer in the Mexican Army there, hiding his uniform in a donkey shed under the straw. Lieutenant Edberto Del Toro has just surrendered to a handful of Americans rebels outside of Sutter's Fort and resigned his commission in disgrace.
After initially clashing, the two men find that are they both confronted with picking up the pieces of their shattered careers: the lieutenant overcoming failure and dishonor, and Lando learning to manage his rage. Lando and Edberto put aside their personal differences to rescue a teenage Californio who has been crimped into the service of a merchant ship, taking them on a voyage from Yerba Buena Cove to the Sandwich Islands. A Time of Horses vividly brings to life the gallantry and brutality and sense of adventure of the day. With help of Lieutenant Del Toro, Lando Cruz searches the corners of world for the missing youth, as well as the personal disciple and dignity he must find to tame his wild horses back in the year 2011. Region: Solano County
Actor who would play my main characters in the movie adaptation: Lando Cruz: Benjamin Bratt; Lieutenant Edberto Del Toro: Gael Garcia Bernal
User name: KttyB78 Title: Unexpected Occurances {title in waiting} Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: Kanda, the Tohopka princess, has rare {hidden} powers which no one knows about. Both of her parents were killed the night she and her protector, Elan, fled the castle. Tohon, the youngest son of a rival clan’s leader, would rather spend his time out in the battlefield, then be tied down to some woman. When his older brother dies at the hands of an enemy Tohon is forced to take his brother’s place as the new soon-to-be head of the family. As such his father decides to wed him to Kanda. When Kanda’s secret powers start to emerge she becomes determined to return to her homelands and free the remainder of her people. With the help of Elan and Tohon she must battle their most fearsome enemies and keep her powers from falling into the hands of evil in order to prevent worldwide chaos. Region: MO The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Probably... Summer Glau.
Synopsis: Elowyn Campbell knows that she is different. So does everyone around her. So they try and avoid her as much as possible. Wherever she goes, questions arise. Not just from others, but from herself as well. Who is Lynne? Why does she keep coming back to try to kill her? And who is P.O.W.E.R.S.? Or better yet... What is P.O.W.E.R.S.?
Region: Ontario, Canada
Actor who would play my main character in the movie adaption: Jennifer Lawrence but with ginger hair. :)
Synopsis: Remember that time when you got diagnosed with stage four cancer, and your husband leaves you for another woman? Ya. This chipper novel's about that.
Region: United States, Oregon
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: An otherwise unknown actor who will, undoubtedly, be in demand after her astonishing performance.
User name: jlhastings Title: This is Life Genre: Youth/Young Adult Synopsis: Raised by her grandfather and, distantly, her father, Jacquelyn "Jac" Chase has never really had a woman's touch in her life. Instead, she is loud, unpredictable, wild and some might even say a tom boy. Jac competes in extreme sports and often gets into fights, having a fiery and intense temper. She wears combat boots, baggy clothes and prefers hanging with the boys.
Except for one girl. Her name was Lyra Aiako. Lyra was the complete opposite of Jac. Part Japanese and raised by her two aunts, having lost her parents in a car accident when she was very young, Lyra was the very picture of a well-behaved, effeminate girl. Unless, of course, she was competing. She was very independent and stubborn, and never took no for an answer.
Lyra and Jac were highly competitive against one another. If there was some kind of sport, they were competing against each other in it. Usually, Lyra's cool head and ability to work through her emotions made her end up on top. Despite their competitiveness, the two girls were extremely close, right up until Lyra moved to Japan under mysterious circumstances.
Ten years later, Lyra has returned and once again, the girls find themselves competing against one another, this time for their own column in a popular magazine. But this time, Jac notices that things aren't quite the same between them. Lyra seems more cold, reserved, distant. But Jac has changed, too. Since her grandfather's death, she's been getting into some rather nasty habits: drugs, alcohol, you name it. Can Jac see through her own problems long enough to get to the bottom of what's going on with her once best-friend? Region: United States: Georgia The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I have two-- Allison Scagliotti for Jac and Komatsu Ayaka for Lyra.
Synopsis: In the dystopian, gray-smog future of mankind, a curious kestrel aims to break out of his miserable, caged life. However, escape into the realm ruled by humans proves to be an equally forlorn existence. Plagued by vicious foes and harsh survival, the kestrel numbered 321 struggles to find his purpose in a world where purpose doesn't belong, and his place in a world where animals don't belong.
Region: Unstated, but highly urbanized city with a lot of gray-smog. Yup.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Um. I don't know any famous birds. So any male kestrel will do.
Synopsis: After the death of his never-there mother Fabian Jenson received money and a letter from her telling him to explore the world. How much does a nineteen year old boy need to get on a plane and go somewhere? On one of Fabian's stops he goes to see the Castle of Berg. When there Fabian is attacked, and wakes up in a strange world of the Faie. Fabian has to learn to cope with a new world, and hopefully find his way back home.
Synopsis: Spencer Pierce is the middle child in a family of six, and the only girl. She lives in a small town in the Midwest, and has a simple, teenage life. With a teacher and a coach that underestimates her, Spencer is willing to do anything that will get her to what she wants. But when she digs too deep into a story for her school's newspaper about a seemingly small group run by a determined leader forming in her town. She gets trapped in the group like a dinosaur in a tar pit. Nothing is what it seems, becoming all to real and all too dangerous; witnessing sacrifices, genetic mutating, and transformations. Soon, not only is her chance for acceptance in danger, but also her life, her family and her love by the crazy people who will do anything to make sure their story does not get out.
Region: USA: Illinois
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Definitely Emma Stone or Bonnie Wright.
Synopsis: Years have passed and Marjolaine still cannot forget how Jason tasted on her lips. Only two have ever sampled hers. The first stole her life. The second almost cost Jason his. A third certainly would.
Marjolaine had a duty is to her family in Italy, but she longed for her former freedom. Her friendship with Rachel has survived the distance, but the topic of her brother was forbidden. She'd woven her spell to protect him from the horrors he'd witnessed at her hands, but she would relive them daily. Durante was ever patient with her. Eternity was not enough time to repay him for saving Jason's life and still she couldn't refuse the memories that held her captive.
As much as she is determined to do right by Jason, someone else is interfering to play a deadly game. Jason is merely a pawn to use Marjolaine and ultimately Durante to gain power. Marjolaine must uncover the who is puppetting them before she loses her delicate self-control and kills the man she loves.
Region: Lowell/Nashua
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Len aka Marjolaine - Monica Belucci Jason - Chris Ivan Cevic Rachel - Sarah Michelle Gellar Nina aka Naamah - Angelina Jolie
The belief that gave the ancient land its power slowly fades away, and no seems able to stop the slow and inevitable decline. Regents sit the thrones of the two Courts instead of Faerie's true rulers, who have been missing for milennia, and the nobility slowly becomes more and more lost within their own ostentatious frivolity.
Ian MacScath has lived a life of exile from Faerie for the last three centuries, living a life of seclusion and study within London, and serving the will of the rulers of Faerie.
When a secretive and cryptic mission leads Ian to the esteemed Litchfield house though, he discovers a girl who may represent Faerie's only hope of a future.
Region: USA::Minnesota
The actor who would play your main character in a movie adaptation: Jude Law
User name: Blank_Penname Title: Otherkin: The Hunter's Prey Genre: Other (fantasy-ish) Synopsis: A group of Otherkin (different fantasy races) have been trying to repair after the race-war two years ago because one of the Otherkin society members was murdered. Though, recently, things have been getting worse as a group of Hunters that previously had an arrangement to leave the Otherkin in Ethica alone, have broken their promise and have started systematically taking Otherkin's lives. Region: USA::Ohio The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Difficult to say, with a cast this big.
User name: Aherl Title: The Earth Wife Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Synopsis: A teen from a small, conservative town grapples with her own sexuality and stumbles into a relationship with a new student who is a visitor from another planet. His race is dying out and has made a final push to find suitable breeding partners on earth and a few other planets. Region: Boston, MA The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Troian Avery Bellisario, & Chord Overstreet
User name: starlost Title: Mars Quake Genre: Sci Fi Synopsis: When astronomer Dana Wright observes an unusual phenomenon on Mars, she photographs what she believes is writing. In her attempt to convince officials further exploration is warranted, she meets Tom Matthews, a Senator’s Aide who is willing to help her negotiate the red tape she encounters. However Mathews has his own reasons to assist her. The images evoke a memory from a long-ago past buried deep within him – the images are not writing, he professes, but buildings, structures made by intelligent beings.
Since his army days, Tom has been able to recall all of his past lives and the people with whom he shared them. He experiences a past life moment of them when he meets that person in present time; that is, until he met Dr. Wright, someone he's never met before.
As a scientist, Dr. Wright is skeptical of how Tom “knows” things. Tom’s memory, whether Dr. Wright likes it or not, is the key to the new markings that have appeared on the Martian surface. Region: Raleigh Durham The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Nathan Fillian, Jody Foster and Michael Douglas as The Senator.
On December 1, 1925, Anita Allen lost $25.00 and her soul in a card game with the Devil.
In a matter of days, her life is turned upside down. As a working girl, she's still balancing her secretarial job and landlord problems with the evenings full of jazz and illegal alcohol with her mobster heir beau; after the lights go out in the speakeasy, an odd man named Don drags her around Chicago, teaching her how to become a Reaper, taking the souls of the unlawfully living to keep the balance between the afterlife and the living world in equilibrium.
But learning to shoot a gun and run across icy rooftops are the least of Anita's concerns: Her first target is the alderman of Ward 6, a corrupt politician with close ties to the organized crime heads of the city. Through a series of failed attempts on the alderman's life (and more than a few close calls with her own), she starts becoming more familiar with her powers and learns about a fatal conspiracy against her beau's father and the Rinella Family as a whole.
Forbidden to interfere with the mob war that's about to break out in Chicago, Anita has to find a way around the silence her new master has imposed upon her- Or risk losing the people she loves to a massacre she can't possibly prevent on her own.
Region: USA::Colorado::Fort Collins
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Clare Maguire
LocationNorthen Virginia (Washington D.C. suburbs)
JoinedSeptember 24, 2010
Posts3
User name: Author2b
Title: It's Not Your Time Yet, Brother
Genre: General Fiction
Synopsis: Brad Mitchell, a man who has touched a great number of lives is fed up with his own life and tries to commit suicide. Brad is the all around good guy who is ALWAYS making a personal or financial sacrifice for others, not because he has to, but because that is his nature. Lately, with all of the twists and turns of events in his life, it just doesn't seem like all of his effort and sacrificing is paying off. If it is he sure can't tell. In "It's Not Your Time Yet, Brother," Brad manages to avert suicide but is quickly thrown into a situation that causes a near death experience. His almost dead body is taken via ambulance to the prestigious Marcus Vanderbilt hospital where he codes on the table during emergency surgery. As the medical team struggles to revive him, Brad's soul embarks on a journey that he had always looked forward to, but did not realize just how much he was not ready for yet. In heaven, Brad Mitchell encounters many of the people whose lives he has effected; some which he knew and many others that he didn't. Read the gripping drama that unfolds in "It's Not Your Time Yet, Brother" and see how Brad discovers just how the very things he thought were insignificant mattered so much in the lives of others-- he discovers just how important his life and service to God really is. Brad finds out that there is still work to be done. He discovers how we all must follow through and let God use us in His perfect plan as He accomplishes His Biblical goals. Brad Mitchell learns what we all need to bear in mind that while we are still alive: We all have a purpose!
Region: Northern VA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Will Smith
LocationNorthen Virginia (Washington D.C. suburbs)
JoinedSeptember 24, 2010
Posts3
This is my second nomination This one for a book that I started with during a previous Nanowrimo and it is almost completed
User name: Author2b
Title: Expect A Miracle
Genre: Crime Fiction
Synopsis: Expect a Miracle is the story of Detective Darin Frost who was a thriving cop that the mob loved to hate. Darin and his partner were getting too close in their investigation and the mob had to find a way to silence him. With the help of "dirty" cops they were able to get Darin into a situation in which he was injured to the point that he was unable to return to work. Darn's arch enemy, Mikey Campinieri has sworn revenge on Darin. It was Darin who put Mikey's father, the previous leader of the Campinieri crime family behind bars. On the eve of Giussepe Campinieri's release, he was murdered. Darin now has an uphill battle trying get himself back in shape to do what he loves best... being a cop. His only path of return is to return as a canine officer... Darin hates dogs. After some difficulty and a demonstration his loyalty Darin accepts Max, a German Shepherd, as his partner and Darin accepts Max. Together along with their partner Jamie Carpenter they endeavor to take down the Campinieri crime family before the Campinieri family gets them.
Region: Northern VA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Will Smith or Cuba Gooding, Jr.
User name: Penelope Wrightly Title: The King Who Never Laughed Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy Synopsis: In a world beyond space and time, there lies a world where everything is connected. Within this world there is a king who never laughs; his heart is dark and his eyes tell stories that make others tremble in his presence. Within this world there lies a labyrinth below its surface, giving energy to all who live there; but parts of it are starting to die out as its heart is fading and growing as dark as its king. Who will make the king smile again? And who will make this world come alive once more...? Two young women from our time are about to find out, as they make their journey to a world they never could have imagined. Region: USA: CA: San Luis Obispo County The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:either Richard Armitage or Ralph Fiennes
Synopsis: Annabeth Phillips was just trying to survive being a teenager in New York City. After dying in a dream, she had to make a choice: never wake up, or protect her city from monsters she didn't even know existed. Once the bargain was struck, Annabeth began to see things between midnight and one every night. Nightmares. The creatures have been coming into our world from theirs since the beginning of time, attempting to unlock the secrets of our minds. Once they do, they can figure out to slowly break them down. Their planet is dying, and they know it. The only solution that the Nightmares can see is to move into our world. However, in order to inhabit earth after the Nightmare Hour, they must inhabit the body of a human. Now the Nightmare Hour is beginning to shorten as their planet weakens, and the creatures are becoming more aggressive than ever in their attempts at understanding how to unhinge the human mind.
Now Annabeth must try to survive this harsh reality where the Nightmares don't go away after you wake up. With the help of an old friend, and a talking piece of futuristic hardware named Thomas, Annabeth attempts to protect her world from something only she can fight. However, when the Nightmares unlock the secret to inhabiting the human mind, Annabeth will have to choose again: save herself, or the people she loves.
Region: USA: Wisconsin
Actors in movie adaption: Annabeth- maybe a ginger version of Chloe Moretz.... Nate- Logan Lerman. But with lighter hair. Or maybe a American version of William Moseley Thomas- (or at least, his voice) Matthew Gray Gubler. Hands down.
Synopsis:The Institution. Fanny Evan never really knew why she was there, why she seemed to have no family, why no other child there did either. But she never really felt the urge to know.Until she starts uncovering truths and finding things that she never really wanted to find and starts unveiling secrets that she should had never unveiled.
And it all starts with the Woods, the place that no child is permitted to enter, her almost supernatural intuition that led her to an isolated girl who calls herself Subject 1367 and her two friends Jaden and Carter who also seem to be having some secrets and powers of their own.
Region: USA: Arizona
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Dakota Fanning with brown hair.
Shamelessly self-nominating, because this would be a dream!
User name: HeadInTheClouds18
Title: Crossfire
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:Evie, Annabelle, Willow, and Maria are four fairy friends with completely opposite lives--Evie lives in the "perfect" midsize family, but has always been young and pushed aside. She is unnormally small, but has history that even she herself cannot realize. Can Evie resist temptation that comes her way and do what is right?
Annabelle's parents are divorced, and her mother is a frazzled human who leaves her all the work. She has dreams of becoming a fairy godmother, but needs to overcome adversity and her abusive father.
Willow's mother died five years ago, and she takes care of her little sister--or rather, her little sister takes care of her. She is always off in her own world, loveably confused and funny. However, can she snap out of it quickly enough to save her friends and herself?
Maria is the daredevil in the big family, trying to get noticed as the youngest child no one pays attention to. She is quite the fashionista, but is pressured to become something a little more scholarly. She also is super flirtatious, having dated every guy who walks her way. Can she become something more than a pretty face, and prove to everyone that there is more than meets the eye to this seductive girl?
And of course, there is April King, an evilly-dark-minded villain who harnesses goblins as her minions. She was wronged by the fairy kingdom years before the girls were even born, and now wishes to put together pieces of an ancient artifact that could destroy everyone she has ever hated. She desires Evie's hidden powers and will stop at nothing to get them, and her in the process. Meanwhile, she is causing havoc everywhere, even going so far as to attack the Fairy Queen's palace.
Little does Evie know that April wants her talents, and is practically walking into a trap when the four girls escape from boarding school to find April and take matters into their own hands. Along the way, they meet Cuthbert, a Goode baby dragon whose brother has been kidnapped by April and turned Evile. With this new task on their shoulders, the girls find resolve to keep going and a new ally with many helpful assets.
Danger meets them along the way, and with time running out to reach April before April reaches them, Evangeline "Evie" Robertson has a big task on her undersized shoulders--save the world. And quckly, no less.
Region: USA::Ohio::Cleveland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Bella Thorne
Åmlibash, an aging Dwarven civilization is facing rule by a new king following the death of the beloved King Morrin. Will the new King be able to maintain a peace in the heart-broken clan through his new ideals? Or will a victim of his poorly-made investment return decades later to be his downfall?
Region: USA:: Utah:: Utah County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I have a good number of major characters, so there is a wide range of possibilities. Though, I would have to say that the military hero would have to be played by Jude Law (as a dwarf of course).
Synopsis: This is the tale of a young man named Carlo tall, dark with colorless eyes, he is the descendant of the Heka an ancient people who lived along the Nile valley region then called ta-merry, they led neophytes through the passageway and into the school of mystery for thousands of years.
The Heka are the gatekeepers with the power to "walk between" This young man will cross paths with Amneris a beautiful Egyptologist, daughter to the translator to the Egyptian consulate, Carlo is to protect her and guide her safely to her destiny. She has no clue who she really is or from whence she truly came from.
They are both living in the present time but are originally from a time long ago, neither is aware of the gravity of each others destiny, yet there are those that know more than either of them do. Those that know hold the secret to the one true discovery in all human history.
Amneris is the key and Carlo is the gatekeeper, with so many forces trying to thwart their path and beat them to the ultimate truth its a race to the finish with the winner gaining total enlightenment and the answer to all things.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Carlo - Brian White ; Amneris - Jurnee Smollett
Synopsis: Ana was brought into the world as the child who was anticipated to keep her parents' shaky marriage intact and, after two previous tries, was certain to be a boy named Benjamin. But from the time the doctor announced, "It's a girl," to well into adulthood, Ana would be not only a source of contention for her resentful mother, but completely loathed and unwanted. Out of her older two sisters and her, and a later half-sister, as her mother just couldn't get this boy-thing down, she was the least favorite. It was bad enough for a parent to have and to clearly show a favorite child, but having a clear least-favorite was much worse. As a result, Ana was the one child of the four sisters who would be neglected and abused emotionally, psychologically, physically, and even sexually. Her mentally ill older sister, who was also abusive to her, would even taunt her with the moniker, "Devil's Child," and would even throw steak-knives at her repeatedly. Soon Ana, too, became to believe she was the "Devil's Child." But when Ana finally decides she has had enough abuse, her life takes a dramatic turn. And her mother's dark past would soon come to light.
Region: USA: Alabama; North
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Kristen Stewart as the teen Ana because her "Bella" (Twilight) character, as I think she is in real life, has just the right amount of natural social awkwardness is somewhat tomboyish and good looks, while not being stunning, to play Ana.
For the adult Ana; Melissa Gilbert. (too bad I can't have the Little House Melissa Gilbert as my pre-teen Ana as she would be perfect. The "real" Ana even looked like her at that age.
User name: LenaLunacy Title: Runaway Genre: Young Adult Synopsis: After suffering for seventeen years at the hands of her abusive parents, Cassie finally snaps and leaves her home in Yorkshire for an apartment in London. Armed with only a suitcase of clothes and a fake I.D, she's forced to grow up quickly. Living in a tiny apartment, working all hours of the day and making more sacrifices than she'd expected Cassie soon finds herself feeling more than a little homesick. But with the hint of a romance brewing with an unlikely colleague Cassie faces a huge decision; will she give up and move back home? Or will she tough it out and make it in the real world away from her abusive family? Region: Gloucestershire The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone - Cassie
Not sure, this might be too late but I'm posting anyways!
User Name: Tex Carver
Title: Red, White, and Blue: A Patriot's Adventure
Genre: Sci-Fi
Synopsis: After years of restoring his 1957 Ford, John McKenzie decides to take it on a trip down Historic Route 66. Half way into the trip, a storm forces him to take shelter for the night and when he wakes up everything has changed. Gone are all the modern conveniences he knew, and with it, the life he knew. Finding himself in the middle of a 1960's America that is recovering from a massive Russian invasion, John learns what it means to be a patriot.
Accepted into a small town that's still reeling from the invasion, he falls in with a group of men calling themselves Rangers. And as fate would have it, their leader, Captain James Hogan, had experienced the same thing as John only ten years earlier. He had the misfortune of being there when America was invaded and now he swore to help pick up the pieces. Determined to help his new friend in a land where anyone strange could be shot on ground of being a spy, he takes the man under his wing. Little does he know, it might just be John teaching him a thing or two.
Together they search out what is believed to be a group of Russian soldiers left behind who have been looting and killing the neighboring farms. They seek help from unlikely people, mainly Niabi Sanger, young woman from the local indian reservation. And they do their best to make sure that small town in middle America can continue it's idyllic lifestyle that was lost in the war.
Synposis: Quaders……………………………………………………… Four has the body of a gorgeous middle-eastern woman, but the mind of a small child and abilities that organisations all over the world covet. Her whole life she has lived in the white room that belongs to her, her two brothers, and her sister, but all changes when her siblings get the notion that escape is the best path to take.
The Toy Girl and a Train…………………………………… Thirteen years ago, scientist Soz Datel Devushka quit his job at the prestigious Nova Tech research center, taking all his secrets along with him. He bought a toy shop and invested his university degree in making trinkets for children alongside his only daughter, Olovo, who begins to rebel against the man she calls 'Father' as a strange impulse to see the trains takes over her.
The Mentalist’s End…………………………………………. Noia has grown up in the role of a mentalist in a travelling carnival, trained by her mother and her mother before her. After having her children ripped from her womb by a shady organisation, she lives for the moment where they will return, looking to end the one, lonely soul who knew about the operation.
Little Killer………………………………………………………. Morie looks like your typical teenager, a little on the weird side with her white highlight, but just as obnoxious as the normal adolescent with her incessant gum chewing and headphones in her ears. Morie, though, has intentions no one on the bus she rides could possibly expect. With a needle in her coat pocket, she wait for her target to board the bus.
Region: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Actors: Four: Freida Pinto Olovo: Chloe Grace Moretz, but with loads of special effect makeup and long fire-engine red hair (not ginger, LITERALLY red) Noia: Amanda Seyfried Morie: A young Natalie Portman (think The Professional), but with poofy(er) hair? Soz Datel: Anthony Hopkins at his creepiest. There are many more characters, but what's the point in mentioning them if they don't appear in the synposis.
User name: Lisa Taylor Title: Crystallized Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Synopsis: Rachael Elizabeth has always known she is different. Fifteen years old and brilliant in a society that condemns individuality, Rachael leads a frustrating existence. Between parents who want her to get married and teachers who want her to stop asking questions, she is thankful for her only friend Annalise.
But if she thought she was strange before, it's nothing compared to after the dream.
Rachael is used to having strange dreams, but when a powerful crystal necklace jumps from her dreams and into reality, her life is turned upside down. Enter a ghost with a strange message, a book with invisible writing, and a fairy that seems to know more about Rachael than Rachael does, and she is convinced she's losing her mind. At least until Annalise has the same dream.
Now a darkness is growing in the forest and the girls are finding that their new found power is hard to hide in a structure driven society. Forced from their homes and with no where to run, can they save the town from its own people's greed, and the evil that hopes to take advantage of it?
Join in the beginning of this epic journey where the girls will not only begin to discover other worlds, but the magical origins of their own. Book 1 of the Crystal Chronicles.
Region: Lexington, KY
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A younger Zooey Deschanel maybe,
Synopsis: It is the year twenty-four forty-nine of the second age. Three kingdoms, led by the Elves, Humans and Half-elves, compete for power in various- and numerous- wars. In the middle of this conflict is Tam Lowell, a boy in the Elfán army. Only seventeen years old, and he has already been assigned General of the army by Princess Ophelia III, the ruler of the Elfán kingdom. He recently won a war between the Elfán and Human kingdoms that got him the honoured title of Third Hero. He still has his life, his future, ahead of him. What could happen?
Enter Darhhkenbael Aneiugari, a mysterious boy from a distant land, who's come to the Elfán kingdom with a single purpose in mind...
Region: USA:: Alaska
The actor(s) who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaptation: Tam Lowell: Logan Lerman Princess Ophelia III: Helena Bonham Carter Darhhkenbael Aneiugari: Zac Efron
Synopsis: The night Hannah came down with the flu, her mother received a phone call that made her cry, pack up her bags, drop Hannah off at Grandma's house, and leave town. No one knows where she went or when she's coming back. Hannah is sick and slightly grumpy, but she also knows something is wrong, and she's scared. Her grandma suddenly finds herself with the difficult task of explaining a lot of grown-up and complicated issues to Hannah, and she takes on the task in the least scary way she knows: through a bedtime story. Weaving three generations of hurt and happiness into an amalgamation of traditional fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel, The Travles of Sinbad, Hercules, The Swan Princess, and The Polar Bear King, Hannah's grandma guides her through the lovely mess that is her family history and helps her find healing.
Region: Missouri:Springfield
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: AnnaSophia Robb (if she was six or seven)
User name: ahilton Title: Things of Old Genre: Dystopian Fiction
Synopsis: The American city is dead, killed by our own hands. Years of over-consumption and greed stretched resources to the breaking point. In a desperate attempt to avoid total collapse, the government authorized the construction of Consolidated Districts. It was here that the government envisioned society would correct itself by increasing efficiency and productivity. They were wrong. A few haggard survivors remain in Consolidated District 111. With a swarm growing outside of their walls, they pin their hopes on finding survivors from other districts to save them from the locusts, who evolved from those left for dead during the consolidation.
Lead by the strong-willed, yet reluctant Cassarah, the band of survivors make contact with the remnants of Consolidated District 13. Rogue district member, Gage receives Cass’ pleas for help and makes plans to come their aid. Gage sets out alone, across the barren Sacrifice Zone, secretly hoping to secure whatever resources are available at 111 for himself. Along the way, Gage joins forces with the self-appointed curators, a group dedicated to the collection and preservation of human artifacts and relics.
The unlikely travel companions learn much about human nature, and their own inner demons as they make their way through the ghostly American heartland. Ultimately, Gage must decide where his loyalties lie and what he values in this world.
Region: Somewhere in the American heartland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Gage-Sam Worthington Cass – Emma Stone
Synopsis: Fame is everything- everything 17-year-old Kair Vaughn doesn't want. What he wants is to be dating, and flunking classes, and putting off applying to colleges, and hanging out with friends in parking lots. What he wants is to be ordinary.
But instead, Kair is writing top-of-the-charts rock albums. He's on tour- and antidepressants. He plays in front of thousands of screaming fans who worship him and his music. And his show-mom-to-the-extreme just keeps pushing for more.
Just as Kair is desperate to escape his own spotlight life, a freak accident plunges him into anonymity. Presumed dead, Kair is offered- and seizes- the chance to try out a normal life. But normalcy eludes him even then, as he uncovers evidence that not only suggests everything he believed is a lie, but challenges his own self identity.
Aided by a bold journalism intern, James, and her roommate, indie emo band lyricist Nova, Kair tries to untangle his past from his self and everyone he trusted.
Region: USA::Ohio
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Chord Overstreet
Synopsis: Fame is everything- everything 17-year-old Kair Vaughn doesn't want. What he wants is to be dating, and flunking classes, and putting off applying to colleges, and hanging out with friends in parking lots. What he wants is to be ordinary.
But instead, Kair is writing top-of-the-charts rock albums. He's on tour- and antidepressants. He plays in front of thousands of screaming fans who worship him and his music. And his show-mom-to-the-extreme just keeps pushing for more.
Just as Kair is desperate to escape his own spotlight life, a freak accident plunges him into anonymity. Presumed dead, Kair is offered- and seizes- the chance to try out a normal life. But normalcy eludes him even then, as he uncovers evidence that not only suggests everything he believed is a lie, but challenges his own self identity.
Aided by a bold journalism intern, James, and her roommate, indie emo band lyricist Nova, Kair tries to untangle his past from his self and everyone he trusted.
Region: USA::Ohio
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Chord Overstreet
Synopsis: The setting is three different abstract planets known collectively as "The Worlds". The three worlds are: The Circus, The Factory, and The institution. Each world is meant to symbolise a period of one's life, with a final and fourth world 'Terra Prata' symbolising heaven. The protagonist's goal is to find 'goodness', a treasured currency within The Worlds which can be traded in order to reach the heaven world Terra Prata. If a character is unable to collect enough goodness by the time they reach their final moments in The Institute (the final world), they are forcibly reborn back into the Circus (the starting world), and must continuously re-live through these worlds until they find enough goodness. The protagonist discovers that she is but a rarity among the clowns, cyborgs and drones which occupy these dystopian planets, as she finds the greatest goodness of all during her final moments in The Worlds.
Region: Perth, Western Australia
Actress who would play Protagonist: Dakota Fanning
Lainey Bridges feels like she has finally made it. A social worker in Seattle, she loves her job, has an amazing cop boyfriend and fantastic friends. But when one of her clients is found murdered and she has to identify the body at the city morgue, she finds herself thrust into the sinister side of Seattle’s street life, a world of lies and corruption. Despite concern from her boyfriend for her personal safety, her boyfriend’s partner who is out to make her life a living hell and threats to her own life, she makes it her personal mission to hunt down the killer and bring them to justice.
Vancouver, Canada
For some reason I keep picturing Alexis Bledel as my main character.
Synopsis: The Culver brothers are Franklin High School Football legends. Over the course of nearly seven seasons, the elder Culvers have led their team to victory on more than one occasion, and the peak of every season is the annual Powell-Lewis game, where an old rivalry that has only grown more vicious in recent years comes to a climax. As the brothers grow older and move on with their lives, with Jay and Mark out of the house and Zach about to graduate, football remains one thing that keeps their lives tied together.
Ricky is the youngest Culver, a month shy of 16, and much to his and his family's chagrin, he didn't make the varsity team sophomore year. Despite the fact that he's led the JV team to countless victories, he hasn't been able to shake off the feeling of ineptitude that comes from what he thinks is his greatest embarrassment, and the disappointment of his parents, who always wanted to see two of their sons playing on the same field again, can still sometimes be felt hanging in the air of the Culver home.
On the day of the Powell-Lewis game, three events occur that lead him to experience anxiety, frustration, and nerves that he's never felt before in the aftermath of the game. Either he's experiencing a mid-adolescence crisis, or the baby of the family is finally growing up in a way that hormones were never able to control.
Region: USA :: New Jersey :: Northeast
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Braeden Lemasters
Synopsis: Evlyn is your average cynical teenager looking for what she wants her life to be. She has a little too much fun and loses the person closest to her in the whole world, so while she is suffering from the loss, she agrees to take on the most difficult challenge of her life: leaving everything she knows to search for what she needs 5000 miles away from home as an exchange student. In the process of taking on such a task she meets someone new that will change her forever. The adopted nickname Evlyn quickly becomes nothing but a memory of the way her life was before she learned she could change herself. Evlyn goes on a mission to find out exactly what she wants to become and finds love, meaning and adventure while shedding the skin of the lost person she once was.
Region: Europe :: France
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Either Helena Bonham Carter (with a lot of makeup so she looked pretty young) or Dakota Fanning.
Synopsis: Vuto loses her third child mere days after birth - and she's only 17 years old. The young Malawian woman forces her husband to acknowledge her daughter, despite tradition that prevents men from considering a child their own until they've lived for two weeks in the least. Her decision causes rifts in the village and Vuto's newfound feminism is lashed back against. She is forced out of her village and must come to terms with herself, her home and her loss. Taking solace in the home of a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, a surprise attack by Vuto's husband leads her and the volunteer on an adventure neither had planned for.
Region: USA:California
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Keke Palmer as Vuto and Victoria Justice as the volunteer
User name: R.Watson Title: The Sun Still Rises in Mississippi Genre: Literary Fiction (Southern historical) Synopsis: Sipsey Jean Abernathy (her name tells a story) and her brothers make up one generation of a Southern American family, carving out a precarious existence in rural Mississippi in the early part of the 20th Century. Challenged by poverty, the Great Depression, the mystery of mental illness, and the whiplash impact of Prohibition and its repeal, Sipsey and her family struggle to hold together while facing down their own demons -- and holding at bay those of the larger society surrounding them.
The pages crackle with the language and ways of the rural South, and resonate with the family's loyalty, humor, failures, successes, and (finally and above all) their love.
Oh, and the actress I see playing Sipsey as a child/teen - not sure. Sipsey as an adult - Ashley Judd (mostly because she has a real southern accent and can play real salt-of-the-earth characters. Joe Abernathy (her father) - Tommy Lee Jones.
User name: Ice Phoenix Title: Angelic Type: YA Sci-fi.
Synopsis: Virgil Liengood awakens to find himself falling...through the sky. Right before he becomes a hole in the ground, Virgil miraculously grows wings, and barely survives. After a long recovery in the hands of an unknown caretaker, Virgil comes to discover the painful truth: he's already dead, mudered, and now a resident of Aiden, one of the 7 cities of Purgatory.
It wouldn't be so bad, if Virgil hadn't bypassed the Genisis Gates and entered Pugatory like no one ever has before, with no record of who he was or how he was killed. Now, deemed a spy by the locals of Aiden, Virgil is given a choice: join the Angelic Army and be kept under a strict,watchful eye for the slim chance of being allowed to find his murderer, or spend the rest of eternity confined to his house in the afterlife... but even if he manages to somehow survive the rigorous training of his insane teachers, evil lurks in the most unforseen of places.
It killed Virgil once, and this time, it's willing to finish the job...
Region: Denver CO, USA Actor as the main character: I would like to give someone new a chance, but if I had to choose, I'd go with Alex Pettyfer from I Am Number 4.
Extra: I just wanted to add how amazing and increadibly awesome it is of you gentlemen, ladies, NaNo elves, monkeys, and artists to set something like this up! I spend half my day striving to make my synopsis and story the best it can be just for a slight chance at winning! (The other half I spend in quilty, procrastingating pleasure trying to imagine what kind of awesomely, insanely, fantasticly, phenominally cool cover the super talented NaNoWriMo artists would make for me if I won...^^) So on behalf of NaNoWriMo Colorado-THANK YOU!!!
Like most coming of age stories, this one focuses on a young man and the discoveries he makes while finding his place in the world.
Unlike most coming of age novels, however, this one has pirate ships made of dried pineapple, attractive savages made of plants, vengeful spirits of toilet bowl cleaners, questionable flavors of artichoke patches, and mediocre grades.
The young man, Gabriel LeGrande: Campus Celebrity, is about to embark on the last of ‘the four best years of your life’ with a degree in neuroscience and theater; clearly, he knows in which direction his life is going. However, as comfortable as he plans his senior year to be at the New England Archatellier College, Gabriel can’t help but notice that something unsettling is happening on campus, to all friends, enemies, and strangers: their lives are constantly being threatened and/or protected by imaginary friends [Harold the stuffed Duck, Aerol the Angel, and Dennis the can of 29% Deet Mosquito Repellant], copyrighted characters [Winnie the Pooh, Mr. Tumnus, and Maleficent], and even versions of himself [Gabriel the Muscular, Gabriel the Surprise Villain, and Gabriel the Misunderstood Monster]he had created from childhood to just yesterday.
Filled with recreated memories of ex-girlfriends, could-have-been boyfriends, and sometimes-always-but-not-really-best friends, Gabriel’s last year at Archatellier manifests into an ironic struggle to keep his identity as the creator of these mishappenings a secret. After all, when your fantasies and imaginations – all from when you were but a toddler to a hormone-raging teen to a job-less graduating college student – come to life and encounter the friends and enemies you’ll keep for a lifetime, wouldn’t you want to keep it a secret too?
Title: The Iron House -or- The Knights of Angfarren
Genre: Psychological thriller
Synopsis: Irving McAverin has found himself trapped in an eddy in time- Caught in a house bridging two worlds, he wanders the hallways, the figments of his imagination intermingling with the figures of demons and discarded memories. A man in grey lives there as well, a man who fills the house with piano music and tinkers on mechanical men. As Irving tries to unravel the house's secrets, his thoughts wander to his life before this monstrosity- to Britain- to 1941- where his love warned him about the forces that eventually bound him in the house. Escaping in his dreams to a land called Angfarren, Irving finds that his dreams and memories are intermingling- and that he is slowly being driven insane. As a plague overtakes the war-torn land, Irving realizes that the figments of his imagination are beginning to move of their own will- replaced by the Grey Man's machines. Irving finds himself between two realities- remain trapped in the Iron House with the machines and demons- or escape into his own insanity to flee the horrors of the Iron House?
Region: USA- Maryland
The actor who would portray the main character in the movie: Anton Yelchin.
Synopsis: Brooke is a teenage girl whose family moves to a different state. She hates her new home, she hates her school, she hates everything. The only thing with any promise in this city is a small park hidden by concrete walls and the young man she found laying there in a growing pool of blood.
Region: USA :: Ohio :: Columbus
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: a younger Alexa Vega with scuzzy blonde hair
User name: Alien Pokey Title: The Alchemist's Secret Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: Aya and Kya Signum. Fraternal twins, seperated from Mother at birth for unknown reasons. The two grew up together in an orphanage in New York City, drifting farther and farther apart as the years dragged on. Fifteen years after they were delivered at the doorstep of their current residence, Aya and Kya are as different as twins can be. Aya is at the top of the popularity chart while Kya is a social outcast, drawing herself away from any other human at her high school. Aya laughs upon her sister's unpopularity, but little does she know, Kya's keeping secrets from Aya. In a tale of bravery, alchemy and secrets above all else, discover the real, entire truth about the Signum twins... Before it's too late.
(Note: If, by chance, you happen to chose my cover [though I know that'd never happen... there are too many other awesome books. :D], some other information is that it includes Alchemy, with elixirs and spells and fantasy factors, a little bit of romance, an Other World, and two very grumpy twins; one with really, really long black hair and purple eyes, one with short black hair, brown eyes, and glasses. And they're white.) Region: USA::Maryland The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: That's pretty hard to say. There are two MCs, who are twins, and there aren't really any actors who look like them.
Synopsis: They’re on their own. Miranda and the rest of the children at Mrs. Jane’s Day Care are suddenly on the run and hidden away from the world in a series of elaborate tunnels and hidden rooms below ground. Alone they struggle to survive the fear, confusion and outright boredom of life in a small hideaway. Will they ever get the answers they seek? Will they trust their beloved babysitter, or does she have something sinister in store for them?
Region: Abilene TX
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: unknown child actor
User name: DarkPhoenixRising Title: Identity: Unknown Genre: sci-fi/fantasy Synopsis: You know the legends? The beliefs that people have an animal spirit to guide them through life? They're true.
Guardians are animals, very real and very alive, that guide and protect people, their Guardeds. Guardians never make contact with their Guardeds, watching and guiding them from another place, the Realm.
But there is a problem.
Guardians have been going missing, and the Realm is slowly being destroyed. Four Guardians, Rialkan, Boria, Kurayami and Sari are sent to find their Guardeds, for the Elder Ones believe they are connected to the disappearances and destruction of the Realm. Koi, Tyrien, Astrilla and Shijin have never met and don't appear to have anything in common (aside from Koi and Shijin's Japanese heritage) until they are brought together by their Guardians and told important information that will change their lives, and the Realm, forever....
Region: USA::Missouri::Kansas City The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Tyrien- I really don't know.... Astrilla- Saoirse Ronan, probably. Shijin- A teenage Japanese-American actor... I don't really know of any... Koi- A teenage Japanese-American actress... I don't really know of any... Rialkan- Christian Bale (voice) Sari- Laura Brent or Uma Thurman (voice) Kurayami- Ben Barnes, probably. (voice) Boria- maybe Emily Mortimer... but I dunno... (voice) Bilindohn- A darker haired Uma Thurman or Alison Lohman, probably
User name: xlsmith Title: Swerve Genre: Chick Lit Synopsis: Life was pretty much on track for Noel Lewis, Beth Wargo, Lynn Smith and Rivers Vaughn. But at the end of the summer, the doctor, the accountant/restaurateur, the columnist and the professor had no choice but to swerve off the road they’d been traveling. An accident, a suspicion, a lay-off and an opportunity would force each woman to reexamine their chosen path and ultimately decide what direction to point the headlights when they finally merged back into traffic. Region: USA::Florida::St. Augustine The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Noel- Blake Lively, Beth- Chloe Sevigny, Lynn- Keira Knightly, Rivers- Kate Bosworth
A clearer synopsis causes me to enter this again for consideration.
Username: Poetica
Title: The Thin Thread
Genre: Memoir
Synopsis: "The Thin Thread" details the physical and emotional struggles of the last years of Lucie Morrow's life. An account of the author's mother's illness and death, then her own subsequent grief and healing, "The Thin Thread" is based in truth.
Karen and her brother Andrew grow up in a family fractured by divorce. But their mother, Lucie, remains determined to keep them a strong family unit. At the age of 64 Lucie contracts a disease that destroys life as she once knew it. She and Karen have always been close, enjoying that mother-daughter "best friend" relationship. But now that her mother is ill and becoming worse, Karen's strengths are called upon. However, she has always seen herself as someone who needs to lean on others. But in this situation she discovers much about herself that is a surprise. Witnessing the struggles that overtake her mother as she becomes weaker and weaker, Karen's strengths rise and prevail. They serve her and her mother well in the waning years of her mother's life. And emotional coming of age story, "The Thin Thread" advances the idea that someone's weaknesses can be their strength.
User name: Hautemama Title: No Win Love Thang Genre: Romance
Synopsis
Kalyn is an engaged woman at a crossroads who questions her relationships (not sure she wants to marry her fiancé), her career, and the life she is living. She meets a man that makes her rethink everything. Now, all she wants is to live life passionately, and do so as her most authentic self.
Region: North Texas- Collin County
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Kalyn
User name: ElizabethLipke Title: Reincrimina Genre: YA Dystopia Synopsis: Reincrimination: scientific process that identifies if someone has a committed a crime in a past life but was not convicted of said crime. Present: Individuals who commit any crime in the present must go through reincrimina therapy and those who test positive for a crime in their past life are convicted today of that crime. Scientists at the Center of Reincrimination Evaluation (CORE) are pushing that all individuals go through this testing, including that of 14 year old Deirdre Pollox (Dee), his sister Selina and best friend James. When Selina is convicted of a past life crime, Deirdre, James and newly found ally Anastasia (Ana) must break out of CORE and rescue Selina before it's too late. Region: USA:: Maryland The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: 14 year old Dee would be played by Dev Patel of Slumdog Millionare.
User name:Robin Buckallew Title: Destiny Genre: Fantasy Synopsis:A down-to-earth biology teacher encounters a beguiling stranger who addresses her as a friend, and slowly draws her into a surreal world inhabited by shadows. Unable to resist the strange forces surrounding her, she begins to suspect that the stranger is who he says he is...the prince of darkness himself. The initial encounter sets in motion forces that will ultimately lead her to another realm, where the ultimate battle will decide once and for all the fate of the universe. Through it all, she struggles to discover who exactly represents good, and who represents evil, as she finds herself falling in love with a man who claims to be the devil. Region:Nebraska elsewhere The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Nicole Kidman
All I wanted was to do my sister a favor by taking her kids on vacation while she settled her impending divorce. That the trip also kept me from needing to give an answer to my boyfriend's recent marriage proposal was coincidence - honest!
Instead, my niece and nephew have been kidnapped by a nasty troll, taken to a parallel dimension and turned over to the nastiest Duke in both worlds! The Duke wants me to marry him - or else - so that he can cross over into our world and try a career as a Wall Street banker. (Apparently nasty Duke wasn't an evil enough career for him.)
My only allies are a naked satyr, a bumbling but well-meaning Knight, and a Witch I wouldn't trust not to stab me in the back if I turned around. Can I find the kids and keep my sanity in a world of mermaids and eight-foot-tall talking chipmunks? I hope so, because it's time TO CATCH A TROLL.
Region: USA::Ohio
Main character in movie adaptation: Jessica Biel would probably be the closest match, although I shudder to think of it.
Username: Another Anonymous Person Title: Because She Left Genre: Young Adult; Romance Synopsis:Beck Thompson moved from Texas to Virginia four years ago, leaving behind a beloved best friend behind that she had had ever since she could remember. But when her dad got the letter that gave him choices of where he could and wanted be deployed to next, she knew that it was the end of her and John’s friendship story. But, she had thought, maybe they could still be friends, even long distance. When she got up to telling this to him, though, all he said was, “”Kay,” and then walking inside his house, ignoring her for the remaining week she was staying in Texas and never saying goodbye to her when she left. Beck never forgave him for that, not even three years afterward. But other things troubled her mind through those years, one of them being her closest sister dying in a car crash on Christmas day. In an attempt to feel lighter about her sister, Skyler’s, death, she wrote to her in a diary everyday, starting on New Years day, and ending on the last day of December, the last day of 2011. But since the accident occurred in Tennessee, nobody at her school knew about the tragedy besides her two best friends, Kevin and Ivy. So she decided to return back to school and pretend like nothing but the good ‘ole holidays occurred over Christmas break for her, nobody ever suspecting a thing. But then something weird happened. There was a new boy at her school, and every girl was fawning over him, every boy hoping that they could be his friend. He was from out of state and he was new and mysterious; something everybody wanted a piece of. But Beck had no idea who this new guy was and why the heck everybody liked him so much. Until fifth period came, and she saw him for the first time. And she realized that he was no mystery guy, but no other than John Tyler. Her best friend, and heart breaker. There. To stay. And everything happened in 2011 because Skyler left. Because she left. Region: USA; Texas Actress (for Beck): Amanda Seyfried Actor (John): Lucas Till
Alright, since I know that I'm a little late on this and that my cover is most likely not going to get picked, I wish all others good luck!!!
Synopsis: "Ungifted" is about the young man Leonard Nash-Williams. He's employed in a supermarket. Ever since the military made experiments on him, he's had senses that are greater than that of an average person. But the side effects are that he became plagued by strange hallucinations and developed a nervousness towards just about everything. This makes it hard for him to find a proper job. But one day he gets the grand idea of using his abilities for the greater good. But when the borders between reality and illusions blur, things take a turn for the worse. The reader is guided through the novel by a series of strange characters, all with a story of their own.
Region: Europe:: Denmark
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jessie Eisenberg, but with glasses on
User name:UnknownHero Title: The Faceless Hero Genre: Adventure/Fantasy Synopsis: A threat reaches throughout the universe, its grasp extending beyond the measures of space and time. It is a force that preaches benevolence and order, a perfect world for all mankind, but in reality, its ideal world is one where mankind exists only as slaves, beings left with no chance to think, discover, or evolve. To this end, the malevolent being Endgame has established an empire spanning multiple cities in several dimensions, using its sinister Agents to expand and maintain its kingdom. Realizing that this threat extends beyond any particular race or culture, resistance groups spring up over all territories. The true hope, however, lies with the 'Faceless Ones", beings with no one true identity. This is the story of a hero so unreal, one capable of fighting anything from men to gods to demons from any corner of a thousand worlds, whose skills pull from innumerable cultures and societies, whose knowledge shifts and warps with the passage of time. In a string of worlds where only chaos and war and destruction reign, the faceless heroes tirelessly work to overcome evil before their own power runs dry. Region: North County, San Diego, California The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Given the nature of the protagonist, a single actor would be unable to effectively take the lead. Rende: Shia Labeouf, with somewhat longer hair. Keijeu: Wesley Snipes Salem: Elijah Wood
Synopsis: In the head turning and mind grabbing fictional account, Her Diary, records the life and times of a young girl traveling through the trials and tribulations of life without. Be prepared to find the secret, that keeps the girl confined, set in the midst of a revolution, that she so desperately wants to know more about, without knowing how. Who, Where, When, What will happen next? That is all she wants to know...
Region: USA; California
The actor that would play you main character in the movie adaptation: Dakota Fanning
How do you live when you have just lost your brother, your relationship with your mother sucks, and you have a secret that separates you from everyone else? That is exactly what the girl in her diary is facing. Everyday she faces the challenges of having life without. All set in the midst of a gory, revolution. What will happen next?
User name: rudyg Title: Access Point Genre: Mystery, Thriller,Suspense Synopsis: A beautiful Chinese intelligence officer uses her brains and good looks to take advantage of Y2K to infiltrate a defense contractor. It is up to FBI Special Agent Trey Parks to unravel the operation and stop the Chinese before they steal the plans for a new satellite that can refuel itself, carries unbelievable cameras that can pick up a dime in the middle of the desert, and yes carries a new laser that can be used for offensive and defensive strikes.
Excerpt:She looked up with a look that reminded Ben of a deer caught in the headlights. It took him a second to realize that the laptop she was working on was his laptop. But how was that possible?
“How were you able to access my laptop?” he asked.
“You must have left it on. I happened to bump it when I went to move it and it seemed to come on.”
Ben looked at her suspiciously. “Jadea, that can’t happen. Even if I had left it on, which I didn’t, it would have gone into sleep mode and you would have had to go through the whole log on procedure again which means you would have to have my logon information and my finger prints to turn it back on.”
The next couple of seconds seemed like an eternity as he saw Jadea suddenly stand up and seemed to do a pirouette. As she started to complete the turn, one of her legs extended out and hit him on the side of the head. The impact was tremendous because of the momentum gained during her pirouette. Ben went flying sideways, hit the sofa, and toppled over the top. He vaguely heard her say, “Oh Ben, this was not supposed to happen this way. At least not yet” and then the world went dark for Ben as her fist came crashing down on the side of his head. Jadea rolled him on his side and put her hands on his head and gave a violent twist. His neck snapped with an audible crack. She held his head for a second and then gently laid it down.
She knelt there for a couple seconds looking down at him. She had to think about what she was going to do next. She needed the laptop but somebody would eventually come looking for it. She picked it up where it had fallen and walked into the kitchen to get a trash bag from one of the cabinets. She put the laptop in the bag, collected her keys, and left the apartment. She got in her car and backed out of the parking space and headed down the street. She stopped after about five blocks and got out of the car with the bag containing the laptop, leaving the engine running and the lights on. She walked to the front of the car and after hefting the bag a couple of times, swung the bag down hitting the asphalt hard. She heard the laptop breaking and opened the bag to see the damage she had caused to the laptop. After inspecting it, she figured a couple more good swings should do it. Afterwards she looked in the bag again and gave a grunt of satisfaction. She threw the bag into the passenger seat and shifted the car into drive. There was a Best Buy about ten miles away and she knew she could find what she need there.
Region: USA - Corpus Christi Texas The actor who would play main charactoer: Michael Weatherly
User name: funkyjunk98 Title: The Girl Who Stared At the Sea Genre: Adventure Synopsis: Marella is the heir to Cheif Maron. She lives a happy and boring life on Atamar island. But one day, a mysterious sailor washes up on her island and then everthing she knows is shaken to the core. Region: USA:California:Santa Clarita The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Marella- Mila Kunis James-Chord Overstreet
User Name: APlethoraofPlethodonts Title: Heat Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: When you are brought to talk to a mysterious stranger, nicknamed Blaise, the forgotten past is uncovered and secrets start coming out about the town you are in and the citizens that live there. But who is Blaise really? And should you trust him? In a whirlwind of mystery, people get forgotten and fantasies are proven real. The question isn't who will make it out alive, but who will make it out still themselves before all Hell breaks loose? (And I mean that quite literally.)
Welcome to Green Rock - I hope you enjoy your stay. And I hope once you're done here, you can still leave.
Region: USA :: New York :: White Plains The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Blaise is played by Alan Rickman
Genre: realistic fiction that sounds like a science fiction novel
Synopsis: in the future, a war over dwindling resources has erupted, and Felix, eleven-year old Cadet, is right in the middle of it, fighting for the side he's convinced, as he's been taught since birth, is right. Zoe, twelve-year old Animal Warfare trainee, is also in the middle of the war, on the opposite side, and is also convinced of her side's rightness, and the story is told from two points of view, on either side of the war, telling two stories that are the same, but different, though the eyes of chidren, who see things as good or bad, as black and white.
Region: Canada, Toronto
Actor: the guy who played edmond in the Narnia movie for Felix, maybe.
Synopsis: Meet Jamie Turner, a quiet seventeen year old girl, in love with her best friend, betrayed by her entire school. Jamie is just like any other high schooler except for one thing, she was born a boy.
Region: Rochester, Minnesota
The actor who would play my main character in a film adaptation: Logan Lerman
LocationRoom 16/Big Red Door, Corridor 223/There and Back Again Row, East Side/the Rambl
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User name: Alias Cyborg Title: Shadow Speak Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: A gang of teens- Lycaela, Grace, Simone, Lucas, Calder, Rowan and Rain are kicked out of the only home they have ever known because Calder inadvertantely created a branch of everlasting fire. While they escape from the assasins that will certainly kill them, Rowan is left behind because her magic is incompatible with theirs, although it should be entirely compatible. She finds a companion who can take her to them if she will bond with him for the next three years and three days. Meanwhile, in the hovering city of Innovation, Lia is a doctor student who no one will let treat patients. She doesn't know why. Her younger sister, Charlotte, who is a surly eleven-year-old and an energy procurer student, is jealous of Lia and always has been. One day, Lia and Charlotte are both summoned to the hospital to treat an unusual case. Lycaela is who they must treat, and what's more, she's expecting Charlotte to come- because only Charlotte can save Innovation and help Lycaela discover who she really is. While all this is going on, a sprite child called Lily loses her home and family to the Universities, the very place that evicted Lycaela, Calder, Grace, Simone, Lucas and Rowan. Her wings were hurt badly enough that she can't fly and she must warn the Empress of Pacem, the land of the sprites, of her village's fate before the Gifted reach the capital. She will never outpace them on her own... so she must get help, but can she get help from anyone? Region: USA, Washington, Seattle The actor who would play my main character in the movie adaptation: Absolutely no idea I haven't seen enough modern movies (basically the only movies I know the actors for are the harry potter movies and those characters are such do-gooders)!!!
Synopsis: Based around the recent London riots, the story follows a 21-year old man named Harry, who with his friends, Dean, a good looking, strong man, and Sophia, Harry's best friend of eighteen years. Decide to take part in the Croydon riots. The make a gang with three other 'outcasts', called Eden, a pretty blonde girl, her boyfriend Simon, the main leader of the team, and James, a skimpy, stubborn kid. When the group split in two, one group goes out to loot and cause carnage while the other group wait in a van for them to return. We find out the causes of the huge Reeve Corner fire and how Harry reacts with other mobs. The risk of being arrested at any point is high, and he has to think before he acts. Booze, sex and drugs gets involved and Harry must ask himself: Who is the enemy? Society or the Mob?
Region: Europe :: England :: London
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Synopsis: Gabriel and his sister come from a long line of rogues and con artists. While other mothers were dropping off their children as soccer games, Marina Zielinsky was making a living by concocting ersatz spectres to "materialize" at her seances and teaching her children ways to throw a tarot card reading.
Now, at 35, after spending his entire life being a secret-keeper for his mother, Gabriel has carved out a career for himself guarding others' secrets as a psychologist and hypnotherapist. Although he plays the part of the dutiful son, both he and his sister still nurse old regrets and childhood resentments that prevent them from completely moving on with their lives. The key to reconciliation may lie with his 7 year-old nephew, Liam, but Liam--it turns out, is keeping some pretty big secrets of his own.
Region: Midwest, USA/Illinois
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jake Gyllenhaal
Synopsis:13 girls. 13 stories. 13 reasons. Each girl different. Each story its own. They have only one thing in common; they’re running away. Whether it be by plane, train or car, they’re leaving and there is no stopping them.
As their stories and travels weave in and out of one another, they learn to look at their world in a new way and learn a little bit more about themselves.
It’s a beautiful thing when a girl grasps the fallacy of the world. They know that no amount of cough syrup or sugar is going to make it go down easy. What they need to decide now is whether or not it’s worth running away from.
User name: Luna1237 Title: Shifter Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: Olivia is a young shape shifter who grows up in the happy, harmonious, peaceful world of the shifter community. But her world is turned upside down when she is asked to rescue a young cat princess*. When Olivia tries to free the princess, the princess escapes, but Olivia is caught by an evil prince. *Cats are magical in the world I created for the novel. Region: USA:: Massachusetts:: Boston The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Actors! I don't know anything about actors. My MC, Olivia, is short with red hair and green eyes and she is fifteen at then end of the novel. She would also need to be played by a tiny white fox, a white rock dove, and a white kitten. Those are the only animals she can shift into.
Synopsis: Din and his best friend Ellan are passengers on an earth vessel, The Saint Mary, or, The Mary for short, carrying earth’s small population of pacifists known as the Global Peace Front to their new destination: Pronia. This group of individuals, many of them wealthy, want to leave the warring earth behind before it comes to ruin. When Din arrives at his new home on Pronia he knows that this is the perfect sanctuary for the GPF's new peaceful society. That is until Din is discovered by the planet’s native race who do not give the newly found humans a warm welcome.
Region: China::Qingdao
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I honestly can't even think of any actors who are 14-17. Pick someone from the Disney Channel who isn't annoying ;)
Hi! My name is Caroline Worning and I'm 16 years old. :)
User name: AoNeko
Title: Ungifted
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: "Ungifted" is about the young man Leonard Nash-Williams. He's employed in a supermarket. Ever since the military made experiments on him, he's had senses that are greater than that of an average person. But the side effects are that he became plagued by strange hallucinations and developed a nervousness towards just about everything. This makes it hard for him to find a proper job. But one day he gets the grand idea of using his abilities for the greater good. He becomes Nightfall, a bicycle helmet wearing vigilante crime fighter. But when the borders between reality and fantasy blur, things take a turn for the worse. The reader is guided through the novel by a series of strange characters, including the psychotic emo-teen Willow, a Scottish drunkard, a mysterious woman in a purple coat and the untrustworthy hallucination Javier.
Region: Europe:: Denmark
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jessie Eisenberg, but with glasses on
User name: againstnormal Title: The Untitled United Genre: Young Adult Synopsis: "We called ourselves untitled. You know the phrase: no land, no property, not even our name to call our own."
Her name was Roberta. Or perhaps it was Mary Lou. The last thing they took from us were our names. I hadn’t met her yet. No, that would come later. She was merely one of the first ARROW murdered not by a bullet but by neglect. The first of many. And I didn’t even know her name. No, that would come later. I’d never speak to her, but she was a sister to me.
In 2012, the United States was a country ravaged by the war for Texan independence and fire-bombing of the East coast. Europe had fallen into economic ruin, leaving some cities barren wastelands behind the search for food and jobs. Russia, China, and Japan went to war, leaving much of Asia in ashes. Africa became the home of many refugees and turned away many more. The "third world" had become the first world's refuge.
By 2022, Annadextra was an "old number". She only had six days until her eighteenth birthday and in the next six days she would die. No one survived the government-run orphanage system. No one; until her. Messages from 2012 filter into her inbox: tales of a rebellious girl who would rather die than see her mother deported, of a world worth saving. Dex becomes more ensnared in the tangles of rebellion but comes to realize that the world isn't as black and white as she once thought it to be.
Region: USA::Iowa The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: For Annadextra: Ellen Page
Synopsis: After a long summer vacation with her two best friends, Nico and Annabell, and Nico's best friend from L.A., Dave, boy-loathing, snarky, sarcastic Kailen is far from ready to start school again. It seems too boring, too mundane, too... normal. That is, until the first day when she meets Dave at her locker and starts to realize the meaning of "true love".
Kailen balances her boyfriend, friends, job, skating, twelve-person family, Buffy addiction, arch enemies, Dave's cancer-ridden sister Lilly, and the new transfer student from Alaska in a topsy-turvy, vampire and magic free original novel. Can she keep her world together when it comes falling to pieces?
Region: US::Massachusetts
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hilly Hindi (from the Hillywood show)
This is my quite shameless self-plug with a "synopsis" that's more summary than nothing.
User name: CaiteeFox Title: The Problem With Dragons Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: Ciprian has never been very good at being social; he has a coarse way with people, is rash, rude, has a horrible temper, and a bad habit of setting fire to things. Still, he's had his eye on the only child of the local blacksmith for a while, mostly because her cooking skills are renowned, and he's been thinking his home could do with some sprucing up. For Ciprian it isn't too far of a leap to go from thinking the young woman would make a good live in maid to kidnapping her and holding her against her will; yet imagine his surprise when he's kidnapped the wrong girl. For someone as prideful as Ciprian, simply returning her won't work, he'd have to admit he made a mistake. Instead he has to live with the problem he's cause for himself, regardless if instead of screaming and running in fear the girl he's kidnapped instead is dead set on taming him.
Nadya and her family have been traveling Europe for as long as she can remember, performing shows for food and money, and sometimes working odd jobs before moving on. It's a life she's rarely questioned, she's much more free than village girls and even if some of them ridicule her she can see the envy in their eyes when the men watch her as she dances. Despite this, it still came as a surprise when after her first show in the new she was pulled aside by a young woman who begged her to trade places. Being a sensible young woman, she would've turned the other girl down, if it wasn't for the fact that she wanted to use Nadya as a disguise to seduce the blacksmith's apprentice. Well, who was she to stand in the way of love while the young woman tried to woo her father's apprentice? Convinced, and well compensated in return, Nadya donned the girl's clothing and a heavy hood, then made herself scarce for the evening. It seemed like the plan was going just fine, she was hunkered down enjoying a nice loaf of bread, fine that is... until a fire breathing dragon swooped out of the sky and snatched her up. Region: USA:: North Carolina :: Triad The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A re-chubby America Ferrera, or, if not available, Tania Raymonde...
Nadya and her family have been traveling Europe for as long as she can remember, performing shows for food and money, and sometimes working odd jobs before moving on. It's a life she's rarely questioned, she's much more free than village girls and even if some of them ridicule her she can see the envy in their eyes when the men watch her as she dances. Despite this, it still came as a surprise when after her first show in the new she was pulled aside by a young woman who begged her to trade places. Being a sensible young woman, she would've turned the other girl down, if it wasn't for the fact that she wanted to use Nadya as a disguise to seduce the blacksmith's apprentice. Well, who was she to stand in the way of love while the young woman tried to woo her father's apprentice? Convinced, and well compensated in return, Nadya donned the girl's clothing and a heavy hood, then made herself scarce for the evening. It seemed like the plan was going just fine, she was hunkered down enjoying a nice loaf of bread, fine that is... until suddenly she was being snatched up and carried away like a sack of potatoes.
Ciprian has never been very good at being social; he has a coarse way with people, is rash, rude, has a horrible temper, and a bad habit of setting fire to things. Still, he's had his eye on the only child of the local blacksmith for a while, mostly because her cooking skills are renowned, and he's been thinking his home could do with some sprucing up. For Ciprian it isn't too far of a leap to go from thinking the young woman would make a good live in maid to kidnapping her and holding her against her will; yet imagine his surprise when he's kidnapped the wrong girl. For someone as prideful as Ciprian, simply returning her won't work, he'd have to admit he made a mistake. Instead he has to live with the problem he's cause for himself, regardless if instead of screaming and running in fear the girl he's kidnapped instead is dead set on taming him.
Elsa's been dead set on getting Andris to marry her since summer, when she finally looked at him, really looked at him, and realized that he wasn't a little boy any more; of course, years of shunning his advances have now made him hardened against her attempts to woo him, so it's looking to be harder than when she figured out how to flirt the farmer's boys into bringing her first pick of their vegetables. Still, she had a plan! A plan that was ruined when a band of gypsies came into the village and she caught her Andris flirting with once of them. Convinced he'd see her in a different light if she dressed up like one of them, Elsa found the girl and bribed her way into a clothing switch, dead set to perform a private dance for the young man to prove she'd grown up as well. It was a good thing too, that she did. The girl wearing her clothing got picked right up out of the village by a dragon!
Now Andris and Elsa have to work to save Nadya from the claws of the dragon known as Ciprian... Everyone knows what happens to pretty young maidens with dragons... everyone that is but Nadya herself, who seems to think that a dragon can be as easily tamed as a dog.
Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Jack lives with his grandfather, author of the fantasy series set in the realm of Eberum. In this fictional world, civil war ravages the realm as the traitorous Brotherhood threatens the rightful ruler, King Mathias, and the young hero restores order to the realm by killing Alastor Atheron, leader of the Brotherhood and pretender to the throne. The best-selling books have found their way to the heart of the nation. When his grandfather is kidnapped, Jack learns one of the biggest secrets of all time: Eberum is not the fictional world of his grandfather's stories, but in fact a very real and very dangerous world parallel to our own. Jack's grandfather is more than just a storyteller, he is the hero of the Eberum tales. But the realm of Eberum is not quite the way Jack's grandfather described it. There is something wrong in Eberum, and when Jack has a run-in with the Brotherhood he discovers that the antagonists of his grandfather's stories, the ones his grandfather helped defeat so many years ago, are not the traitorous rebels his grandfather described. Led by rightful heir to the throne Alodia Atheron, a bitter girl still mourning the death of her father, they seek to restore balance to the realm. Can Jack right his grandfather's wrongs, restore the rightful heir to the throne, and save his grandfather in the process?
Region: Europe :: Scotland :: Glasgow and West
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm. Maybe Isaac Hempstead-Wright.
Jack D'Abruzzo and Charlie Spano are friends who met long ago at school, then became reacquainted through the Compuserve music forum in a thread of the Dean Martin section where Jack held court over a discussion on Stan Cornyn liner notes. They discovered they had a lot in common; similar age, anachronistic interests, etc. Both are terminally single and from strong Italian-American backgrounds. They've been online mates for 15 years, meeting occasionally when Charlie visits New York on business.
Jack lives on the Jersey Shore and has a broadcast journalism degree he never used. He runs a donut shop in the quirky semi-fictional town of Sea View. Recently, Jack has uncovered romantic feelings for life-long acquaintance Violet Palm, who has always looked upon him as a younger brother.
Charlie lives in Saugatuck, Michigan where he works as a free-lance editor and writer. His closest friend is his cousin Lena, who runs a pie shop in a tiny town in the same general Lake Michigan area. When Lena brings her business partner, former New Order Amisher Aaron Miller, to the big family Thanksgiving dinner, Charlie believes he may have found the love he never knew he was waiting for.
In this partially epistolary story, Jack and Charlie email back and forth about their respective holiday experiences and burgeoning love interests in the midst of typical and not-so typical family gatherings.
Region: USA :: Ohio :: Cincinnati
Jack and Charlie could be played by John Cusack and Hank Azaria. But I'd cast actors who are less well-known.
Well, just in case it matters, I changed my genre from mainstream to literary. While I don't consider myself particularly literary, but I always write much more thought than action.
Genre: I've been having trouble classifying this, but I'll go with Supernatural I guess.
Synopsis: Thomas Billingham has been offered a dark gift in the face of immortality. He must curse 50 souls before being allowed back into the Evil Spirits realm, and become powerful and immortal. Follow the stories of the cursed, from a young science teacher to the assistant of an arrogant rockstar, as their unhapiness fuels Thomas' descent back into evil.
Inadvertently mixed up into the lives of those Thomas condemns are two teenagers, one with the power of Pyschokinesis, and one seemingly normal girl who gets swept up in the midst of things. Will they, along with the power of the White Spirits, be able to save what humanity is left before it is too late?
Region: Europe :: England :: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ezra Miller
This is what the corrected Synopsis should be: Thomas Billingham has been offered a dark gift in the face of immortality. He must curse 50 souls before he is allowed back into the Evil Spirits realm, and become powerful and immortal. Follow the stories of the cursed, from a young science teacher to the assistant of an arrogant rockstar, as their unhappiness fuels Thomas' descent back into evil.
Inadvertently mixed up into the lives of those Thomas condemns are two teenagers, one with the power of Pyschokinesis, and one seemingly normal girl who gets swept up in the midst of things. Will they, along with the power of the White Spirits, be able to save what humanity is left before it is too late?
Synopsis: For Molly Van Saint, 1937 isn’t just another ordinary year; it’s the year that marks the sixteenth anniversary of the night her father was abruptly taken away from her family’s home, leaving her with a memory that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Now 28 and living in New York, Molly still searches for answers to questions that linger in her mind; why was he taken? Where is he now? Why won’t her mother tell her anything about what happened to him? The questions only intensify when she learns that her father has died. Moreover, he has left her a trunk full of journals and maps that he kept in the years prior to his disappearance. With great curiosity, Molly begins to read them and realizes they are directions to a place her father refers to as “The Land of a Thousand Suns”. Determined to find the answers that have eluded her for so long, she hops a train and meets a drifter named Thomas who accompanies her on her journey and teaches her the art of riding the rails. Together, they set out on a journey across America to find this place, whatever it may be, and put to rest the questions that have haunted Molly since she was twelve.
Region: USA::Georgia::North
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Bryce Dallas Howard
Since this seems like the thread for blatant self-promotion, I shall have a go at it.
User name: Riddle Title: In the Pines Genre: Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense/Horror Synopsis: When FBI Agent Emily Worthington woke up this morning, she didn't expect to be summoned to a crime scene with twelve bodies -- a mass grave containing six pairs of male and female corpses -- dating back to the early sixties. She didn't expect to be excluded from the case because one of the corpses might be her sister, who disappeared when she was a teenager. She certainly didn't expect the trail to lead to a young woman named Lindy Lund and her boyfriend, Thomas Lange, both recently missing from the greater Vancouver area.
When Melinda Lund woke up this morning, she didn't expect to find herself in a strange place, far away from her home and school, and surrounded by a group claiming to be faeries. The last thing she remembers is her car crashing and she has the bruises to show for it, and she has no idea what this strange cult is going to do to her or Thomas. Unsure of what's real and what's not, Lindy finds her perception of the world changing bit by bit -- could these people really mean what they say? Are they actually the sidhe, fearsome and otherworldly creatures? Why is their leader, a charismatic and elegant woman whom they call their queen, interested in Lindy?
What happened to Emily's sister fourteen years ago? Digging into the past only brings up more questions, and a disturbing pattern of couples being murdered every seven years near Hallowe'en. What sort of person would do this?
Region: Canada - Ontario - Kingston The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Lindy - Nina Dobrev; Emily - Paget Brewster
User name: Chloe K. Evil Title: Wake Genre: Supernatural/Urban Fantasy Synopsis: Martin Towers woke up from his coma with two clear thoughts. First, his wife and daughter were murdered by demons. Second, he's been chosen to kill demons like the ones who killed them. His world is suddenly distant and strange- his new assistant won't let him go back to work, strange people keep coming up to him on the street to ask him about his mission, and the strange musician next door occupies more of his thoughts than he'd like. When he goes to sleep, he dreams of angels and the dreams are more real than anything he feels when he's awake.
Everyone seems to know more than he does, but not for long. Martin Towers is going to find out what's going on, or he's going to destroy himself and the world while he tries. Region: Canada: Alberta: Edmonton The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Daniel Craig
Synopsis:Aubrey was but a sprat of a girl when she first met Toby. Drawn to his carefree nature and charm, it was love at first sight. Aubrey thought it would last forever, until tragedy struck. In an instant her new found loved was lost; sucked from her like the waves suck the sand from beneath ones feet.
Haunted by the memory of Toby's drowning, Aubrey left the coastal village of Point Hope, only to return seven years later in the wake of a another heartbreak.
Nothing remains the same in Point Hope, the only thing untouched is the slate gray skies and cold sea that took Toby from her. Yet with all that's changed some things feel oddly familiar. Like the strange melody that plays on the wind, the tall man with dark brown eyes, and the woman who watches from a distance.
Region:USA :: Alaska
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Molly C. Quinn from Castle
Title: Les Contes de Fées Enchantées de Maître Chevalier
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
From Cinderella to Thumbelina, with Snow White, Peter Pan and King Arthur in between, as well as many many other famous and popular fairy tales, this collection of fairy tales is darker than most and with five new fairy tales that will delight the reader and a foreword and conclusion by chronicler; Master Chevalier, 'Les Contes de Fées Enchantées de Maître Chevalier' is a timeless classic.
Region: Europe :: England :: Liverpool
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Peter O'Toole
User name: Incandescent Title: Blood Debt Genre: Tragic fantasy Synopsis: A compulsive healer has no business on the front lines of the bloodiest war in living memory, but that's where Solea Weaver finds herself. Solea's "gift" has forced her to live a sheltered life -- if she is in the presence of pain, her blood magic will automatically heal it (at grave danger to her own health). But when she hears that her estranged son Teague has been sighted in the area, the bloodmage knows she has to leave the safety of her homestead to try to mend her relationship with the sole remnant of her family... even if it means following him across a contested border, through slavery and into the middle of a battlefield. Region: USA::North Carolina::Charlotte The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A slightly-older version of Alex Kingston.
Genre: Fantasy/mainstream fiction/ Fan fiction (though not really ;P)
Synopsis: Before Peter Pan lived on Neverland there were others. James was the first who lived alone until he and his fairy, Flare, met Lily. The two of them started a home for the lost boys and girls who ended up on Neverland, all accompanied by a lovely fairy. James was the accepted leader of the children who lived in the woods, and they all knew to stay friendly with each other because the more you think and feel like a grown up, the faster you will become one. Then a child is brought to the island, a baby who is more angry than any other child. He grows into a boy fast, and an arrogant boy at that, who claims to be the leader of the "lost boys." James enters into a downward spiral where he looses his fairy to a non-believing moment, his only girl he ever loved to the sea where she lives as a mermaid, and his best friend Lily to the plateau where her skin grows red and she calls herself Tiger. James ages quicker than ever as he tried to find a way to bring down peter pan.
Region:USA::California:: Los Angeles
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Someone who either looks like a young Justin Chatwin or Orlando Bloom
My vote is for you! This sounds like it has a lot of potential. :D (Though I'll probably throw my own story out there at some point, too, for the sake of it.)
User name: flygreybird Title: The Solari Weddings Genre: Fantasy Synopsis: In a remote corner of the world, the king of the Solari mountain tribes marries off his twin daughters and his son to the three groups he most wants to appease. Dragged away from childhood and into unfamiliar worlds, the adolescents must quickly find their voices and learn to negotiate politics, popular uprisings, and the trials of marriage.
But unknown to them, forces greater than any they can comprehend are stirring. Mysterious and powerful armies are on the move, and the edges of the Solari's isolated world are closing in fast. Athera, Lina and Alesten Penraxis stand poised to inherit responsibility for all of Solari society. Not only must they struggle to maintain their own identities and relationships as they find their place in the world, but also to maintain the identity of the Solari themselves, before the ravenous force that threatens to swallow their fragile culture whole.
(Visual themes might include birds, which are an integral part of the Solari's lifestyle, used for hunting and messenging, snow, feathers, the sky, etc.)
Region: Europe :: England :: Yorkshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Alesten Penraxis would be played by a version of Shahid Kapoor with long curly hair. Athera and Lina Penraxis are identical twins and both could be played by 18-year-old Sonam Kapoors. (As far as I'm aware, these actors aren't actually related, though the people they'd be 'playing' in this case would be. It's just an eerie coincidence that I imagine them looking vaguely like people with the same last names).
Genre: Fantasy/action. I'm not entirely sure what to class it really, hah.
Synopsis: Lately, Arthur Maddison has become decidedly tired of his job. He’s a renowned supervillain, infamous around the nation for his crimes, but the business has grown stagnant. Full of paperwork and lawsuits, and lacking in big crimes and any decent sort of competition, he chooses to take an early retirement.
But when he moves into the city he’s been terrorising for years, only to face a backlash he hadn’t been expecting, he finds himself with nowhere to go. To make matters even worse, the city is also the home of his rival, Dean Maguire, who can be seen at any moment of the day strutting around the city as if he owns the place... although, for the most part, he does. When Maguire offers him a home to get him off the streets, Arthur has to deal with losing perhaps any self dignity he had managed to salvage beforehand, as well as being face to face with Maguire’s sidekick day after day, who Arthur has attempted to kill or kidnap on more than one occasion. As well as this, he is really trying to ignore the familiar pangs of jealousy whenever the newspapers report on his former assistant, who is quickly rising to being one of the biggest supervillains around.
As tragedy strikes, Arthur has to choose between his former loyalty, or the Right Thing, which has never really been an option before. Can people really change?
Region: Europe::England::Essex. The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Oooh, hm, not entirely sure why but I do envisage him looking a little like Robert Sheehan. Maybe it's the hair, who knows!
User name: morganafiolett Title: ESC Genre:Science Fiction Synopsis: Doyle Solo, a private investigator in the offices of ex-Detective Marshall Carter, is hired by a beautiful woman to look into the supposed suicide of a prominent Luddite campaigner, and soon realises that there's a serial killer on the loose targetting the anti-technology community.
He faces resistance from both the Luddites and the police, and aid in the form of a mysterious signal that takes over random passers-by to send him helpful messages - mostly telling him to "ESCAPE". Despite this aid, he finds himself listed as the prime suspect in the Luddite Murders.
When he discovers a disturbing connection between the mysterious signal, the Luddite Murders, and his own past it becomes obvious that this case is not going to be covered by his usual fees.
Region:Europe :: England :: Lancaster & Cumbria
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Doyle Solo played by Jonathan Rhys Meters; the beautiful woman who hires him by Rachel Weisz
Synopsis: Dojo is a lonely black ant in a colony in a wall in a house in a neighborhood in California. His only friend is Tomtom the grasshopper, a musician who decided to retire much too early. The house is also full of spiders, who gobble up the ants wherever they find them. The house is owned by Tina, a perfect mother, who has a way of exposing the faults of her husband, son, and everyone she knows without even thinking about it, and can't imagine why people dislike her so much. She enjoys writing letters to all of over a hundred (!) extended family members. When Tomtom leaves for a while, Dojo gets so lonely he decides to do a little experiment. He writes tiny notes in the corners and margins of Tina's letters whenever he gets a chance. There are no replies for a long time. Just as he's about to give up, he discovers a tiny message from "Rae", a female red ant from Alfred (Tina's cousin's) house. Soon the two start a correspondence and become pen pals. But there's a problem: It's 1998, and an invention called the World Wide Web is gaining momentum. It sounds scary enough to the bugs (and the spiders know it), and when Tina and Alfred both switch to electronic mail, neither ant can communicate. So, around Christmas time, when Tina sends a package to her cousin, Dojo hitches a ride to meet Rae in person. What he finds out will surprise him like nothing else.
Region: USA :: Kansas :: Wichita
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ah geez, I'm horrible at picking these... I guess Dojo could be voiced by Scott Bakula (he voiced Danny in Cats Don't Dance.)
Synopsis: When a fresco of the poet Rustaveli is defaced by a pack of Russian youth, twelve year old Gregory decides to leave his home at the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem. Fortunately he isn't going alone - he'll be accompanied by the Georgian saints who have been speaking to him since his earliest childhood.
Region: USA :: Texas :: Austin
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: currently seeking an up and coming Georgian child actor :)
Synopsis: The multiverse is no more. A single universe has been created in the wake of a fevered dream of a half-mad, half-genius scientist working for a radical religious group know as the Facets.
God can only exist in one form, they said.
There can't be a perfect god in a multiverse, they said.
The switch was thrown. A universe was mended. Life changed.
Russia is a barren, death-filled wasteland of alcoholic undead. Asia has been transformed into a cybernetic oasis. Europe is the stuff of Mid-evil dreams. America? Roll all of the books you've every read together, and there you have it.
The fevered dream is over now. Life begins a new. The souls, bodies, and other versions of Earth have fused into a single, chaotic mess. No one is alone in their own minds as their alternate selves provide wisdom, creativity, and the occasional body part. The only exception to that are the Solos. Unique individuals that only exist in a single reality, now documented, and in some cases hunted, for their differences.
Where are the so called saviors now?
Region:USA:: West Virginia:: Other
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm, I don't watch that many movies... so anyone that fit the main character I guess would work. No experience necessary!
Because there are 101 other things I hsould be doing right now I thought I might respond to this thread. Like everyone else I'm putting my own project up, because well who wouldn't want a cover.
User name: Stacey B Title: When You Go Looking Genre: Literary Fiction Synopsis: On the October day that Rose drops her fourteen year old son off at a three week long building workshop she gets a call from her husband saying that he is going to spend another month in France where he's been lecturing. With no where to be and alone for the first time in fourteen years Rose decides to spend the time exploring Northern New Mexico and enjoying the solitude. But solitude is hard to come by as she meets one after another person along the way. Both an adventure tale and a contemplation on relationships and community in the twenty first century. Region: Denver, Colorado The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Juliette Binoche
Synopsis: In the city, everyone is alone. Shy, quick-witted Gwen and brilliant Joshua drift into each other's isolation at Columbia College and heal one another's wounds until the city rips open new ones. Envious of their youth and precocity, their professor Selene initiates the two of them into a circle of influential politicians, teachers, and artists, where they discover the trappings of a culture of seduction, jealousy and favors in the salons and walk-ups of New York's aging intelligentsia.
Region: USA: New York, New York and Danbury, Connecticut
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Mia Wasikowska and a younger version of Hayden Christensen
Synopsis: “Paperwork can be faked; new records can be forged. There’s no absolute truth out there anymore. You’re no more safe than King James is. There could be a traitor at this very table, for all I know, a traitor in the king’s army too. Just like you wouldn’t know there, you wouldn’t know here. Life isn’t as easy as A, B, C anymore.” Says Alicia Thompson, a new freshman at Moonlight Academy, a school for the special vampires that reside around the earth. If only she knew how true her words would become one day. Not everything is as it appears at seemingly perfect Moonlight Academy. Amongst them is a traitor helping the soul-less creatures they so despise wipe out their kind. In the heart of it all, Alicia rises to the task of finding and unveiling the traitor. But will she follow in the others' who have tried footsteps and die before she herself can figure it out?
Region: USA :: Oregon :: Corvallis
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone (or Alexis Bledel, maybe)
Synopsis: In a seaside city run by elementals (long-lived humans with control over the elements), Saul is just another human trying to survive among the different factions. Raised an illegal slave, he is rescued by a fire elemental and becomes a "Bat": employees under the command of Damien Locke, who is himself notorious for working outside of the law, disregarding the strictures of the elemental Council, running a night-club, and unleashing his dysfunctional Bats whenever the whim takes him. Saul learns quickly that in spite of the mad surface of his fellow Bats, loyalty is the greatest currency, one that he will need to survive rogue elementals, underground crime syndicates, and an enemy from his past determined to reclaim him. Well, that all sounded a bit serious, didn't it? Really this novel is just filled with fiery explosions, debauchery, violence, dysfunctional relationships and, most of all, banter.
Region: USA: Oregon: Eugene/Lane County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Chase Crawford. He has a nice mix of innocence and gravitas and looks like the Saul in my head.
Synopsis: Olivia's mother died in a tragic accident six months ago. Olivia and her younger sister Samantha have done their best to cope with the loss, but their father is inconsolable, drowning himself in work and leaving everything else to 16 year old Olivia to manage. Until the day he brings his wife back and reveals that he's taken a second mortgage on their home, and put all his overtime pay into a new program that reincarnates those who died too young. For the next month, the family is to follow a strict program of memory-personality-rebuilding exercises. Problem is, Olivia doesn't want *all* her mother's memories to return.
Region: USA: Maine
The actor who would play your main character. Hmmm. A young Reese Witherspoon, because she can seem open and friendly and yet still credibly harbor a dark side.
Official Nomination Thread
Hi everyone! We've got a big introductory post coming up soon over at the blog, but I wanted to set this nomination thread up in advance. Though we can't promise that every cover nominated here will get a book cover (man, that'd be great, though, right?), we can promise that we'll be taking all of them into consideration (by monkey rochambeau, Real Steel-type boxing matches, serious examination of DNA base-pairs...who knows? Only the Baty knows...)
We totally encourage nominations of other synopses you think would make great covers, and are up for self-nominations, too! You gotta talk yourself up, buddy-o's.
Please include the following information with any nomination, and please make sure that the novel hasn't been nominated higher up in the thread!:
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User name: pdyerf
Title: That Which Must Not Be Seen
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Generations ago, a god was born. Her name was Qadr and she had seven children with three mortal men. Each carried within them a piece of her power, and they passed it on to their own children. As her power was diluted among the people, Qadr founded a nation called Haskat, a land of many villages, and the people there worshipped her unconditionally. When the power of her children threatened to overwhelm her, she punished them and made the practice of their powers the gravest of sins. The world was peaceful, until a Carpenter named Hale kidnapped a Laborer named Cris because he was in love with her. Qadr, now called the Supremity, decided that all of her grandchildren must be killed and set her loyal worshipers to the task.
Now separated, Cris and Hale must gather up his kin and prepare to do battle. But waging war against a god is a painful business, and it seems impossible for anyone to make it through alive.
Region: USA::Maine
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe a dark-haired Sophie Turner?
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User name: KimGM
Title: Snowbound
Genre: Chick Lit
Synopsis: Mia Wilkinson is going to turn 35 on Christmas Day and she's not looking forward to it. Why should she? She isn't having the best of years--she just lost her job thanks to missing a deadline, her affair with a married man is kaput now that his wife is pregnant and he's decided to stay, all of her girlfriends are married with children and seem to have forgotten she exists other than when they need a babysitter or want to complain about their husbands. All she wants to do is spend Christmas and New Year alone and hope that the new year will be better.
So she does what any self-respecting 35-year-old who wants to avoid her friends and their single sympathy does: she secludes herself in her grandmother's house in a small town in Vermont. But her plans of a solitary Christmas don't go as planned--especially when a gorgeous South African photographer shows up on her doorstep.
Region: Europe:: Sweden
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm... for Mia, I could imagine Sanaa Lathan, for Hannes the hot South African...maybe Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ("Jaime Lannister" in Game of Thrones).
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Sorry if I post Twice, the first one disappeared
User Name: Jerhansolo
Title: The Book of Raven: Descent
Genre: Mythically Endowed Psychological Thriller, re: Jungian Archetypology
Synopsis:
Beware the Shadow thief.
He flaps his blackened wings, and his feathers stir the air; spreading confusion and deceit.
As winter breaks he descends, as a specter, upon the slumbering town of Bryhurst, which had lain dormant for many long winters, alone in blissful silence. There was a reason they had cut themselves off from the world.
As the town celebrates the rite of spring, the shadow evokes his troubled spell, and the Myth awakes renewed. Most are oblivious to the song, but three youths- Kari, Wylan, and Baryn- hear the call, and these heroes find themselves locked in an ancient dance-- a mythic tale that portends tragedy.
The myth is a tale of three brothers. A bear, a wolf and a fox who fight each other for one beauty. Each brother receives both a blessing and a curse, and the raven--the shadow thief, preys upon their weaknesses and jealousies. He promises the ultimate reward, but leads them to their demise.
These newly initiated heros find their lives mirroring the ancient script, and as they fight to discover themselves, they struggle against the myth that shapes their destiny. But they cannot stop, manipulate, or deny the momentum of their fate. Passions rise, and upon these passions, the shadow plays. He extorts the growing rifts within the town, and strives to summon the beast. The hero’s rivalry blossoms as the beast rages. And with each incarnation, the beast grows more subtle and dangerous until he threatens to overwhelm, and tear apart the valley. A book of Sorrows. A book higher love. A book where heroes discover inner meaning, and loose themselves into the archetypal fabric of the ages.
Region: Pacific Islands
Actors: Kari (fox): James Macaby- with red tussled hair
Baryn (Bear): A younger Joaquin Phoenix, with a few more pounds
Wylan (wolf): A brooding, teenage Hugh Jackman
Varis (raven): Any one who could sneak around in a black cloak, and could mix sinister with soothing in their voice would do. Johnny Depp?
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wow, this sounds fun to read :D can't wait.
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I want to read your book.
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Can I just point out that I find it kind of funny you chose Huge Jackman to play the wolf character? :P
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This actually sounds like a fun read!
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Yay! Like. a lot. Second!
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User name: duhhitscolin
Title: Live Die Forever
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis:
In the distant future, a group of scientists in CERN discovers life after death. Based on the idea that our soul is an energy entity, that since energy cannot be destroyed, our "soul" has to go somewhere. Simultaneously, across the globe in China, another group of scientists discovers how to turn off the gene that causes us to age.
When death becomes not just an ending but literally, a beginning, and immortality an option to keep hold to the life that one have in this world, all hell breaks loose. Laws fall apart, governments lose control, factions supporting living or dying forms, in no time at all, war broke out.
Amidst the chaos were two men, Adam Entheson and Tianfeng Lin, the first being a young scientist at CERN and the later an orphaned teenager in China due to the riots caused by the discoveries. As the war grew worst, the two crossed paths.
Region: Singapore
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sean Bean as Adam and Hu Ge as Tianfeng
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This sounds so awesome. Totally seconded :)
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This sounds like an excellent book in the making and an even better movie. I second this.
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Your synopsis sounds interesting. I can't help but notice one thing though. You start off with present time, and then switch to past in mid sentence. (in no time at all, war broke out) From there on you continue with past tense. You might want to fix that, it's confusing. :)
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Wow, this sounds really amazing.
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second.
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Sounds like a great read!
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I would wanna read this
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User name: Juanamac
Title: Undercurrent
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: Charlotte has been on top of the world. After swimming her personal best, she wins gold at the National Swimming Championship lands a place in the NZ Olympic squad, set to prepare for the Olympic competition in London. She has just become engaged to her boyfriend, electrical engineering prodigy Shahid. Her final year at University seems to have started well, and her life course seems well planned.
However golden her life appears, struggles beneath the surface begin to pull her under. Shahid strives for excellence, but has hit a wall with his current invention. Charlotte is struggling to keep on top of her studies, her training schedule and her job. Her parents have their own worries, and do not support Charlotte.
Then, everything hits a wall when Charlotte discovers she is pregnant.
The story will be told in a non-linear fashion, looking at one calendar year out of sequence. (This way I can control how the reader views Charlotte..............)
Region: New Zealand :: Wairarapa
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Saoirse Ronan, Annasophia Robb or Dakota Fanning. The main character needs to look like a very young, naive girl, rather than her 21-22 years.
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User name: Scripted Silence
Title: Razna
Genre: Fantasy/Young Adult
Synopsis:
"Ridiculed for her ability to see spirits, SADE KAMP would like nothing more than to pretend they didn’t exist, but when their presence destines her to accept a world others can’t, Sade is forced to live in the land of the dead to save our Earth."
(*SPOILERS*)
ARSIS CALLANTRO has had enough of being just a spirit, longing for his former glory of being the darkest Lord in Razna; he has sacrificed the last remaining member of his family to be temporarily back in the flesh and able to hunt down that which he’d lost years ago: Sade.
As more spirits start to invade Earth, people begin to forget who they are, and Sade realizes she has no choice but to venture into Razna, the so-called land of the dead, which isn’t as dead as it would seem.
Dreams begin to overtake Sade, and it isn’t long before she realizes there is a connection between her and Lord Arsis that she doesn’t want, and one he doesn’t fail to use against her, making her believe her brother, ALEX KAMP, is dying.
The dreams turn to anger and start to consume Sade. After a heated argument with MAX WEST, the handsome, rather fiery demon hunter Sade has come to adore, she ventures off to find her dying brother.
It’s not until Sade becomes trapped in Razna, and aware that Alex is not dying, that the connection breaks, and she is left alone, scared, and hoping Max can figure out what has happened. But he thinks she’s gone, left as if to sweetly say to him, ‘I don’t love you anymore.’
It is the land itself that has brought Sade to walk amongst the forsaken, wanting her to restore Razna to its former beauty, a magical pillar in the land beckons to her. It is the very thing which Max wishes to destroy, and has sought to do so for years when it claimed the life of his mother, and Arsis’s former lover. Fearing the same fate for his still beloved Sade, Max unknowingly sets out to dismantle the very system which prevents Arsis from murdering her...
Landing in the middle of doubt and fear, just what will it take for Sade to pull through?
Region: United States: Atlanta
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: There's a movie adaptation??? I'd have to say Emma Watson.
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This sounds great! Lots of twists and turns and conflicts! Has the potential to be un-put-downable! I like the similarities to the 'Persephone and the pomegranate' myth as well :)
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Which would mean the 'Razna' story, sorry!
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Sorry if I double posted but I can't find my old one :P
User name: 7Epona7
Title: The Last Shadow
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: It is the year twenty-four forty-nine of the second age. Three kingdoms, led by the Elves, Humans and Half-elves, compete for power in various- and numerous- wars.
In the middle of this conflict is Tam Lowell, a boy in the Elfán army. Only seventeen years old, and he has already been assigned General of the army by Princess Ophelia III, the ruler of the Elfán kingdom. He recently won a war between the Elfán and Human kingdoms that got him the honoured title of Third Hero. He still has his life, his future, ahead of him. What could happen?
Enter Darhhkenbael Aneiugari, a mysterious boy from a distant land, who's come to the Elfán kingdom with a single purpose in mind...
Region: USA:: Alaska
The actor(s) who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaptation:
Tam Lowell: Logan Lerman
Princess Ophelia III: Helena Bonham Carter
Darhhkenbael Aneiugari: A younger Zac Efron?? I dunno he has to look like a teenager but I don't know of enough young boy actors :P
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Geez my synopsis sucks! Let me try again;
Synopsis:
Tam Lowell used to think he knew what it was like to lose your family. He lost his mother when he was a child, and his older sister vanished mysteriously not long after. But his loss seemed to be nothing when he met Darhhkenbael Aneiugari, a mysterious boy of a strange race known only as the Shadows, who lost not just his family-- but his people. All of them.
Darhhkenbael is locked in the castle dungeons by Queen Ophelia III, ruler of the Elfán kingdom of Iwaku, after a "supposed" assassination attempt on Tam's life. Tam, recently named Third Hero of Iwaku, sneaks into the dungeons to see Darhhkenbael-- and so starts a series of complex events, involving rebellion, vows, secrets, and the revelation of a terrible truth concerning what really happened to Tam's lost sister. In this confusing world of betrayal and secrecy, there is only one thing that Dark, the last true Shadow, seeks.
Vengeance.
((Was that better than the original?))
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User name : Switch-the-Foot
Title : The Purple Envelope
Genre : Romance/Adventure
Synopsis : Riley Snow was abandoned at the Norhtwestern Memorial Hospital when she was three weeks old and promptly thrown into the foster care system. When she was ten she was labelled a "problem child," removed from the system and placed in a group home.
Fast forward sixteen years and she's receiving a bundle of letters from a mother she never knew about a past she thought she could leave buried. The story her dead mother shares appears to be something pulled right from one of her romantic suspense novels, but the details she provides about Riley's life in and out of the system are enough to convince Riley the letters are real.
Riley's mother was MI6 and her father was FBI. They met on assignment, and when things went south her father was captured, assumed dead, and her mother was hunted down and killed. But not before sending a purple envelope crammed full of letters to her daughter.
Riley takes up her mother's search for her father, and is promptly joined by her old friend and mentor, FBI agent Sam LaClaire, and his much younger - and much more attractive - co-worker,Luke Anderson. With their help Riley will embark on a journey that will change everything.
Region : Canada::Ottawa
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation : Either Jewel Staite (with dark and curly hair) or Stana Katic
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OOOOOH I WANT TO READ THIS SO BAD! Seconded =D
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User name: justBetsy
Title: Queen of the Zombies
Genre: Satire
Synopsis:When biochemist Elizabeth Tyler realizes her employer is more interested in weaponizing the newly isolated Romero virus than in developing a cure for the affected soldiers, she steals a sample of the virus and goes into hiding. Tyler seeks help from Mama Clotille Gravois, an ancient voodoo practioner who provided invaluable information on botanicals and organic materials for Tyler's thesis. With Mama Clotille's help, Tyler takes on the persona of Lisabetta Timo, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.
Region: Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Watson or Ashlynn Ross
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User name: Taethowen
Title: Stars for the Dead
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Dina was eleven when she witnessed her parents murder, right after she saw the mark on her mother's arm that labeled her a heretic. She hid the secret for years, because if her people knew that their High Priestess had converted, Dina's life would be in danger.
Forced to join the Otwlh, an army of female soldiers, Dina gains access to the palace and learns that everything is not as it seems. Before long, a coup takes place, and Dina finds herself on the wrong side of everything she has ever known.
Now, with three races on the brink of war, Dina finds herself questioning everything - especially the supposed heresy of her mother, and which side is the right one.
Region: USA::Oklahoma::Tulsa
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Angelina Jolie - not because she looks like the image in my head, but because she can pull off the physical and political sides of the story.
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I second this!
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Sounds very interesting! I know this is nearly irrelevant, but I'd like to propose Michelle Rodriguez as the actress of choice instead (depending on the image in your head, of course). She usually plays the tough gal, but she is genuinely strong and has a heart as well as an activist's presence, politicially speaking.
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User name: Goddess-Diana
Title: Draken
Genre:Fanatasy
Synopsis:There has not been a Draken-the human nahual of a Drake- in over a thousand years. It is believed that the mystical animals have died out. But not all.....
Ellie, a sixteen year old girl, wakes up on her birthday feeling like the top of the world. She's going to be engaged today, start her new job in the palace infirmary as a Healer, and today she gets nahual. She doesn't feel like anything could go wrong, especially not on the day of her Promising to her childhood sweetheart, Nichola.
But that all ends when she meets a jealous Kai-En, a Drake intent on claiming the fiery pint sized girl as his own. With her magic wanted all over the country, she must flee her beloved Draguwen and seek shelter else where. Running with her fathers best friend Myrn, she has no idea who is friend, who is foe, and where home is.
Region: USA: Michigan
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: hmmmm.......I don't know........I always pictured her a bit like myself so there isn't really a movie star like me, but if I had to pick, Ellen Page.
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I second this! Sounds awesome mix of fantasy, sci-fi & adventure!
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User name: dolphinherovamp5
Title: Withered
Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy
Synopsis: Boy meets girl...
Nick was an ordinary guy. He loved to hang out with his friends and do the every day things that the people of Coos Bay, Oregon do. Then, one day his eyes land on a girl he's never seen. The girl, a small and quiet person, held a daisy in her hands, never letting go for anything. It was natural curiosity that drew him to her, or even more than that.
Days later...
Nick finds his life to be spinning out of control and he doesn't know what to do. But, all he can think of is that girl with the daisy. She seemed to have been a pretty girl with a dark secret. He should have seen it all coming.
The days get dreary...
With his friends, Nick leaves Coos Bay to try and discover the truth behind the girl with the daisy. But, nobody ever said it'd be easy...
"We will forever wither."
Region: USA::Indiana::Bloomington
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: That's a toughie...I suppose for Nick, he would be portrayed by Logan Lerman, but with chestnut hair. *shrugs* I can't find anybody else that would fit Nick as I see him.
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As for the female character (the girl with the daisy), I can see a blonde actress like Annasophia Robb or Sara Paxton.
I have three other characters that are pretty important. For them, I can see Brett Dier, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Emily Browning (but with long black hair).
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Sounds very interesting. Partially because I've been to Coos Bay so I can see how anything out of the ordinary could catch your attention. If I've ever seen a town that looks straight out of a Stephen King novel it was Coos Bay.
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Sadly I've never been there. But, I'm trying to get enough research and not be so cliche considering it's Oregon. Maybe one day I can visit though and get a true feel of the place. :)
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Synopsis has a changed some:
In the city of Coos Bay, Oregon, four teenage friends live with average circumstances. Then, one of the teenagers, a boy named Nick Reid, meets Victoria Powell. Victoria, with a daisy that is dying before his eyes, is a mystery to him and he wants to figure her out. No matter how far he has to go.
During this time, his friends deal with their own personal problems. Holly Stein, the quiet one, tries to make everybody proud and ends up going through all types of obstacles to let everybody have what they want. Chloe Murphy, a girl with a knack at being tough, deals with her mother’s death and a secret romance with a boy who shouldn’t be hidden. And Caine Murphy, Chloe’s twin brother, must overcome their mother’s death and help his boyfriend fight a drug addiction.
When Victoria suddenly dies along with the daisy, the mystery thickens and situations become more hostile. Their lives begin to spin out of control and they don’t know what to do, eventually leading them on a journey to the golden state. Not only to escape for a little bit, but to also find out who Victoria really was and what she was hiding.
“We will forever wither.”
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I actually lived in a town an hour away from Coos Bay for a year, and still live in Oregon, my favorite state I've lived in. My dad grew up 30 mins from there. Essentially, when he was a kid 30 years ago, it was an industrious logging town. Business was booming. Now, from what I've seen, there's still a mill or two, but they aren't as busy as they used to be. It's always grey and cloudy, and chilly but rarely freezing. Everything looks run down and outdated. I can't remember the population, but less than 100k for sure, but big enough to stretch several miles. It's also essentially merged with the city of North Bend, its sister city. There's less than a mile gap. Anyway, if you have questions about the area, feel free to pm me. Sounds like a good book!
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Wow. Thank you for this information! When I revise my novel, I'll try to incorporate this information into it since I think it kind of makes Coos Bay a little modern than it sounds. And, if I'll be sure to PM you for any questions. Anyways, thanks again!
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Ooh, sounds like a good book. Plus I've lived in a town an hour and a half away from Coos Bay for 15 years, I go there every couple months because it has the closest shopping mall so it would be exciting to see a book set there.
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I like the updated synopsis...intriguing!
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User name: AnniKat
Title: On the Road For Rory
Genre: YA
Synopsis: Through the jungle and the desert
Traveling further than I can measure
I get so lonesome, I start to miss you
But I think, what else can I do?
Because would travel 1 million miles
Just to see one of your smiles.
I love you Aurora! See you tomorrow!
When Luna Carson’s baby sister, Aurora, is diagnosed with cancer, the whole family is devastated, but what breaks Luna’s heart the most is when they tell the 7 year old that her biggest wish isn’t obtainable, so she does the only thing a big sister can do. She takes her video camera and sets of on a journey to show Rory the world. Through videos and blog posts, always signing off with the same poem, Luna is determined to show her sister the world outside of her hospital room and starts on a journey that will end up changing them both.
Region: USA::Indiana::North
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I could see Alyson Stoner playing Luna in the movie.
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Ooh, I second this one!
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i second this one, too! :)
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I think this sounds like a great idea as well!
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Love this one! Seconded, thirded, fourthed, fifthed, twelvethed-ed-ed... Yeah. I would totally read that!
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Thank you all so much!
Just a note, the title has changed to "The Luna Carson World Tour"
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Wonderful idea. I would buy this book.
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Beautiful. beautiful premise.
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This sounds great!
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I definetly nominate your story! It sounds amazing, and Alyson Stoner sounds perfect for Luna.
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I'd read it too!
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This one sounds incredibly amazing. Seconded. :)
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Wow. The thread should have a "like" or "wonderful" button. I would definitely read that!
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Second! Gosh this makes me weepy!
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So many people have waxed poetic about this one, I went back and read the full synopsis.
This one's a winner in my mind. Would definitely read. The idea itself, the concept, is very real. I'll add my nomination and join the chorus line.
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Whoever (or whatever) decides which books get chosen, if you do not choose this one, we will rebel. Teeth will gnash, tears will fall, and fine point black ink pens will shatter against painted walls. Yes, I went there. That's how serious I am. If my book isn't chosen; heck, even if it is, I demand a cover be made for this one. The people are on my side with this.
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lol sure to be the next best selling chick flick :) It's beautiful! I hope it has a good ending! (see, already rooting for the characters) ^_^
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This is amazing. It's kind of scary that a story I wanted to do last year was so similar to this one... There aren't nearly enough family stories out there. I'd nominate this in a heartbeat.
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This sounds like a beautiful story that will definitely worth every penny once published. I would love it if this book is given a cover. I sure hope that the "powers that be" will pay attention to those of us posting and rooting for you!!!!
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User name: ReeReevil
Title: City of the Seerer
Genre: Post Apocalypse/Sci Fi/Urban Fantasy
Synopsis:
Braelyn has spent most of her life living in the colonies. One of the only places untouched after the government collapse of 2026. But when her dad dies she has to move to the city with her mysterious godmother. A women Brae has never met. Brae is also a Seer, born with the gift to see into the future, and the souls of the dead walking the earth. Distinguished by a birthmark on her face and arms. Because seers are second class citizens, and often killed, most cover the marks, her godmother doesn't. Brae has to find a way to keep her and her godmother safe from the legion, the militia force owned by the cities richest family; not only because they are seers but because she runs an illegal fortune telling business in the abandon apartment next door. And Brae herself has become friends with an unsavory cast of Characters. The infamous glint dealer, Lucas and his mother Laverna, the self proclaimed Goddess of thieves. However when her godmothers friend Clara is killed by the legion Brae decides its time to be less passive. If the Seers want any rights or freedom they will need to fight for it, and in this fight its kill or be killed.
Region: Wisconson:: Kenosha
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Katie Melua
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i like this one a lot.
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User name: brightshadowsky
Title: Echo's Call
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Nur always felt she had it lucky. Not all those who found themselves without parents grew up in an orphanage as safe as hers had been. Fewer still would discover a stable life as an apprentice to a decent human being. Nur was happy in her corner of the bakery, lost in the rhythmic process of kneading dough and never having to say more than a few words to anyone. Somewhere deep inside her she suspected that it could never last - that something would destroy her idea of an idyllic and predictable life. That it finally happened was not surprising. That she had a history that she was unaware of was not surprising. What she didn't expect was how hard it could be to survive, politically and literally, once you suddenly became someone...
Chand and Lu have the near impossible task of stabilizing a country that will soon be left without a royal heir. With recent war a memory that is still healing in the minds and hearts of the people, only a legitimate claim to the throne has any hope of keeping the love and faith of the populace. If a true heir doesn't exist, they will have to create one so convincing that even the new royal has complete faith in their identity. Of course, all the belief in the world cannot make a person a good ruler, or make them able to withstand the deep-rooted schemes and manipulations of the Court, or give them the ability to evade an assassin plot...
Region: USA::Oregon::Lincoln County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: best pick right now: Keisha Castle-Hughes.
This is too cool not to try for, so i'll suck it up and nominate myself. ^_^
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Seconded. I'd read this one. =)
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This sounds awesome!
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User name: eritela
Title: Remnants of Shadow
Genre: Fantasy/Young Adult
Synopsis:
On Li'et, humans have the ability to manipulate the elements around them. There are six elements: Rock, Water, Wind, Life, Light, and Shadow.
Light is considered a holy element, a blessing on humans by one of the divine. Those with the Light element are thought to be chosen by the goddess to purge evil from everywhere they go, creating a perfect world.
If Light is considered holy and gifted by the Fair Goddess Eritela, where does that leave Shadow users?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
(A teenage Shadow user finds himself unexpectedly, and somewhat unwillingly, caught up in the largest conflict his world has seen in centuries, one that could be resolved in only two ways: the total elimination of the Shadow, or the defeat of the Light.)
Region: USA :: Oregon :: Portland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm.. Dakota Goyo? Chandler Canterbury? Asa Butterfield? I'm just looking at lists of people. I don't actually know of any young actors. My actor knowledge pretty much starts and ends with Lord of the Rings.
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Username: phineas.riley
Title: Crucible: The Seven Crystals
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: On the planet Eris, a young healer by the name of Hayden Thor discovers his role in the effort to stop the power-hungry Praedictians from wiping out nonbelievers all across the world when the messenger archangel, Nyxaius, tumbles down, wounded, onto his doorstep. After nursing the archangel back to health, Hayden teams up with the messenger to find six others who have also been chosen to maintain balance on Eris. In his quest, Hayden delves into the past to find out just how he was created - because he soon learns that he isn't an average Erisian. Fueled by determination - as well as a tremendous urge to protect Erisians everywhere - Hayden begins a journey to take down the Praedictians, who have just succeeded in creating and controlling their own powerful deity.
Region: USA::Georgia::Atlanta
The Actor who would play your main character: Probably Mitch Hewer or Alex Pettyfer.
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User name: robinr515
Title: Forging a New Trail
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis: In early 1841, eccentric plantation owner Charles Congdon sells his holdings and frees all 107 of his slaves, so he and his young daughter, Myra can have a new begining in Oregon Territory. With the prospect of even greater freedom and the ability to own their own land, nearly a third of Congdon's former slaves join him for the cross country journey.
The nuisance of traveling from Richmond, Virginia to Independence, Missouri finally behind them, Congdon and his party get a late start on travelling the newly cut Oregon Trail. Several catastrophies, both small and large, set the party even further behind schedule. Realistic enough to know the folly of continuing the journey through the Rockies in midwinter, they decide to spend the winter in the vicinity of Fort Hall, Idaho.
Falling ill that winter, and dying shortly thereafter, Charles has left his thirteen-year-old daughter with the responsibility of not only taking care of herself, but his large estate and also the welfare of their good friends and former slaves.
Never actually making it to Oregon Territory, Myra still perserveres, she and her good friends and new family claiming homesteads in unsettled western part of Dakota Territory, which would years later become known as Montana.
Region: Arizona: Elsewhere
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: An until now unknown young teenage girl who would become rediculously famous because of this novel/movie.
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I second that!
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I second that!
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I love this one!
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Okay. So, after I came up with this great story and even nominated myself, I have suddenly felt the presence of the Holy Spirit pressing on me to do another story. While I still intend to write the first story, I am now doing another one for NaNo, and have changed my novel profile to show this. Henceforth, I am re-nominating myself for this one. So, here goes:
Username: robinr515
Title: Crusaders
Genre: Christian Fiction/Young Adult Fiction
Synopsis: Two high school students start a nationwide crusade to not only bring other young people to Christ, but also legalize and mainstream prayer, devotion, and Bible Study in public schools.
Region: Arizona: Elsewhere
Kirk Cameron in the late '80's or early '90's would have been perfect for my main character. He's a little too old now though. I'm not sure now who'd do best--I'd want it to be a Christian though.
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User name: amino
Title: The Blood Feud
Genre: Family saga (insanity, romance, mystery, humor)
Synopsis:The Lundquists and Martins have been feuding for centuries. This is strange, considering the founders of the respective families were best friends. What no one alive knows is that the entire blood feud is a sham: concocted to keep the Martins and Lundquists in power, fame, and fortune.
When Frederick Martin, the owner of the Martin Estate, finds a piece of paper that hints at the unveiling of this secret, he snatches at it, forcing Jakob Anderson, a journalist, to scout for him on the Lundquist Estate. But the Lundquist Estate is in turmoil: the heir, James, has died, leaving Henry, a shy second cousin, to learn how to run the equivalent of a very small country. As Henry struggles with learning, he must also act as ambassador for the Lundquists, which leads him to meeting Marie.
Not only that, but as near-head of the Lundquist household, Henry must make sure that his second cousin, Natalie, doesn't go overboard with this new-fangled romance she has going on with Grigory Martin, Frederick Martin's brother.
And through all this, Gerald Hughes, one of Grigory, Frederick, and Marie's second cousins, is hearing voices… telling him to kill people.
The novel is told from the viewpoints of all the above characters, as well as the ancestors of the current Lundquists and Martins.
Region: I am traveling the world from Oct 16th to January 2013, but I will be in Japan, China, and Tibet (hopefully) during November, if that helps. ^_^
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: (selected by looks only because I don't know actors. XD)
Frederick Martin: Bryan Greenberg
Gerald Hughes: Ryan Gosling
James Lundquist: Chris Hemsworth
Henry Lundquist: Josh Groban (right eye is blue, left is brown)
Marie Martin: Milla Jovovich
Natalie Lundquist: Blake Lively
Grigory Martin: Josh Hutcherson
Jakob Anderson: Jason Momoa (with dreadlocks)
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User name: persephoneshell
Title: Chasing Sunsets
Genre: modern fiction
Synopsis: Blake, Briar, and Chase have been best friends since middle school (Chase and Briar since infancy), but a vicious fight the summer after high school ended tore them apart. Ten years later Blake is left at the altar. Devastated, he spirals into a dangerous depression. Chase and Briar come to a reluctant rescue, suggesting they take off on a road trip they'd once planned but never took. They'll have to either face their differences or history is bound to repeat itself and leave them scattered once again.
Region: USA:Oregon:Salem
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Blake would be played by Tom Felton, Chase is Darren Criss, and Briar is Leighton Meester.
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I love your actor list... and your story. :) Tom Felton and Darren Criss FTW
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User name: mommablogsalot
Title: The Magic Wars
Genre: YA fantasy
Synopsis: There has been a war against magic for Katherine's entire life - ever since the King outlawed magic 18 years ago, after the murder of his young bride who had been heir to throne & supposedly murdered by a band of rouge warlocks. Katherine is tired of seeing her friends and family's lives always in danger and living in poverty - she knows magic isn't inherently evil and is itching to join the war and set her people free. Unfortunately, she's unable to leave her father's side, an alcoholic battling depression. But when he's arrest for a crime he didn't commit, she wastes no time joining the war and attempting to rescue her father from execution. But when Katherine learns a shocking truth about her past, it changes everything.
Region: USA :: Wisconsin
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Nina Dobrev
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User name: Vega
Title: A Maddening Science
Genre: Science Fiction / Literary Fiction
Synopsis:
Bullets fired into a crowd. Screaming. Blood. Police sirens in the distance, coming closer, making me cringe against old memories. Making me skulk into the shadows, hunch down in my hoodie. The last place I want to be is the centre of attention for the cops again. I sink back into the fabric, shying from the broad helicopter searchlights. But there are people bleeding into the gutter. Children screaming. Women crying. Men crying, too, not that any of them would admit it. The scent of gun powder, rotting garbage, vomit, and misery.
If this had been before, I might have leapt into action with one of my trusty gizmos. Or, failing that, at least with a witty verbal assault that would have left the moron too brain-befuddled to resist when I punched him in the oesophagus.
But this isn't before. This is after, and I am a supervillain no more.
... let me tell you about before.
Region: Toronto::Canada
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Benedict Cumberbatch as "The Prof", with Jennifer Connelly as the love interest.
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Yes please.
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I third this!
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Ditto.
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Fifthed!
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Gorgeous premise. I really want to read this. Sixthed.
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http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Benedict/
Just sayin' ; )
And yes- add my vote ^_^
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High on my list of nominations!! Woot!
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count me in sounds awesome
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I think this would be a great read but i feel that the synopsis is mostly in the second part and that the first part doesn't really explain the plot. Maybe you could go more into depth just a bit. :)
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Username: embrown1442000
Title: Fury and the Mouse
Genre: Horror/Supernatural
Synopsis: LuAnn is an ordinary housewife living and ordinary life. Except, she is harboring a dark secret: she witnessed the brutal slayings of her cousin and their friends in a cabin in the woods. She managed to survive, but not escape. The man who killed them is now her husband. Seven years in a captive marriage have taken their toll as LuAnn, haunted by visions of the past, loses her mind. Her only hope for survival and escape is Rev. Thomas Bentley who discovers her secret. Can he help her accept and escape the past before she, too, becomes a brutal killer?
Region: USA:Texas: Austin
Acotr who would play the main character: Winona Ryder
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I second this
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The second was for Fury and the Mouse.
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Unusual idea. Great possibility for a psychological thriller.
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User name: HunterField
Title: Panther's Paw
Genre: YA Fantasy
Synopsis:
Deneol, a boy of seventeen and an orphan, finds himself fleeing home a fugitive—wrongly accused.
The murder of Collin Fossburi, brother of Civil Peace Militia’s (CPM) captain, Landry Fossburi, is pinned on innocent Deneol. As Landry sets out to avenge his brother’s death, Deneol must run. With the help of close friend, Browan, he is able to evade the CPM and flee to the nearby forest. It is in the forest that Deneol discovers his ability to specimorph—to change from one species to another. With this newly found ability, the war for Deneol’s soul begins.
In his journeys, Deneol encounters some unlikely characters who shape his destiny. From Bartholomew, the not-so-hermit-like wizard, to Ariax the Fox. These heroes, villains, somebodies, and nobodies all have ulterior motives—great and small—for befriending Deneol. Save for Esmerelda.
Esmerelda is the beautiful daughter of the late Collin Fossburi, whom Deneol is accused of murdering. Through a series of unusual events, Esmerelda falls in love with Deneol. However, Deneol is preoccupied with his abilities, and Esmerelda’s patience is tried. Her love for Deneol remains regardless of the path he chooses to tread.
When Collin Fossburi’s real murderer is discovered, the charges against Deneol are lifted. Deneol must decide whether or not to return home. And if he does return, will he forgive Landry?
Region: USA::Florida::Brevard County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe Ryan Gosling with long hair, a little more "golden." Also, no facial hair.
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User name: JAPartridge
Title: The Stone King
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:20 years ago, Garanth's father killed Garanth's mother and cursed the land, opening a door for the spirits of the Void to begin consuming the spirits of the land.
Now Garanth's half-brother leads an expanding army driven mad by fear and hunger consuming village after village in a quest for absolute power.
To save the land, Garanth must defy his mentor (the man who killed his father) and claim the seat of power before his brother reaches it, though it will cost him his humanity.
Region: A fantasy version of a middle-eastern bronze-age culture
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Perhaps Ashley Sawdaye if he had long hair and a beard
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User name: Lynnielois
Title: Vicarious
Genre: Young Adult / Romance
Synopsis:
Caileigh Leann Griffin has always been annoyed by Jonathon Freeman. Everything about him has always irked her, especially his bad boy reputation and sarcastic, could care less attitude.
One day, she gets in...credible news, though. A teenager at a neighboring school was in a car accident, which means that she can have a heart transplant.
When she recovers, she slips pretty seamlessly back into the old habits and patterns of her life.
Slowly, though, she finds that a few things are off. She suddenly loves sushi, she hates pop music. But most importantly, her heart, or, rather, Marjorie's heart, nearly jumps out of her chest when she sees Jon.
Caileigh must learn how to cope with her now-turned-around life. One without a heart murmur, one with two sets of 'parents' who want to help take care of and raise her, and a life with a strange attraction for a boy she knows she used to despise.
As she learns more about Marjorie, and her new self, she begins to realize that no matter how much she changes; there are a few things that will never change, and some that haven't really changed at all.
Region: USA: North Carolina: Fayetteville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Dianna Agron with light blue color contacts.
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This sounds really interesting!
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This sounds amazing!!! I second this!
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Interesting idea. There have been previous stories regarding transplant recipients developing aspects of the organ donor. I like your version of the idea.
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Love this one - absolutely!
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sounds like a great book!
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User name: lymbic
Title: The Shadow and the Light
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Compulsive pixie Xara has lived a charmed, if secluded life. As the daughter to Queen of the Pixies, her days were filled with magic and beauty, and her nights with a secret battle with OCD. When the day arrives for her rite of passage, she refuses out of fear of the world outside the pixie grove. Her younger sister had no such qualms, and ran off to complete the task that Xara should have done. Forced to head out into the world she fears in order to search for her errant sister, Xara encounters new peoples and harsh realities as her struggle with compulsion grows. When she meets an invader from the North who captures her heart, she must choose between the man she loves and the people who have taken her in; between searching for a sister she may never find, and searching for calm within herself.
Region: USA: California: Orange County North
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Joanna Krupa
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This sounds incredible!
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User name: sarahstark
Title: The Girl and Him
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Anonymity is the world's worst enemy. It can lead to manipulation and ugly situations. So, when the lovely and always anonymous "girl" meets Adam in a wet sandbox the summer after kindergarten, she refuses to tell him her name. The girl then proceeds to befriend Adam and, of course, consequently falls in love with him. Adam's life is a constant guessing game, but when a bout of cancer and a cold winter interrupts a stumbling teenage relationship, it gets a whole lot more complicated. The girl and him, through a string of meaningless words and names, neither come of age, nor question the meaning of life. Rather, they do all they can to avoid being normal. And they do succeed as often as they can.
Region: USA :: Ohio :: Cleveland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Joan Cusack (20 years ago, of course); she has a sensitive side, but also pulls off that ominous darkness we all love so much.
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User name:
serobella
Title:
Don't Fruit the Beer
Genre:
Science Fiction
Synopsis:
Abandoned at birth by high school sweethearts, telepathic twins Krystal and Pepsy have been raised by the ever elusive (and soda swilling) Sweet Home cult. After twenty-two years of a quiet and sheltered life they have finally been sent on an undercover mission to infiltrate the rival group Peppery Inland, and so find themselves cut off from everything they know when calamity strikes.
Planet Earth has suddenly been attacked by an unknown ninja species armored in aquatic gear, and in the ensuing turmoil all communication is down. Without Sweet Home to direct them the twins decide to abandon the sugary sweet life they've always known to work together with Peppery Inland and attempt to use their abilities for the good of the human race.
As they struggle through the confusing maze of the world they were never allowed to experience they find themselves in a series of events that not only bolster their sense of individuality but cause them to question their very origins. Once it becomes clear that the Aquatic Ninja Aliens are targeting the worlds breweries Krystal and Pepsy struggle to hold on to the wholesomeness of their upbringing while preventing the rich headiness of the A.N.A.'s mission to fill their minds.
Region:
USA :: Colorado :: Denver
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
This was a tough one, but I would like to think two "unknowns" would play the twins. If I had to choose someone I think it would be Olivia Wilde for Krystal Jackson Rathbone for Pepsy. (Although they are substantially more attractive than I picture my characters!)
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User name: maris_can_fly
Title: Death, Incorporated.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Seth never really pictured himself working in an office. Somehow, that's exactly where he ended up, and he's got the suit, the bad coffee, and the ugly name plaque to prove it.
He does not remember applying for this job, or even how he got to this office. All he knows is that he has the one qualification required to work in this strange place. He's dead.
After all, it wouldn't be suitable for a living, breathing person to be a Death Agent, now would it?
Seth can't remember how he died, but the more he works, the closer he comes to facing the truth about his death, and why his new job is not a random occurrence.
Region: USA::Texas::El Paso
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A younger Jay Hernandez
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Eagerly seconded!
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Wow, this sounds really cool. Seconded! :)
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User name: Sykosqueak
Title: The Shield of Chiron
Genre: Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Two hundred years ago, the Chiron was lost in space during its mission to study Alpha Centauri. Emma had built her doctoral dissertation on the theory of what happened to the ship and its crew. But right after submitting her theory, a settlement was found, filled with the descendants of the Chiron crew. Emma is given the opportunity to set her facts straight by journeying to the first discovered life-bearing planet, where she will work as a spy to infiltrate the Shield of Chiron, a resistance group causing trouble for the North American Union. Hopefully, she can complete her mission and make it home in time to finish her degree.
Region: USA: Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: This is tough. I guess the best match that I can find right now is Scarlet Johannson.
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User name: dgodard
Title: Alliance in Aether
Genre: Steampunk Fantasy
Synopsis: The late Victorian world is a time of prosperity and creativity. Cities are expanding. Science is discovering. Freedom is spreading. Yet, all are unaware that their future rests in the hands of the hidden vast empires of aeronauts, aquanauts, terranauts, and polarnauts,
The Alliance in Aether has one united goal. To remain hidden from the rest of the world and live as they wish. They have employed decades of secrets to keep their modern advancements of aether and clock powered wonders from the doors of the rest of the world. Other than their desire for secrecy, the hidden empires keep to themselves.
The Alliance is threatened.
The Confederacy of Aether Dominance is banned and suppressed by the Alliance for aiming to utilize aether powered machines to control the world. The Confederacy has been growing and assassinating Alliance operatives in the Victorian world. When the assassinations reach a staggering toll, the Alliance must unite as the last line of defense for the world against the destruction of the Confederacy.
Region: USA::Utah::Utah County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Christopher Plummer for the father, Dianna Agron as the daughter, and Ben McKenzie as the unexpected hero.
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I'm not entirely sure what happened to my first post...anyway here it goes again.
User name: maris_can_fly
Title: Death, Incorporated.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Seth never pictured himself as an office stiff, but somehow he's ended up as one. He has the suit, bad coffee and ugly name plaque to prove it.
Seth doesn't remember how he found his new employer, much less every applying for the job, but he does realize one thing. He has the only qualification required for the job: he's dead. A living human could never perform the duties of a Death Agent. Unlike his co-workers however, Seth can't seem to remember how he died.
The longer Seth is on the job, the clearer the circumstances of his death become, and the more he realizes there are things about his life (and death) that he must come to terms with.
Region: USA::Texas::El Paso
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A young Jay Hernandez :)
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Fabulous...there it is. Sorry for the two posts!
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Its ok, I got just as excited about it the second time around.
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Great premise, excited to watch it unfold!
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User name: Jazza
Title: Angel
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Katie has a perfect life for the past she has. She's angel like and is doing really well in school. Until a new girl comes. The town turns evil and her friends become harsh but at the same time weird things are happening to her. With no friends, no parents and just her grandmother she is lost in disappear and then her grandmother has a heart attack. She then finds out her destiny and sets out to restore her life. Making it better in the process. She reunites her family and comes to terms with her father and brother's deaths.
Region: Melbourne
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Angelica Panganiban
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User Name: Ms.Writer-Person
Title: Daybreak 13
Genre: Action, Thiller
Synopsis: A group of Neo-Communists called Daybreak 13 have taken over the world. The main character, Logan (age 23), with his best friend Sophia (age 21), have sworn to take down Daybreak 13 at any costs. However, every member of Daybreak 13 is a gifted killer, and the company holds more than meets the eye...
Region: Northern Europe (England, France, Germany)
The actor playing the main character: Aaron Johnson
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Username: QuillPenScrawl
Title: Laurelynne
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: When the earth had seen it's fiftieth winter, Cardinal (the creator of The World) went through the world and captured all of the evil and malicious spirits that existed there. Now, Laurelynne Elizabeth Dawnbright, a nine-year-old girl, mistakenly crosses into the prison. She must escape, and help Christian, a man who was trapped there by chance. The prison changes itself to appear like Laurelynne's home, attempting to fool her into staying. Drawing on all of her strength, Laurelynne keeps reality and uneality separate, and vanquishes the spirits that contain her. With the help of Christian, Laurelynne destroys the remains of the prison and disposes of the key. Now, with a newfound confidence, Laurelynne goes on to live in her own world, and begins to make friends and enjoy school.
Region: Elsewhere (Uijongbu, South Korea)
Actress: A more muted and solemn Joey King, but with a bright and imaginitive mind. <3
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User name: AH-J
Title: False Friends
Genre: Chick Lit
Synopsis: Recently divorced and tired of living in a goldfish bowl, Beth goes in search of a new life. There is a long-held dream she has decided to chase. False Friends covers the laughter and tears, the highs and lows of learning to live life in another country, and speak another language. But the most important part of Beth's adventure is discovering who she really is.
Region: Caribbean
The actor who would play my main character in the movie adaptation:
To be honest, I haven't a clue. Hadn't even considered it.. But it would have to be someone earthy with humour and some vulnerability. Maybe a Meg Ryan type.
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User name: MishMoze
Title: Burnt Porcelain
Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Synopsis: As if Jemma's life couldn't get any busier, her best friend moves away, her step-brother skips his annual visit-before-school-starts-for-Jemma, and then one of her remaining three closest friends turns up dead. Then when a photo of her mother in a wedding dress next to someone she doesn't know at all turns up, she looks for some answers. But when she discovers the identity of her mother's first husband, the only answer she has is who is killing her friends. The pressure mounts as the trio is whittled to a duo, the police are stumped, and the only person able to answer her remaining questions may be the one who is killing the girls.
Region: Current region: Kentucky::Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A tall, willowy Indian woman. I have no idea about specifics yet.
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User name: piratesswriter
Title: Of Quests and Magic
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: As the youngest daughter of a king, sixteen-year-old Audra knows that their homeland is coming apart at the seams. At fifteen, her closest friend Lucy believes it. More rumors of bloodthirsty witches arrive every day, and growing hostility from the country to the north is fast becoming a threat. Audra believes that her sickly brother, the crown prince, will one day put a stop to the danger, but yet another illness has forced him to stay bedridden, and weakened his power in the eyes of the court. When her brother falls into a sleep from which he may never awaken, Audra receives a cryptic message that Lucy believes is meant to take them out of the palace, to a legendary place where there is water with the power to heal. With their reluctant friend Christopher, the two set out for a mysterious city deep in the swamplands, neither knowing what they will find when they arrive. Audra hopes it will be a cure for her brother; Lucy hopes that it will be answers, that she will learn more about the dreams that wake her each night. On a journey filled with dangerous street performers, clever dragons, and one very deadly baroness, the wry princess and her talkative best friend wrestle with questions of identity--and how far is too far when saving someone that you love.
Region: USA::North Carolina
The actor who would play your main character in a movie adaptation: Audra--a brunette Emma Stone. Lucy--Dakota Fanning
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User name: Ghost81
Title: Secret's Captive
Synopsis: He had the perfect future planned. It had all been going right for the street urchin turned spy. Then his lucky glove was discovered and the truth of what it was sent his world spinning out of his control. Martin Santer has reluctantly admitted that he is the crown prince of Aeterna but he refuses to tell anyone else. There were questions he needed to know the answers to first. Why had Terk, the Mad General of Venter, kidnapped him as a child and changed his face? How much more powerful would his already strong magical abilities get? And how was he to get his reflection back? In this installment of Martin’s story, the young spy is out to find his reflection, realize that love could be a part of his life, encounter known enemies and unlikely allies, and discover the truth of his dark past that will shape his future.
Region: USA:: Idaho Falls, ID
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Zachary Levi.
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I forgot the genre: It's fantasy
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User name: Samantha Wolfe
Title: 'Tattered Feathers of a Broken Wing', or 'The Sorrow of Datura.'
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Datura lived on a small island, alone with an old sailor for company. She watched a bird fly far above each day, yearning to join it. Her own wings, for she had wings, were tattered and broken, and it pained her every time she unfurled them to fly away from the island. She had been banished to the island though, and there was no escape for one with such unnatural abominations. Her name, Datura, had been given to her by those who banished her here. It meant suspicion, and death. One day two young men find her on the island, after one of her failed attempts to fly.
Unconscious from the pain her wings had brought her, the boys placed her in their boat and took her home with them, only to be greeted by anger and hatred around them.
The girl is unable to see any good in the people around her, as a result of a curse a man who banished her laid on her. She would see no joy in people, nor would she see kindness; only evil. Datura, the girl with wings, is beaten and mocked openly, fueling a hatred and unquenchable fear inside her.....
Region: USA::Colorado
The actor who would play our main character in the movie adaptation: Honestly? I don't know. Maybe Emma Watson? I just can't think of many that could pull of the bitter, broken girl that Datura is. And besides, in any case, the writer doesn't technically get a choice in the matter. However, if I had to choose (besides myself, even though I do act ;-)), it would be Emma Watson.
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User name: sugarcakeworld
Title: Eye of Boreas
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Borea was once a paradise of eternal spring and day. The townsfolk lived long and happy lives, isolated from the outside world. Unable to leave by foot or by boat, the only other option is to fly, but knowledge is prohibited. When one of Broeas's direct descendants comes into possession of a book, The Eye of Boreas, they must decide how to shape the "paradise" known as Hyperborea.
Region: USA: Oklahoma
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Evanna Lynch
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User name: dawn_chez
Title: Plenty of Fish in the Sea: But Why are They All Bottom Feeders?
Genre: Chick Lit
Synopsis: One woman's quest to meet the man of her dreams while navigating the waters of online dating.
Fawn Berekoff is a mid-twenties, working woman and single mother who is recently single and ready to hit the dating scene. She turns to online dating in hopes of meeting a decent man in her spare time. Her outlook on dating is to give everyone a chance because you never know who you will meet and when "the one" will turn up. She ends up going on a series of hilarious dates and nicknames each of her potential suitors, like "One-arm" and "Navy guy". In the end, she learns that if you manifest your desires the end result is much better than ordering off an online menu of men.
Region: Victoria, BC - Canada
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Reese Witherspoon
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If this were a movie, it sounds like it would be a super cute romantic comedy.
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That has to be the best title I've ever seen.... It's so true, too.... haha
It sounds like it'll be really cool. :-) Good luck!
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I love this one....Plus...It's definitely got a Reese Witherspoon feel to it! Great choice! :)
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Oh yes I like this one, actually been there done that and got the tear stained t'shirts. Reese is exactly the woman to play this role. Good Luck :-)
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Hilarious title. I'm hooked. ..looking forward to finding it in the bookstore.
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User name:Child.of.Aphrodite
Title: PK-Agent
Genre: Science-Fiction
Synopsis:I had finally met this boy after he graduated high school. I knew all about him: his schizophrenia, his incredible powers, and about Dr. Octavian. In fact, Octavian was an old colleague of mine and we had been friends for many years and that is how I knew about the boy. And what he had been destined to do. Finally I get to meet him, and ask about the story in his point of view.
From what I knew, Patrick was an above average student in both his athletics and intellect, had schizophrenia but was able to keep it under control with medications, and had been living through the foster care system is whole life. Since he was eight, he has been moved around home to home because of complications the foster family would have with Patrick. Apparently, Patrick has behavioral issues and also no one wants to deal with his every-now-and-then schizophrenic episodes. Since they noticed that he didn't have a stable home and he was schizophrenic, the state placed him in therapy. That is all the records had told me, but I knew the truth about Patrick.
He was a science experiment. During college, I remembered Isaac as a brilliant-minded man who was very optimistic for the future and all of his goals revolved around making the world a better place. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that he would take his name in fame, but before we graduated I had noticed something had changed about him. His smile wasn't genuine anymore, it looked cynical.
I kept in touch with Isaac, but as I lost contact with him I decided to investigate on his whereabouts. That is when I found out about the experiments and Isaac's motives. I tried convincing him to stop. That what he was doing was disastrous and will not make a better world, but he just smiled at me and said,
"See that's the difference between you and I, you don't know everything, but I do."
It was already too late, PK-Agent 230 was created. He was a human who had opened up a sixth sense and was able to use pyschokinesis, only a theory in the parapsychology world but had finally came to life. His strongest psychokinetic trait was telekinesis, but with improvement and growth to his abilities he would be able to levitate himself, exhibit pyrokinesis and cryokinesis, influencing the probability in events, biologically heal himself, phase through matter, and more.
But Isaac wanted to use him for other purposes to "better the world," it was this ability PK-Agent 230 had which was able to tear things apart molecule by molecule. The last I heard about Isaac was that PK-Agent 230 had escaped and made a new identity, Patrick. After finding out that Patrick had escaped I kept a close eye on him with the help from the CIA.
Now here I am, finally meeting Patrick in person. Isaac had believed that Patrick was destined to be the final destruction of mankind, but I knew Patrick was destined to protect it
Region: USA::Ca::Modesto
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: a young Joseph Gordon
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Username: juvelaobi
Title: My NaNoWriMo Project
Genre: anything and everything
Synopsis: November is comprised of thirty days where thousands of people around the world subject themselves to a blissful obsession with words, a panic-inducing race with the clock, and lots and lots of caffeine. This journal-style book delves into the chaos of word-count goals, rebellious characters, forgotten plot twists, and (hopefully) that unforgettable moment of "I DID IT!!!"
Region: USA-Colorado Springs
Actress: ...One who can portray a wide range of emotional states, from frantic, to ecstatic, to drained, etc.
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User name: Frozbie
Title: The Great Scottish Land Grab
Genre: Mainstream fiction
Synopsis: Ninety percent of Scotland is owned by foreign land owners: Arabs, Americans and Japanese.
Who decided the land could be sold? Under what rights can anyone who neither lives in Scotland, nor contributes to Scottish society ever claim long term ownership of the land?
In The Great Scottish Land Grab, one man begins to fight for Scotland's people to regain control of their land.
Centuries of tradition are about to be overturned but is this an impossible dream? One doomed to failure? Join the struggle as Scotland as a nation decides it wants its land back...
Region: Europe :: Scotland :: Glasgow and West
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Liam Neeson
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I would buy multiple copies of this story. America, my home, has also been sold to foreign interests so I empathize.
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I want to read it, I want to see it on screen and I want to make little babies with this book. Officially.
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This sounds great.
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This is a placeholder for the greatest synopsis on earth. Once my Wrimos and I have put it together, it will sparkle so much you'll need sunglasses to look at it. So far though, it's:
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will be voted on within the next seven days
work-in-progress
Austria
The Invisible Man
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User name: Spleenseer
Title: Weeping Mary
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: Dante, Jessie, and Ulysses are typical college drop-outs. They spend their days sharing a loft apartment and just try to live through life on a day-to-day basis, hoping for one day to make a big break. They have big plans for the near future, but a financial tragedy threatens to ruin those plans. In desperation they resort to something vile: they fake a religious miracle in order to scam people out of their money. The "miracle" goes off well, but things quickly turn south, and they are forced to put into question their friendships, their plans for the future, and what religion means to them.
Region: USA: Wisconsin
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I really have no idea; I'm not really up-to-date on actors and actresses. I suppose Micheal Cera for Ulysses, but I'm drawing a blank for Jessie and Dante.
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Seconded!
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This seconding is for "Sweet Confections" by DanyelleFerguson.
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This sounds really interesting!
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User name: Storm
Title: Strays of the Night
Genre: Supernatural/Romance
Synopsis: WereWolves, and Vampires. Two races that used to coexsist peacefully. Now they are at war. The Coast is home of the Vampire clan, the Blacklings; Werewolf Hunters and 1 of the 5 'royal' families of Vampire decended from Dracula. Elliot Blackling and his other half, Daimon, are sent inland quite a ways for training and schooling with his bodyguard, a 9 foot tall Winter Troll named Lewis.
It's Inland where they find a wolf pack, The Night Pack, which openly accepts Vampires and even has a Wolf and Vampire pair dating eachother. This Pack is the home of Ebony Marsh, the 'runt' of 6 children. her 5 elder siblings are highly protective of her, but as the pack accepts Elliot/Daimon and his guardian Lewis, the threads of fate are being woven and a war could start up again at any moment, or with one wrong move.
Region: USA :: Michigan :: Ottawa County-Grand Rapids
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I really don't know. Keeping Track of Actors isn't my thing, but if I gotta put names....
For Lewis - Robbie Coltrane (mostly for the height).
For Elliot/Daimon - Elijah Wood
For Ebony – Aja Bair or Davida Williams
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User name: DanyelleFerguson
Title: Sweet Confections
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: According to Rachel Marconi, chocolate heals all wounds. That and throwing darts at a picture of her ex-boyfriend. Burned by yet another bad relationship, Rachel decides to reprioritize her life, putting her dream to compete on a Food Network Challenge at the top of the list and dating at the bottom crossed out with red Sharpie.
But what’s a girl to do when a certain sexy guy keeps asking her out? Cue in Graydon Gretski, a former pro-hockey player turned restaurant owner. After a lot of persistence and humorous teasing, he finally convinces Rachel to commit to a date. Just when things begin to warm up, threatening notes directed at Rachel arrive. When her bakery is vandalized, Graydon’s protective streak goes on red alert. Is it her obsessive ex-boyfriend stalking her? Or maybe a challenger trying to sabotage the competition? Either way, Rachel is definitely going to need some more chocolate—perhaps drizzled over ice cream and devil’s food cake.
Region: Missouri: Kansas City
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Isla Fisher as Rachel Marconi; Vin Diesel as Graydon Gretski
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User name: Haunted_Nefertiti
Title: The Prophecy: Questing for Answers
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Synopsis: The world is now free from the taint of humanity. Terra has recovered from the devastation left after the Rejuvenation. It is now a wild and terribly beautiful landscape full of life, wonder, and magic. Humankind is now scattered across the earth in small bands and villages, fearful of the faeries who have reclaimed their position as the dominate species. A war between the Unseelie Court and the Seelie Court, one that has been raging since the dawn of time, is threatening once more to destroy the delicate balance of Mother Nature. KISA is a half human half faerie mix searching for answers hidden away with her long lost faerie father. She travels in the companionship of Landon, a faerie hound with immense knowledge and patience. Together they will begin a quest to search for Zoll, the diminutive faerie who laid with Kisa’s mortal mother, Meridith. Felix is a half blood living among the humans of Hawk Camp. He too is searching for something. He has been given the task of defending his human neighbors from a curse that has begun to kill their lands and cause their nightmares to become reality. When Kisa comes to Hawk Camp to fulfill a contract to do exactly that, Felix is forced into a situation he has no control over. Delfei is also a half blood living at Hawk Camp. But she seeks an escape. She lives every day with a powerful and terrible secrete, one that could change the fates of Kisa and everyone who comes into contact with her. The Prophet is a mysterious figure lurking in the background of all of Kisa’s misfortunes. He is always one step ahead of her, always moving closer to his ultimate goal. Stopping Kisa from fulfilling The Prophecy circling around the realm of Faerie.
Region: USA :: Washington :: Vancouver
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Milla Jovovich (played Lee Loo in Fifth Element) has all the qualities that I envisioned in Kisa.
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User name: julie.difebo
Title: Chang Chow's and the Zodiac
Genre: "Religious, Spiritual & New Age"
Synopsis: The twelve animal gods of the Chinese Zodiac get together once every few hundred years for a competition to see who can win over a lost soul. This time the Rat has found a man who comes to a dingy chinese take-out restaurant in a shady part of town every day for lunch. Soon the little hole-in-the-wall restaurant becomes the stage for an other-wordly occurrence that only a few humans bother to notice at all.
Region: Pennsylvania: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: The Rat- Tom Waits. The human? Someone unknown and unremarkable; a middle aged asian man.
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second this one. I'd like to read about this restaurant.......
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And I want to see Tom Waits as the Rat!!!!
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voting here to second Chang Chow's and the Yodiac
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'Chang Chow's and the Zodiac' sounds fun I bet the graphic artists could have a field day with this as a book cover. I would like to read this story if it were to be published. Good luck :-)
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like this a lot! Quirky and fun
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wow, thanks everyone! I know I have my fingers crossed :-)
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User name: shazzsaysrawr
Title: About a Boy: A Year in the Life of Alex Scott
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Hi, my name's Alex Scott. I'm your average teenage boy, and until recently my life was pretty normal. The last year's been a bit crazy though. I lost my best friend Danny to suicide, I've battled with bulimia and I finally got Summer to go out for me (she's the girl I've only had a crush on for forever.). It's been pretty hectic. All the while I've been growing, morphing, changing. It seems so surreal, looking back to who I was a year ago. I mean, I look the same but that person is a world away from who I've become. I've been torn down and had to build myself back up from the pieces. I've learned a lot, and it hasn't all been good.
This is my story. It's not always a happy one, but then again, life isn't always happy.
Region: Europe :: Northern Ireland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I'm not sure, maybe Logan Lerman
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User name:
Title: The Dystopian Paperboy
Genre: Sci-fi
Synopsis:
A ruined world.
Fire in the streets, blood in the sky, and things you would no longer call human prowling in the shadows.
All caused by a newspaper.
They say there was something hidden, in the final edition of "The Rich and Wealthy". One copy printed, no copies sold. What could be in that paper though? Some say money, some say power, and some (the stupid) say love.
Paperboys. That's not their real title, but as an ilegal organization, they don't have many real titles, apart from outlaw, or fugitive.
They deliver packages no-one else is willing to. Riding across the broken landscape of a once beautiful world, they are the only communication left with the rest of the world.
And they know it.
Soon though, everything will be changing.
Region:
UK::London
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Elijah Wood
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Sounds very interesting. I'd love to read it when it's been published. Seconding! :)
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User name: CCNim
Title: Shifter
Genre: Supernatural/Fantasy/Erotica
Synopsis: A story revolving around a young man, Kilian Harkin, who discovers that the very species he hates, is the one he belongs to. Follow him on his journey over the ‘Mississippi Wall’ and into the heart of his new Alpha.
'From goofy smiles to a noble knight, Madden Aelius seemed a perfect catch.
So I, being the wonderful pessimist that I am, immediately knew there was something very, very wrong with him. Like his obvious fascination with lycans.'
Region: USA:: North Carolina
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I'm not sure about actors, but there are two models in particular that I used as inspiration for the main character and his love interest. Bernardo Velasco and Lasse Pedersen.
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GIMME! GIMME!! GIMME!!! Can you tell that I'm looking forward to checking this out? lol
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You are too sweet! I'm going to find yours now. And don't tempt me to send you teasing snippets of what I have planned!
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User name: plastic.santa
Title: Speed Trapped
Genre: Thriller/suspense/crime
Synopsis: A small-town police officer is going nowhere fast as he spends his nights speed gunning cars on the state highway that divides his tiny city in two. After his cousin's body is found in a shallow grave under his back porch, he must put his job and his life on the line to avenge her death and clean up a drugs- and corruption-plagued town.
Region: Arkansas/Fayetteville:NWA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Charlie Sheen
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User Name: TapaidhNaomh
Title: Ether Dreams
Genre: Noir/Mystery/Thriller
Synopsis: Gavin Marx wanted to be a police detective. Gavin Marx walked his beat and paid his dues. It all seemed so easy, until the day Danny Mulligan put a .22 caliber round through Marx's skull and landed him in a coma.
A year later Marx is back on his feet, but off the force due to the side effects of taking one to the brain. Shaky hands. Hallucinations. Nervous ticks. And he never falls asleep.
Still, a private eye who never sleeps is a big selling point, and his private practice is going well until the day a sharp-dressed man with a homemade watch asks him for his help tailing a beautiful woman with a dark secret. At the same time a designer drug that only affects the user's dreams is making it's rounds, and before long the sleepless private eye, the unlabeled businessman, and the dreamy dame are all locked up in a nightmare of violence and betrayal.
Region: Washington, DC
Actor: Gavin Marx - Jospeh Gordon-Levitt, or maybe James McAvoy
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Cool noir update! Seconded.
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This seems like it could be pretty epic. Thirded. :)
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User name: Alxa
Title: Sage Sky
Genre: Western
Synopsis: A young man receives a letter addressed to his dead father from the town of Sage Sky in the New Mexico Territory. Among the secrets of the town are one or two belonging to his father and the mother he never knew.
Region: USA :: Arizona :: Phoenix
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Taylor Kitsch
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User name: Trixter
Title: Dream of a Thousand Stars
Genre: Science Fantasy
Synopsis:
Just under three hundred years ago, a research colony and human settlement on the planet Viridia was cut off from the rest of humanity by an event now known as the Silence. With no more trade from other planets, the people of Viridia learned to get by without a stable supply of industrial metals but with abundant agricultural resources and a magic-like planetary life-force called gaia. The colony's research center focused on making the most of available resources, and the colony, called Paolo, thrived for generations separated from the rest of galactic civilization.
Now a discarded research clone named Reynard from the center that has come to be known as Arandee has found something that should not have been buried in Paolo's junkyard: a starship's navigational android unlike any documented pre-Silence technology. As he repairs her he realizes that she holds the key to reuniting Viridia with the rest of humanity - but Arandee is not willing to give up control of the planet so easily.
Region: USA::Ohio::Columbus
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Considering a sad lack of young redheads, I'll just go with Rupert Grint.
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I would read and see that. Very cool.
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In case this reply sprouts legs and climbs down two more posts, this is for Trixter: I would read and see that. Very cool.
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User name: fitzgerald
Title: The Door
Genre: YA dark fantasy
Synopsis: Two sisters, Violet and June, are sent to stay with Crazy Aunt Cora for the summer. Violet discovers a Door in the middle of the woods, seemingly leading to nowhere. But behind the Door she discovers a fantastical world of faeries, goblins, and trolls. There she meets Finnch, a roguish Fae who leads her into an exciting adventure. But when Jane is stolen to pay Finnch's debt, Violet has to go back through the Door to rescue her sister, and suddenly sees the very dark side of the world behind the Door. Violet must find courage she never knew she had to survive in this dark world and rescue her sister from the labyrinthine prison in which she resides.
Region: USA: Virginia: Shenandoah Valley
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Probably Georgie Henley, Lucy Pevensie in Chronicles of Narnia
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User name: Emperorgame
Title: Solar Discourse
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis:The Human race has expanded beyond Earth, with many major settlements on nearly every planet with Saturn and Jupiter the only exceptions. Many small colonies have also been established within various asteroids and moons. The Earth itself has become a collective of nations working together to fund expansion across the solar system. Large corporations have also joint funded establishing settlements, with the colony of Hermes on Mercury being the best example of their potential dominance.
Jericho Peirce is a medic on board the state of the art research and exploration vessel North Star. Born on the Moon and raised traveling with his parents aboard a spacecraft for most of his life, Jericho easily picked up many of the skills required for space life as well as learning the harsh realities of humanity's expansion beyond Earth. When the North Star's field doctor is killed during an excursion to investigate the loss of contact with a Colony Ship set to establish the first colony on Saturn, Jericho's experience and expertise leads him to being promoted to the new field doctor. With the question of where the colony ship disappeared to, and what exactly caused the disappearance, still undiscovered it becomes the mission of the North Star, its crew, and Expedition Team to uncover this and other secrets that lurk through the solar system...and beyond.
Region: USA :: Tennessee :: Knoxville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I am honestly not all that sure who would play Jericho. Maybe Alan Tudyk (Wash on Firefly)? I haven't fully thought out his character yet.
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User Name: kcrisman
Title: Something or Other
Genre: Literary Magical Realism Humor
Synopsis: While vicious dog attacks dominate the local news, an aged detective solves an ill-defined mystery while residing in a run-down motel. The motel's owner, sleepy Ahab, forces the guests to clean their own rooms with a staff of clones of the Baader-Meinhof gang.
Region: Undetermined
The actor: Harrison Ford
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User name: fParkyr
Title: The Weeping Year
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Have you ever lost the one you love? Have you ever lost the one you love to magic?
It was six months before Lillia began to believe that Michealis was no longer who he used to be. The man she had once admired and loved was lost in the demon who had taken over. Now her long-time friend, Jonathan, was urging her to kill him—to save the world, he said. But she wanted to believe that Michealis was still in there, trapped somewhere beneath the surface, trying as hard as he could to get back to her.
It was at the eight month mark that war encompassed the life she had known.
A whole year had passed before she decided to end it.
Region: USA::Florida, Orlando.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Holland Roden would be my top pick for Lillia.
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This sounds like it could be very good. Seconded!
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User name: Robyn Pierce
Title: The Masquerade
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Synopsis:The bored Prince, Lazarus Lanistter, hates the idea of the ball his father is throwing. He does not wish to be married at such a young age – really, he is only a couple hundred years old! – and would prefer to not be forced to make such an important decision, anyway. When he called Chastity back, it was not with the intention of making her his bride, but somehow, the thought enters his mind… But things become tangled and twisted as devious plots are uncovered during this Masquerade.
The banished seamstress, Chastity West, returns to Lanistter castle in America for the grand event to take place there. She has been called back by her former boss, the Prince, for an unknown mission, and must keep her intent a secret from her best friend, Marie. There are strange things afoot at the vampire castle, and Lazarus is entrusting Chastity to the task of making sure his sister is safe…
Darius Hassanpour. Princess Marie’s best [male] friend. He has never been liked by Lazarus, or Chastity, but he never cared. As far as he is concerned, they can deal with their problems with him on their own. He has far more important things to worry about. For example, his boss is pressuring him to carry out a mission that has been ten years in the making… But how can Darius complete a mission that would require breaking the trust of someone he cares deeply for?
The vampire Masquerade has begun, and there seem to be shadows watching the royal family’s every move. As for those close to them, they had better look out: someone is after the royal crown, and will kill anyone in their way.
Region: USA :: Nevada :: Las Vegas
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Elizabeth Hurley for Chastity West, William Levy as Lazarus Lanistter, and Orlando Bloom as Darius Hassanpour.
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User name: woodsward
Title: The Diamond Device
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Robin is a disillusioned dancer, determined to leave performing and competing behind forever, and Evan is her ex-rival, determined to prove her worth in the ballet world, even if it means hiring the one person who she could never beat to be her mentor.
Region: USA:: North Carolina
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: For Robin, maybe Rooney Mara. For Evan, Antonia Thomas.
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User name: tomato-greens
Title: The Seawrack Wars
Genre: YA (urban fantasy)
Synopsis: The first time Zee Khalil saw a mermaid scalp for sale, she was ten. Six years later, the mermaid tourist trade is the only thing standing between her small fishing town and subsumption into one of its larger neighbors. Though the town has received some negative press, Zee's never seen a problem––mermaids are legal prey, and traps have come a long way since the first mermaids were netted. She should know, after all; her dad was one of the first fishermen to adopt and promote the new humane policies.
Then his body washes up on shore, wrapped carefully in mermaid hair. All of a sudden, the town is flooded with big city reporters and the governor's being pressured to shut them down. Someone's not following the rules. And Zee plans on finding out who.
Region: Europe::France
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I...I don't know! Not Dakota Fanning (although I'm sure she'd be good at it). An unknown, I think, because I don't know how popular this movie would be with mainstream audiences, but whose performance leads her to bigger and better things.
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I REALLY like this.
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Username: Zephyr Blackheart
Title: Imperfect Paradise
Synopsis: The world as we know it has taken a turn for the worse... people are not just made fun of for being unique anymore...they are being deported...and not across state lines..but to Mars! Trevor Heart and his sister Angelica(aka Angel for short) find this also includes them...as they are sent skyrocketing into an adventure neither one of them could have expected! Imperfect Paradise is the first in a series of books telling the story of Travis and his sister's journey to the twin planets of Dailorn and Darthir each in a race to collect the 10 shards of the Jewel of Eden...for very different reasons! Who will get them first and what will happen when they do?
Region: USA::Idaho::Boise
The Actor who would play main character in movie adaptation: Zac Efron would fit the part perfectly!
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User Name: Argyle Schield
Title: Marigold Man
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: A regular joe named Paul, bureaucrat by day and gardener by other times, discovers the incredible fecundity of marigolds: one plant produces hundreds of seeds, each of which can produce hundreds more. He hatches (or plants) a plan to change (or at least brighten a bit) the world with marigolds. He starts his little revolution solo, planting seeds wherever he can, but soon discovers his noble but (frankly) pathetic efforts barely make a dent. The world is still the useful, practical, prosaic place it has always been. He finds a group of (somewhat) like-minded people who, next planting season, join the quest. The small group, by the third year, becomes almost an army (a word Paul hates because it’s the antithesis of everything marigold), a veritable congregation of marigold planters, determined optimists who only want a world with a dab of color and poetry. His revolution grows to sizes and takes him to places he never dreamed he’d get to, so much so that he almost loses himself and everything he values most in the process.
Region: Northern Virginia
Tom Hanks would play the lead.
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User Name: Jerhansolo
Title: The book of Raven: Descent
Genre: Mythically Endowed Psychological Thriller, re: Jungian Archetypology
Synopsis:
Beware the Shadow thief.
He flaps his blackened wings, and his feathers stir the air; spreading confusion and deceit.
As winter breaks he descends, as a specter, upon the slumbering town of Bryhurst, which had lain dormant for many long winters, alone in blissful silence. There was a reason they had cut themselves off from the world.
As the town celebrates the rite of spring, the shadow evokes his troubled spell, and the Myth awakes renewed. Most are oblivious to the song, but three youths- Kari, Wylan, and Baryn- hear the call, and these heroes find themselves locked in an ancient dance-- a mythic tale that portends tragedy.
The myth is a tale of three brothers. A bear, a wolf and a fox who fight each other for one beauty. Each brother receives both a blessing and a curse, and the raven--the shadow thief, preys upon their weaknesses and jealousies. He promises the ultimate reward, but leads them to their demise.
These newly initiated heros find their lives mirroring the ancient script, and as they fight to discover themselves, they struggle against the myth that shapes their destiny. But they cannot stop, manipulate, or deny the momentum of their fate. Passions rise, and upon these passions, the shadow plays. He extorts the growing rifts within the town, and strives to summon the beast. The hero’s rivalry blossoms as the beast rages. And with each incarnation, the beast grows more subtle and dangerous until he threatens to overwhelm, and tear apart the valley. A book of Sorrows. A book higher love. A book where heroes discover inner meaning, and loose themselves into the archetypal fabric of the ages.
Region: Pacific Islands
Actors: Kari (fox): James Macaby- with red tussled hair
Baryn (Bear): A younger Joaquin Phoenix, with a few more pounds
Wylan (wolf): A brooding, teenage Hugh Jackman
Varis (raven): Any one who could sneak around in a black cloak, and could mix sinister with soothing in their voice would do. Johnny Depp?
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User name: EvieA
Title: Never Me
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
Synopsis: Dacia Depaz had never dealt with anything in her life. She is the youngest in her family and had pretty much lived a carefree life. But her family life changed drastically when she overheard her twin siblings talking one evening. Her oldest sister eloped and her parents were constantly fighting. In a home where life seemed picture perfect to any outsiders, was anything but to those who lived there. Dacia was resolved to be the perfect child that would make her parents proud. The one who would never be the cause of any drama. But she quickly became the one child that would never be noticed.
Region: USA :: Arizona :: Phoenix
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Selena Gomez
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User name: LadyStarlea
Title: The King's Rangers (A Lady Ranger?)
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: In a world of horses, blades and bows in the Kingdom of the king's special forces units collectively called the King's Rangers holds a triple trial tourney to select new members, called the Trial of Threes. But girls are not allowed in the tourney. So what happens when one girl hides her identity and competes in these trials? If she passes will the Rangers change their ways and allow woman into their ranks or will they deny her? And what of the rumor about how some that are listed as passing latter don't join the rangers? Why is that? Why would they get listed as able to join them and then change their minds? And what of the Rumors saying that all Ranger seem to have a strange ability? What is this Ability and how do they come to have it?
At Denten's Academy of Arms boys and girls, starting as young as eight, are taught the skills of war and leadership. Meet Crystal "Crys" Blackstone, the highest rank student of the senior class at the academy and her best friend Jenny "Jen" Caseville. See what happens when these two strong willed young ladies learn of the discrimination against women fighters in the best fighting force in the lands. See what they decide to do about it and see what happens to them as they try and prove that women can sometimes fight as good as any man.
Region: US: Michigan: Ann Arbor
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Well as the main characters are in late teens would have to be young woman new to the action scene. Though if age wasn't an issue Jennifer Garner as Crystal "Crys/Chris" Blackstone and Drew Berrymore playing her best friend Jenny Caseville.
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User name: KittiAutumn
Title: Cirque De Mort
Genre: Fantasy/Dystopian
Synopsis:
There's a circus, a darker one than the others. Most people call it Cirque De Noir, but those who are in it... they call it Cirque De Mort, Circus of Death. Once accepted into the circus, you can't get out. When Annike is accidentally sold to the circus as a piccolo player, she sees the real behind-the-scenes view of Cirque De Mort. There are people sawed in half, acrobats jump off of their bars, people voting on who should be killed next.
Annike and her fellow carnies must find a way out, for people are becoming so desperate to escape that sometimes, their vote is on themselves.
Region: USA: South Carolina : Greenville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm, I'm not much of a movie watcher, but I guess Emma Watson (I'm dreaming, right?)
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User name: Omega 89
Title: The Torturer and the Prostitute
Genre: Horror/sci-fi/comedy
Synopsis: Claret Deep loves her job. Walking the streets of a cold city built upon a drifting asteroid, getting paid for selling her shapely and agile body to men...what more could a girl ask for? One thing's troubling her, though. Where are the other prozzies? Why is she the only one left hanging around on street corners? Her investigations lead her to the twisted lair of insane sadist Grimmbourne Smeeg, and Claret learns that prostitution is a dying trade,,,literally!
Region: Stayn Ivel
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe Kelly Brook or Karen Gillan?
Copyright Cory Eadson, 2011
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User Name: JamesIsTooFormal
Title: Holiday Hospital
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: Shane Addams is a sixteen-year-old train-wreck. He's a drug-addict, a cutter, a shoplifter, and a general ne'er-do-well. When his actions catch up to him and the police get involved, his rich and absent parents send him to Holiday Hospital (a world renowned rehabilitation center/mental institution). The place is impressive enough to begin with. A large, historic building on sprawling acres of Adirondack land. But as soon as Shane's parents leave him in the staff's 'capable' hands, things turn ugly. The therapists are cruel, the treatments are medieval, and punishments are severe. When the therapists try to treat Shane's cutting habit, he is horrified at the abuse he has been subjected to. With the help of his new friends and a love interest, Shane organizes an escape attempt. But the staff doesn’t like it when you try to leave…
Region: Montreal:Canada
Actor: Logan Lerman as Shane
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User name: poiama
Title: Cherry Pies & Gunpowder
Genre: Historical Fiction/LGBTQ
Synopsis: 16 year old George joins the army in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor leaving his 4F boyfriend, Harry behind. After eceiving many care packages always containing a cherry pie the packages stop. It's not until George gets home that he finds out Harry has passed away from Leukemia. The story then follows George's life through the fities and early sixties, when he meets Jack at an anti-war rally only to have Jack drafted to Vietnam.
Region: Massachusetts: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Johnny Depp
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User Name: rightingpassion
Title: Old War, New Beginning
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: It is about a young woman who discovers that she is a magical being from two of the races created by God to help protect and defend mankind from the demons that prey on their souls. She is sent/finds (still working on that one) an ancient book which is the gateway to hell and according to prophecy she is the only one who can both open the gateway AND destory it.
Region: Earth: Lowcountry-SC, Other dimensions will include Heaven and Hell.
The actor/actress who would play my main character in the movie adaptation, hmm....I would have to say Dakota Fanning.
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User name: LadyAislin
Title: Telling the Bees
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Haunted by prophetic dreams, Appalachian twentysomething Rue Strongwall's efforts to escape her past are stymied by family crises. She must choose between the person she thinks she wants to be and the person she was born to be, whether to deny her past and family or to embrace them.
Region: USA: Indiana: Evansville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Not sure, possibly Saoirse Ronan if she can do the right accent.
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User name: Jackpk
Title: Remove
Genre: Young Adult/Youth
Synopsis: It's called the Rebirth program. Take a small country, remove everyone, and reload everything to make it a better place. But during the removal, rumors circulate. What if you don't return after you get taken away>
Jasmine Dosner doesn't want any part of the Rebellion her set friend is urging her to join, but when the Removal process hits home, she decides to help break in to the Containment INstitution and becomes roped into something that could cost her her life.
Region: USA: Missouri: St. Louis
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Probably someone that has never been heard before, but for a famous actor, Ashley Greene perhaps
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User name: khanak_xersahk
Title: The Mage of Darkness
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: The son of a powerful dark mage wants to learn magic, but to prove he is worthy, he must accompany a band of magi into enemy territory to acquire an artifact. The King wishes to use the artifact to defeat the enemy, but the dark mage wants it for himself. The boy mage must cooperate with a group of people who despise his unwelcome but necessary presence. The boy mage learns of the artifact’s true power and how the enemy plans to use it to defeat his people, but he realizes that no one should command its terrible power. Faced with defeat on all fronts, the boy mage makes a choice and unleashes a great, dark power that changes the written fate of both sides.
Region: USA::Missouri::Springfield
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Anthony Hopkins voice would be excellent. His voice is what I invision when I think of that character. I'd prefer the movie be animated rather than live action.
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User name: shana.m
Title: Red Hot (An Alice Maxwell Mystery)
Genre: Murder Mystery
Synopsis: After losing her best friend and roommate in a house fire, Alice grieves her friend and tries to put her life back together as she adapts to living alone in an unfamiliar neighborhood. Not ready to go back to dancing after the West Coast Swing regional debacle, Alice has been lying low. But...murder isn't that far away from Alice and while hiking with a new group of friends (exercise is supposed to help ease stress, right?), they stumble across a body while out on a group hike. The victim is the sister of one of the hiker's boyfriend, and Alice unwittingly finds herself drawn to the mystery of why Laurel was killed and who did it. Even though she was not the intended victim (not like last year...), Alice, yet again, finds herself in danger as she begins uncovering clues and uncovering the identity of the killer.
Region: Seattle!
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Christina Hendricks
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User name: MMcFarlandCreates
Title: The Chronicles of Bryce Year 1: The World Underneath
Genre: Fantasy/ Young Adult
Synopsis: Bryce O'Neil is a sickly 11 year old girl living in Ireland. But when her parents are killed in a tragic accident she is forced to live with her aunt and uncle in Indiana. While the couple are kind Bryce finds herself miserable. Until, one day, while playing in the garden, a small brown rabbit begins to follow Bryce. To her disbelief the animal follows her every move. When she finally decides to bring the rabbit in she sets in on her bed and watches it transform into a young girl. The girl explains that her name is Chess and that she has been sent by her mentor to find a child who will help save their world. Chess thus takes Bryce on a journey to the world beneath ours: Rivier. Now Bryce is on a journey to learn the ways of this strange world in order to help find the long lost prince and save their world and ours from an evil sorcereress. But what happens when her and Chess become entangled in a complex web of secrets?
Region: USA- North Carolina
Actor who would play character in movie adaption: Well she is too old but Kacey Rohl.
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Nominating myself :)
Username: Dr. Strangelove
Title: Once Upon a Time in British Columbia
Genre: Western
Synopsis:
Alice Selma Harvey, a young and strong-willed female bounty hunter, in hopes of improving her reputation, assists an older man (Theodore Levi Cooper) track down the man who paralyzed his right arm, murdered his wife and raped his six year old daughter.
Region: USA: NY: Albany
Actors:
Alice Selma Harvey- Rooney Mara
Theodore Levi Cooper- Phillip Seymour Hoffman
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USER NAME: October Black
TITLE: Elemental
GENRE: Young Adult Urban Fantasy
SYNOPSIS:
The cops called him an Arsonist.
The shrinks called him a Pyromaniac.
The social workers called him a Firebug.
The foster kids called him a Freak.
Tyler called them idiots.
Arsonists needed matches and gasoline to start fires. Tyler just needed to be in a bad mood and his mind did the rest. Tyler had never heard of a Pyromaniac with a body temperature so high that it rivaled a fever. Firebugs couldn’t put their hands into a lit furnace and come out unscathed.
But an Elemental could.
After 15 years of life as an outsider, Tyler is about to discover a home where being a freak is normal. Unfortunately for Tyler, a world where Elementals keep the rest of the supernatural in check will prove to be a far deadlier place to grow up.
REGION: USA - CT - Shoreline
ACTOR WHO WOULD PLAY MAIN CHARACTER: Dylan Minnette
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LOVE this! Best of luck with it! :)
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Thanks so much! I'm really excited to finally write this story. It's been kicking around in my skull since high school. Good luck with your own novel writing endeavors as well :)
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As someone also working on fantasy with feverish fire Elementals (amongst others), I have to second this. :)
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Thanks! I'm happy there's someone else out there working on fantasy that can think beyond vampires and werewolves LOL. I never understood why Elementals weren't more popular. I think they are pretty damned cool :)
Good luck with your feverish fire Elementals as well! When the NaNo peeps (finally) get around to getting the writing buddies section working I'll be sure to add you :)
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Awesome! I was just thinking the same thing. :)
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As someone also working on fantasy with feverish fire elementals, I have to second this. :)
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Ack. I'm not sure how my comment ended up here, and apparently we can't delete our posts. However, Armor of God sounds pretty good too!
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'Elemental' Loving this too, once again a great idea and Tyler sounds like a very strong character. I know from working in a school library this style of book was always popular with teens and adults alike.Good luck:-)
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Thanks so much for the well wishes! Gosh everyone on here is so nice. I'm really happy someone commented about Tyler's character. I had a pretty happy teenage experience so it's a bit of a challenge getting him to sound so disgruntled lol.
I take it as a great compliment that someone who actually knows what's interesting to teens liked the teaser summary. You never know if people are just being nice or if they really have a background with books. I don't think you can get anymore knowledgeable than seeing what books kids check out and which ones collect dust on the shelf. My library card is always checking these types out :)
Thanks again! Good luck with your own work as well! I'll be sure to add you to my buddy list when the NaNo techies get around to getting that up and running again :)
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I'm am already so sucked in by this whole idea and I will be cheering you on. I can't wait to see this one published and then eagerly await the next ones that come after it!
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And ditto to you!!! Loving all this support :) Though if I even think about the sequels my brain will explode lol. One book at a time.
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Love your idea. Love your character. Love your writing.
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Aw! Thanks so much! Good luck with your work too :)
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Got my e-mail this afternoon saying that mine was one of the summaries up for consideration. Thank you all so much for your lovely comments. I have a feeling they helped more than the story description :) Thanks again.
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User Name: naturalred78
Title: Retail Therapy
Genre: Mainstream fiction
Synopsis: Chaos ensues when a group of retail workers have had it with rude customers and a company that only cares about profits, profits, profits. Mara leads the way to prank wars against management and ungrateful customers as she tries to find a way out of a job that just doesn't seem to cut it anymore. When you work in retail for 10 years, you're bound to lose your mind at some point!
Region: USA: Wisconsin: Kenosha/Racine
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone or Anna Faris
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user: Jacobo383
Title: Liberator
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Supnosis: James Thompson, the leader of the king's Elite Guard, the hands of the soverign himself, punishes those who defy the emperor.
Rachel, the leader of the rebellion (all those who poopse the king and his empire) has never tasted bondage, but is willing to risk her life to secure the freedom of others, and seeks revenge for her lost brother.
When they meet on the field of battle, strength against wit, the empire will never be the same
Reigon: USA Las Vegas
The actor who would play your main character in movie adaptation: Russell Crowe
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User name: PurpleStar97
Title: Love At Second Sight
Genre: Romance (Smoochy!)
Synopsis: Soraya Edwards is blissfully happy with her life. She has flaws, her life is NOT perfect, but she finally feels like she's living her life how SHE wants to. Three weeks after she's supposed to be married....her husband-to-be dies in a car crash that wasn't his fault. The only thing for her to do is to seek comfort from her best friend since childhood, Benjamin. Yet, every step she takes towards Ben, makes her feel that she's cheating on Tyler. What can she do?
Region: Europe! England! Kent! The Universe! :P
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I have THREE main characters so here goes!
Tyler: Chris Hemsworth (That guy from Thor!)
Soraya: Emmy Rossum (Christine from The Phantom of the Opera! Dun Dun DUN!!)
Benjamin: Taylor Launter (The werewolf from Twilight, you can't miss him. He's usually shirtless. **dead-pan**)
I hope i done everything correctly there! hehe!
RJ :D
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User name: useyourlove
Title: Love Letters to Vincent Heart
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Paige Parker's cult sci-fi television show "Heart Star" was cancelled without warning and she finds herself working at the local grocery store. When a mysterious man in black walks in and insists she take a ride in his government issue helicopter, she thinks at first it must be a practical joke. But when she ends up installed behind a communications hub in Houston, relaying information from the Starship Destiny to the skeleton NASA night shift in the midst of the first manned mission to Mars, she thinks this is anything but a laughing matter. Especially since it's now her job to converse on a regular basis with her childhood crush, the poster child for space exploration: Jordan Welles. With all communication devices and legal documentation confiscated so as to not run afoul of the national unions (which only allow work from 9-5), Paige essentially no longer exists. As she struggles to come to terms with the implications of being a non-entity, she turns to the only people who will understand her and feed her need for escapism at the same time: the local (and equally illegal) baseball team--The Nasty Astros--and their player-manager Clancey Shaffer.
Region: USA :: North Carolina :: Chapel Hill
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Paige is a Barbara Stanwyck type, Jordan I see as a 1940's John Garfield, Clancey Shaffer is more Gregory Peck or possibly Gary Cooper. And I prove yet again that my film knowledge is temporally limited. Sigh.
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User name: grenouille
Title: Paper Roses
Genre: Literary fiction
Synopsis: Sometimes the things we are looking for are not so far away...
Paloma only knows her parents from one photograph. She‘s spent years fighting to become part of her foster family. She‘s longing for affection, real relationships and attention.Things that are so hard to find in a circus fighting for its own survival...
Meeting a man who knew her mother turns Paloma‘s life upside-down. It‘s the beginning of a long chain of events, of questioning her life‘s values, of the strangest friendship of her life, and of a quest to find out who she really is. Why do a certain gang‘s members recognize her on the street even though she had never seen them before? Why doesn‘t she resemble any of the people in the photograph? And why does the circus‘ owner hate her so much?
Every person she meets opens a new door to the past of her parents. But some doors should stay closed forever...
Region: Europe::France
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Veronica d'Agostino
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User name: chariro66
Title: First Year with Love
Genre: Mainstream fiction
Synopsis: Samantha (Sammy) have wait for so long for her birthday (she is turning 15), but in the day of her birthday nobody say happy birthday to her. She is mad and unhappy, so she runs away from her house. She goes to Alaska and find people who love her and take care of her, but it was not long before her mother take her back home. Sammy is been force to move back with her mom and when she goes back something terrible is waiting for her. Once again she escape from her house but this time she takes her two little sisters with her. Everyone is looking for her and her sisters, finally Sammy remember where she went the last time she run from home. They find the place and a old lady adopt them. They live happy and safe, their mother try to ruin their life but fail to do so.
Region: U.S.A: Alaska
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: hmmmmm.........I think it could be Selena Gomez for Samantha
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User name: SometimesIWish
Title: Designing Love
Genre: Modern Fiction
Synopsis: After the death of her fiancée, Leann buries herself in her work: creating the perfect dresses for the perfect brides. But when Callie waltzes into her life, her world is turned upside-down. Leann finds herself enchanted with the quirky, dancing bride-to-be, and falling head-over-heels in love with her. She struggles to let go of her dead fiancée, to come to terms with her feelings for Callie, and to make the perfect dress for the woman with whom she has fallen in love.
Region: USA::New York::Buffalo
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: Natalie Portman
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User name: melania_3000 (I think...)
Title: (provisional) Just... perfect!
Genre: some satire, some humour and some parody...
Synopsis: A non-perfectionist gets a job in an all perfectionist environment. All hell breaks loose...
Region: Central & Eastern Europe, Romania
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I'll let the buyer of the rights decide...
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User name: Laughing-Mockingbird
Title: Of All the Ways to Die
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Imagine a world...
...where the rapists who stalk naive blondes down ominously shadowy alleys are not men, but incubi and succubi.
...where children are snatched from their beds by ravening wendigos or tricked into following a smirking, sadistic shapeshifter to a fate they cannot even imagine.
...where humans stumble obliviously through their lives, never knowing that they dance on strings pulled by an unknowable power.
...that is about to end.
The incubus Izaiah Cassius and his lover, the shapeshifter Leo Marcellus, have spent two hundred years preparing for a singular event: the birth of the child who will save the world...or destroy it. But mere hours after the Antichrist is born, Izaiah's father slaughters the parents and carries the child to the smoky depths of Hell, where he can raise the child to lead an army of sinners and demons against his enemies. If Izaiah and Leo can't stop Jacobin, the world will soon be set afire and washed away in a sea of ashes.
But suppose they could stop Izaiah's father. It would be difficult. Dangerous. It would require the help of a young succubus, the dangerous vigilante Alexandra Tannison, and her human half-brother Cooper. The four heroes would have to follow Jacobin into Hell, braving horrors the world has never seen so the world would never have the chance to see them.
What's life without a little adventure?
Region: USA: Michigan: Upper Peninsula
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Misha Collins.
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User name: erinnovelist
Title:
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: Sutton December knew that his father couldn't be serious. After all, life wasn't based off of a lame, romantic novel by Nicholas Sparks. There had to be a catch in this plot she had been written into. Who was serious about hiring someone to be his son's fake girlfriend?
However, the plan seemed easy enough. Pretend to fall madly in love with this boy; let him fall madly in love with her; earn five hundred thousand dollars; break up with him after the holidays. As long as this boy was dumped by [i]her[/i] it was fine.
That’s how it was supposed to be, of course. But, just like the book, there’s always a plot twist
Region: North America: United States: Nebraska
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Alexandra Chando
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This isn't my story, but I think it deserves nomination - the synopsis is short but luring.....
User name: Guen
Title: Penchance
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Ian Knochenmus isn't like other guys. He’s part of a huge, multiplayer, multinational game called Penchance, where getting the right cards is only half the battle. There’s also a little rule about never using mechanical transport. And did we mention the one about never bringing non-players into the game? But Chance herself isn’t that affectionate. Players are always after the perfect hand, be it their own or that of someone else. To stay alive, keep in the game, and maybe win a boatload of cash, you have to keep your wits –and your cards- about you. Blackmail, death threats, stalkers and professional killers are all part of the game.
Region: N/A?
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sean Bean
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Ahhhh! Tell me when you do these things!! :< (Note: Sorry for re-post!! Although that one has the new and improved Synopsis. Um.)
...and how did you guess Sean Bean?...
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User name: GuitarEyez
Title: Stealing Love
Genre: Suspense
Synopsis:
After losing their parents in a car accident, brother and sister, Quinn and Skylar are left to fend for themselves. With no money left behind and the bills piling up, Quinn took to the streets to make money stealing cars. Without knowing, Quinn stole a car that belonged to a member of one of the worst gangs in the area, which in return cost him his life.
Now left all alone, Skylar became reckless and out of control. Using the skills Quinn taught her, she followed in his footsteps and started stealing cars. Through the barrage of broken laws, stolen cars, drugs, and meaningless sex with random women, Skylar's only real escape was her love for photography.
After a chance encounter at a new photography store with Addison, a straight edge college girl that played by the rules and could do no wrong, Skylar began to question her reckless lifestyle.
Addison knew just from looking at her that Skylar was trouble. As much as she was drawn to her, she knew nothing could ever be, because of who she was.
Skylar wanted to pursue Addison with pure intentions and needed to change her ways. After trying her hardest to live a normal life, Skylar's street life past seemed to keep coming back to haunt her.
With her hardest decision yet to make, Skylar must choose between her new love and finding her brothers murderer for the closure she so desperately needs.
Which will she decide?
Region: Seattle, WA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Skylar - Ruta Gedmintas. Addison - Mandy Musgrave
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User name: A. E. Killingsworth
Title: The Cemetery Keeper
Genre: Paranormal/Mystery
Synopsis:
Emma Eaves is a struggling photographer in Atlanta when she learns of her great-aunt's death. To her surprise, she's been left a crumbling old home in a rural Alabama town, as well as a small fortune. The only stipulation is that she must live in the creepy farmhouse for a year before she can sell the home and claim her money.
She reluctantly puts her life on hold to move to Alabama, and as she begins to repair the old home she uncovers a small family cemetery hidden by years of growth. When she begins questioning locals about the family she never knew, a stranger shows up, a man who knows an awful lot about the dark dreams that have visited Emma ever since she moved into the house. What's more, he hints at a sinister family secret, one that will soon arise if Emma can't protect the cemetery from an approaching enemy.
When dark apparitions begin appearing in her photos, Emma knows that the danger is near. But can she trust this mysterious stranger to help her fight an enemy she's never even met?
Region: USA: Alabama: Montgomery
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I can't think of someone off the top of my head, but it'd have to be someone fresh, young, and with a good dose of real talent.
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User name: Adifferentdrum
Title: Darkmore
Genre: Paranormal Erotic Romance
Synopsis:
When the Category 5 Hurricane Gerda decimates Port Isabel, Texas the locals are not the only ones left with the shattered timbers of their lives. Just twenty miles to the southeast and beyond human comprehension but not immune to the wrath of mother nature, the vampire city Darkmore lies in exposed ruin. Among the dead is Darkmore’s King Louis Marate, and the city is in a panic.
Like the humans in Port Isabel, their crucial needs are compromised. Food, shelter, and safety are all mandatory, but unlike their human neighbors, no emergency aid is coming.
Decades pass of Darkmore making do with what they have, and what they have is very little. In memory of the deceased Louis, his daughter Sevon has ascended the throne as a cruel tyrant. The nobles and royal houses live in passable comfort while the commoners struggle and scrounge for their very existence. They are all merely surviving, and Sevon must save her people or risk losing her crown or worse her fangs.
Sevon and her council conspire to invade the shifter refuge of Priagust and take the well protected city as their new home. Sevon vows she will usher in a new era for Darkmore and her dying people under any means necessary. The vampires will live even if that means crushing a civilization.
When Sevon’s armigers capture a native from Priagust, a shifter named Jack, he claims he merely wanted to see with his own eyes who would dare tarnish Louis Marate’s good name. He wanted to meet those responsible for the assassination of the good king that protected them.
More than anything, Jack wants to spit in the eye and piss on the grave of Darkmore’s new queen for grinding it into the dust.
Sevon is not only insulted but intrigued. Who is this little maggot to presume he knew her father? Sevon will drag the truth out of Jack one way or the other, bit by bit, finger by finger, tooth by tooth, eye by eye…
Queen Sevon Marate does not tolerate secrets.
Region: Florida::Northwest
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: If she had kept her long hair (like in my user icon) Emily Maynard, the 'winner' of Brad Womack's season of the Bachelor would be perfect for Sevon. For Jack, I always see Hizumi, the lead singer of the Japanese Rock band Desparis Ray.
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User name: olive_fruit
Title: The Masquerade of 1000 Days
Genre: Steampunk/Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Emilia Halladay solemnly swore that she had nothing to do with the war between the Grand Sir and the street sweepers.
Emilia Halladay was also a notorious liar.
An underground resistance group, two sisters, and a copper pistol all play pivotal roles in this alternate-reality, steampunk take on 19th century England, where identities are best kept hidden and love, avoided.
Region: Canada:: Ontario:: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Elle Fanning. With brown hair.
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Username: norilifikous
Title: Sojourn
Genre: Fantasy (with colorful splatters of action/adventure, romance, and mild horror)
Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Lily Pembroke has never really figured out who she is or where she belongs in the world, and now she's done what her father always feared she would: discovered Izaderra, the world she was born in. Finding friends she's never had, meeting creatures she always thought were invented by her father, and exploring a whole new world, Lily feels like she finally belongs... until she discovers that Izaderra isn't as wonderful as it seems.
Izaderra is inhabited by five clans of people who possess powers to command air, fire, earth, water, light, or dark; however, there is severe injustice against the people who don't exhibit any powers, like Lily. Safe from persecution only until she turns 18, the age at which she will receive her full power inheritance if she has any, Lily desperately devotes herself to identifying how she transported herself to Izaderra in the first place—a feat she realizes she shouldn't have been able to do without some power—and how to do it again. Before she learns anything, Lily is pursued by the Sepherid, the fire clan that stole control from the others through sheer determination and blood-thirsty violence. But they seem to want more from her than what meets the eye...
Region: Vancouver, WA U.S.A.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: While I would prefer a new actor to grow and gain maturity and a sense of independence along with my main character, Ellen Page would basically be perfect (maybe with a mix of a younger Evan Rachel Wood).
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User name: AmyB
Title: Steam Sorceress
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: Lady Serena has it all, money, parents who are society leaders as well as being the Lord And Lady High Paladin on the Lowlands Republic. She has wonderful friends, and is skilled at school in making clockwork jewellery. At a hunt, one of her suitors, pays particular attention, and as her parents approve of Malken, she forwards the acquaintance, despite misgivings. They attend a ball not long after, where she meets another young man, who fascinates her. He's not like the others, interested in all the new steam machines and clockwork devices and having the heads of magical creatures hung on their walls. He's just like the young man she dreams about night after night in her sleep. They talk, and later in the evening, share a kiss.
And that's where it all goes wrong.
Because what Serena has no way of knowing is that she's from a bloodline steeped in magic, in a republic where being a mage is punishable by death. The kiss awoke the spark within her, and as she strugles to hide it, struggles to control it, her parents find out. By chance, Serena overhears them discussing how to kill her so that their reputations will remain untarnished. Who can she go to to get help? The only person who can help her is the woman she's been taught to regard as her enemy. Will the woman and her nephew, the boy who set everything in motion help her escape? Or will the fanatic suitor who also knows her secret get to her first and seal her fate?
Region: Europe :: England :: Oxfordshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Michelle Dockery
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This sounds really intense! Would love to read what you have so far, and I definetly hope that you get published, because you have hooked me already.
Best of Luck!
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This sounds fabulous! Best of luck!
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Username: Erebus
Title: The Resistance
Genre: Adventure
Synopsis: Alucion Recardio randomly shows up one day on the steps of a school called The Academy. The Academy takes in and trains elementals, or people with power over a certain element. Alucion controls the shadows. Not one single person knows why Alucion is there, except Alucion himself. Alucion is planning to destroy The Academy and all of it's followers. Throughout his time at The Academy, Alucion befriends ten outcasts. He later takes these individuals and they leave The Academy and form a rouge group called The Resistance. Alucion trains them all and they go and fight The Academy. But, before they can, The Resistance learn of a new threat. There is a world parallel to the one they know. In this world, there are creatures of shadow, with intentions of destroying Alucion's. After learning this, Alucion and The Resistance go out on a quest to find the 6 blades of power and destroy the shadows. But the shadows cannot be destroyed. The Resistance fights and fights, but there is no end to the evil things. In the end, Alucion makes an ultimate sacrifice to seal them off.
Region: USA :: Alabama :: Auburn
The actor that would play my main character in a movie adaptation: hmm... i would probably play Alucion, considering he is based off of me.
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User Name: Writers_Bloc
Title: Anachronism
Genre: Satire, Humor & Parody
Synopsis:
Castles next to confectionaries. Salons across from saloons. Where pandas hire attorneys, PI's track down princesses, and it's a rule of thumb never to leave the house without some anti-mutant spray.
Welcome to Anachronism.
At the heart of this hodgepodge world is The Blank Page, the bar where all characters are welcome and all bets are off, since that is where most creatures and cretins learn the bludgeoning truth: the authors of each of their novels have hit Writer's Block, and until the Block is cleared, they're stuck in limbo. In hell. In Anachronism.
Along for the ride is Lit, one of those exceedingly rare characters who has lived in Anachronism as far back as the pages turn. While tending bar and watching the people come and go and empires cease daily, he spends time snitching to a fellow 'Chronie, Derring, the head of an exhausted police force that shoulders the ridiculous task of keeping peace amongst the pandemonium.
The hapless new arrivals can't help but wonder--is there any plot to all this chaos? Lit suspects there might be; all it takes is a little reading into.
Region: USA :: Massachusetts :: Elsewhere
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Someone who's good with sarcasm, and preferably lesser known than someone like Ryan Reynolds.
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LMBO! Would really love to read this one!
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sorry - don't know how this ended up here! this was intended for another nomination.
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LMBO! Would really love to read this one!
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Still in the wrong place. this is for Anachronism
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Wow! Very tight. I think my vote is in!
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User name: TarnishedHearts
Title: Immortal: In Moonlight
Genre: Modern Fantasy / New Adult (Higher Brackets of YA)
Synopsis:
Immortality is not always a gift, especially when it is in the form of reincarnation. A Soul remembers its past and the body must learn from its memories. Only these memories will stop history from repeating itself.
They say that these memories are to be treasured.
What happens when you remember things that seem entirely impossible? What if, you are remembering each and every one of your deaths?
To save the world from imminent armageddon, our heroine must remember every past life she has experienced so that she does not make the same mistakes again.
Even the Immortal cannot survive the true death that awaits the world.
The Unseelie corrupts one while the Seelie saves another. Each a half of the whole, can they survive their brutal transformations?
*note* this is NOT a vampire novel...
Region: Canada :: Ontario :: Brantford-Norfolk
The actor who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaptation:
Molly Ackmore played by Cate Blanchet, or any young looking redhead female*
Caine played by joe manganiello or someone similar*
Dante played by Keanu Reaves(like the Matrix)
Jaylah played by Eliza Dushku (DollHouse) or Cote de Pablo (Ziva from NCIS) or someone similar
Adonis played by Jake Gyllenhaal
*most important main characters
Visions of Iris
User name: WittyandorIronic
Title: Visions of Iris
Genre: Steampunk/Science Fiction
Synopsis: Aboard her modified Gazer Class Zeppelin, Sky Captain Evangeline "Mickey" McGlynn leads her small crew on easy, mostly legal cargo runs across the In Between, the rustic, lawless land between the Iris-strangled coasts of North America. She mostly tries to avoid notice, especially from the super computer Iris who controls everything connected to the electrical grid and forces the population into submission with technical manipulation and Enforcers. A debt leads Mickey to take on her most hated type of cargo, passengers, and she plays pilot to Cyrus Lockehart's gentleman adventure until he leads her ship and crew into danger and trouble. Caught up in treason and coercion, Mickey and Cyrus encounter steam powered tinkers, underworld hackers, and most disturbingly - high society. As they work to foil Iris's sinister plans, it seems like they are following someone's script, but who?
Region: USA:: Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Mickey = Jessica Alba; Cyrus = Gerard Butler
(More back story) Iris was created to end WWIII when humans nearly annihilated themselves. Now, Iris's iron fisted control has forced a regression in public conduct to Victorian standards, but private lives are more wild then ever. In order to elude her control the tinkers have embarked on steam-powered tools and nano-mechanics, while the hackers try to outmaneuver and outsmart her. The Technocracy exploit their influence and power, according to their proximity to Iris. Most people just try to stay out of her Enforcer's way. But is Iris the enemy, or those that would kill to protect their privilege? (It is Steampunk meets post-apocalyptic Eagle Eye.)
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User name: Glowininja
Title: Version 1.9
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis: In the year 3007, the Earth was dying. Great measures were taken to thwart the exhaustion of natural resources upon the planet. One of the measures which was put into place, was a quick way to desalinate water for the masses. After a few months, a sickness spread from the desalinated water, which caused the victims to have significant brain and nerve damage, as well as an acceleration in the "need" to consume food. With the brain and nerve damage, this hunger was dangerous.
While this didn't infect every human who tasted the water, the percentage was high enough to cause panic.
It is now the year 3011. Humans have moved off of Earth so the restoration process can go unhindered. The damaged humans still roam outside of the terraforming colonies, in hopes that time will heal the damage.
In one of the colonies, however, one particular lab is not committed to making the grass grow tall, nor the air smell fresh. Their goal is to rebuild the unpeople into functional humans once more. Their latest subject has been treated with version 1.9 of their methods. He's the first who can speak, think, and function. But a stutter and some strange brain activity alert the scientists that he may be close...but he may still not quite be considered human.
Region: USA :: California :: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sam Huntington (would play the guy who's "not quite human" - aka the lead)
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User name: krazeyk68
Title: Armor of God: The Orphan
Genre: Religious Fantasy/Adventure
Synopsis: In a world that has outlawed Bibles, religions and diversity in general, a baby girl is given up by her parents to an old religious man. She grows up learning Scripture and how to fight in secret. When she is barely old enough to make it on her own, her guardian gives her his life-long task of finding the Armor or God and with it, saving the world. She must fight the Things and face indifference by the very people she is trying to protect, while sticking to the morals she's been taught. Along the road to finding all the pieces of the Armor, she finds adventure, romance, terrors and herself, but not before having a final showdown with the Things.
Region: USA::Fayetteville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Natalie Portman
(I realize the synopsis is a little random and quite hole-y (no pun intended) but it's still being pieced together in my noggin.)
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I vote for this one. Sounds like a great read and one that will awaken people to the war we all fight.
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User name: clmbr121
Title: Hells Bells
Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Synopsis:
When Hell comes a-knockin' it's time to leave town for a while.
The seals keeping demons from freely entering reality are weakening, and using mortals as hosts, they are beginning their initial push into the world, signalling what may be the beginning of the Final War.
And all Langdon Jeffers wanted was a cappuccino.
Drawn into this supernatural conflict that is raging just beneath most people's awareness (if just barely), Langdon must now figure out why the demon horde has taken a special interest in him, protect his loved ones, and find a way out of Philadelphia before they literally use him to bring back the Watcher.
What's a slacker to do? His mother always said he was special...just never to who.
Region: Philadelphia
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Bodie Olmos
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User name: auroradusk
Title: Frozen Dreams
Genre: YA/Romance
Synopsis: When Dara Harper loses her partner in a horrific accident, she vows to never skate pairs again. It doesn't matter that she is horrible at singles or that her days are lonely. She is determined that Mike will be her only partner, in life and in death. Shea & Sheridan Monroe are the unstoppable brother-sister duo, until illness brings an end to her career. When he finds Dara practicing at his home rink, Shea knows there can be a chance for both their dreams to live on. In a world where risk is everything, will trust survive?
Actress: Lyndsy Fonseca
Actor: Eoin Macken
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User name: Hemlock Key
Title: Paper Girl
Genre: Fantasy (Children)
Synopsis: Brigitte knew all along what she wanted in life--to have an adventure. Her parents, mild-mannered government clerks, have something else in mind.
Brigitte ends up a clerk-apprentice, a job she is quite convinced is the most boring job in Ausberg. To make manners worse, her control over the ink spirits -- the beings which allow ink to dry on the page and letters to be written -- is loose at best, so she's not even very good at a job which should be as simple as breathing.
A chance encounter while following a coworker sends Brigitte's life in a new direction -- but is adventure all it's really cracked up to be?
Region: USA: Ohio
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation? Chloe Moretz I think
Region:
The actor who would play your main character in a movie adaptation:
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User name: Guen
Title: Penchance
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Ian Knochenmus isn't your average guy.
He’s part of a huge, multiplayer, multinational game called Penchance, where getting the right cards is only half the
battle. There’s also a little rule about never using mechanical transport. And did we mention the one about never
bringing non-players into the game?
But Chance herself isn’t that affectionate. Players are always after the perfect hand, be it their own or that of someone
else. To stay alive, keep in the game, and perhaps win a boatload of cash, you have to keep your wits –and your
cards- about you.
Something isn't right, though. Players are missing, hands aren't cashed in, and someone has tampered with the game itself. The wife of a former player, Laura, has discovered the truth about Penchance, and will do anything to stay out of the competition. When Ian crashes unexpectedly into her life, bringing the game and all its dangers with him, Laura is thrown forcibly back into the world she thought that she had escaped.
It's time to show the world that the rules of Penchance aren't what they seem, and the stakes are far, far higher.
Region: USA:: Maine
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sean Bean (think Brendan from Stormy Monday with James' hair from the Dark)
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User name: Kaliena
Title: The Road Back
Genre: Fiction (General although possibly Religious?)
Synopsis: The wife of a Protestant Pastor suffers silently through an abusive marriage until her husband unexpectedly dies, leaving her to deal with her mixed emotions about his death and the raising of her young son. When a new love interest is sparked too soon for anyone's approval, she struggles to determine her own heart and faith in the face of an increasingly hostile congregation.
Region: Northern Virginia USA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Alisen Down http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235888/
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User name: Adele and her Dinosaurs
Title: Fire and Stone
Genre: Fantasy/Science Fiction
Synopsis: When stubborn, intelligent, seemingly emotionless Diggory Janssen wonders away from his class on a trip to the Border Ranges National Park in New South Wales, he stumbles through two 70 million year old Beech Trees which together form a portal to the late Cretaceous Era.
While Diggory is lost in the Dinosaur-infested past he meets Ethene Pena, a girl who has been lost in the Cretaceous Era for almost three months now. Ethene is fiery, ardent and hot-tempered; in almost every way she is Diggory's opposite, but they are forced to work together to survive.
With ferocious dinosaurs on their tail and their feelings towards each other growing, will Diggory and Ethene escape or will this twisted love story have a tragic ending?
Region: Australia :: Melbourne
Actors:
Diggory - Alex Pettyfer
Ethene - A 16 year old Dania Ramirez with frizzier hair.
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User name: lostfairytales
Title: Forgotten Mystic Chronicles: Krys
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: History has a way of repeating itself and the town of Eldon is not different. The whispers of a past that only nightmares are made of slowly spread is this quiet paradise. Talks of faeries and war slip past the guards who attempt to prevent a repeat of a history that the great storyteller forgot to tell.
Krys is just this normal seventeen year old who is interested in hanging out and boys. She has no idea why she keeps having the same dreams over and over again. Or even why when she wakes up screaming only to find out she doesn't remember what the dreams are about.
She must remember for Eldon's sake. She must work hard at figuring what is happening to her and why she blacks out. All of Eldon is in danger and she's the key. She's the only one who can prevent the past from become the present and only one who has the power to prevent a future where humans are slaves once more.
The whispers aren't lies. It's the truth hidden deep within a tale lost that a storyteller never spoke of or as the rumors say lost her life before having the chance to tell.
Region: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Actor/Actress: AnnaSophia Robb or someone that looks similar to her
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Username: daltont
Title: Cafe Americano
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: Lance Venturini has been in the business of confidence tricks for as long as he can remember. But when he accepts a job in Sicily, Italy, his view on the con will be forever changed. After getting in trouble with the Italian Mafia, he will have to con... to save his life.
Region: Michigan: Ann Arbor
Actor that would play my main character: Maybe a dark-haired Leonardo Dicaprio
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Ah, why not? :)
User name: ameskitty
Title: Wing of Light, Cloak of Shadow
Genre: Fantasy (with some Religion, Spritual, & New Age overlap)
Synopsis:
Atalissa thought that everything was right in the kingdom she was soon to rule as a child of the Light. Using the wisdom of the Books, the Clerics worked with the kingdom to ensure an atmosphere that would stomp out any rise of the Maledict, an ancient evil that had been lurking in the shadows since the beginning of time. But one day, when a woman named Dina, sentenced to death for practicing illegal sorcery, is brought to the castle square to be executed, a horde of demons attacks the castle, killing the rulers of the kingdom (Atalissa's parents), and countless others. Atalissa and Irfan, an ambassador from another land, somehow escape with the help of a mysterious white dragon. When they come to they find themselves far away and, to their great surprise, under the care of Dina. The unlikely trio ends up traveling together. In searching for the source of the Maledict's rise, meeting the reluctant Caller of the dragon that saved them, and finding a way to restore the kingdom to its former glory, the three will form unbreakable bonds, discovering things about their world, each other, and their true beliefs that are at once painful and more beautiful than any of them could have ever imagined.
Region: USA :: Iowa :: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: IMDb time! Sienna Guillory for Atalissa, Anna Paquin for Dina, and Richard Madden for Irfan.
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User name: Ellen G
Title: Tears in the Ashes
Genre: YA Thriller (with paranormal aspects)
Synopsis:
16-year-old narcoleptic Melika Hale wakes up in a field beneath Mt. Rainier, covered in blood, with no memory of the past hour. She soon learns that her classmate, Hope Min, has been murdered. But Melika has a closer connection with her than anyone knows. Hope was Melika's first kiss.
Desperate to find the killer, Melika drives the local police crazy with her theories. Meanwhile, Melika's usual sleeplessness-induced hallucinations are getting worse. When Melika dreams a warning from a superstitious former neighbor telling her that the gods have chosen Melika as the pawn in their next reenactment, her search for a culprit takes her into the shelves of folklore.
The more Melika learns about the ancient legends of the Pacific Northwest, and those of her parents' native Hawaii, the more she starts to wonder if the answer lies closer to home. After all, the gods often hurt the ones they loved...
Region: USA::New York City
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: a young Carrie Ann Inaba or Agnes Nalani Lum
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User name: PandaToes
Title: Audrey Powell and the Woodland Council
Genre: YA Fantasy
Synopsis: Everything seems normal when Audrey Powell arrives at Mt. Moosilaukee Prep School in the mountains of New Hampshire for her Freshman year - until the night she discovers that she has the ability to talk to the forest animals. Eagle has gone missing, and the Woodland Council needs her help to find him.
When students start disappearing too, Audrey discovers that the woods are not the only place to fear as she begins to suspect one of her professors of being involved. Embroiled in a life or death game with witches and Wendigos, Audrey must rely only on herself, her best friends Rachel and Jeff, and the animals of the Woodland Council to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Will Audrey defeat the evil that lurks in the West Woods, or will she lose herself along the way?
Region: USA: Tennessee: Nashville
The actor who would play your Main Character in the movie adaptation: Audrey: Hannah Marks, Rachel: Molly C. Quinn, Jeff: Josh Hutcherson
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User name: Callista Aurelia Jensaarai
Title: Home Away, Chinatown
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: After running away from an abusive family, a teenage girl doesn’t know where to go. After wandering lost for days, she finds herself in Chinatown. But this isn’t like any Chinatown she’s ever heard of: the buildings are crumbling, the paint flaking, and hardly anyone walks the streets. This is the Old Chinatown, the first Chinatown, the one that lost its vibrancy, the one that no one remembers, the one that she will come to call her "home away", her real home away from the one she escaped from. The New Chinatown is the bustling and colorful vision she has in her head. But she soon discovers that this place isn’t what it seems to be, and that the people here are more real than any she’s previously met. They take her in, give her an abandoned apartment, and she survives off of their hand-me-downs and the meager tips from occasional customers until she secures a job for herself. As she grows more accustomed to this way of living, she begins to wonder why these people are so different from anyone else she's ever known. And then she realizes that they all have dreams that they hold onto that keep them going. There’s the kind butcher, with the heavenly voice, who dreams of seeing a real opera someday; the girl with the headphones, who wants to dance in a traveling theatre; the maid who wants to be a painter; the old couple who own the sushi restaurant, madly in love with each other, who want to live together and die together; the sculptor at the antiques shop, who wants to be a teacher; the struggling girl who wants to be a writer and actor; the wild little skateboarder who wants to be a doctor; the ancient owner of the souvenir shop with the nimble hands, who wants to be a puppeteer; and of course the boy, whose dream she doesn’t know, but feels that she does, deep in her heart. All of these people and others come together to form a small community, and she wonders why she feels like she doesn’t fit in with them, although they have all welcomed her as family. Then she realizes that she doesn’t hold a dream deep within her. Or maybe she does, and she just isn’t meant to discover it yet, and as they all toil onward, the Old Chinatown begins to regain its previous color and life, and great events occur that may finally put their dreams into motion.
Region: USA: Minnesota: Twin Cities
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Teenage Eliza Dushku
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Doing a little shameless self-promotion, but it would be the highlight of my month (possibly longer) to have a cover designed for my novel by an artist that knows a thing or two about design.
User name: T.A. Olivia
Title: GAWD Machines (Working Title)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Evolution explodes as the 22nd century draws near. Class warfare takes on a new face as lines are resketched according to the measure of individual intelligence. Humanity is on a path toward global civil war as man struggles to survive amongst GAWD Machines.
Region: USA :: Florida :: Brevard County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Viggo Mortensen
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I think I've settled on THE GAWD as my title.
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User name: sarbonn
Title: Buried Memories
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: Jennifer finally forgives Eric after 20 years for betraying her with her best friend Annie. The story works itself backwards in time to 20 years ago, the year after their marriage. Then the book jumps back in time to when Eric and Annie were a couple, and Jennifer was their best friend, slowly working itself forward to the moment when the betrayal took place. The one thing linking all of these events through time is a small tree, planted by Eric and Jennifer, as a testament of the strength of their love.
Region: USA: Michigan, Ottawa County-Grand Rapids
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Tom Hanks
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User name: Rebrites
Title: "The Moorish Whore"
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis: Documents found in the stones of an 11th-century monastery tell the story of Zaida, the daughter of Mu´tamid the Poet-King of Seville, and how she came as a prize of war to the north of Spain. She was kept by King Alfonso VI, the Christian warrior king, as his lover and bride at a monastery where she is hated for her race and religious background. Still, she is the only one of the king´s women to produce a male child. History says she died giving birth, but the documents assembled here by the Moor herself show how Zaida challenged the fates laid out for 11th-century women and brought poetry, plumbing, and compassionate Christianity to a boomtown on the medieval Santiago pilgrimage route -- and eventually gave every ruling family of Europe a blood tie to the Prophet Muhammad.
(Based on a true historical character and setting.)
Region: Spain Castilla y Leon
Actor to play Zaida: Selma Hayek
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User name: roragray
Title: To Save The World Before I Wake
Genre: YA/Fantasy
Synopsis:
An ordinary girl, a protected secret, a world of dreams and the reality that is about to change it all. As Gemma Star wakes up to a world of dreams, she must face a reality that is anything but ordinary. Old friends she just met, a grandmother who seems delusional and legends that become more than a bedtime story all hold the key to discovering who she has always been. Gemma must choose to believe in the dream or awaken to a land that has never been her home. The fate of both worlds depends on the choices of this would be hero, the last of the dream keepers.
Region: USA: Memphis
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I am leaning toward an unknown up and coming young teenage girl. This would be her debut movie. Every young girl I think of comes with a preconceived image to overcome.
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Username: jannes
Title: The Notorious Engine
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: Two college seniors decide to vacate in Uganda for two weeks. While bivouacking through the African vegetation, they discover that there is a high percentage of malaria victims who are unable to afford any kind of medication for the “incurable” disease. After being agitated by the sight of thousands of suffering children, the two students determine to tackle the quest of finding the cure for malaria and bringing it into the medical market. Unfortunately, the business giants of the global economy will not let them start their business for one simple yet flagitious reason: It is illegal to cure the disease.
Martin and Tom encounter the dark secrets, obscure organisations, and evil schemes that lie beneath the one thing that keeps this world going round: Money.
Region: Germany
Actor: Matt Damon (if he was 15 years younger...)
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User name: VirginiaPrewett
Title: The Fey Experiments
Genre: Fantasy/Teen
Synopsis: Lyn grew up knowing that she was going to be in an arranged marriage with a man of her father's choice. She considered herself lucky he didn't tell her to pull together a dowry. Once she is married off to Ethan Sewick, a wealthy man living in a small town, she hears lots of gossip of the many times her suitor has been married and the disappearances of his wives.
Her best friend, River, is determined to investigate the cases. Lyn is certain he couldn't have done anything horrible, he seems very much human to her. Seems completely normal, that is, except he prohibits her from going into the dungeons of the Sewick castle.
He leaves off on a business trip one day, but with River's urging and her own curiosity she eventually opens the dungeons to find the dead bodies of her husband's past wives along with notebooks journaling the experiments he did on them and the results. She also finds that each of his wives were, according to her husband's notes, fey or fairies.
Horrified by the crime Ethan has committed, Lyn has to find a way to reveal him to the world, and a way out of her marriage.
Region: USA::Ohio::Oxford
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A Redhead Kerry Ellis
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Username: emilyyettadenny
Title: Geek
Genre: Humour, Satire.
Synopsis: PJ Pathis, an akward and ordinary High School Senior makes the startling discovery that his ancestors were responsible for some of the biggest breakthroughs in human history. He sets out to find the truth about his family and himself and write the wrongs of his past by writing a book to hopefully land his family name in the history books.
Region: USA::New Jersey
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Um.... Vincent Martella
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User name: Super5454
Title: Death's Rose
Genre: Adventure
Synopsis:The year is 2503, the year when medical advancements reached its peak. All children are now grown in labs with no medical problems. The only problem in this seemingly flawless operation is that the population of what is left of Earth is now raging out of control. To control the size, all residents are executed when they turn eighteen years of age. One week after their eighteenth birthday, they are taken to “the row”, where they are promptly “controlled.” Maxine Adams-Harrison and her group of “rebels” were children born in labs, raised in the masses, and are now eighteen. They are exactly like every other citizen, except for one crucial difference. They aren’t going to “the row” that easily.
Region: USA::Michigan::Other
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Bella Thorne or Emily Browning... Haven't decided between the two of them
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I hate this whole self-praise thing, but a cover would be pretty cool.
User name: holtemore
Title: La Zurda
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis:
In the year 2023 a group of Argentina’s most renowned neurologists, psychologists, and anthropologists directed a study to discover the true nature of handedness. They called it Project Bonaparte, named for the left-handed French leader who arrogantly sought to take over the world. Their hypothesis: Those who are naturally inclined to use their left hand also have a natural inclination to contradict and oppose all forms of restriction, but lack the mental capacity to improve their situation, thereby causing more harm than good. Unfortunately for all left-handed citizens and their loved ones, this hypothesis was proven to be true.
In a world where being left-handed is illegal, a small group of rebels struggle to maintain their identities and rights, in a fight for freedom that may never be won.
Region: USA::California::Central Valley
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Zoe Saldana
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Username: Rosaline924
Title: Paradox
Genre: YA Fantasy
Synopsis: All her life, Fiona Sargon grew up on fairy tales. Not the Grimm Tales or even the Hans Christian Anderson versions, but epic detailed stories told by her grandmother, Mama Lucia. Stories that stayed with her when she returned home to her parents after spending two months of summer with her favorite relative.
Upon learning of her grandmother's sudden and tragic death, Fiona and her family race to Mama Lucia's house, which is deep in the mountains on the edge of a dense forest. When they arrive, they learn that Lucia did not die naturally. When a dark figure appears in the window one night, Fiona follows it , ending up running deeper and deeper into the woods where she discovers an entrance to another land.
An entrance to Geminisa, the land from her childhood stories.
Suddenly trapped and an the hunt for the dark figure, she learns her grandmother's stories were not fairy tales, but rather history lessons on the royal family. Her family. With new knowledge, new friends and a new foe, Fiona must decide if becoming the next in line to rule is her destiny or if her fate lies back in the world where she grew up.
Region: Washington, DC
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Brittany Robertson :)
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User name: cidercupcakes
Title: The Raven And The Wolves
Genre: Young Adult
Synopsis: December, 1810. Anna Thorburn, part of a line of vampire hunters known as Ravens, has never been more unhappy -- that's why she went to the trouble of working that spell in the first place, to take her far away from London. Her chances of an ordinary young lady's life are as dead as her first love (and, like him, they're dead by her own hand), but Anna can still get to someplace where she can't hurt anyone else, where she can hide from what she's done in the name of duty.
But there's a reason the first lesson she learned as a Raven was never to assume things can't get worse. Instead of the empty Ravens' sanctuary in the North Sea she was aiming for, she's in Lisbon, and with the Lines of Torres Vedras keeping Napoleon's forces at bay for the next few months, the city is swarming with redcoats. Trying to lay low is difficult enough when she strikes up a reluctant friendship with an officer who might give her away at any moment. But as spring approaches and she meets a girl with demons of her own to battle, Anna finds that her vow to leave off the business of world-saving is becoming ever harder to keep.
Region: Northern Virginia
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Agonizing over this one myself! I'm thinking Naya Rivera (Glee) or Antonia Thomas (Misfits).
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User name: catindminor
Title: Westfalia
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Lisa's life was going nowhere fast. She dropped out of music school, moved back in with her parents and got a job that barely paid the bills. At 23 she wanted more. After fight with her parents was what finally sent her over the edge. She grabbed the essentials and raced out of town, with no clear cut destination in mind. Only freedom. Except she ended up in a place she didn't think possible. The 1960s.
Region: All across the US. From New York to California.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Uh. Natalie Portman. Why? Because she's awesome
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User name: JLIvan
Title: Give Her to Me
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: Young Morgan leads an unusual life, dragged around the world by her manic-depressive, drug-addicted writer mother. The depths of her suffering are tremendous, but she survives her mother's emotional roller-coaster, her genius father's absence and suicide and her own destructive behaviors to ultimately discover a sort of normalcy in life and love after years of trying to find answers.
Region: USA :: New Jersey :: Central
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Abigail Breslin as the teenage Morgan, Drew Barrymore as the adult Morgan, Meryl Streep as the mother
I would really love to see what kind of cover an artist can come up with for a mainstream fiction novel like mine. I can't imagine it would be easy!
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User name: Domo Kun
Title: Mind (Will be part of a series-- Mind, Body, Spirit)
Genre: Action/Supernatural
Synopsis: 13 year old Amelia "Amy" Laurel is quite annoyed that her mother made her move from her homeland Las Vegas, Nevada to rainy Coquitlam, British Columbia. She is now a student at Delphi Academy, a boarding school for "special students". Amy meets lots of new people, from 2 hot guys, a preppy princess, creepy teachers, a scary Asian to an old man who's awfully familiar.
Then one night, she wanders into a hallway with 5 doors, each engraved with a symbol. It is that night that she discovers that there's a lot about herself that she never knew and a chilling prophecy. As time goes on, people start getting killed at her school. The massaccre goes global, and no one knows the cause of the deaths. Amy and her newfound friends decide to solve this mystery, but when they find the culprit, everyone realizes that the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance....and they will be the ones who decide it.
Region: Canada::Vancouver
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Er....I'm edging towards Hailee Steinfield. Tee hees!!!
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Username: Leialoha
Title: La Mahalo
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: Born and raised on Oahu, Kana was well known and loved as a beach boy and confirmed bachelor with an inconceivable number of past lovers. East meets West and sparks fly when Bruni, a passionate Italian American business woman from Salem, Massachusetts, and a good witch, discovers Honu while vacationing in paradise. Their paths cross when she fulfill's her dance partners promise to check out the swing dance scene and accepts an invitation to dance with swing dancer extrodinaire, Kana. He invites her to Thanksgiving ("La Mahalo", in Hawaiian, literally meaning "the thanks") dinner. A romance blossoms and deepens. The couple commute the 5,000 miles and suffer the 6 hour time difference until they can no longer stand to be physically apart. Kana leaves the island to help Bruni arrange to come back with him to live together for the next 15 years. This is how long he believes he has to live and he promises her every day until the day he dies. A deceit is revealed and tension and struggle follows. Kana doesn't play fair and Bruni has to decide if she was duped from the beginning or if Kana is worthy of her love and trust; can she live with the truth? The introspective Bruni spirals emotionally and physically out of control, losing her compass. Kana is a simple man who has complicated her life by informing her that he fell out of love with her, leaving her with no compass and little hope. She must decide if listening to her heart was a mistake or if leaving him would be the bigger mistake.
Region: Hawaiian Islands
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Username: wynnie.the.poooh
Title: Blur and Fall
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Synopsis: "When the lines blur and fall, people become animals, heaven becomes hell, worlds die in a ball of gas and a single word can mean so much more."
In a world where you are known only by your first name and a serial number, going against the norm is a distant memory in the eyes of parents gone. Instead, you follow the rules, obey the guidelines, and never, ever break curfew.
But six teenagers are desperate to make their mark on the world and change something for the better. Together, they lead their friends into a world of danger and risk, running from a government who don't abide by their own laws and leading a revolution that only the youth of a generation can lead.
Region: Australia:: Melbourne
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: Dianna Agron and Lea Michele, plus any baby girl, similar to Mia Talerico
Re: Official Nomination Thread
User Name: chimorph
Title: Incursive
Genre: Fantasy (very much contemporary fantasy though)
Synopsis: 18 months ago Bill resigned from his senior post in the Security Service (MI5) in protest at what he saw as dangerous experiments in harnessing paranormal forces 'in the national interest'. Feeling stressed and guilt laden at his former life, he takes refuge in a monastery where an old friend from University is the Abbot, and lives a hermit-like existence in a little hut in the grounds.
The story begins when Bill is visited by his former boss from MI5, who brings him the news that what he feared has now come to pass. One of the paranormal experiments seems to have gone badly wrong. Bill is forced to help investigate exactly what is going on. He discovers that his former colleague and lover is confined to a private hospital where she raves about an invasion of malicious beings from another world. The area around the secret facility where she worked is plunged into Arctic like conditions, and the unseasonal snow and ice keeps spreading. Then reports start to come in of sightings of strange creatures, some with terrifying supernatural powers, roaming the highways and byways of Britain.
Bill comes to realise that he must undertake a quest, not only in this world, but in another that he has only ever visited in dreams and imaginings; in order to defeat the forces that threaten to overwhelm the world as we know it.
Region: Europe::England::Bristol & Bath
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: In my head I see Bill as being a bit like Peter Capaldi - though possibly just a little younger.
Re: Official Nomination Thread
User name: FrostPrincess
Title: 100 Ways to Die
Genre: Action/fantasy
Synopsis: In the year 2043, the United States has merged with Canada and Centeral America to form the United Americas. Europe and Asia have merged to become one large country, prepared to bring ultimate devastiation upon their enemies. And their enemy just happens to be the UA. After the war takes a turn for the worse, the government is forced to take average children between the ages of 10 and 18, bring them to the newly formed training camps around the country for one month, before releasing them into the cold, hard frontlines.
Andie Stone and her sister Jane are only two of the fourteen thousand kids at the Los Angeles training camp. Andie is determined to keep her and her sister alive, even if it means risking the lives of other kids. She’s prepared to accept her future as a UA fighter, until an unlikely event changes things at the training camp. When she discovers a twisted plot involving mysterious WonderDrugs and newborn babies, she makes up her mind to escape and figure out what's going on, bringing her sister and three friends along with her. But as she collects more and more information, she uncovers something far more sinister, including a corrupt government with warrants out for her arrest.
Region: United States:: Califonia
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Andie: I'm unsure, although if I absolutely had to pick, I suppose Saorise Ronan (if she had dark brown short hair) would work.
Troy: Logan Lerman
Jane: Rachel Covey
Skylar: Haley Pullos
Kendall: Zane Huett
Re: Official Nomination Thread
USername: whippersnapper
Title: The Mercenary
Genre: Sci Fi
Synopsis: Six large star nations represent the great powers of the future, with hundreds of other smaller nations scattered across the stars. The Forge Region, a cluster of hundreds of worlds, is at the centre of a growing conflict between the Imperium of Perlorth, the People's Republic of Daltar, and the Terran Federation. The Forge itself is home to a collection of pirates, revolutionaries, rebel groups, and mercenaries all looking for a way to profit from the coming conflict. Enter Captain Scott Flynn, former soldier, leader of the Gryphon Mercenary Corporation, and in a position to decide the fate of the Forge through his actions.
Actor who would play the character: Sean Bean
Re: Official Nomination Thread
sorry and my region is ottawa, Canada
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User name: AeronwyDiobhell
Title: The Croceus Turris (The Yellow Tower)
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Magi once freely walked the kingdom of Patrienne, until their King, maddened by his own untamed powers, waged a war on their kind for 150 years.
Nearly 1,000 years later, magic is slowly returning to a world much changed. A once united land has been splintered. The Towers that had trained the Magi are left to the callous mercies of nature. Those who try to restore their Towers are answered by the army of King Gouel.
In the kingdom of Chataigier, Lady Juliana Clarke has convinced her cousin to reopen the Croceus Tower, guided by her own blossoming ability to See the future. She has begun training a few students, sent to her by parents desperate to protect their children, including her own son and daughter.
Lady Clarke knows it’s a race against time. Can she understand the tomes written by teachers over ten generations ago and train these children before the war she foresaw engulfs her home?
Region: USA - Michigan
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Olivia Wilde (with violet contact lenses)
This is a very neat idea and I look forward to seeing the covers for everyone that's lucky enough to win!
Re: Official Nomination Thread
User Name: Olivia Newland
Title: Smog
Genre: Adventure
Synopsis:Monica Beechwood thought her life couldn't get anymore perfect. Great home. Great school. Great friends, absolutely perfect life. Until she recieves the biggest blow any parent could give their child. A year in the incomprehensible wild. No phone, no internet, not even any electricty. Monica must leave her suburbian eutopia for a unknown and miniscule tropical island, inhibitated by only 9 others- Dante- A true to his heritage black kid growing up in the heart of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Camille- possibly the most spoiled girl in all of the world (Not just Paris),Brian- A genius who lacks in social skills but makes up for it with intense wit every time he does speak Jessica- a free spirit who travels the world with her equally unpredictable mother, Sam- the typical country gentleman from Alabama, Amy- The down to earth christian girl that will do anything for anyone, Jonathan- A misunderstood teen who lived the hard life before being adopted. Sarah- Jonathan's twin sister who lived the same way he did, and Austin- The rich kid from L.A. that just might end up stealing Monica's heart. but we never know. Monica may just find something in her life that she did'nt even know she was missing. But the question is, will all of them survive?
Region: U.S.A. :: Michigan
The actor who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaption:
Monica: Saorise Ronan
Jessica:Ariana Grande
Amy: Dakota Fanning
Sarah: Lily Collins
Camille: Abagail Breslin
Sam: Lucas Till
Jon: Drew Roy
Dante: Bobb'e J Thompson
Austin: Anton Yelchin
Brian:Micheal Cera
Re: Official Nomination Thread
User name: Nephelai
Title: Mosaic
Genre: Dystopian Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Two hundred and fifty years after the United Sectors of Peace and Harmony took control of a post-apocalyptic Earth, art has been eradicated from human knowledge and memory. Social castes are strictly enforced and people have been genetically pooled into two groups; Blue-Eyes and Brown-Eyes. Violetta Gregorovich was just your average Blue-Eye, living in the lap of luxury inside one of three City-Domes controlled by the USPH, until one night when she's snatched from her bed and dragged into the barren landscape that once was Earth. Forced to live in the rebel camp, she learns of a deadly secret that her parents had been hiding from her for nineteen years: She's heterochromic.
Region: North America (post-apocalypse)
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmmm...Evan Rachel Wood or Brittany Snow
Re: Official Nomination Thread
User name: Sofia - me
Title: I believe I can fly
Genre: Young novel
Synopsis:
"Name: James Cleveland
Age: 15
Resident in: Boston, USA
Likes: boys
People who know it: none
People he wants to tell: everybody
People he plans on telling until his sixteenth birthday in two weeks: everyone"
Region: Boston, USA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Logan Lerman
Re: Official Nomination Thread
User name: sleevi
Title: The Dead March On
Genre: Sci-Fi
Synopsis:
The dead prey on the living and the Last City is nearly empty, crumbling into the sea. One by one, the residents leave, wandering alone into the desert now that the age of humanity is over.
Kesla joins a mass migration of children, hoping to find a mythical city of humans completely untouched by war, plague or famine: a new Last City. But thousands of miles lay between here and there, to say nothing of the tribes of warring sorcerers, hordes of the feral undead and countless other atrocities intent on finally ending the human race for good.
Region: Iowa: Cedar Rapids
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Asa Butterfield
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2633535/)
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User name: NightBloomer
Title: Tree Climber
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
Synopsis:
Ever since childhood, Jovie has directed her own destiny by daring herself to do the things she wants most, the things she needs most, and sometimes the things that scare her most. When she was younger, she dared herself to climb the tallest trees she could find, to talk to the classmates others avoided, and to keep her parents from knowing she could hear them fighting from her room. Now that she's older, the dares are getting more serious, the stakes higher, the trees taller. These self-initiated challenges always made her feel secure, but when circumstances suddenly force her to look herself clearly in the eyes, she is faced with some things she would rather leave unseen. Will Jovie's dares alone be enough to help her through, or will she be forced to look outward for the strength to grasp the next branch?
Region: USA :: New Hampshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ellen Page
Re: Official Nomination Thread
User name: MyEvilTwin
Title: Bread For Revolution
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Having spent 8 years hiding from the authorities in a secret room, 18 year old Leo is finally let out and allowed to become the baker's new apprentice.
Not knowing he should keep his own creativity in check for the sake of his survival he bakes a different bread than the government approved recipe stipulates. For his own protection he's brought in to join the resistance movement. There he has more innovative ideas.
The bread and his ideas are a success at first but eventually brings down the secret police on him and he no longer knows who to trust in the resistance.
Region: Europe :: Sweden
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Freddie Highmore
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USER NAME: russianfreak373
Title: Theory of Everything
Genre:somewhere along the lines of gothic fiction
Synopsis:
Arlington Nicholas Sterry's only title in life had been the one on his birth certificate.He never was the handsome athlete his brother Georgie was or the saintly child his sister Holly was. No, he was just the dreamer, the kid who ran away to Memphis to study philosophy, a dream he had only truly shared with his grandfather. But when his beloved granddad passes, he leaves Arlington him only a bottle of moonshine and a ticket to NYC with a note on the back telling him to "conquer Babylon for me." After recovering from the hangover induced by his granddads departure gift, Arlington begins to notice he knows more about his loved ones than he should. In fact it seems he knows everything there is to know about them...relationships become strained as Arlington is forced to pretend he doesn't know the deepest darkest secrets of his mother and siblings alike, and ultimately he escapes to New York. But there, surrounded by the world elite the temptation to use his new talent overwhelms his innocence and through a dark and twisted web of extortion and influence Arlington effectively becomes the puppet master. But as his power grows a different side of the timid grad student is unearthed; a side obsessed with control, of those he hates, fears, and loves.
Region:Usa:Alabama
The actor to play my character in the film: Arthur darvill (Arlington) andJames Mcavoy(Georgie) and a side girlfriend character named Fritz (real name Francesca) definitely mary elizabeth instead
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User name: Quo
Title: Iridescent
Genre: Supernatural
Synopsis: There are girls who have it all, everything anybody's ever wanted. But not Ronnie. She was born into a once happy family, until it was consumed by the aftermath of the recession. Her father forced to take job after job until he became the delivery man of a drug dealer. Her mother gave up on the family she once cherished, and has taken up a side of prostitution to survive. She doesn't come home for nights upon end. And Ronnie's little brother grows in this environment that will one day shape him.
Ronnie herself cannot do a single thing to help them. In fact she's dealing with her psychotic stalker that attempts to rape her. She turns to suicide as a last hope to escape, instead she finds him. He offers to change her life, to change it into the life she's always wanted. In exchange? Only for the one thing that's still left, her soul. Ronnie takes the deal and laughs as she plunges herself into the bottom of the river, thinking the man was probably a crazy homeless. Instead as she passes out in the river, moments later she wakes up in a bed overlooking the entire Manhatten. It turns out, her life has changed.
Now she's one of those girls, who has everything and so much more. Veronica ("Ronnie") goes to prep school, her parents are in love and her little brother is fine. But as time goes on Veronica has to learn that even when things turn out the way she wanted them to, it's never the same as she imagined.
Region: China; Shanghai
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A brunette Britt Robertson would be absolutely perfectly for the role of Ronnie.
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User name: jeanie.gordon
Title: The Maskmaker
Genre: Mystery
Synopsis: In a culture where masks are as much a part of a person as their own skin, true identities are concealed, manipulated, and stolen. When fifteen bodies are found dead and maskless within the span of only a few months, the mystery of their deaths goes unsolved and the bodies are never identified. Years later when the Maskless Fifteen are but a grotesque memory, a house is found with a room in which sixteen masks are discovered. Though the murderer had just passed away, the mystery is revived and the nephew of the man who wore the sixteenth mask begins to notice oddities in the deaths of the fifteen and the disappearance of his uncle. He sets out to discover the intentions of the murderer and how exactly his missing uncle is involved. Reaching all the way up through society to the highest class of elites, the ruling monarchy, this mystery brings peril to the young man and all those he seeks out for help.
Region: USA::California::Humboldt County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Eddie Redmayne
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User name: Sarah Fischer
Title: Blocked
Genre: Mainstream Fiction (I think...)
Synopsis: What if your world was populated by the characters who populated the pages of your novels?
A writer in New York, struggling to make ends meet as only a writer, finds in his office a man who looks oddly familiar, Simon. He is the main character in the narrator's unfinished novel, a thirty-five year old secretary who remains a child at heart. The writer runs. Hallucinations aren't good for anyone; he tries to clear his head, ignore Simon and now his other character, Arthur.
But it doesn't work.
As he investigates why his characters have manifested themselves in the flesh, he must work through his own life--his relationships, his job, his writing--and find out what (and who) he is really living for.
Region: USA:: Illinois
The actor who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaptation: Tim Roth as narrator, Michael C. Hall as Simon, Benedict Cumberbatch as Arthur
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User Name: MamaC9176
Title: Not Without his Innocents
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis:
Andrea Pereria, news woman for Channel 10 finds herself covering not only the biggest story of her career, but the biggest story of the year when she is assigned to the murder trial of Andrew Cruz. The only problem, she can't seem to jump on the media bandwagon with everyone else and assume that he is obviously guilty, as all the evidence shows that he isn't.
As she sits through his trial and hears witness after witness declare his innocents. She hears the stories of neglect and abuse that the mother had actually inflicted on her infant son. She hears of back room deals made by the mother made with State Prosecutors so that she could be acquited, and through it all Andrea can't help but to see the obvious flaws in the justice system. Putting her job on the line, she reports on what she feels the true story is in the case, the claiming of this man's innocents just so that someone will serve jail time. Through getting to know him, they fall in love, and must wait for the verdict together, hoping it won't end their romance forever. The verdict, comes back proving everything that Andrea thought the entire time, he wasn't innocent until proven guilty, he was guilty until proven innocent. Sure the State put someone in jail for the crime, but it wasn't without taking the innocents of man who didn't commit it.
Region: Massachusetts - Cape Cod
The Actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption:
FMC - Andrea Perreria - Lyndsy Fonseca
MMC - Andrew Cruz - A scuzzed up James Franco with an additional 30 lbs or so
Re: Official Nomination Thread
User name: Sarah.Bernice
Title: Whitley - The Daughters of Aphrodite Series
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
Synopsis: On the morning of her sixteenth birthday young Whitley Monroe is suprised by the appearance of a well known, and fabled goddess, Nyx. She is a descendant of one of the gods and summoned to the prestiegious halls ontop of Mount Olympus.
She has a choice, attend a year long semester on Mount Olympus and receive immortal life along with with unbelievable power, or renounce her birthright and return to a normal life. Spend a year on Mount Olympus and follow Whitleys every move.
Region: U.S.A. - California -Sacramento
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sara Paxton or Kerti Pahk
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User name: rchambers12331
Title: Soul Jumper
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: I was born just like any other human. I was conceived by a woman and a man, grown in a womb for 9 months. My mother was rushed to the hospital and gave birth to me. I was born in April 20th 1920 and my body died September 4th 1945. My soul on the other hand found a family that was not wanting their 19 year old daughter to die. Their daughter’s soul was ready to move onto heaven…So, my soul took her place. It is 2010 and I am on my 6th body. My soul is 88 years old. I travel from body to body when a family isn't ready to let go of a loved one, but the original soul is. I am a fill-in.
Region: USA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Amanda Serfried
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User name: Sneebazoo
Title: Bearins Foxxe and the Rebels
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, a little horror thrown in here and there.
Synopsis:
"Becky Lockhart's grandmother had said Hitler was bad, this was much, much worse."
It is present day in London, yet it doesn't look like the city that we are used to. A revolution has taken place, Vampires, once merely the creatures of myth have climbed out from the shadows and taken over. Humans are now either kept as slaves, confined in hospital like "farms" or are hiding, waiting for their day to return.
But they can't do it alone, they need a hero, someone who has the strength to overpower the vampires.
Enter Bearins Foxxe, a freedom fighter who, among the vampires, is regarded the best detective in Britain, he harbours a great secret, but will it be more blessing or burden when it comes to leading a revolution?
Region: England, UK
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Foxxe is a sort of mix of some of my favourite characters from TV and novels, He's a sort of Jack Sparrow, Sherlock Holmes Hybrid. I think he would have to be portrayed by an actor with a rugged, yet friendly face, not only because of the "older than he looks" thing, also because he's a bit of an alcoholic. I'm thinking Jim Sturgess or Henry Cavill.
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Username: WerewolfFreak13
Title: Dark Survivors
Genre: Supernatural/Horror
Synopsis:
Pack Comes First.
That's what Lucifer Hohn has been taught all his life.
Lucifer's the middle child in a family of werewolves that are well loved and highly regarded in the pack. He's popular, captain of the football team, beautiful girlfriend. But he knows this world can come crashing down with one little thing, one slip up.
One mistake.
He knows the ledgend of a pack that's not suppose to exist. A pack that if you have a blood line from this pack, they will come for their own. And kill every wolf they find.
Kill or Be Killed
That's what Hollywood Hemming's been raised in.
When Hemming's is forced from her home in midst of a war, she finds a small town that she knows she'll be safe in, where the horror of her once-pack won't touch the brothers she swore to protect. But she doesn't know pack life always finds it's ways into a werewolf's life. And when you've been marked by a pack that will track you down and kill the entire pack, you're never safe, and you'll never get away. Esspecially when you're in the bloodline of the Alpha.
Region: Peoria, Illinois
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Lucifer: Avan Jogia
Hollywood: Victoria Justice
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User name: ekleisch
Title: Ten Words
Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Synopsis:
Joyce Nelson begins her life as an ordinary person until she meets a man who changes her life forever. Together, they descend into a world of lies, deceit, and identity theft. She discovers she is quite good at it -- until one of their victims confronts her and puts her and her family’s lives in danger.
Region: USA: Illinois: McHenry County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm.. I could see someone like Hilary Swank or Jodie Foster playing the main character’s role – someone who could look deceptively timid and ordinary, but who is really calculating and powerful.
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User name: Christine-Frances
Title:The Groac'h of the Isle of Loc
Genre:Fantasy
Synopsis:The Groac’h of the Isle of Loc is a short French fairy tale. This is an embellished and expanded re-telling of the little known story.
For two young friends, life starts out with the promise of happily ever after. However, when Gabriel and Alexandra each lose their parents, those plans to marry and live on a little farm seem lost. The two teenagers are starving and destitute. They have to live as servants and are mistreated. Gabriel leaves to find a better way of life, while Alexandra promises to wait for him. She gives him two gifts to carry with him. The first is a dagger. When touched to enchanted objects it breaks their spells. The second gift is a bell. It is only to be rung in the event of danger, but it will be heard by Alexandra across any distance. The last item of value that they possess, a stick, Alexandra keeps because it will carry her to Gabriel when he needs her.
Gabriel’s journey brings him to the edge of a tranquil lake where he finds a beautiful boat shaped like a sleeping swan. When he steps on board to check out the boat it awakens to fold its wings over Gabriel. She swiftly and safely brings him to the Isle of Loc. There he meets the Groac’h , a rich and powerful fairy that convinces him to marry her. He is intoxicated by the immense wealth and material trappings and agrees. He temporarily forgets about Alexandra.
Gabriel eventually realizes that things aren’t all that they seem. He remembers Alexandra and her gifts. He uses the dagger to disenchant a net of fish and discovers that in reality, it is filled with sailors and fishermen. He realizes that he is in danger and rings the bell to summon Alexandra. Across the miles she hears the bell. She uses the stick, and it becomes a swift horse that carries her many miles. When she reaches a deep ravine, she transforms the stick into a giant bird to carry her across to the other side. On the other side, she lands in a giant bird’s nest and finds a little man. He explains that he is the King of Loc and the husband of the Groac’h. She tricked him into marrying her and is keeping his kingdom as her own and has stolen his powers. She imprisoned him on the cliff in the nest with only cabbages to eat. The spell keeping him imprisoned can only be broken when the Groac’h is no longer married to another man. He promises to help Alexandra free Gabriel, thus freeing himself.
They devise a plan to trick the Groac’h. The King takes four hairs from his head and Alexandra, with her stick, turns them into tailors. Using cabbage they make a suit for Alexandra. She uses the stick to transform herself into a man and the giant bird into a fish to carry her to the Isle of Loc. Once there, she meets the Groac’h who asks Alexander (Alexandra) to be her husband. The Groac’h uses the net to turn Gabriel into a toad. Alexander finds Gabriel’s dagger and pockets it for later. Alexander agrees to marry the Groac’h if she agrees to let him use the net to catch fish in the pond. The Groac’h agrees. Alexander uses the net to turn the Groac’h into a toad. She uses the stick to transform herself back into a woman. When she finds the toads she touches them with the dagger and they become men again, her beloved Gabriel included.
With the Groac’h imprisoned as a toad and unmarried, the King returns to rule his kingdom that she has stolen from him. As a reward, the King gives Gabriel and Alexandra a ship filled with treasure. Out of gratitude, the freed sailors and fishermen sail the couple home. Gabriel and Alexandra marry. Instead of buying a little farm to live on as they had originally planned, they build an expansive kingdom. They reward the sailors and fishermen each a piece of land to farm as a reward for helping them return home and build their kingdom.
Region:USA :: Pennsylvania :: Lehigh Valley
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Male Lead-Gabriel:Jackson Rathbone
Female Lead-Alexandra:Nina Dobrev
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User name: ThePiratess
Title: The Memory Keeper, Book One in the Reach Trilogy
Genre: Mainstream/Dystopian
Synopsis: Holden Macdermott is 16 when an outbreak of a mutated strain of tuberculosis wipes out a quarter of the world's population and shuts down the global economy. Thrust into a world where surviving is all that anyone can do, Holden takes it upon himself to care for the other orphans of the outbreak in hopes of giving them a chance at a decent life. But when a caravan of strange men arrive in their sleek black Towncars a year after the world shut down and stand to threaten the only life the children have, Holden must find a way to keep his new family together and prevail against tyranny that is masquerading as much-needed help.
Region: USA::Illinois::Naperville
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jeez, that's a tough one. Maybe Christian Cooke? (http://shechive.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/eye-candy-christian-cooke-1.jpg)
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Oops. Darn there not being an edit button! The title should be: The Memory Keeper, Book One in the Inner Reach Trilogy.
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User name: Lois Demi P
Title: One Week To Oblivion
Genre: Young adult and youth
Synopsis: A young attractive teenage girl believes that all that can be done will end in oblivion and that there is no purpose. This is confirmed to her when her grandfather, the only parent like figure in her life, dies. It isn’t long until she decides that there is no hope left therefore plans to kill her self on her 16th birthday which is one week away. The day after planning her own death she meet a handsome boy (her age) who also feels the same way and wishes to join in with her plan, this leads to the there worst fears been recognised, they fall in love. The day arrives and they both don’t know what to do as they wish to be together but feel there is no point.
Region: Europe::England::Yorkshire
The Actor who would play my main chaacter in the movie adaptation: Dakota Fanning or Lucy Hale (can't choose)
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User name: marianna-p
Title: Orphaned
Genre: Modern fiction
Synopsis:
Two characters: their lives woven together as each share their stories. First, dear reader, you meet Raul. The honest and raw accounts of this 30-something playboy reveals the fallout of his rocky upbringing, marginally rambunctious wild teen/early 20s years, and finally, now an educated journalist, his mid-adulthood philosophy looking back on life. (He thinks he’s reached midlife, figuring he won’t make it past 40). Then you meet Lilith, a.k.a Lilly. Also a survivor of not-so-ideal beginnings, among the most significant, her well-meaning parents that inevitably cost her years and thousands of dollars in therapy. Responsible, eclectic, artist and musician at night, cubicle-dwelling paper pusher and bored-to-tears by day. The friendship of the two characters leads to a budding relationship, but as journalist-becomes-boyfriend Raul interviews her about her life, inevitably it brings forth a dark secret.
Region: USA / Oregon / Salem
The actors who would play your main characters in the movie adaptation: Joseph Fiennes, Kate Winslet
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User name: Deborah.Milagros
Title: Regrets (Working Tittle)
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Synopsis:
"After many hurdles in her life, thirty three year-old Amanda Mitchell is ready to have a second chance. She has twin boys with her predictable husband of thirteen years and a successful designing career, but she wants more.
She knows exactly where to find it and with the pretext of attending a conference in Washington DC she leaves her family behind for a weekend of romance and freedom.
Amanda never imagined that her actions would have landed her into the custody of the Department of Defense where her present and future would collide causing world-wide repercussion."
Region: USA::Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Eric Bana & Jennifer Connelly
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User name: Dot.
Title: Following Instinct: of Shadows and Edges
Genre:Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Synopsis: Samantha Albright "says funny shit." Annette Green is a loner spending time at the shooting range. Hank Spinoza spends his days meticulously grooming his lawn - by hand. These disconnected neighbors lives are about to change when Juliette Reynolds moves in to the vacant house at the end of the street. Juliette's abilities to sense truths people would rather hide threatens the daily drone of this quiet hodgepodge neighborhood.
Region: USA: Portland, Oregon
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Juliette Binoche (Juliette - no, I didn't plan that!); Kathy Bates (Annette); Whoopi Goldberg (Samantha); Alec Baldwin (Hank)
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User Name: scriptchick
Title: The 7 Day Bad Date
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Brief Synopsis: What started as an unconventional date turns into a harrowing, life-changing mystery.
What do you do when your date turns up dead and you have zero recollection of how it occurred? Follow along with our heroine as she fights for her freedom while unravelling the past of her dead 'date' to clear her name...
Actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Benedict Cumberbatch as Liam, and Keri Russell as Ali
Re: Official Nomination Thread
OH!
Region: Canada: Vancouver, BC
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User Name: ThyroneTommy
Title: GILESE 581 (GILESE FIVE EIGHT ONE)
Genre: Science Fiction/Romance
Synopsis: Imagine being sent to another planet, with someone you've never met, and being told you have to figure out your way back home?
That is what Gage and Alaryn face when they arrive here on earth from their planet of Gilese...20 light years away.
Desperately and with minimal guidance, the pair search for any clues that will bring them back to their world. However they find themselves torn when they realize that their spirits occupy the bodies of living human beings. Death is not final, but simply re animates them years beyond their last memory.
How will they ever be able to figure this out and return to their bodies, with their own families, in their own place in the galaxy?
Region: Toronto, Ontario CA
The actor who would play your main characters in the movie adaptation: Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Gage and Evan Rachel Wood for Alaryn.
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User name: AliceGriffin
Title: Blackbird
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Peter is running away from anything. To the owner and tenants of the apartment building he’s staying in, there is not much known about him. He keeps himself closely concealed behind the mask of a carefree young artist, making only weak connections with those around him; they suspect that not even he understands his inner mind. Though he’s a charming young man, no one can help but feel a sense of danger, as if something shadowy lurks just beneath his peaceful facade.
Ilya, the middle-aged alcoholic son of the apartment’s owner, can see this hidden anxiety in Peter and finds it almost a wonderful breath of fresh air. Though neither of them long for any sort of friendship, they do find a meaningful companionship. Ilya carefully analyzes Peter and makes connections he could only ever dream of.
Something about the sea draws Peter to it. He mentioned how he’s always loved the ocean and it had always been his dream to move to a coastal town like this one, but Ilya thinks there’s more to it, although he’s not entirely determined to find out.
But when Peter’s art becomes darker, it’s clear to Ilya that there are explicit physical manifestations of Peter’s mind in the world around him.
Region: USA::Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Possibly a younger Andrew Garfield... Evan Peters could work, too :)
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User name: JackLyDarling
Title: Oliva Lucchese
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Synopsis: It's not often little girls are haunted by Death, but that's exactly what Oliva Swarhitz's problem is. But what is she to do when the one person who believes her is shot dead? Enter Frankie, an autistic detective with an ego the size of a small planet. The investigation gets underway, but it seems that Death isn't finished claiming bodies just yet, claiming those of Oliva's uncle, father and almost her doctor, and Death definitely hasn't finished haunting Oliva either. From a sleepy manor to a pursuit through the war-time escape passage, it does seem that Death always claims you in the end.
Region: Europe :: Wales
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: For Oliva, it would be Ramona Marquez. For Frankie, Ruta Gedmintas.
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User name: epistrophy68
Title: Pastel Droplets
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: The rise and fall of a 1980s New Wave rock band. Four marginally talented friends from the Bowery couldn't get a break to save their lives until they met Colin Hastings, a British newcomer whose voice and stage presence catapulted them towards the stars... and whose fragility brought them back down again.
Region: USA :: California :: San Bernardino
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Adrien Brody
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User name: 애슐리_L
Title: Metropolis
Genre:Science- fiction
Synopsis: Metropolis grew out of the smoldering rubble that was left of America after the world fell apart. now people live in an actualized utopia under the rule of The United Company. In the mist of the city lives, Ivy, a pessimistic fiction writer. an idealist at heart Ivy will have her life turned upside down after she finds a book from the old world in the library.
Region: North America: Massachusetts; Berkshires
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Meagan Parker
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User name: ShadowMatt
Title: Mongrel
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Werewolves are real. It started as experiments in Nazi Germany, trying to cross wolves with humans. The scientists working on the trials were more startled than anyone when they were successful.
That was then. 70 years later, America still doesn't know what to do with the "Mongrels" among us. They are isolated in self-governed cities throughout the nation. Rumors abound that ground werewolf fangs will cure illnesses. Now werewolves are hunted as well as hated.
Cecile is seventeen. She has terminal cancer. Her father is a senator in the lead running to be the next president. His party is conservative and anti-werewolf. No daughter of his is going to undergo illegal fang treatments.
And then she meets two werewolf brothers. They both fall in love with her, pulling her into a world of violence and darkness.
Region: USA :: Oregon :: Portland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Katie McGrath
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User name: jcaveny
Title: SuperTISHous
Genre: Youth/YA
Synopsis:
As she expects, every day at noon, a freight train passes beyond the school yard. “I don’t count train cars,” Tish explains to the girl. “I couldn’t bear it if someone died,” she says, “besides, it’s just plain ol’ bad luck.” She plucks another seed and sets it free.
Her classmate shakes her head. “I don’t get you, Tish,” she says. “Nobody does. You’re just too weird.” The girl walks away leaving a pocket of silence in her place.
“Sure,” Tish says.
Tish closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. “I understand. You have to go check the time.” She tosses aside the half-picked dandelion. Every nerve stands on end as the train’s horn echoes in the distance. “You wouldn’t count them either,” Tish whispers, “if you knew.”
Fears and superstitions are only the beginning of Tish Macintosh’s problems. As if it isn’t enough to have more ticks than a mangy dog, her father, the self-proclaimed “Gnome of Vermont”, has taken off again, hiking in the hills. Her mother, who left them both, had insisted that they keep the “Palms Read Here” sign hanging above the porch. “ In case you need quick cash,” she had said.
And to top it all off, Tish is about to turn 13. For a triskaidekaphobe, this year is destined to be nothing short of a personal apocalypse.
But the wind is shifting, and with it comes Oren Pasherday, a medium who glides into town, sweeping the porches and kitchens across Brattleboro. She is the perfect hippie in her decades-old paisley kaftan, and she just may be the one person that can help Tish find the path to the truth about herself. All without having to step on a single crack along the way.
Region: USA:: Southern Illinois
The actress who would play the main character: Without a doubt...Saoirse Ronan!
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Nice
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Wrong book the whole 4 ! Please ignore!
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Love the title
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User name: canuckian
Title: Dreamer
Genre: horror
Synopsis: A man goes to a party, samples an unknown drug, winds up in a coma. While his body is unconscious, he dreams of being other people, in other situations. Lucid dreams that all end in the death of his 'host'.
Region: Canada::Manitoba
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Luke Wilson with a full beard
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User name: AJWhite
Title: Lose Your Band, Find Yourself
Genre: Satire, Humour & Parody
Synopsis: A rock star's life is hard. You have practice, tune your instruments, organise your gigs exercise in hot venues for extended periods of time and then go to an after party. It's even harder when your lead singer's a d*** head. Daniel Hasey's that lead singer. That's why he's been kicked out of the band until he can sort out his act. UK hard rock band "Knotted Up" have left Daniel in the Nevada desert in a small, isolated town on the route to their big show in Las Vegas. With the help of a gay Mexican man and some good-old desert heat, Daniel's about to learn a whole new lesson.
However, every action has its consequences, some worse than others. Will "Knotted Up" survive their smaller shows before their Vegas concert? Will Daniel learn his lesson? Is that Mexican really that gay? Was the Norway tour really that messed up?
Region: Europe::England
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ewan McGregor if he could do angry...
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User name: Mesothelae-
Title: Creatures Of The Night.
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
What everyone thought was going to be an ordinary mission turned out to be their worst mistake. Zeph and his team hadn't been expecting to uncover something deadly when they went to steal a dangerous ancient artifact from the most well known, well protected man in the country. And what they unleashed spread fast and out of control. It didn't take long for their world to turn upside down and now their only mission is to survive. Strange, deadly creatures roam the planet freely, transforming humans into one of their own to increase their numbers. They say being prepared is the best way to live. But being prepared isn't an option anymore.
Zeph is trying his hardest to keep everyone together. But that's a little difficult when they are constantly on the move. They need to find a way to repair the damage they've caused- or everyone will be wiped out.
Region:Europe::England::Kent
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Craig Horner for Zeph, definitely.
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User name: davidl
Title: 'Tec
Genre: Mystery/Comedy
Synopsis:
What did you want to be when you were young?
An astronaut?
A princess?
A dictator?
Me, I always wanted to be a detective. A private investigator. A gumshoe. Call it what you will, but there's something about solving a mystery, catching a thief, or apprehending a murderer that made me feel happy inside. Solving puzzles and tracking clues to get the culprit and solve the case; thats the business.
'Tec explores that desire, which is shared and made real by Mark who has recently lost his job and has a meaty redundancy package which is burning a hole in his pocket.
Of course he won't be going there alone. He'll take his best friend and failed stand-up Danny, and Alice, a jaded nurse who is looking for some excitement and an escape from the Accident and Emergency room.
Join them why don't you?
Region: UK::Edinburgh
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jonah Hill or a young Nick Frost
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User name: leanan_sidhe
Title: In the Cards
Genre: Young Adult/Southern Gothic
Synopsis: Eva Norris hates moving. She hates trying to make friends. She hates the small towns her dad gravitates to. Most of all, she hates the fact that everyone inevitably knows her as "the preacher's daughter."
Enter Thomas, the charismatic young slacker in Eva's ten-person advanced placement literature class. What he lacks in motivation he makes up for in talent, and Eva can't help but be sucked into his social circle. This circle - an underground tarot-reading, divining, spirit-contacting oasis in an otherwise staunch Southern Baptist town - is thrilled that they've got "the preacher's daughter" in on their adventures.
And then, all hell breaks loose. Literally.
Region: USA :: North Carolina :: Raleigh-Durham
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Alison Lohman
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i'm liking the sound of this one! i got into the southern gothic/supernatural genre when i read Beautiful Creatures (one of the best series ive ever read now), and your book sounds slightly similar, and id love to read it!
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User name: weasilish
Title: Co Ed [or] Georgie Pie [I haven't decided yet]
Genre: YA Real Life / Science Fiction
Synopsis: Georgia's in college, and having a pretty good time. It's weird being considered a 'hot girl', and not being the teacher's pet is more annoying then anything, but all in all college isn't so bad. If only she could come up with an experiment idea, maybe Dr Bohr will get off her case.
At an innocuous party, Georgia runs into Deb and Frisco, a pair of siblings who are too weird to simply explain away with 'theatre kids'. A bit of unconventional snooping and Georgia finds out:
Deb and Frisco are actually aliens, sent to infest the entire college.
That's a pretty kick-ass project, don't you think?
Region: Canada::Alberta::Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone. Though she's prolly sick of playing young'uns. :P
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Nominating a fellow writer...
User name: bobo_the_bard
Title: But That Wasn't in the Book!
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Jason is an obscure character who would do anything to be a Hero. Destiny is a self-conscious heroine who strongly suspects that she's a Mary Sue. All of this fades, however, when an evil wizard deposes the Narrator, the ruler of Storyland, and imprisons him in the Writer's Block. Cracks start appearing in reality. Plot bunnies start dying, riddled with plot holes. Characters are shaken out of their stories, and start questioning their purpose, deviating from their Authors' wishes. The Maguffin Market starts to go out of business, taken over by the sinister Twisselhoft Industries. Things fall apart. Even the all-powerful Authors cannot stop the chaos. Accompanied by an existential Grim Reaper whose greatest desire is to die, and the sadistic bodiless spirit of a dead princess who just might be an Evil Stepmother, the two MCs have to save the day...before the Wizard kills every story ever to exist, and enslaves everyone into his own, the last story in the universe....
Region: Not sure, actually.
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: That'd be up to bobo_the_bard...
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User name: WaffleofDestiny
Title: Of Men and Angels
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis:
Only Archangels have blue eyes.
Every Angel is told this from the time they are able to fly to the time that they finally join The Holy One in Bliss. In the year 1900, an Angel with blue eyes was born in the land of Feiraga. She was named Mikayla. Thirty-three years later, Mikayla comes of age and the image of a dense, spiked wheel appeared on her left palm. She was sent with her friend to the island of the Guardians for her training. During this time, Mikayla's mentor, Lord Elsar, returns from a recon mission on the Dragons. The Dragons were the main enemies of The Holy One in the Great War one thousand years ago that was fought between The Dark One and The Holy One.
Wanting to get the truth about the Dragon's activities, Mikayla and Elsar snuck onto the Dragon's planet and destroyed their major weapon. However, in the process, Elsar was killed and the Dragons declared war on the Angels and The Holy One. Mikayla, acting as the Archangel of Fire, commands the army against the Dragons until another secret weapon is reveled, Raslon. He was an Angel created by the Dragons to be the most powerful being in the galaxy, strong enough to overthrow even The Holy One. Using her wits and the army of the Mongolian and Roman empires, Mikayla was able to defeat the Dragons and banish them to the frozen planet of Pluto.
However, the Angels are still without an Archangel of Fire. Mikayla is forced to take the test to become the most powerful Archangel in the galaxy. This test brought her to the brink of death and later lead her to her destined mate. With the help of the other Archangels and her new found mate, Mikayla was able to seal Raslon. Apparently forever...
Region: USA:Georgia:Kennesaw
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ummm...Karen Gillan
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User name: mapple
Title: Super
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: For the past 50 years in the United States, any super-powered individual who wishes to use their abilities without being arrested has had to join a chapter of the National Superhero League. It's a widely-respected institution, with Junior Leagues to train supers to be adult heroes, merchandise, movies, comic books, and more than a few tabloid rumors started by the people in marketing just to get a little more press.
Emmeline Eddings is a bit of a late bloomer, as supers go, already 17 and a half when her electrokinesis manifests. She's enrolled in the New England League of Superheroes and begins training to not only be a hero and fight against the mundane and super villains of the world (or at least New England), but to be a public entity as well. Between meetings with the stylists and hand-to-hand combat training, Emmy gets to know her fellow heroes, and starts to see that being part of the League isn't what she thought it was, and that many of the super "villains" aren't who they're made out to be.
After a fight goes south not long after her official presentation to the public, Emmy flees the League, hoping to disappear. But the urge to help people is overwhelming, and she finds herself trying to play the hero anyway - and unwittingly lands in the underground world of non-League heroes, some of whom are the very "super villains" the League tries to defeat. Taken under the wing of the wealthy (and quirky) Roberts-McGillicuddys and partnered with a telekinetic named Jo, Emmy learns how to really help people, without gimmicks, stylists, or catchphrases.
But when Jo and Emmy learn of a threat looming over the world, Emmy must contact her old League team for help, and convince them to act against the corrupt, controlling League that's run their lives for years. And even if she succeeds, will it be enough, or a case of "too little, too late"?
Region: USA::Ithaca, NY
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jennette McCurdy, I think.
Sorry about the epic-long Synopsis. *sheepish*
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User Name: Lola Darkling
Title: The Hidden Door
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Pirkko Stone is stuck. She has a shoddy apartment, a dead end job and a dead end relationship. One day while she is being ignored by her boyfriend in favor of a football game, she finds a hidden door behind a bench in her walk-in closet. Unable to sate her curiosity, she crawls through the doorway into the capital city of Seregon. Before she can figure out if she’s having a delusion or if she walked into a parallel universe, she is swept up by a group of thieves fleeing from the Seregonese enforcers.
With no money, no place to stay and no idea where she is, Pirkko is allowed to stay with the thieves – at a price. In exchange for their protection, she is taught to pick locks, steal and con the rich. One day during a routine job with a fellow theirf, something goes terribly wrong. Feeling in danger of her life, Pirkko’s emotions run high and a shock wave is released from her body. Though she is confused about what happened, her comrade reveals that she is one of the few in the realm who has magic, a powerful but illegal force. She is taken to Galadriel, a power sorceress who has been in hiding since the purge of magic twenty years ago.
As Galadriel teaches Pirkko to harness and develop her power, Pirkko learns about the corrupt government which has oppressed its people for the last two decades. Infuriated by what she’s discovered, Pirkko decides to join with her thief friends to go on a quest to overthrow the tyrannical leader of Seregon. However, as she finds herself mired in political intrigue from which she may never escape, Pirkko has to decide if she can trust her mentor, if she truly has what it takes to complete her mission or if she should cut ties and find the portal back to her old life.
Region: USA: New York City
The actress who would play Pirkko would be Lisa Ray.
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User name: engel
Title: Brian Was A Boy
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: Brian is a boy, that guy with that hair and those shoes, with no physical descriptors apart from his glassy orb eyes. He is a wonderful storyteller and is loved and admired by his peers, as his belief that weaving a good story is more important than the truth allows him to weave a great story. Brian recalls his memories so often and with such passion that he alters them to the point where they are merely disguised lies, but he remains convinced that he is truthful. Will Brian see the light and remember the boy he once was, or will he lose touch of all reality, and become more intrigued with his story and the character he has created for himself?
Region: London, ON
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: That guy in that move, you know? That guy that you recognize but can't place his name, so you have to wait until the credits roll, and then everyone goes, "Ohhhh, that guy!" That's Brian.
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User name: bellumina.
Title: Die Young and Sell Your Soul.
Genre: YA/Fantasy
Synopsis: Even vampires get stuck in mid-life crises, and Flynn's is more destructive than most. When he spirals too far out of control, he's removed from his high-ranking position at the vibrant epicenter of the vampire empire -- Las Vegas -- and is sent to build a satellite colony in Boston, MA, which is not quite the honor Flynn thought it was.
Boston's a lot of things: young, fresh, small, and unfortunately for Flynn, very diurnal. But while he and his crew are sitting around grumbling about the vast differences between their old life and new, they run into a far more serious problem: slayers. And up until a few months ago, there had been no such thing.
C.C. Howlett is one of those soulless slayers, accidentally "recruited" when a demon asks her an innocuous, trick question. But during the process of extracting her soul -- her conscience, her free will, her personality, her passions, her self -- something goes wrong. She's left clutching the remnants of her soul and her self.
When C.C. gets captured while raiding Flynn's hideout, it becomes abundantly clear that neither of them are each other's enemy. Flynn wants safety, security, and to destroy what could be threatening his entire empire; C.C. wants her soul back. And to get what they want, they have no choice but to collaborate.
Region: Boston, MA.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Off the top of my head ... Emma Stone could make a pretty good C.C., with Alex Pettyfer as a punked up, blonder Flynn. :)
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User name: teosocrates@yahoo.com
Title: On Earth
Genre: Anti-apocalyptic thriller
Synopsis: Michael Alastair, a PhD student in comparative literature with ties to the native American community in Oregon, receives a magic ring on his 31st birthday (which he later finds out is the fabled ring of Solomon.) He begins to dream and is inspired to write a book of “new age” spiritualism which strikes a nerve and makes him famous overnight. Meanwhile cataclysmic events begin to occur.
Behind the scenes, a group of 2,000 year old priests survive by ingesting human blood using a cell-regeneration technology that was given to them long ago. They are secretly grooming humanity to become a slave race for the returning alien planet.
Michael’s mission is to locate a lost, heavenly sword (provided by an angel to Abraham, left in the rock which inspired the “Dome of the Rock”, taken by Jesus – an event later echoed in King Arthur literature – and then lost by St. Paul when he shipwrecked in the isle of Malta) and defeat the king of scorpion-esque creatures tormenting mankind. Pushed into a role he didn’t ask for, given unbelievable powers, and facing enemies on all sides, can he overcome the vampire priests, monsters, zombies, angels and aliens, and finally Jesus himself, and save humanity from divine destruction? Is humanity even worth fighting for at all?
“On Earth” ends with a temporary triumph, although the entire conflict is just warming up. The 2nd and 3rd book will focus on a world-wide quest for ancient instruction tablets that combined unleash absolute power; the zombie-apocalypse foretold in the Bible (the dead shall rise from their graves); the collapse of civilization as we know it; and Michael’s journey into the underground to restore to life an ancient race of “giants” that had been turned to stone.
Region: The events will span the globe, and discuss the history and legends of mysterious sites and ancient cities in Peru, Oregon and the USA, Japan, Malta, Israel and more.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Tom Sturridge
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User name: InspiredEmily
Title: Memory Lane: The Lost Years
Genre: Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Alannah Tabraugh has always wanted to accompany her sister-in-law, Everlight, on an adventure to another world. Finally, she gets her chance. What neither of them expects is to land in the middle of a war zone on the ringworld Prometheus, or for a warring faction to kidnap Alannah in an attempt to coerce Everlight to give up her teleportation technology. Racing the clock, and an evil empire's sadistic tendencies, 'Light and her friends must use all their powers to save Alannah...before it's too late.
Region: USA:Seattle
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hard to tell...there are multiple main characters. But for Alannah...hm...A red-haired Irish girl with plausible acting skills. Please, trying to find a good child actor these days is impossible. I'd rather have an unknown. :D
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This is a dark sci-fi that deals with Virtual Reality (VR) and Conventional Reality (CR) and a VERY evil empire. Thus far, my characters are self aware A.I., but without knowing that their world is virtual. Prometheus is in CR, and when my characters are pulled out of VR, they have no clue what's going on. When the empire from their world is pulled onto Prometheus, things go bad in a hurry. Alannah will never be the same. Ever.
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User name: HeathertheLOSER
Title: Finding Rylee Neil
Genre: Young Adult
Synopsis: Rylee Neil is like every other girl who is 17. She has friends, she hangs out, she worries about boys and school. But aside from all of that she keeps feeling like she isn't in sync with her true self yet. So she writes down what she considers to be major moments in her life and tries to find the big moral she should learn. After she finds out who she wants to be and what is right she needs to find where the real Rylee Neil fits into it all. A book that shows the struggle of every teenager to find themselves and how they fit into society.
Region: USA: South New Jersey
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I can't really see this person. Maybe Emma Watson. With the short hair, maybe a little longer.
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User name: esbekia
Title: Green
Genre: Gay Literature
Synopsis: Molly and Waverly met after their families abandoned them. Together, they were able to get over the nearly insurmountable pain that comes from being rejected by their own families.
But now that they've found each other and found a world that will accept them without predjudice, their families want them back.
Family hurts the most. It's going to be hard as hell to give them a second chance, and likely as not, they will need each other to get through the ordeal whole.
Region: USA:Virginia
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: The actress who played Juno would play Molly, and Kimberly Williams-Paige from The Tenth Kingdom could play Waverly, but she'd have to dye her hair green.
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User name: danhowes
Title: Blood on the Tracks
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis: In 1889 Seattle, Civil War Veteran Tom Clay joins forces with Pauline Lefleur, a head-strong young Native American woman, to bring down railroad tycoon D.W. Townsend and his web of crooked cops and corrupt politicians. They both have their reasons; Tom lost his farm and everything he held dear when Townsend's railroad came through Montana, while Pauline is fighting to keep her people's reservation from suffering the same fate.
Region: USA:Washington:Seattle
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Tom Clay - Terry O'Quinn
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User name: Misunderstood Dreamer
Title: Flickering Blaze
Genre: Horror & Supernatural
Synopsis:
Sequel to Within Darkness
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell” – Oscar Wilde
It is said in China that it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
But what if the darkness smothered the candle?
What if you never possessed a candle in the first place?
Flair has stepped fully into the world that rests just beyond the one we know. She has proven herself strong, brave and intelligent. But sometimes that is not enough. Flair has left the light behind her and when you’re the living dead, it’s difficult to hold onto your own. She must try not to succumb to the darkness that not only surrounds her but also lives within.
And while she struggles not to lose everything that made Mary Smith special, another much older shadow is moving swiftly closer. A shadow that terrifies even the Vampire Council.
Will Flair be strong enough to halt the growing darkness? Will she be able to stop it taking those she cares about? Most importantly, will she want to?
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.
Region: Lancaster & Cumbria
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ellen Page
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User name: lookslikelove
Title: The Last Fall
Genre: Sci-Fi/Steampunk
Synopsis:
How it started has all been lost. How it ended has become more fiction that fact. Seven hundred years of war, strife and lengthy pauses left humanity searching for a way to start again. So they went back picking the best of a time long-dead, planting the seeds of a future that would flourish in a way that hadn't been dreamed of in a thousand years.
Welcome to the Gardens, where antiquity is rarely thought of except in whispers. Clockwork and steam power this world and mankind has found new outlets to explore, taking care to avoid those lines of inquiry that could send them back into chaos. In this future there will be a talented few whose sole duty is a dark and dangerous one: to protect the timeline and the world from those people and monsters who seek to undo it. They are called Happeners and Livia Funar stands tall and proud amongst their number, willing to give her life in service to their cause like so many others before her. Handed a mysterious mission on the eve of her promotion, Livia makes a mistake that can cost her more than just her job, but her very existence. Accidentally dragging her target from the past back with her into the future, she is now in a race against time to get him home and straighten the situation out before it's too late. Seeking out the guidance of her estranged family, Livia ultimately must choose if this future is one worth saving or if it would be better if she should let it all fall apart.
Region: USA::Illinois::Chicago
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emily Blunt.
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User name: TarDan731
Title: Stone Baby
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Like any fifteen year old girl, Naji is a little awkward and very self-conscious. Naji is also 6'9, able to lift three times her weight, and half troll. Born in a shell of stone and raised by her headstrong, but loving, mother, Naji has been feared and humiliated by the townspeople her entire life. Things get worse, though, when she is accused in a series of crimes and is forced to defend both herself and her mother.
Now on the run, she is determined to start a new, peaceful life. However, the world is changing around her and has extremely different plans in store. With a cast that includes long last relatives, an adventuring priestess, a sarcastic feline, an inventor king, secretive royals, and twin of ghost sisters, Naji is set to have a life she has never imagined.
Region: USA :: Missouri :: St. Louis
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Actually, I would choose an athlete (they would need some acting classes, of course)! I like the way Sylvia Fowle, player for the Chicago Sky, looks and one of the tallest teens in the world, Marvadene Anderson, would be perfect.
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User name: Rashida
Title: I'm With the Banned
Genre: Young Adult - Realistic Fiction
Synopsis:
Before she met Lisle, Piper been obsessed with books. With a best friend to hang out with, though, that meant less time for curling up alone with a classic and more time dressing up together to make vlogs.
When Lisle is taken out of school in their junior year for health reasons, Piper is beside herself. She can't even make new videos without her best friend around to inspire her. Instead, she turns back to her old paper friends... only to discover that the strict new principal at their private high school had banned most of her favorites!
A bout in detention--over reading 'Catcher in the Rye' on school property--has gained Piper the attention of Casey, one of the guys in the school band. As Piper lends her personal library to Casey and the rest of his group, she finds new friends with similar interests and forms a secret book club in the band room. Soon, most of her class is reading like never before. Piper finds she is strangely popular, with a bit of a rebellious reputation following her. And Casey has been spend a lot of time with her, not just to talk about books!
Life seems good again, maybe even a little magical. Until an abandoned and angry Lisle returns to school... and finds a stash of banned books in her locker, where Piper had been hiding them while she was away. Piper's new friendships, budding romance with Casey, her books, and even the teacher who was protecting them may all be on the fire over Piper's mistakes....
Region: USA::Central New Jersey
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Nina Dobrev
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ugh, so many sp errors... sorry! :(
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User Name: KahlanAmnell
Title: Forest of the Fallen
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Kallani Fulmen has traveled a long way since she first discovered that her father was ill. She learned that she is a possessor of great magic, a young woman specially chosen to be humanity's last chance for change. She has traveled a long and dangerous road in trying to save her father, and now she finds herself at the dawn of a new journey, one that will test the very strength of who she is as a person. In this sequel to Valley of Vengeance, Kallani must come to terms with the relationships she was with the people in her life, as well as embrace a darker element of magic straight from the underworld itself. A man known only as The Lord, the ruler of the underworld, has emerged from the stories told around campfires to spread his own twisted ideology of how humans should view death. He is creating an army of lost souls, souls that feel no remorse, souls that act without consequence, and souls that will carry his bidding to the farthest reaches of the earth. Kallani has begun her battle against the dowfall of humanity, but she cannot know that along the way, she will eventually lose all that she loves most, leaving her to ultimately question whether or not good can ever triumph over evil.
Region: USA: Wisconsin: Platteville
Actress who would play main character: Jeananne Goossen
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User name: laura-elizabeth
Title: The Last of Silence
Genre: Young Adult Romance
Synopsis: Ryder finds that he doesn't have time to be afraid when his best friend, Lacey, is clinging to life, and he is the only one who knows what her sporadic ramblings are trying to say.
Region: Arkansas
The actor who wold play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ryder would be played by Logan Lerman (or an actor that looks like him)
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User name: post.it.lover
Title: The Rogue
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: There was once a time when the elves and the crites lived in peace. However, in fear of the crites' questionable ways and ominous atmosphere, the elves attacked their dark counterparts. Everyone chooses sides and soon a war has broken out. The only way to truly end the crites' power is to destroy the darkness itself. However, only the darkness knows where it truly lies.
Sydin, the elven princess of Xyvia, is the daughter of king Therrhin, an Elenta. An Elenta is one of the most powerful elves of light who bares a sword that gives it's wielder the powers of the light. Sydin is a master of elvish magic and the sword. She feels physically unbalanced because of the war and sets out to fight for the critish kingdom of Kiem. On the way she is joined by Chetone, a shape-shifter that turns into a dragon, and Inxis, a critish warrior.
Region: USA::Pennsylvania
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I'm not a movie buff, so I literally don't know any actresses besides the majors like Kristen Stewart and Jennifer Lawerence, so instead, here's a description:
Eyes- Opal (blue and green swirls with flecks of purple)
Hair- Dark brown to her midback, although she cuts it to her chin with one long piece in the front
Complexion- Pale
Build- Medium height, lean
Clothes- A dark blue cloak with a gray shirt that has slits at the shoulders, black leather boots, black pants tucked into the boots, and a white sheathed sword at her waist with a hilt and detailing the colors of her eyes.
Other- She is an elf, so she has pointed ears and high-ish eye brows. Sydin also rides a black stallion with silver eyes named Tahz.
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User name: msholler
Title: The Wind That Beats the Grass
Genre: Mixed
Synopsis: Public relations man Paul Walker journeys to Latin America in search of a rare medicinal plant that might cure his father's cancer.
Region: Albuquerque, New Mexico
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Mark Ruffalo
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User name: valente
Title: Flexible Survival
Genre: Sci Fi
Synopsis: Hardened operative adventures through the wastelands at the whispered urges of his superiors, making friends with mutants, and shooting others in the face, as he tries to nudge the world towards a better place the only way he knows how. Takes place in the remains of California. He is armed with an assault rifle, a cynical humor, and an ear mounted radio against the world.
Region: USA::California::East Bay
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Johnny Depp
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User name: Frannybook
Title: Concerning Pumpkins
Genre: General Fiction
Synopsis: On Halloween night, thirteen-year-old Kathy and her friends decide to smash the pumpkins that were used to decorate their school courtyard. While breaking into the school, things get out of control and Kathy goes missing. In their search to reunite, her friends, family, and Kathy herself each have their own adventures.
Region: USA: California: San Francisco
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: (young) Dakota Fanning
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User name: jessetron
Title: Year of the Dragon
Genre: Fantasy (Sci-Fi, even?)
Synopsis:The rising of an ancient stone temple from the sea has caught the attention of the world. Scholars speak of an age-old prophecy that heralds the end of mankind - unless the Chosen One can prove humanity's worth.
Far, far away, a young man named Alex has started having dreams and visions of the temple and what is sealed within. He feels drawn towards towards the temple, as if something is calling to him. Will he answer the call, and learn the secrets of what lies inside the temple before it is too late?
Region: Australia :: Brisbane
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I want to say Ryan Carnes. A younger Ryan Carnes.
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Username: Leah-Nardo
Title: The Golden Spindle
Genre: YA Fantasy
Synopsis: The Kingdom of Tuchwald is a strange place, where weaving is magic, the trees control the economy, and the dangerous Otherlord, Emerlich, decides who rules, and who dies. Enter Odelya, clever heir to the throne. What can she do when a plague hits the land, her father goes mad, and the trees start a recession? Why, marry, of course. But when prospective groom William, from nearby Dolfin, starts helping her change Tuchwald for the better, and some magic items reveal a mystery that may be worth dying over, what's a clever princess to do?
With fairies, magic, sedition, love, plagues, weaving, miracles, politics, puppetry, chases, escapes, sewing, sojourns, cooking, lies, pretty dresses, fishing, and ultimately cake, where could things possibly go wrong?
Region: USA:Oregon:Portland
The actors who would play the leads:
Odelya - Tough call. Needs someone very clever at dialogue, but mature enough to play romance. Emma Watson? Mollie Quinn? Millie Innes? All good young actress with some humor behind them.
Emerlich - Need a villain with a tongue of silver. Benedict Cumberbatch of Sherlock fame. Yes, indeedy.
William - Agh. I don't know any young actors who are better with banter than they are at taking off their shirts. Help?
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User name: Saria_Bryant
Title: Awakening: A Guardians Novel
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: In the 700 years since the Guardian's War, the Blood - the magic of the Realms - has become twisted and labeled as Profane. Knowledge of the Faith was lost when the Guardians sealed the Blood from the physical Realm and blocked the pathways to the other five Realms. Now, those seals are crumbling, and the Blood is seeping back into the world. The Guardians are Awakening one by one, but in a world where everything they have ever known and believed in is shunned, what is their purpose?
And it's not just their own place that's uncertain. Children are disappearing along the fringes of the kingdom, and the cause is rumored to be those descendants of the Realms-born trapped in the world when the pathways were sealed. But when the culprit strikes closer to home, the newly Awakened Guardian Lithal is sent to uncover the truth, and perhaps redeem the Faith of the Bloodless and Blooded alike against all odds.
Region: USA: Central
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe William Moseley
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User name: antmuni
Title: Glitz & Grime
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: Artie Brown is an emotionally fragile obsessive compulsive mail room clerk living in south Philadelphia. On top of a stack of overdue bills and a girlfriend who despises him, Artie believes he suffers from the world's worst luck. After years of awkward social graces, a tumultuous childhood and a deep desire for a better life, Artie decides to spread his bad luck by robbing unsuspecting neighborhoods of all their most prized possessions, including money, jewels, furniture and even family pets. Artie finds a disturbing amount of pleasure out of embodying the bad luck that has plagued him for nearly three decades, that is, until he crosses paths with a homeless young man and his dog. After a foiled pick pocketing attempt, Artie succumbs to a tremendous amount of guilt after beating up the young man, realizing that his crimes affect him much less when he doesn't come in contact with other people. Artie begins scouring the city in order to make amends with the boy and attempt to reverse the effects of his crimes, one victim at a time.
Region: USA:: California:: San Diego
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Edward Norton, James McAvoy, or Charlie Day
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Username: Brightdreams
Title: White Phoenix
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
Synopsis:
Clea is a slightly less than average girl. Magic that comes naturally to others is an act of will for her. However, when the boy she has loved all her life is chosen to become a Necromancer she must use her strong will to pass the test herself and follow him. And follow him she does, all the way to the School of Evening set between the world of the Living and the Dead.
Accidentally blinded, there is the promise of healing, but she must begin classes without her sight. The school is strange and frightening, peopled with students that are both exceptional and reserved, and strict, secretive teachers who seem to have an agenda all their own. But she has one ray of hope. She has found her childhood friend, the one she followed here. Or as she?
Brennan, now called White Hawk, is not the same as she remembers him and stranger still are the warnings she receives from her classmates to stay away. Haunted by eerie screams at night and rooms that change at whim during the day, Clea will discover the truth behind the whispered rumors of the Phoenix. In the end she will have to make a decision which could change the school and her world forever. Will the strength of her love and the power of her will be enough to save the one she loves from a fate worse than death?
Region: USA:New Mexico:Elsewhere
Actor who would play your main character: Maybe a young Karen Gillan?
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User name: Kathelyne
Title: The Freedom Chronicles: Sia's Story
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis:
Sia ignores terrorist propaganda claiming the Talkerians, the benign protectors of her planet, are really their brutal jailers but when she witnesses Talkerian guards beating her father to death she is forced to face the truth.
Sia joins the resistance and is assigned to protect the infant crown prince of the Cranan. When she and the prince are kidnapped by Talkerian guards, Sia learns of the Talkerian’s plan: to use an ancient chain of portals connecting the Cranan planets to travel to the Cranan Homeland and seize ultimate control over her people.
Sia’s knowledge forces her into the front line where the resistance plan to fight their way into the communications centre to warn the next planet in the chain to lock their portal. With the imminent arrival of Talkerian backup forces, Sia realises though they won’t get the message through, they can destroy the portal. But while that would stop the Talkerian’s advance, it would also cut off the flow of life force that keep their planet alive. Cut off from the rest of her unit, Sia alone has to decide if the freedom of her race is worth the death of her planet.
Region: Australia :: Brisbane
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Summer Glau
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User name: YtonKratz
Title: The Lament
Genre: Fantasy/ Mainstreamfiction mix
Synopsis: What if mermaids were discovered and they were unlike anything we expected? How would the world respond?
Region: PohangS. Korea
I would love a cover with a very modern girl dressed up as a typical mermaid side by side with a grey skinned, kelp haired, shark finned, clawed mermaid girl who looks confused and bewildered, as this is a main part of my plot.
Please consider me! Thank you.
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User name: cljmitchell
Title: Brewing Trouble
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: The lives of the people in Tragron are about to be turned upside down by the revelations of a popular, mysterious mayor and the secrets that lurk in the depths of the world.
No-one expected this to befall their lives, apart from Ogian, an elder of the world perhaps. Ogian must now stand firm to help Tragron survive the misery and heartbreak which comes round and maybe divulge some of the well-kept secrets that he has known since the beginning.
As the time draws closer the citizens of Tragron are forced to defend themselves in a stronghold of their own making...can all of them survive to join others of the world in the fight to survive what may become the last fight the world will see.
Region: Europe::England::Elsewhere
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Dustin Hoffman - Ogian, Tom Hanks - Mayor, Then Tom Felton - a heroic type character (no name yet)
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User name: bexb (If I don't, who will?), but please, give my author a real name, like, say, mine: Becki Brannen
Title: Breathless
Genre: Chick Lit
Synopsis: What happens when an ordinary girl meets the man of everyone’s dreams?
Keeping secrets is never easy, especially when you're on the cover of every magazine and this year's "Hottest Hunk under 30." Good thing Carly is so out of the loop when it comes to celebrity affairs, or she'd realize she was in one!
Region: USA::Georgia
The actorS who would play the main characterS in the movie adaptation: Gennifer Goodwin & Robert Pattinson
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User name: denwy8
Title: The Last Travel of Bryce Thorn
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: Bryce Thorn had always wondered how he miraculously survived the car crash that killed his parents. Now, fifteen years later, another tragedy strikes when his girlfriend, Emma, dies in a car accident as well. Shocked and angry that he had not protected her, he suddenly discovers that he can travel to the past. He then decides to try and save Emma, as well as his parents. The only problem is that Bryce couldn't control where in time he would appear and that every time travel he does makes his life a year shorter. To make things worse, he discovers that he will only live for thirty years, and he's now 21. Will he be able to save his loved ones or will he die trying?
Region: Philippines
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Logan Lerman
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User name: LindsRay01
Title: Away She Goes
Genre: Fantasy/Steampunk
Synopsis:Evelyn is an 18 year old shop girl in turn of the century Boston. She hates her store, but feels stuck there after her father passed away and left it to her. All she really wants is to be an airship captain like her brother Patrick, but girls simply aren't allowed on airships.
Wyatt Sterling is the last person Evelyn expects to see, especially 6 months after a forbidden kiss on her brother's airship. But it isn't Evelyn's heart he's after, it's Patrick. He's missing and may be in danger. His airship was found crashed out west, and his company, the powerful Veldt Aero Company is after him.
Evelyn and Wyatt must find Patrick before Veldt and his men do, even if it means breaking all the rules, even the ones they've set for themselves.
Region: USA: Ohio: Cincinnati
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Bryce Dallas Howard
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Username: Chestergirl28
Title: The Protector
Genre: Adventure
Synopsis:
Tucked away in the mountains, a day's journey from the shore, is a country called Tarran. Women are the monarchs, and men are their advisors, called Rulers. It is forbidden to attack the Queen or the Princess, but the men are free game. Prince Dustin is next in line to be the Ruler. But what will happen to him when a secret society comes out from being hidden and prepares to destroy the royal family, starting with Dustin.....
Built into the rocky cliffs is an undercover protection society, the LPSA. Boys and girls live and train deep inside the mountains. Each one has the same goal: to Protect. Bern has lived in the cliff for a long time. No one knows where she came from, but one day, ten years ago, she was found hiding in one of the nooks along the road. She had one thing in her hand- a small necklace.
When Dustin and Bern meet, they don't get along. Dustin is spoiled rotten. Bern is hiding from something, and is running from it. What has brought each of them there?
The actor(s) who would play the main character(s) in a movie adaption:
Bern: Me (or Chloe Moretz, with darker and longer hair)
Dustin: Braeden Lemasters
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Sorry! Forgot to put my region
Region: USA:: Connecticut
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User name: Momodee
Title: Shades of Grey
Genre: Young Adult
Synopsis:
Grey is 16 years old and has never kissed a girl; he’s not even sure he likes girls that way. So far he’s lived under the radar, his good looks winning a lot of female attention and providing an adequate smokescreen. When his father is killed in a work accident, Grey is sent to live with his grandparents in a small town in the middle of nowhere. One Sunday morning, an obligatory visit to church gives Grey a reason to keep coming back.
Landon has lived in Atwater most of his life and it’s the sort of place where you don’t let differences show. He does well in school, obeys his parents, has a faithful girlfriend (whom he’s never even kissed), and goes to church every week. This week was supposed to be no different, until he caught the eye of a newcomer to town. All through the service, he couldn’t keep his eyes off this boy and it seemed the feeling was mutual…
Region: Canada, Montreal
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Harry Treadaway as Grey
open to suggestions for Landon:)
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User name: thatgirlbryony
Title: Clockwork (Working title)
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis:
The future.
Cities are independent moving communities powered like a giant machine.
On their 17th birthday every citizen is allocated their job for the rest of their life, based on earth, sea or air. Gaia and her best friend Ari are allocated their jobs;Ari, as a typical 'tech' is assigned Earth as a city engineer and is happy with his career, while Gaia is less pleased with being assigned working on the airships. While at work she witnesses an airship explode and she later discovers her father was on board. After learning about her father's anti-government activist past, she discovers that his old friends with similarly politically controversial backgrounds were also aboard the ship. Gaia heads to the city council to explain her theory that the explosion was intentional.Here, she discovers that the council were aware of this and had a part in planning it. Gaia decides to leave the city (an unheard of notion) to find The Board, the body of people who govern and control all moving cities. After convincing Ari to come with her, the two set off on a restored transport pod Ari was building, they know that once they have left that the city will move on and may be impossible to find again.To leave the city, they must cut out the tracking chips implanted into their arms at birth, which provide all contact with home,according to government data they are now officially dead.They leave and join a gang of Outsiders, groups of people who have for some reason left their own cities and are living outside.With the Outsiders, the two friends travel across the country, hiding on tech shipments and catching lifts from rogue airshippers.They finally reach the city of The Board but what they find there changes everything.
Region: Europe:England:Oxfordshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Really tricky! Gaia would have to be someone like Evanna Lynch, someone confident but a little outside of the norm. Maybe a young Helena Bonham-Carter?
Ari would have to be a skinny young guy ,Elijah Wood a little younger, perhaps?
PS. I adore this idea :) and good luck everyone!
PPS. Any other young people doing this with me? I'm 15 and I'm the youngest I've found so far!
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I'm 13, actually! And I have a friend on here who's 14. I have another friend who might join, and she's 12.
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Hi! I tried to reply to this post, but it posted it somewhere else (I don't know why!). I'm thirteen, and I have a friend on here who's 14.
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Oh, never mind about my last post!
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User name: TheDragonTempest
Title: The Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible
Genre: NF/Religion and Spirituality/Witchcraft
Synopsis: Finally! All of your spell crafting correspondences in one place!
The Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible will save you a lot of time, frustration and money. There's no need to spend years of difficult and frustrating research and experimentation trying to figure out just the right correspondences for your spell crafting. No need to spend hundreds to thousands on acquiring multitudes of books, e books or membership fees. With the Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible, you will have every correspondence you could ever want in one place, right at your fingertips.
As a practicing Witch I have spent my entire magickal life researching and experimenting with correspondences and am thrilled to share my extensive knowledge with you.
Inside The Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible you will find beautifully cross referenced correspondences for:
Animals, Archangels, Astrological Hours, Astrological Signs , Aura Associations, Birds, Body Parts, Chakras, Color, Color Hues, Days, Directions, Elements, Energy + Quality, Energy II, Feathers, Genders, God Forms, Gods, Goddesses, Gums and Resins, Herbs, Hours of the Day, Images and Symbols, Insects, Intentions, Keywords, Magickal Tools, Metals, Moon in Zodiac Signs, Moon Phases, Musical Instruments, Mythical Creatures, Numbers, Pagan Holidays, Personality, Places, Planets, Points in Life, Reptiles, Retrogrades, Scents and/or Oils, Seasons, Senses, Sephira, Shells, Specific Moons, States of Matter, Stones, Tarot Cards, Temperatures, Tides, Times of Day, Trees and Barks, Vegetable Drugs, Weather and Winds.
The Ultimate Spell Crafting Correspondence Bible makes finding just the right correspondences for your spell work easy and fun!
Region: USA: South Carolina: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Non-Fiction, so no actor. Yes, I'm a rebel.
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User Name: Samwise Gamgee
Title: Korah Harmon: The Room of Bacthium
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Korah Harmon leads a hard life. He never knew his father, his mother must work to support them, and he is weak, and frail. He is pushed and tossed around by bullies, and he hates his life. He begins to lose hope, but an encounter with an unknown creature changes that. Suddenly, Korah is thrown into a world of fantasy, that he could only dream of.
But all is not fun and games in this knew world, called Braisonia. This world is threatened by an unknown animal. Korah, and his friends Idelle, and Jon must discover the cause of this threat, and destroy it, or it will destroy them. They will all be pushed to their utmost, and all they can do is hope that they will survive.
But Korah has other things on his mind. He can't get the words that the Soul-Seeker said out of his mind. "Blue Fire...blue fire will come." But as Korah struggles to discover what that means, he finds something more. He realizes that strength is on the inside, not the out.
And he discovers that friendship, not strength, is what will bring them all through the night.
Region: Orlando USA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Asa Butterfield
This is my, not totally shameless self nomination, if you can even nominate anyone anymore.
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User name: Artrus
Title: Echo
Genre: YA/Science Fiction
Synopsis: Ever is an Echo, a perfect copy of herself.
Created on the cusp of the Final War, she is the carrier of eight lifetimes worth of information, and as mankind struggles to survive in space, she is their best hope for an improved future. When an unexpected plea for aid comes from a source outside Earth's own solar system, Ever is called upon to help, but as the information unravels she begins to realize that not everything is as innocent as it seems on the surface. The conspiracy she uncovers will send her on a journey to the far reaches of the universe and into the cold, distant wilds of space. And while she attempts to discern the extent of her own involvement, and struggles to unearth the hidden depths and sordid secrets locked within her memories, she begins to find that the enemy might be closer to Earth than she thought.
Region: USA, Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Abigail Breslin
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User name: Yoda47
Title: Threat From The Past
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis:
Ensign Evelyn Mills is excited about her first assignment aboard the Goddard, until the ship is almost destroyed while investigating the mysterious disappearance of a cargo ship near a supposedly uninhabited planet.
After making repairs, the Goddard returns to the planet with several Guardians, humans with mysterious powers who were former protectors of the peace on Earth, to investigate the threat, which the Guardians fear might be a old enemy who they thought they had defeated long ago.
Region: Michigan-Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Gee, I don't know. I'd look for someone unknown. (Hey, it worked for Star Wars...)
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This would make an excellent read!
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User name: johnfro
Title: Troll Teeth
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
Synopsis: Avi Ponds is a skinny little girl with a big head and a huge imagination. When she is 8 years old, she finally loses her first tooth! The next morning she is shocked to discover her adult tooth has completely grown in. While investigating this oddity she ends up pulling out the new tooth. To her surprise it didn’t hurt at all. To her even bigger surprise the tooth transforms into a pearly-white enameled troll, that’s just her size. A little scared, a little excited, and completely baffled her adventure is just beginning.
Region: Pacific Northwest
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Mara Wilson in 1998.
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User name: SOOZ
Title: A Gamer's Requiem
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: Hana Rhys, a gifted violinist, impulsively abandons her studies at America’s most prestigious music academy for a chance at love. But when she shows up at Dylan Saunders’ doorstep to seduce him, things go horribly wrong. Hana vows revenge, and armed with the intimate knowledge of Dylan’s dream to take first place at an upcoming gaming tournament, she soon finds herself immersed in the cutthroat competitive world of real-time strategy games.
Richard Connor, an elite gamer, is known to prefer cold hard logic over sentimental emotions. To his surprise, Hana manages to coerce him into becoming her reluctant coach, and he discovers that hidden deep beneath her need for revenge lies a natural talent and love for the game itself.
Under Richard’s tutelage, Hana takes the gaming arena by storm and is soon poised to become one of the top ranked gamers in the world. But when tragedy strikes, Richard will have only one chance to not only save the life of the woman he loves but to show her that dreams can indeed come true.
Excerpt: http://nanowrimo.org/en/participants/sooz/novels/a-gamer-s-requiem
Region: USA :: California :: East Bay
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Goo Jun Pyo and Lee Ji Ah
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User name: mad_ned
Title: Elder Eye
Genre: Science Fiction/Mystery
Synopsis:
Elliot Macklin came back from the dark depths of Alzheimer's disease thanks to an experimental genetic treatment, one that transformed his mind into a razor sharp tool with perfect recall, but left his body crippled with a degenerative, fatal disease. While contemplating ending it all, Elliot stumbles on to mysterious clues to the sensational "perfect crime" of the century.
When is only living relative, Jondy, is kidnapped while investigating, Elliot must move beyond the assumption that his life is over, and begin a strange and dangerous new adventure in living again.
Region: New England / USA
Actor: Clint Eastwood? or maybe Morgan Freeman
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User name: spiritiris
Title: McAllister Academy
Genre: Young Adult/Youth
Synopsis: Astrid is a thirteen-year-old about to embark on a journey into the secretive, elite McAllister Academy where they exclusively train psychic spies. She makes amazing friends and is having the time of her life when something sinister threatens the McAllister Academy, and she and her friends must accept a mission to find out what and whether they can stop it.
Region: Virginia
The actor: A dark-brunette Willow Shields or Amanda Seyfried
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User name: Dreamy far off look
Title:Rainbow Hair
Genre:Young Adult
Synopsis: Adam, a fifteen-year-old clarinetist, loses his vivacious and popular girlfriend, Caroline, to an amateur guitarist. Full of adolescent, misplaced anger, he takes to recording his thoughts in a composition notebook. Soon, his thoughts shift focus to a vaguely punk girl in his English class, who he takes to calling Rainbow Hair, due to her multi-colored locks. As his writing begins to revolve more and more around this mysterious outlier, we are introduced to her perspective. These two radically different people find themselves asking the same questions: "Who am I?" and more importantly, "Does anyone care?"
Region: Suburban America
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Logan Lerman or Keir Gilchrist
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Robin W. Rapagna
The Witch and the Kid
YA/Fantasy
Lydia Wolfsbane is a Witch. Not just any your average run of the mill Witch, but an elemental Witch. Her element is Spirit. This means that she was born with the mastery of the other four elements; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. She lives in a grand old Victorian house with beautiful gardens along with her familiar, Fred.
Fred isn't just any old familiar either. He is an Irish Cunning Cat. Irish Cunning Cats are only born once every thirty-three years, in one litter, which always has five kittens. There is always four males and one female. They are all born with very special magical abilities. Fred can fly and shape shift into any other creature. His sister, Eloise, can become invisible and walk right through solid objects. His oldest brother George, can breathe fire like a dragon! His next oldest brother Ian, who causes earthquakes to happen and make any plant grow. His younger brother Cedric, can control the weather. The male Irish Cunning Cat lives for exactly ninety-nine years, no more, no less. The female only lives for thirty-three years.
Join us in their story, if you will, about how Lydia and Fred find the young boy who calls out to her in her dreams and rescues him from his horrible fate.
US/South Carolina/Eslewhere
Actress: Megan Fox
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User name: ReadySetWrite
Title: Plots
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: In the city of Alden, characters are so lifelike, they come out of books. Literally. Not that anyone wants them to, of course. After a character comes out of a book, the story stops changing each time you read it.
Jasmine thinks she's going to have an awesome summer. She's got a job at her favorite bookstore, her mom is in Greece, and her dad is working. Things start getting weird when she hears her boss threatening people in an empty office with a book in her hand. Sooner rather than later, Jazz meets Tom Sawyer, discovers that her boss sells book characters into slavery, and travels out to middle-of-nowhere Iowa to uncover the dastardly plot. Oh, and freeing the hundreds of enslaved book characters that are working on a "project" is on her list too.
Region: USA: Virginia: Northern
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hailey Steinfeld
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User name: DrElementary
Title: From Orc to Orc
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
A young Orc by the name of Gromsk embarks on a journey to find fame and fortune in the lands of the humans. He signs on to the leading expeditionary force assigned to scout the land and opposition before the first wave arrives. Before he can even step onto the boat, however, he meets a grizzled, one-eyed veteran who takes him under his wing. The veteran alternates between dispensing sage and somewhat prescient advice and driving Gromsk insane with rage.
Times are not all fun and games, however, as soon after landing Gromsk participates in his first horrific battle. Before long the entire land is in turmoil as a volcano erupts and magic returns to the land in a devastating wash. Can Gromsk live long enough to return home? And, more importantly, what is the veteran's strange obsession with pineapples?
Region: USA::Missouri::Springfield
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Chris Pine
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User name: Kal-El525
Title: Age of Heroes: Genesis
Genre: Young adult / Science fiction
Synopsis:15 year old Jacob Sumner has been having strange dreams. Dreams of flying and cataclysmic explosions. Jacob has discovered that he has abilities no human should possess. Then he meets a group of teenagers who have varying abilities like him, including a particularly 'fiery' girl named Anna. The teens show Jacob what has happened to him, what kind of new world he's become a part of. Their peace is short lived when Jacob's house is invaded and his Uncle Darin kidnapped. Before he was captured, Darin told Jake that superhuman abilities ran in their family's blood. He told Jake that, if anything should happen to him, to find his older brother Danny in Los Angeles. Jacob learns that Darin was kidnapped by a government agents that operate under a group that calls themselves "MASSIVE GENETICS". With the help of his new friends, Jacob plans to make his way to Los Angeles and find Danny, hoping to work with him to find out what happened to Uncle Darin. Little do they know that their every move is being watched and that, soon, they will be the ones being hunted.
Region: USA - California
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Logan Lerman
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Username: JmAcosta21
Title: Vessel
Genre: Supernatural/Science Fiction
Synopsis: The rising of the Ice Moon marks the beginning of a great journey. A journey traveled by one of the most malevolent creatures known to man; a monster capable of ruining the lives of innocent people and even capable of wiping out entire species, but he is also the keeper of Balance throughout our Universe: he is the Devil. This journey is a rite of passage completed by all Great Devils throughout history. When the time comes, the Devil is given but one chance to find a Vessel that will carry his child- the heir to the icy throne.
The Devil’s job, along with his sword, Sin- the creator of all past Great Devils- is to keep a stable symmetry among the different planes of existence. If that balance is disturbed, the Universe, along with all other dimensions, will implode on itself. The present Devil, who also calls himself David in the human world, must travel to the planet called Earth in order to find the Vessel for his son. It is because of Earth that the delicate balance of existence has been challenged. With all the Good emanating from the planet, the Devil must increase his Evil in tenfold. By finding a human so pure of heart, so full of Goodness to harbor a child so Evil, the balance will be restored for millenniums to come.
But trouble arises when David meets Kate- the Vessel. He has only been capable of feeling hatred, anger, and fear for most of his life, but when he encounters the strong feelings of love and passion- feelings he had loathed for his entire life but never actually experienced- he begins to second guess his mission. Once his son is born, he will be unable to bring the Vessel back to his dimension with him no matter how much he wants to. Is he willing to destroy all of existence just for a little more time with the human he has come to love? Or will Sin force him to complete the task?
Region: USA: Illinois
Actor who would play the main character (The Devil): Paul Bettany!
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User name: -amanda-b-
Title: Disconnected
Genre: YA Sci-fi
Synopsis: Growing up in the Core, Nixie has always felt a bit out of place. She seems to be the only person who notices anything unusual, like the beauty of old buildings as they fall to pieces. Or the way her baby brother has become listless and dull. More than this, Nixie hates being connected to the Core. It terrifies her to know that every move she makes is monitored and recorded, even though she never does anything wrong. Despite her fears, Nixie accepted all these things years ago, believing nothing would ever change.
But now she’s noticing a strange owl symbol scrawled on sidewalks and on the buildings she loves. They lead her to a spirited graffiti artist named Rya who tells her about an underground movement of others like them – artists, readers, people with questions the Core won’t answer – who have done the unthinkable and disconnected. And when a man throws himself off a bridge in the first suicide in Core history, his death sets in motion events that will change everything in Nixie’s world and force her to make the kind of choices she never knew she could have.
Region: Dallas, Texas, USA
Actress: I was going to say short-haired Emma Watson but I actually think Chloë Grace Moretz would be perfect.
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User name: perianfrost
Title: Dystasia
Genre: Dark Humour, Dystopia
Synopsis: 300 years in the future, the Disney corporation has taken over the United States of America. What used to be a democratic country is now overseen by a corrupt executive board. Citizens have been stripped of their rights, subjected to government interference in daily lives, and forced to listen to old remixes of Disney Classic songs that have been around for centuries.
In the midst of the growing civil unrest, college student Tod Therinton joins a group called the Revivalist Movement. There, he works alongside others who share the hope of one day reclaiming their rights. Dealing with an unexpected day job for a man who hates everything the Movement stands for, increasing national paranoia, and a very awkward love triangle {which does NOT bear singing about, thanks ever so much} proves far more difficult than he thought.
And that's not even counting the Villain who follows him around and constantly threatens to eat his dog.
Region: USA:: California :: Humboldt County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ugh, jeeze, I don't know. Someone with full cheeks, grey eyes, blonde hair, and an ability to be both awkward and kind of a badass.
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User name: Hazmat Squishy
Title: The Balesman's Vengeance
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Synopsis: Conor Balesman is an outcast, and he knows it. Of course, Conor thinks it is because others are jealous of his brilliance. The others all just think he is a freaky know it all who tries too hard to be included. What they don't know is that Conor has a plan, and very soon several co-workers of his are going to have their lives upended and destroyed. At first no one will suspect anything is amiss, that is they won't until the pieces start clicking together. A series of tragic events leads back to TriTerra Labs and what could be the source of a horrific chain of events occurring around some of the key researchers there. Will the trail lead back to Conor, or will others be suspected? Did Conor actually do it, or did something else occur that he is blameless for?
Region: Michigan: Elswhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Steve Buscemi
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User name: Boussole
Title: Remnants of the Living
Genre: Adventure/Steampunk
Synopsis: It has been twelve long years since the incident in Rome's catacombs nearly tore young Georgiana Brezza from her guardian, airship captain William Hale. Concerned for her safety, the Captain left his young ward at a girl's school in Lodnon while he resumed his search for the powerful artifacts of resurection necessary to bring back his lost love. Captain Hale remained in steady contact with Georgiana, sending her letters and telegrams whenever he was able to... until 3 months ago when all communication was lost.
Now, night after night Georgiana finds herself dreaming of strange and powerful objects, of Captain Hale dying a thousand different ways, of a firece tiger fighting to make an escape, and of deep, mysterious eyes promising help and love. Georgiana must hurry to puzzle out the meaning behind her nightly visions as she makes her way around the globe searching for the Captain. If she can't, she may lose more than those dear to her.
A steampunk inspired sequel to last year's novel "Vestiges of the Dead."
Region: USA: Minnesota: Twin Cities
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Georgiana - Hayden Panettiere, Captain Hale - Russell Crowe, and Unnamed Love Interest - Matthew McFayden
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Username: hawkpath-tail
Title: Exusta
Genre: fantasy (i guess)
Synopsis: An old Gotokuneko, known as the Elder to his village, is dying, and he watches his very last Fire Song, the story of the Fire Wars. He is the very last connection to the Fire Wars on the planet, and his village gathers to hear his last words. What follows is an amazing story, filled with rage, blood, deceit, terror, and love. He tells them how it began, by a simple scare gone awry, and how he lost a battle, but won the war. His life was scorched, in other words: exusta.
Region: USA::Colorado
Voice of my main character: Wentworth Miller
i dunno if it sounds like it, but the parts with the Elder only takes up the prologue and maybe the epilogue. his whole story is the main thing, and it's told in first-person point-of-view.
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Username: Poetica
Title: The Thin Thread
Genre: Memoir
Synopsis: Karen and her brother Andrew grow up in a family fractured by divorce. But their mother, Lucie, remains determined to keep them a strong family unit. At the age of 64 Lucie contracts a disease that destroys life as she once knew it. She and Karen have always been unusually close, enjoying that mother-daughter "best friend" relationship. But now, as she watches the physical and emotional toll her mother's struggles have on her, Karen's strengths are called upon. Karen, however, has always seen herself as needing to lean on others, but in this situation she learns much about herself that is a surprise. As her mother becomes weaker and weaker, Karen witnesses the devastating changes that overtake her, "The Thin Thread" advances the idea that someone's weakness can be their strength.
Region: Michigan Elsewhere
The actor who would play Karen is Meryl Streep.
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User name: bythegodsbecks
Title: Doing Time on Planet Earth
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
Synopsis: Ancient Greece slipped away into time, but it was what happened out of humanity's sight that truly changed the course of events. Rhea, mother of Zeus and guardian of the Big Twelve Olympians, decided that she had had enough of their bickering, and so they have been trapped in a cycle of mortal resurrection. They are born mortal, separated from their brothers and sisters. They live until their mortal deaths, only to be born again in another mortal life. Centuries have been spent attempting to break the curse but to no avail. Now the year is 2011, and a young man claiming to be Hermes' mortal vessel is assembling the Big Twelve. They must work together to break the cycle and regain their immortal kingdom. But, between years of failure and time-torn loyalties, the great deities of Ancient Greece have lost their faith.
Region: Canada:Alberta:Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I have twelve main characters. I have a few faces picked out: Shelley Hennig, Callan MacAuliffe, Troian Bellisario, Thomas Dekker, Rooney Mara, Lily Collins, Laura Vandervoort, Matt Lanter ... I should probably stop. (:
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User Name: mardillo1
Title: A Better Fate Than Wisdom
Genre: I've listed it in Supernatural/Horror, but it's really a mix of that and your standard YA novel.
Synopsis: When Amy Stuart's father gambles away her soul in Reno, the devil decides to strike a deal with the sixteen year old girl: allow a newborn temptation demon to shadow her (literally) until he's learned the ways of the world, and the contract will be torn up. The devil even promises that it won't disturb her daily life at all, but the demon turns out to be more trouble than either of them bargained for...
Region: USA: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The who would play your main character: Hayden Panetierre? Someone soft, but fiesty.
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User name: JacobTWhite
Title: Blue Hour
Genre: Fantasy / Mystery
Synopsis:
Tarak is a misos, a half-breed relegated to the status of a second-class citizen by the Sultanate of Theurich, simply due to his impure parentage. For the past three years, he has faithfully served on a clean-up squad within the port city of Nerthus. Their objective is simple, police themselves and the rest of the local misos community in order to prevent falling under the destructive eye of the leadership of the Home Guard. Tarak himself has silenced over one hundred of his own kind, including his own brother.
When a soldier turns up dead in a misos district of Nerthus, Tarak and his team find themselves working under the clock. The 3rd Home Guard is already on the march, only two days out. Without serious clean-up, the entire district will be cleansed in order to remove the cancer. However, the secrets that Tarak's team discover while trying to solve this murder will rock the entire misos community to the core, if they survive to share their story.
Region: USA:Virginia: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Truth be told, not really all that sure.
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User name: Dretzle
Title: Suspension
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis:
Heaven Hope is an orphan, escaped from her Foster home hitchhiking across the country. Sheriff Hunter watches over the citizens of Mapiya - an unremarkable, Minnesotan suburb. Motega and Alina work on a science experiment under the watchful eye of the F.B.I.
On December 3rd, 2012 suddenly they and half of Mapiya disappear. There is no explosion, no survivors, no clue left behind as to what happened; just a pile of rubble as if the town had been wiped out by a small nuclear disaster.
On June 11th, 2098, while investigating the town's disappearance for an assignment in science class, Micaden Farrell flips a switch bringing the town, and all of its 2012 inhabitants, back from suspension.
Now both Old and New Mapiya must learn to reunite to cope with a natural disaster. And the state of Mapiya for the last 90 years hints to impending doom for the town once again.
Region: USA :: Minnesota :: Twin Cities
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Edward Norton
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User name: Madsandninja
Title: The Chase For Wings
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: The odd thing wasn't that there was a prophesy, nor was it the adventure. No, neither of these on their own would have been any trouble for Araleigh and her friends. It was the moment that the two combined that the trouble began.
Prophesies are known to bring forth unexpected turns, but when this prophesy pulls Araleigh into a almost sci-fi future, she discovers that there is very little chance that she will be able to return to her own world! Even more, there is a plague lurking in her home of Kressentia, ready to strike down the entire race, and it just so happens that only Araleigh can prevent it.
How will she return to Kressentia from a magicless future, while also trying to flee from those who want to capture her and take her wings?
Region: USA :: Idaho
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Alexandra Daddario
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User name:
LLUCIEEE
Title:
The Death of Love
Genre:
Mainstream Fiction/Romance
Synopsis:
Following the devastating effects of the Nerve-Suppression Flu Pandemic, Charlie West Cradle is the only person on Earth who knows how to love. Living a life of voluntary seclusion, he hides away in his home and avoids all contact with the rest of the world, too heartbroken to face how cold humanity has become. That is, until he meets Penelope Moon. Charlie embarks on a self-led mission of love and determination, trying to prove to Penelope that everyone has the capacity to feel compassion, that love is alive.
Region:
Europe::England::Yorkshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Ryan Gosling, as long as he could do a good English accent.
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User name: helenastone_lol
Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Spy
Genre: Chick Lit
Synopsis:
Effie Anderson is trading office supplies for official secrets…
Effie is good at her job, managing the fund of an eccentric billionaire, who seems determined to throw his money away. But she dreams of adventure, stuck in a rut at home, at work, and with her boyfriend. The last thing she needs is a suspiciously grown up “work experience” boy on her plate. But it turns out Ben Samuels is good for more than just making the tea. He’s working undercover, spying for the government, who want to know what’s really going on with Jeb Drislow’s billions. What is the secret behind his latest obsession, ballooning to the edge of space?
Effie is dragged into espionage, stumbling through a world of danger, double-cross, and really bad outfits. Can she hack it as a spy? Will she learn to go with the flow? And could Ben finally be ready to come in from the cold…
Region: London, England, Devon, England and Space.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Michellle Dockery
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User name: Pixystickpixie
Title: Mutant
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Synopsis: In a world where genetic manipulation has become commonplace we have to ask ourselves the moral question: Where does it end?
Inara is a recent grad who has risen to fame within only a few short years of research on genetic manipulation. She has hopes and dreams of being able to help people overcome natural disadvantages by increasing aspects of their genetic profile. As of late, her dreams have seemed to dwindle away as her research proves unsuccessful time after time.
A mysterious man appears in her life offering a simple solution to her problems and wealth and power beyond her imagination. Her decision will change the world forever for every man, woman, child and animal in existence for years to come.
Region: USA :: Minnesota :: Twin Cities
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone!
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User name: gypsywish
Title: Nonsuch
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis: The court of Henry VIII was full of intrigue, drama, and the cutthroat politics of kings. Amidst a king's quest for an heir, one if his queen's ladies in waiting makes a dangerous gamble and allies herself with the king's new flame. In the process of the upheaval caused by Henry's break with the Church, Anne Underhill must learn to make her own way and follow her heart, no matter the cost.
Region: USA::Alabama::Birmingham
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: the closest in looks would most likely be Holliday Grainger (as a blonde)
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User name: fjorduknowit
Title: Final Choice
Genre: Horror & Supernatural
Synopsis: Ana was a test subject in a highly secret, very dangerous psychological experiment led by world-famous scientist, Darien Pagualo. That was, until Pagualo died while working in his lab, with no explanation. But when the man rises from his grave a few weeks later, he is the first of a race commonly feared would come alive: a zombie. Now that Ana is free, she must escape the zombies, save her friends, and decide exactly what is worth the struggle.
Region: USA::Seattle
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: hmmm...probably Ellen Page. She seems exactly like I imagine Ana :)
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Username: georginamarsh56
Title: Double Double
Genre: Chick lit
Synopsis: Average is Tessa Roger's middle name. She is just a normal teenager, hanging out with her friends and giggling about boys. Until she sees a girl who looks identical to her. Who is she, and why has she suddenly appeared out of nowhere?
The answers to those questions may just be murder as Tessa digs deep into her childhood and discovers things that someone doesn't want her to unearth.
Region: Ottawa, Canada
The actor to play the main character in the movie adaption: Probabbly redheaded Anna Sophia Robb or maybe a auburn Ashley Benson.
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User name: Rare Rabbit
Title: The Caveman Sessions
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: The journey of a young disabled man from his early years in Africa where he suffered discrimination and abuse to a random chance that lead him to the opportunity to travel to Canada where he encountered a world of success, opportunities and riches, dysfunctional erotic relationships, challenges, heartbreaks, and a great loss that haunted him as he searched for redemption in misadventures.
Region: Toronto (Ontario) Canada
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: The main character in my book goes through three different phases. Childhood, teenage years, and finally a late 20-something, and since I don't really know any major actors with physical disabilities (I'd love to see someone with an actual disability play the role than someone just pretending), I find I can't answer the question :-| ...suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
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User name: Heidi Leanne
Title: When She Bargained with God
Genre: Christian Romance/Historical and Biographical Novel (is that enough genre's? I could throw in a few more I'm sure)
Synopsis: The year is 1889 when May deLacey and her God-fearing family convert to the much despised Seventh-Day Adventist sect after hearing the Three Angels Message of Revelation 14 preached near their home in the British colony of Tasmania. They tremble when they hear, "Every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people will hear the everlasting Gospel!" "Repent for the hour of judgment is here!" and the last and most dire of the three: "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God."
May's faith is sincere, but with it come choices she never dreamed she'd have to face.
Pursuing a career as a bible instructor in Melbourne, Australia, May falls in love with Arthur Currow. A handsome young doctor-in-training with plans for the mission field, May is sure God has answered all of her prayers: a career converting souls and a helpmate and man to love. But before Arthur makes his intentions known May is handpicked as the caregiver and companion of Ellen G. White, the Adventist's prophet, and she knows her life will never be the same.
Not long after moving into the White home, Elder W. C. White, the prophets son, suddenly proposes marriage, and May is faced with a decision to marry the very man she vowed she'd never marry, or Arthur - the man of her dreams. The choice seems simple. But choices are never simple.
Widowed with two young girls, Elder White is separated by an ocean and continent from his daughters. They need a mother, and the only mother he wants for them is May. Even though Elder White stands for everything she vowed she would never marry (a minister, a man twice her age, bearded, and short) she can't turn away from the Messenger of the Lord's own son so easily, especially a man she has learned to call friend. May desires to truly give her life to Gods work, but the man her heart desires is Arthur Currow.
Stuck between her own passionate desires and the desire to be a woman of faithful obedience May is unable to make a decision on her own. So, she does the only thing she can think of: she makes three deals with God, and when she does May finds out what happens when you bargain with God.
Region: USA::California:Sacramento County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: America Ferrera would be perfect for May.
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User name: runner_penguin
Title: Necessary Breaks
Genre: Chick Lit (though really Women's Fiction/Mainstream...just with a lead female)
Synopsis: Mia and Tom meet in college and quickly become best friends and the other's sounding board for everything. Tom's going into the Roman Catholic priesthood, so there's no chance of anything happening between them - though the one time they come close sticks with Mia for a long time (and Tom though he won't admit it until much later when he's questioning everything). One night, Mia is brutally raped, and Tom is obviously the one she turns to for support. When her eventual reaction leads to a blow-up, Mia tries to deal with everything on her own for a while, but eventually realizes she can't do it alone and he stands by her and helps her. They do eventually go their separate ways - Tom to the priesthood and Mia to get her degree in psychiatry. But they're never far from the other's mine and life.
(And no, there is no romance that happens between them. They really truly are simply best friends.)
Region: New York City
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emily Skinner
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User name: Columbia
Title: Devil's Fire: Tales of a Roadie
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
Synopsis: The trials and tribulations of Laura, a not-so-average college girl working as an assistant to the band Devil's Fire. This story follows Laura from her first concert to touring with the band and beyond, including all the challenges she fought along the way. Meet the band and travel along with them in this young adult novel.
Region: Canada :: Ontario :: London
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Re: Official Nomination Thread
First off, Everyone please forgive me! I clicked reply to the wrong post the first time I listed my nomination, so this will hopefully end up where it's supposed to because, this time, I have two nominations in one! :)
User name: Scripted Silence
Title: Razna
Genre: Fantasy/Young Adult
Synopsis:
"Ridiculed for her ability to see spirits, SADE KAMP would like nothing more than to pretend they didn’t exist, but when their presence destines her to accept a world others can’t, Sade is forced to live in the land of the dead to save our Earth."
(*SPOILERS*)
ARSIS CALLANTRO has had enough of being just a spirit, longing for his former glory of being the darkest Lord in Razna; he has sacrificed the last remaining member of his family to be temporarily back in the flesh and able to hunt down that which he’d lost years ago: Sade.
As more spirits start to invade Earth, people begin to forget who they are, and Sade realizes she has no choice but to venture into Razna, the so-called land of the dead, which isn’t as dead as it would seem.
Dreams begin to overtake Sade, and it isn’t long before she realizes there is a connection between her and Lord Arsis that she doesn’t want, and one he doesn’t fail to use against her, making her believe her brother, ALEX KAMP, is dying.
The dreams turn to anger and start to consume Sade. After a heated argument with MAX WEST, the handsome, rather fiery demon hunter Sade has come to adore, she ventures off to find her dying brother.
It’s not until Sade becomes trapped in Razna, and aware that Alex is not dying, that the connection breaks, and she is left alone, scared, and hoping Max can figure out what has happened. But he thinks she’s gone, left as if to sweetly say to him, ‘I don’t love you anymore.’
It is the land itself that has brought Sade to walk amongst the forsaken, wanting her to restore Razna to its former beauty, a magical pillar in the land beckons to her. It is the very thing which Max wishes to destroy, and has sought to do so for years when it claimed the life of his mother, and Arsis’s former lover. Fearing the same fate for his still beloved Sade, Max unknowingly sets out to dismantle the very system which prevents Arsis from murdering her...
Landing in the middle of doubt and fear, just what will it take for Sade to pull through?
Region: United States: Atlanta
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: There's a movie adaptation??? I'd have to say Emma Watson.
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User Name: PinkMink
Title: The Vampire Revolution
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Vampires. The silent predators, ruling humanity from out of the shadows. Powerful, ever-hungry and deadly.
No more. A century ago, humanity discovered that vampires existed. More than that, they discovered that vampire fat could be rendered into the most amazing anti-wrinkle cream EVER! Vampires became the hunted, and what humans lacked in superpowers, they more than made up for in numbers and ingenuity.
Now, only one colony of vampires still exists in the UK. The humans call it a Reservation, but in reality, it's a farm, run by Vampismooth Incorporated, the makers of the beauty cream. The vamps are sealed off, allowed to eat only from vats of cow, sheep and pig blood to survive. This is the world Romana Lox has grown up in. This is the world she is desperate to change, to break out of.
When she counter-ambushes a human poacher who's broken into the compound to bag himself a vamp, she finds she just may have the chance.
With the human unconscious, she feeds from him. He's... DELICIOUS! Unlike anything she's ever tasted before. And with his blood comes the power of the old vampires. Power that most of the still-living vamps thought was just a myth. Suddenly, she can run faster, jump higher, lift heavier things than she ever thought possible. She can turn into mist. A bat. Even a wolf. She can creep into the minds of humans and befuddle them, persuade them, make them see what she wants them to see.
And, once her friends have drunk from the human too, so can they.
The balance of power has changed, even if the humans don't know it yet. And now it's Vampismooth's turn to be hunted...
Region: England: Macclesfield
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I don't know I'm not her! :) I had to nominate it because it's a nice twist to the vampire fad and because Vampismooth is hilarious!
Re: Official Nomination Thread
Annnnndddd they STILL didn't go to the last page....oh well, at least I replied to the right post this time! :) Sorryyyyyyyy *passes out* I blame the Nanoness of it all. *raises flag*
Re: Official Nomination Thread
Well, I don't have a whole lot of this worked out yet, obviously, and I'm sure I'm already too late for this, but here goes:
User name: anonymoose
Title: After Images
Genre: Mystery / a hint of SF
Synopsis:
Cam's life has always been difficult. Being abandoned by her mother as an infant was only the start. But she has used the ability/affliction which has made her an outsider and turned it to art. She has drawn herself in - into a home she rarely leaves, and a solitary life with as few ties to others as possible. However, the one person she has let close before - and the one person who has most disappointed her - comes to her for help. Because he needs Cam's sight.
Cam's particular curse is to see the trail left behind anything that moves. Shadows hang in the air as a ghostly record of all movement, lingering for days. Seeing things that aren't there anymore, flinching at actions that happened days before, and feeling overwhelmed in a crowd on an empty sidewalk aren't things she can talk about with anyone. Life is much easier far away from everyone and everything else, such as the dangers of crossing a street full of the shadows of every car to pass for a week or the headache of navigating the sea of images of moving bodies anywhere she goes. The horrors of using a public restroom aren't to be considered...
Reluctantly, Cam gives in, and helps Mark one last time. But when Mark disappears and Cam's life is threatened, she finds out his simple favor wasn't quite what it seemed. Forced out into a world she has avoided for so long, survival depends not just on coping with her unwelcome gift, but on trying to find anyone she can trust in a life she has nearly stripped of human contact.
Region: USA :: New York :: Buffalo
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe late-20's Emma de Caunes?
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Wow, I'd definitely read it. Keep up the good work! :) I hope yours gets a cover!
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I'm seconding Anonymoose's After Images! :)
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User name: Jake S.
Title: Shadow King's Gambit
Genre: Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
Synopsis: Years ago, the evil King Malice of Nordgrind was banished from the world Kronea. His most feared weapon, the Runesword, has been hidden, putting Malice into a deep sleep.
Now, a man, finds the Runesword, and it's power has awakened it's master.
The King will stop at nothing to find his weapon, and conquer the whole world. It is up to a failed ranger, a thief who has lost everything, and a mage who faints when spell casting, to destroy the King once and for all.......if they live.
Region: USA: IDAHO: BOISE
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Sam Worthington
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Username:Ggirl101
Title: The Babysitting Secret
Genre:Action/ Science Fiction (?)
Synopsis: A teenage girl with lots of sass from a small town is tired of her boyfriend teaching her about weapons, thinking it will never prove useful. But, late one night while she is babysitting, waves of zombies rush through, and she is trapped in an attic of a strange, old house with two kids. She must take authority, find hope, use the resources they have, and take the young siblings in as her family. Will she ever see her true love again? Will the three survive to see the next week?
Region:USA::Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Maybe Abigail Breslin (if she's old enough by the time this might happen, then definitely), Emma Watson, or Emma Roberts
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User name: Cooper3
Title: Tyler's Profession
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Synopsis:
Rebecca Bristol, high school junior and vengeful Goth, has an eleven-year-old grudge against her classmate Tyler Ingert, the one person that made her happy, and also broke her heart. Perhaps it's ironic that Tyler is also the young man that can save her. If Tyler told her what he really is - a healing wizard respected in the magical underground community - and what he does - living costume crafter, doctor, clinical psychologist - then things would turn out alright. Alas, nothing is simple.
But things change when Rebecca steals an object from Tyler, one magical item to bring them both together and partially amend their long avoidance, starting with Rebecca transforming into a mermaid for the night and going to camp with other troubled teens and adults, and put her on the right path.
How Rebecca will accept his help will be hard to grasp. Small steps towards a healed life.
From the author of Mana Pool comes a new series of magic, redemption, and self-discovery.
Region: Riverside County, California
Actor: Thomas Dekker and Emma Roberts
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User name: cygwriter
Title: Imprint: Genesede
Genre: Science Fiction Suspense
Synopsis: Suspense and Genetic Science served on a hot plate of Espionage.
The more Ulyn tries to escape the imprints of his past, the more they become a part of him.
Ulyn Gant was living the life he worked hard to earn. As a merchant vessel captain for Usius Corporation, Ulyn Gant's only concern should have been loading cargo and where to take it. However, when he arrived at the docks, he is informed that the cargo is missing. His contracted load had been offloaded to someone else. What is usually considered a typical pay-out at a dock to guarantee another payload becomes trouble for Gant, when he learns that the payout was used in a well designed trap to appear like a bribe. Facing a Smart Parole review for crimes he was forced to take part in from his past, this is his last review, his last chance to be freed from behavioral implants called Tricon. Failing his review could mean his imprisonment in a cryoprison or worse, since he is a clone, a life sentence in experimentation labs.
Labs cloned Ulyn and pirates used him for Trade. Calling him his son, Forten Juless rented Gant to Krege terrorists for per job basis. His last stand on a ship, he shot a man he knew as his brother, another Krege, who was going to kill a captain. At fifteen years old, he ran away from both factions and tried to get help from station personnel. The people he ran to for help, Planetary Defense security, instead imprisoned him, and in a political flury, he was made an example of and placed in an experimentation lab. Two years later, a compassionate PDC captain took Gant to his father's ship. Despite opposition, Ian McSwaig, Gant's true father and the owner of StatCom Covert Agency and Private Military Group, called in the best specialists and reformed his son. Gant proved that with Trades, the reform was possible. Not wanting to work for his father's company, Ulyn studied shipping and certified with Usius Shipping as a Merchant Marine. He earned his status as Captain the hard way, through scrubbing decks and hitting the books. He returned his father's favor by hiring reforms as crew for his ship.
This book starts with Ulyn at age twenty-five, during his last haul before his final review, Gant, learns that pirates and Kreges are back to hunt him again. With a bribe-set vote on the blocks to end reform efforts, it is obvious that if Kreges can prove Gant never reformed, their next target could be his father or his father's agency. However, Gant knows the attacks will not stop with his father. While checking a damaged cargo container, he finds proof of that fact: two child cygents in cryostasis. Sleeper cells, who later tell him they have both broken the programming via a code, a code that can be sent over a signal, or transmitted through the smart parole implant. The Kreges do not want any agent having that code. The children had traded the cargo container numbers so they could be put on Gant's ship.
Meanwhile, two ships follow Gant and sabotage tears through his decks.
Gant does not see any hope of his being paroled. He questions his own reform, given the thoughts in his head.
Instead of review, Gant is asked to leave his captaincy behind and return to the enemies he ran away from. He considers the alternative is far worse, and agrees to return. This time, the people he once lost the most trust in now have to trust him, as he infiltrates a Krege ship, as a spy for Planetary Defense.
Region: USA: California: Central Valley
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Ulyn Gant: Burak Özçivit ( Ozcivit, turkish actor)
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User Name: CarynSKA
Title: Ravens
Genre: Short Stories / Horror
Synopsis: Ravens is a collection of 18 3,000 word stories, each one loosely based on stanza of Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven. The first short story is based on the first stanza, the second story is based on the second stanza and so on, and so on.
Region: Detroit Michigan!!!
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I don't have one main character, rather each story has one. But I think I'd love for Collin Firth to play Nathan, the main character in my second story.
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User name: Angelglitched
Title: Good Luck.
Genre: Mystery\Thriller
Synopsis: It was supposed to be another routine job. Emphasis on 'supposed'.
But how was I to know that this would happen? Especially since I'm not very good at this myself?
Originally, it was a suicide. Then murder. Then everything just happened.
Thanks to whoever that I used to believe in that there was someone who could help me. Someone who had the brains (but not the energy) to help figure this out. Someone who didn't mind dumping all the credit on me. Someone who could actually catch the demented culprit running around town.
Someone who would be able to pin the blame all on me in the end.
~Smith.
Region: [REDACTED]
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Uh...no one I can think of, actually. I based Smith off a fictional character.
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User name: Alli Kubo
Title: memory
Genre: Scifi/mystery
Synopsis:Society has given up memory for immortality. Every one lives for 35 years, then their bodies stop functioning and die. To rejuvinate them and thus sustain the human population, the Sanction allows for their bodies to be recycled and rejuvinated so they come back as spry teenagers but their memory is completely erased.
Two lovers have been brought back from the dead and don't remember anything but each other, struggling with memories not their own they continue on a doomed romance as they discover a deadly secret which is their own tragic end.
Region: Dystopian city and surburban neighborhood. Somewhat like Chicago and the surrounding towns.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Janice- AnnaSophia Robb
Raul- Skandar Keynes
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User name: KristenH
Title: Countdown to Zero
Genre: Thriller/Romantic Suspense
Synopsis: Four years ago, Kendall Hart was falsely imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Now, as her execution approaches on Death Row, she gets sick and has a one-week reprieve. A week later, she's been giving a chance to prove her innocence with a catch. She would have only 72 hours to do so under protective custody by a U.S. Marshal, and a few hours of home arrest. If she fails, she would be executed by lethal injection. After she re-teams with her ex-boyfriend, Gary Walker, when she's under his watch, her trip back to Virginia Beach wouldn't be easy. People still want her dead, once they've learned she wasn't executed.
Determined to stop at nothing, she would go out and go undercover for three days and three nights with three aliases. She would learn who betrayed her and set her up, while she discovers who framed her, and why Gary betrayed her, when he arrested her and then broke her heart. With few friends and more enemies, she's dealing with a lot, since she haven't recovered from the car accident that almost claimed her life and put her in a coma. Plus, she remembers the assignment she was assigned to, at the local newspaper, as a successful and well-known photojournalist, and somehow people she knew and the evidence she had disappeared. She would learn why she was treated like a "puppet" and who derailed her future with Gary, four years ago. She would fall in love with Gary again and trust him, once she discovered what made him leave the police and join the U.S. Marshals.
During the past three days, proving her innocence gets harder, as her lawyer files an emergency appeal and asks for her to be paroled. She would learn why the military and the police and other heavy-hitters have deemed her as public enemy one. Before time runs out, she would have to stop the clock with Gary's help or die trying, right down to the final minutes of the zero hour.
Region: Ohio: Akron
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Clive Owen or Gerard Butler
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User name: KristenH
Title: Countdown to Zero
Genre: Thriller/Romantic Suspense
Synopsis: Four years ago, Kendall Hart was falsely imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Now, as her execution approaches on Death Row, she gets sick and has a one-week reprieve. A week later, she's been giving a chance to prove her innocence with a catch. She would have only 72 hours to do so under protective custody by a U.S. Marshal, and a few hours of home arrest. If she fails, she would be executed by lethal injection. After she re-teams with her ex-boyfriend, Gary Walker, when she's under his watch, her trip back to Virginia Beach wouldn't be easy. People still want her dead, once they've learned she wasn't executed.
Determined to stop at nothing, she would go out and go undercover for three days and three nights with three aliases. She would learn who betrayed her and set her up, while she discovers who framed her, and why Gary betrayed her, when he arrested her and then broke her heart. With few friends and more enemies, she's dealing with a lot, since she haven't recovered from the car accident that almost claimed her life and put her in a coma. Plus, she remembers the assignment she was assigned to, at the local newspaper, as a successful and well-known photojournalist, and somehow people she knew and the evidence she had disappeared. She would learn why she was treated like a "puppet" and who derailed her future with Gary, four years ago. She would fall in love with Gary again and trust him, once she discovered what made him leave the police and join the U.S. Marshals.
During the past three days, proving her innocence gets harder, as her lawyer files an emergency appeal and asks for her to be paroled. She would learn why the military and the police and other heavy-hitters have deemed her as public enemy one. Before time runs out, she would have to stop the clock with Gary's help or die trying, right down to the final minutes of the zero hour.
Region: Ohio: Akron
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Clive Owen or Gerard Butler for male lead
Female lead would be Reese Witherspoon or Sandra Bullock
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User name: Staarienight
Title: The Glass Pool
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Tonight a choice shall be made,
And the price will be paid,
It won't be forgotten for generations to come,
Peace shall be found when all magic becomes one
Years ago, a choice was made. The three magical races, Dragon, Elf, and Magmor met at the Glass Pool, where the guardian of magic, Fate, appeared to them. The elves, whose powers had weakened over the years offered their immortality to one of the other races in exchange for protection. In her anger of not being chosen, Reyna of the Magmors destroyed Fate, shattering the glass man. The pieces of Fate were scattered and throughout the years the greed of people have driven them to find the pieces. Aileen, a half-elf, grew up in the city of Doulurn a small city by sea. On the night when the choice was celebrated, the city was attacked and all in the city fled. Alone due to the deaths of her aunt and uncle and with only the strange guidance of a crazed storyteller, Aileen sets off to find an elven city in the forest of Ilvar, hoping to learn more of her past and what she can do help restore the magic destroyed so long ago.
Region: USA :: California :: Santa Clarita
The actor that would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Liv Tyler as Aileen, mostly because I love how she played Arwen in Lord of the Rings. Either her or someone with similar features.
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User name: hatshepsutxlll
Title: Perpetua
Genre: horror/supernatural
Synopsis:
Arliss is vain, irreligious, and apathetic of much of the world around him. So when he is badly scarred by the mustard gas of the trenches, he proclaims with complete confidence, he would rather live one day with his perfect face, than the rest of his days a monster. As a result of that statement he later finds himself skeptically accepting an offer by a mysterious doppelganger: "I will give you my face, if you will give me your fate."
The last thing Arliss Ayres wanted was immortality.
And so begins a search for answers, for a loophole in this twisted contract with an entity that seems to not even exist. What follows is a journey progressing through the first half of the twentieth century, as a grim world of dark magic, amaranthine, and the macabre reveals itself. But decades can change a man. As a now increasingly distant objective justifies a tangled web of lies, avarice, and contracts, he realizes,
He traded a grotesque appearance, for being a monster of another kind.
Region: USA :: Chicago
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: maybe a younger Jim Caviezel
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User name: Pointy-Hatted Geek
Title: The Abnormally Brief and Briefly Abnormal Life of Alyssa Ray
Genre: YA Fantasy
Synopsis:
Welcome to the life of Alyssa Ray, an extraordinary young girl. She is the oldest of four children, a brilliant student (even though for the sake of appearances, she doesn't publicize that fact), and possibly the most exciting thing ever to happen to her town of 764 people (and some cows)--and the premonitions don't make her any less extraordinary.
However, it takes an arrow fired by an angel for Alyssa Ray to be hurled into the most exciting (and last) adventure of her tragically short life. What happens when you throw a teenager with a rebellious streak and a knack for seeing the future into the middle of a war between the forces of Heaven (the bad guys) and the Devil's ragtag army (the good guys)?
All hell breaks loose.
Region: USA :: District of Columbia
The actor who would play my main character (Alyssa Ray) in the movie adaptation: Hard to say, because they have to be fairly young, which really narrows down the possibilities. Ellen Page or Emma Stone if they could pull off Alyssa Ray's bit of edge well enough. Otherwise, I think Emma Watson could do it. (The setting would have to shift, though.)
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User name: AllieLyn
Title: Run, Don't Walk
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Synopsis: Ever since Audra had taken Lex’s hand, it seemed all she’d been doing was running. Running from The Elite who only wanted her because of her parents. Running from The Academy who, even though they were the good guys, were trying to conceal the truth about her parents from her. Running from the truth, because even though she needs to know, she’s not sure if she really wants to. Running from her feelings because even though they felt right, they were oh so forbidden.
Audra O’Neal’s life had never been and would never be what most would consider normal. She lost her parents in a car accident when she was twelve. She has never been to a public school since her parents had insisted on a boarding school far, far away. And though her guardians are nice, they can never replace the loss of her parents. Things become even less normal when she discovers that they were spies and comes home to find that her guardians have been murdered.
She is then catapulted into a hectic world filled with spies, lies and the not so occasional murder. Where the only “normal” thing left in her life happens to be Lex who helps her every step of the way to try and discover what really happened to her parents, and if they’re even really dead.
Region: USA::Ohio
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaption: I would have to say Kaya Scodelario, (but with red hair) just because she would have to be young and I rather hate of the young, famous actresses that would be able to play the part.
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Username: TKDgirlie
Title: Just Like Rocky
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: Rocky and his nomadic parents explore the world, moving at least once every year. Although he's done it many times, moving was never easy on Rocky, especially with his lack of confidence and horrible social abilities. His last move really hit him hard and he wonders if he will ever be able to recover from the loss of his best friend ever, Alex. The memories of their four months together won't leave him alone. The appearance of a new friend, Jack, won't rid Rocky of his past. Even Alex's summer visit dosent help to relieve Rocky of the memories, but worsens them, making him feel less confident than ever. But when he's really needed, will he be able to rise to the challenge and stand up for himself and others, or will he not find the couage to help even himself? And what will he do when he has to move again?
Region: USA: Texas: Houston
Actors: Joel Courtney as Rocky, Chloe Moretz as Alex, Isabelle Fuhrman as Jack.
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User name: lizfountain
Title: The Life and Death of Saint Guinefort
Genre: Literary fiction with a speculative bent
Synopsis: Guinefort – known as Guinn – finds herself responsible for the death of a child. Ready to do herself in as penance, she is offered a deal: Take over for Death, who is pining for an early retirement, and leave the world without risking the eternal damnation that follows suicide. Guinn agrees, believing her life is over; then, in carrying out her Deathly duties, she falls in love. With a human man. She can’t touch him, or he’ll die. Guinn has to figure out how to love him in a way that allows him to live. Meanwhile, it turns out he’s the only human who can see her; and his relationship with Death will change his Life.
Region: Seattle
The actor who would play my main character in the movie adaptation: Guinn would be astonished to see Jennifer Jason Leigh playing her onscreen. Lewis, the man she falls in love with, could be a slightly younger David Morse, and his best friend, James, is Mark Addy (from The Full Monty). (Oh jeez. what do I know... I write, I don't cast! :-))
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User name: enoughofordinary
Title: Take A Chance On Me
Genre: Chick Lit
Synopsis:
A slightly off-beat young professional named Margaret Louise (MarLo to her friends) is making her way into adulthood. Four years out of college, she’s keeping pace with the music industry in Seattle, WA as a New Media promotional assistant, a job she enjoys, with the anticipated possibility of promotion (if the office co-irker doesn’t get to it first). Having just attended her best friend Kate's wedding, Margaret must adjust to their changing friendship, as there isn’t as much room in her BF’s life for her as there use to be. After a blind date fails to show up, Margaret hits a low point until a kind stranger takes the date’s place. A friendship slowly kindles between the two, but there’s something about him that she doesn’t know. As things heat up at work and Kate announces the impending arrival of her first child, will Margaret and the gentleman stranger’s friendship stand a chance at being something more? And when Margaret finally learns the truth, will she even want there to be?
Region: USA: Texas
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Amy Adams
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User Name: Relisobel
Title: Zombies: A Love Story
Genre: Horror/Supernatural
Synopsis: In the wake of the outbreak of infection, Z-class citizens are trying to find their place in the new world. Segregated into habitats, their contact with Pure Beings is limited to an absoloute minimum while The Extermination Proposal is awaiting its verdict.
Young Zombie Twyla has come to terms with her grim fate, but all that is about to change. She is about to rediscover her will to live, but can a romance between a Pure Being and a Z survive against all odds?
Region: Australia, Melbourne
Actor who would play your main character: Jodelle Ferland
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User name: Barbara Neill
Title: Small World
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Anna and Janine have been best friends since schooldays. In their twenties, they work together in a busy sales office and spend much of their spare time playing an internet based game called Small World, where they can create a life full of excitement and magic, experienced by their own avatar. Jezebel is Janine's avatar and Angel is Anna's.
Without warning Janine disappears and Anna, bereft by the loss of her friend, escapes to Small World with increasing frequency until she finds herself transported, through a portal, into Small World, taking the place of her avatar. In Small World she is reunited with Janine, (now Jezebel), who tries to help her adjust to her new life, as she, herself, has.
Unable to accept that she will live in Small World for ever, Angel teams up with Tom and, together, they vow to find the portal that can take them home, avoiding many dangers along the way.
Eventually, they find the portal but, at the same time, they discover a horrifying truth..
Region: Kent, UK
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Watson
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User name: AMKoenig
Title: Sword of Justice
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Ione Praetor, young paladin of Robu, the Mirror Eyed, goddess of Justice, accidently becomes involved in a plot that shakes the very foundations of her temple.
During a simple tasking to stand vigil over a dying mercenary, Ione is visited in a vision by what appears to be one of the forbidden Elder Gods, none of which are pleasant to behold or easy to understand. The confrontation leaves her with a visible mark, a curiously cold artifact and numerous questions. The quest for the answers to those questions take her on a journey that will lead to the edge of the world.
At first glance this story appears to be simply an old fashioned yarn about good versus evil. But this tale of high adventure, complete with shadowy villains, cryptic visions and mind teasing puzzles reveals itself to be much more. Questions don't always lead to pleasing answers and visions don't always lead down a righteous path
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User name: LoriiMyers
Title: Stream of Consciousness
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Synopsis:
Katrina, in a riveting encounter with death, is forced to revisit her not so pleasant past. She faces her demons, and her truths, while on a desperate quest. It is her sudden reality, her stream of consciousness that pulls her deeper into the chilling unknown.
Desperate to find some calm in life she tries to start writing again, a pastime that was once her passion, her guilty pleasure. This time around though she is writing out of control; the words come fast, as fast as she can type, words that she, the author, is terrified to read.
Caught living in apprehension; feeding her fears, she finds herself fighting back unwelcome instances of former lives. It’s not until she finally realizes that her every move is being meticulously tracked … that she finds herself playing the most dangerous game of her life.
Region: Anywhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Julia Stiles
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User name: paperback-writer
Title: A Time of Horses
Genre: Historical Fiction
Synopsis: Lando Cruz cannot sleep at night. He is haunted by a recurring dream of wild horses running through them. A colleague at his construction job site commiserates that the dreams might mean that he is confronted by an overwhelming power beyond his control. Later that morning he is provoked by a discriminatory inspector, “Red”, who is making life hard on his Spanish-speaking crew. It is then that real overwhelming force in Lando’s life emerges—his out-of-control anger. Lando not only has a meltdown, which hurts his cause at work and threatens his job, but he wrecks his car on the way home.
Out of the smoldering wreckage, Lando is captivated by a herd of magnificent horses crossing the highway that stopped traffic. He follows them to a mysterious rancho, once belonging Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, where horses are a measure of influence, power, and wealth. Lando meets a disillusioned young officer in the Mexican Army there, hiding his uniform in a donkey shed under the straw. Lieutenant Edberto Del Toro has just surrendered to a handful of Americans rebels outside of Sutter's Fort and resigned his commission in disgrace.
After initially clashing, the two men find that are they both confronted with picking up the pieces of their shattered careers: the lieutenant overcoming failure and dishonor, and Lando learning to manage his rage. Lando and Edberto put aside their personal differences to rescue a teenage Californio who has been crimped into the service of a merchant ship, taking them on a voyage from Yerba Buena Cove to the Sandwich Islands. A Time of Horses vividly brings to life the gallantry and brutality and sense of adventure of the day. With help of Lieutenant Del Toro, Lando Cruz searches the corners of world for the missing youth, as well as the personal disciple and dignity he must find to tame his wild horses back in the year 2011.
Region: Solano County
Actor who would play my main characters in the movie adaptation: Lando Cruz: Benjamin Bratt; Lieutenant Edberto Del Toro: Gael Garcia Bernal
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User name: KttyB78
Title: Unexpected Occurances {title in waiting}
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Kanda, the Tohopka princess, has rare {hidden} powers which no one knows about. Both of her parents were killed the night she and her protector, Elan, fled the castle.
Tohon, the youngest son of a rival clan’s leader, would rather spend his time out in the battlefield, then be tied down to some woman. When his older brother dies at the hands of an enemy Tohon is forced to take his brother’s place as the new soon-to-be head of the family. As such his father decides to wed him to Kanda.
When Kanda’s secret powers start to emerge she becomes determined to return to her homelands and free the remainder of her people. With the help of Elan and Tohon she must battle their most fearsome enemies and keep her powers from falling into the hands of evil in order to prevent worldwide chaos.
Region: MO
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Probably... Summer Glau.
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Username: Melzy1998
Title: P.O.W.E.R.S.
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
Synopsis: Elowyn Campbell knows that she is different. So does everyone around her. So they try and avoid her as much as possible. Wherever she goes, questions arise. Not just from others, but from herself as well. Who is Lynne? Why does she keep coming back to try to kill her? And who is P.O.W.E.R.S.? Or better yet... What is P.O.W.E.R.S.?
Region: Ontario, Canada
Actor who would play my main character in the movie adaption: Jennifer Lawrence but with ginger hair. :)
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User name: jenntraveler
Title: Lemon Sized Hole
Synopsis: Remember that time when you got diagnosed with stage four cancer, and your husband leaves you for another woman? Ya. This chipper novel's about that.
Region: United States, Oregon
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
An otherwise unknown actor who will, undoubtedly, be in demand after her astonishing performance.
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User name: jlhastings
Title: This is Life
Genre: Youth/Young Adult
Synopsis: Raised by her grandfather and, distantly, her father, Jacquelyn "Jac" Chase has never really had a woman's touch in her life. Instead, she is loud, unpredictable, wild and some might even say a tom boy. Jac competes in extreme sports and often gets into fights, having a fiery and intense temper. She wears combat boots, baggy clothes and prefers hanging with the boys.
Except for one girl. Her name was Lyra Aiako. Lyra was the complete opposite of Jac. Part Japanese and raised by her two aunts, having lost her parents in a car accident when she was very young, Lyra was the very picture of a well-behaved, effeminate girl. Unless, of course, she was competing. She was very independent and stubborn, and never took no for an answer.
Lyra and Jac were highly competitive against one another. If there was some kind of sport, they were competing against each other in it. Usually, Lyra's cool head and ability to work through her emotions made her end up on top. Despite their competitiveness, the two girls were extremely close, right up until Lyra moved to Japan under mysterious circumstances.
Ten years later, Lyra has returned and once again, the girls find themselves competing against one another, this time for their own column in a popular magazine. But this time, Jac notices that things aren't quite the same between them. Lyra seems more cold, reserved, distant. But Jac has changed, too. Since her grandfather's death, she's been getting into some rather nasty habits: drugs, alcohol, you name it. Can Jac see through her own problems long enough to get to the bottom of what's going on with her once best-friend?
Region: United States: Georgia
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I have two-- Allison Scagliotti for Jac and Komatsu Ayaka for Lyra.
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User name: Raincoat-Vigilante
Title: Number Three Twenty-One
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis:
In the dystopian, gray-smog future of mankind, a curious kestrel aims to break out of his miserable, caged life. However, escape into the realm ruled by humans proves to be an equally forlorn existence.
Plagued by vicious foes and harsh survival, the kestrel numbered 321 struggles to find his purpose in a world where purpose doesn't belong, and his place in a world where animals don't belong.
Region: Unstated, but highly urbanized city with a lot of gray-smog. Yup.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Um. I don't know any famous birds. So any male kestrel will do.
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User name: britbyro
Title: The Primrose
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: After the death of his never-there mother Fabian Jenson received money and a letter from her telling him to explore the world. How much does a nineteen year old boy need to get on a plane and go somewhere? On one of Fabian's stops he goes to see the Castle of Berg. When there Fabian is attacked, and wakes up in a strange world of the Faie. Fabian has to learn to cope with a new world, and hopefully find his way back home.
Region: Kennesaw, Ga
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User name: tinydancer1227
Title: Don't Drink the Punch
Genre: Fantasy/ Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Spencer Pierce is the middle child in a family of six, and the only girl. She lives in a small town in the Midwest, and has a simple, teenage life. With a teacher and a coach that underestimates her, Spencer is willing to do anything that will get her to what she wants. But when she digs too deep into a story for her school's newspaper about a seemingly small group run by a determined leader forming in her town. She gets trapped in the group like a dinosaur in a tar pit. Nothing is what it seems, becoming all to real and all too dangerous; witnessing sacrifices, genetic mutating, and transformations. Soon, not only is her chance for acceptance in danger, but also her life, her family and her love by the crazy people who will do anything to make sure their story does not get out.
Region: USA: Illinois
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Definitely Emma Stone or Bonnie Wright.
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User name: s3pendleton
Title: Elicit Heart, Sequel to "Kiss Me Deadly"
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Synopsis:
Years have passed and Marjolaine still cannot forget how Jason tasted on her lips. Only two have ever sampled hers. The first stole her life. The second almost cost Jason his. A third certainly would.
Marjolaine had a duty is to her family in Italy, but she longed for her former freedom. Her friendship with Rachel has survived the distance, but the topic of her brother was forbidden. She'd woven her spell to protect him from the horrors he'd witnessed at her hands, but she would relive them daily. Durante was ever patient with her. Eternity was not enough time to repay him for saving Jason's life and still she couldn't refuse the memories that held her captive.
As much as she is determined to do right by Jason, someone else is interfering to play a deadly game. Jason is merely a pawn to use Marjolaine and ultimately Durante to gain power. Marjolaine must uncover the who is puppetting them before she loses her delicate self-control and kills the man she loves.
Region: Lowell/Nashua
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Len aka Marjolaine - Monica Belucci
Jason - Chris Ivan Cevic
Rachel - Sarah Michelle Gellar
Nina aka Naamah - Angelina Jolie
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User name: morrodin
Title: Faerie Story
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Faerie is dying.
The belief that gave the ancient land its power slowly fades away, and no seems able to stop the slow and inevitable decline. Regents sit the thrones of the two Courts instead of Faerie's true rulers, who have been missing for milennia, and the nobility slowly becomes more and more lost within their own ostentatious frivolity.
Ian MacScath has lived a life of exile from Faerie for the last three centuries, living a life of seclusion and study within London, and serving the will of the rulers of Faerie.
When a secretive and cryptic mission leads Ian to the esteemed Litchfield house though, he discovers a girl who may represent Faerie's only hope of a future.
Region: USA::Minnesota
The actor who would play your main character in a movie adaptation: Jude Law
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User name: Blank_Penname
Title: Otherkin: The Hunter's Prey
Genre: Other (fantasy-ish)
Synopsis: A group of Otherkin (different fantasy races) have been trying to repair after the race-war two years ago because one of the Otherkin society members was murdered. Though, recently, things have been getting worse as a group of Hunters that previously had an arrangement to leave the Otherkin in Ethica alone, have broken their promise and have started systematically taking Otherkin's lives.
Region: USA::Ohio
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Difficult to say, with a cast this big.
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User name: Aherl
Title: The Earth Wife
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Synopsis: A teen from a small, conservative town grapples with her own sexuality and stumbles into a relationship with a new student who is a visitor from another planet. His race is dying out and has made a final push to find suitable breeding partners on earth and a few other planets.
Region: Boston, MA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Troian Avery Bellisario, & Chord Overstreet
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User name: starlost
Title: Mars Quake
Genre: Sci Fi
Synopsis: When astronomer Dana Wright observes an unusual phenomenon on Mars, she photographs what she believes is writing. In her attempt to convince officials further exploration is warranted, she meets Tom Matthews, a Senator’s Aide who is willing to help her negotiate the red tape she encounters. However Mathews has his own reasons to assist her. The images evoke a memory from a long-ago past buried deep within him – the images are not writing, he professes, but buildings, structures made by intelligent beings.
Since his army days, Tom has been able to recall all of his past lives and the people with whom he shared them. He experiences a past life moment of them when he meets that person in present time; that is, until he met Dr. Wright, someone he's never met before.
As a scientist, Dr. Wright is skeptical of how Tom “knows” things. Tom’s memory, whether Dr. Wright likes it or not, is the key to the new markings that have appeared on the Martian surface.
Region: Raleigh Durham
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Nathan Fillian, Jody Foster and Michael Douglas as The Senator.
User name: Fleurily
Title: Anita Allen & The Gamble
Genre: Horror/Supernatural
Synopsis:
On December 1, 1925, Anita Allen lost $25.00 and her soul in a card game with the Devil.
In a matter of days, her life is turned upside down. As a working girl, she's still balancing her secretarial job and landlord problems with the evenings full of jazz and illegal alcohol with her mobster heir beau; after the lights go out in the speakeasy, an odd man named Don drags her around Chicago, teaching her how to become a Reaper, taking the souls of the unlawfully living to keep the balance between the afterlife and the living world in equilibrium.
But learning to shoot a gun and run across icy rooftops are the least of Anita's concerns: Her first target is the alderman of Ward 6, a corrupt politician with close ties to the organized crime heads of the city. Through a series of failed attempts on the alderman's life (and more than a few close calls with her own), she starts becoming more familiar with her powers and learns about a fatal conspiracy against her beau's father and the Rinella Family as a whole.
Forbidden to interfere with the mob war that's about to break out in Chicago, Anita has to find a way around the silence her new master has imposed upon her- Or risk losing the people she loves to a massacre she can't possibly prevent on her own.
Region: USA::Colorado::Fort Collins
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Clare Maguire
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User name: Author2b
Title: It's Not Your Time Yet, Brother
Genre: General Fiction
Synopsis: Brad Mitchell, a man who has touched a great number of lives is fed up with his own life and tries to commit suicide. Brad is the all around good guy who is ALWAYS making a personal or financial sacrifice for others, not because he has to, but because that is his nature. Lately, with all of the twists and turns of events in his life, it just doesn't seem like all of his effort and sacrificing is paying off. If it is he sure can't tell. In "It's Not Your Time Yet, Brother," Brad manages to avert suicide but is quickly thrown into a situation that causes a near death experience. His almost dead body is taken via ambulance to the prestigious Marcus Vanderbilt hospital where he codes on the table during emergency surgery. As the medical team struggles to revive him, Brad's soul embarks on a journey that he had always looked forward to, but did not realize just how much he was not ready for yet. In heaven, Brad Mitchell encounters many of the people whose lives he has effected; some which he knew and many others that he didn't. Read the gripping drama that unfolds in "It's Not Your Time Yet, Brother" and see how Brad discovers just how the very things he thought were insignificant mattered so much in the lives of others-- he discovers just how important his life and service to God really is. Brad finds out that there is still work to be done. He discovers how we all must follow through and let God use us in His perfect plan as He accomplishes His Biblical goals. Brad Mitchell learns what we all need to bear in mind that while we are still alive: We all have a purpose!
Region: Northern VA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Will Smith
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This is my second nomination This one for a book that I started with during a previous Nanowrimo and it is almost completed
User name: Author2b
Title: Expect A Miracle
Genre: Crime Fiction
Synopsis: Expect a Miracle is the story of Detective Darin Frost who was a thriving cop that the mob loved to hate. Darin and his partner were getting too close in their investigation and the mob had to find a way to silence him. With the help of "dirty" cops they were able to get Darin into a situation in which he was injured to the point that he was unable to return to work. Darn's arch enemy, Mikey Campinieri has sworn revenge on Darin. It was Darin who put Mikey's father, the previous leader of the Campinieri crime family behind bars. On the eve of Giussepe Campinieri's release, he was murdered. Darin now has an uphill battle trying get himself back in shape to do what he loves best... being a cop. His only path of return is to return as a canine officer... Darin hates dogs. After some difficulty and a demonstration his loyalty Darin accepts Max, a German Shepherd, as his partner and Darin accepts Max. Together along with their partner Jamie Carpenter they endeavor to take down the Campinieri crime family before the Campinieri family gets them.
Region: Northern VA
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Will Smith or Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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User name: Penelope Wrightly
Title: The King Who Never Laughed
Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy
Synopsis: In a world beyond space and time, there lies a world where everything is connected. Within this world there is a king who never laughs; his heart is dark and his eyes tell stories that make others tremble in his presence. Within this world there lies a labyrinth below its surface, giving energy to all who live there; but parts of it are starting to die out as its heart is fading and growing as dark as its king. Who will make the king smile again? And who will make this world come alive once more...? Two young women from our time are about to find out, as they make their journey to a world they never could have imagined.
Region: USA: CA: San Luis Obispo County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:either Richard Armitage or Ralph Fiennes
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User name: blackkeysonly
Title: The Nightmare Hour
Genre: Sci-fi/fantasy (YA)
Synopsis: Annabeth Phillips was just trying to survive being a teenager in New York City. After dying in a dream, she had to make a choice: never wake up, or protect her city from monsters she didn't even know existed. Once the bargain was struck, Annabeth began to see things between midnight and one every night. Nightmares. The creatures have been coming into our world from theirs since the beginning of time, attempting to unlock the secrets of our minds. Once they do, they can figure out to slowly break them down. Their planet is dying, and they know it. The only solution that the Nightmares can see is to move into our world. However, in order to inhabit earth after the Nightmare Hour, they must inhabit the body of a human. Now the Nightmare Hour is beginning to shorten as their planet weakens, and the creatures are becoming more aggressive than ever in their attempts at understanding how to unhinge the human mind.
Now Annabeth must try to survive this harsh reality where the Nightmares don't go away after you wake up. With the help of an old friend, and a talking piece of futuristic hardware named Thomas, Annabeth attempts to protect her world from something only she can fight. However, when the Nightmares unlock the secret to inhabiting the human mind, Annabeth will have to choose again: save herself, or the people she loves.
Region: USA: Wisconsin
Actors in movie adaption: Annabeth- maybe a ginger version of Chloe Moretz....
Nate- Logan Lerman. But with lighter hair. Or maybe a American version of William Moseley
Thomas- (or at least, his voice) Matthew Gray Gubler. Hands down.
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User name: I Can't Write For My Life
Title: Under the Soul
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
Synopsis:The Institution. Fanny Evan never really knew why she was there, why she seemed to have no family, why no other child there did either. But she never really felt the urge to know.Until she starts uncovering truths and finding things that she never really wanted to find and starts unveiling secrets that she should had never unveiled.
And it all starts with the Woods, the place that no child is permitted to enter, her almost supernatural intuition that led her to an isolated girl who calls herself Subject 1367 and her two friends Jaden and Carter who also seem to be having some secrets and powers of their own.
Region: USA: Arizona
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Dakota Fanning with brown hair.
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Shamelessly self-nominating, because this would be a dream!
User name: HeadInTheClouds18
Title: Crossfire
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:Evie, Annabelle, Willow, and Maria are four fairy friends with completely opposite lives--Evie lives in the "perfect" midsize family, but has always been young and pushed aside. She is unnormally small, but has history that even she herself cannot realize. Can Evie resist temptation that comes her way and do what is right?
Annabelle's parents are divorced, and her mother is a frazzled human who leaves her all the work. She has dreams of becoming a fairy godmother, but needs to overcome adversity and her abusive father.
Willow's mother died five years ago, and she takes care of her little sister--or rather, her little sister takes care of her. She is always off in her own world, loveably confused and funny. However, can she snap out of it quickly enough to save her friends and herself?
Maria is the daredevil in the big family, trying to get noticed as the youngest child no one pays attention to. She is quite the fashionista, but is pressured to become something a little more scholarly. She also is super flirtatious, having dated every guy who walks her way. Can she become something more than a pretty face, and prove to everyone that there is more than meets the eye to this seductive girl?
And of course, there is April King, an evilly-dark-minded villain who harnesses goblins as her minions. She was wronged by the fairy kingdom years before the girls were even born, and now wishes to put together pieces of an ancient artifact that could destroy everyone she has ever hated. She desires Evie's hidden powers and will stop at nothing to get them, and her in the process. Meanwhile, she is causing havoc everywhere, even going so far as to attack the Fairy Queen's palace.
Little does Evie know that April wants her talents, and is practically walking into a trap when the four girls escape from boarding school to find April and take matters into their own hands. Along the way, they meet Cuthbert, a Goode baby dragon whose brother has been kidnapped by April and turned Evile. With this new task on their shoulders, the girls find resolve to keep going and a new ally with many helpful assets.
Danger meets them along the way, and with time running out to reach April before April reaches them, Evangeline "Evie" Robertson has a big task on her undersized shoulders--save the world. And quckly, no less.
Region: USA::Ohio::Cleveland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Bella Thorne
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User name: Ruedolf
Title: Dignity of the Dwarves
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
Åmlibash, an aging Dwarven civilization is facing rule by a new king following the death of the beloved King Morrin. Will the new King be able to maintain a peace in the heart-broken clan through his new ideals? Or will a victim of his poorly-made investment return decades later to be his downfall?
Region: USA:: Utah:: Utah County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I have a good number of major characters, so there is a wide range of possibilities. Though, I would have to say that the military hero would have to be played by Jude Law (as a dwarf of course).
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User name: Neri01
Title: The School Of Mystery
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Synopsis: This is the tale of a young man named Carlo tall, dark with colorless eyes, he is the descendant of the Heka an ancient people who lived along the Nile valley region then called ta-merry, they led neophytes through the passageway and into the school of mystery for thousands of years.
The Heka are the gatekeepers with the power to "walk between" This young man will cross paths with Amneris a beautiful Egyptologist, daughter to the translator to the Egyptian consulate, Carlo is to protect her and guide her safely to her destiny. She has no clue who she really is or from whence she truly came from.
They are both living in the present time but are originally from a time long ago, neither is aware of the gravity of each others destiny, yet there are those that know more than either of them do. Those that know hold the secret to the one true discovery in all human history.
Amneris is the key and Carlo is the gatekeeper, with so many forces trying to thwart their path and beat them to the ultimate truth its a race to the finish with the winner gaining total enlightenment and the answer to all things.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Carlo - Brian White ; Amneris - Jurnee Smollett
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User name: Geneaholic
Title: Devil's Child
Genre: Autobiographical novel
Synopsis: Ana was brought into the world as the child who was anticipated to keep her parents' shaky marriage intact and, after two previous tries, was certain to be a boy named Benjamin. But from the time the doctor announced, "It's a girl," to well into adulthood, Ana would be not only a source of contention for her resentful mother, but completely loathed and unwanted. Out of her older two sisters and her, and a later half-sister, as her mother just couldn't get this boy-thing down, she was the least favorite. It was bad enough for a parent to have and to clearly show a favorite child, but having a clear least-favorite was much worse. As a result, Ana was the one child of the four sisters who would be neglected and abused emotionally, psychologically, physically, and even sexually. Her mentally ill older sister, who was also abusive to her, would even taunt her with the moniker, "Devil's Child," and would even throw steak-knives at her repeatedly. Soon Ana, too, became to believe she was the "Devil's Child." But when Ana finally decides she has had enough abuse, her life takes a dramatic turn. And her mother's dark past would soon come to light.
Region: USA: Alabama; North
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Kristen Stewart as the teen Ana because her "Bella" (Twilight) character, as I think she is in real life, has just the right amount of natural social awkwardness is somewhat tomboyish and good looks, while not being stunning, to play Ana.
For the adult Ana; Melissa Gilbert. (too bad I can't have the Little House Melissa Gilbert as my pre-teen Ana as she would be perfect. The "real" Ana even looked like her at that age.
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User name: LenaLunacy
Title: Runaway
Genre: Young Adult
Synopsis: After suffering for seventeen years at the hands of her abusive parents, Cassie finally snaps and leaves her home in Yorkshire for an apartment in London. Armed with only a suitcase of clothes and a fake I.D, she's forced to grow up quickly. Living in a tiny apartment, working all hours of the day and making more sacrifices than she'd expected Cassie soon finds herself feeling more than a little homesick. But with the hint of a romance brewing with an unlikely colleague Cassie faces a huge decision; will she give up and move back home? Or will she tough it out and make it in the real world away from her abusive family?
Region: Gloucestershire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone - Cassie
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Not sure, this might be too late but I'm posting anyways!
User Name: Tex Carver
Title: Red, White, and Blue: A Patriot's Adventure
Genre: Sci-Fi
Synopsis: After years of restoring his 1957 Ford, John McKenzie decides to take it on a trip down Historic Route 66. Half way into the trip, a storm forces him to take shelter for the night and when he wakes up everything has changed. Gone are all the modern conveniences he knew, and with it, the life he knew. Finding himself in the middle of a 1960's America that is recovering from a massive Russian invasion, John learns what it means to be a patriot.
Accepted into a small town that's still reeling from the invasion, he falls in with a group of men calling themselves Rangers. And as fate would have it, their leader, Captain James Hogan, had experienced the same thing as John only ten years earlier. He had the misfortune of being there when America was invaded and now he swore to help pick up the pieces. Determined to help his new friend in a land where anyone strange could be shot on ground of being a spy, he takes the man under his wing. Little does he know, it might just be John teaching him a thing or two.
Together they search out what is believed to be a group of Russian soldiers left behind who have been looting and killing the neighboring farms. They seek help from unlikely people, mainly Niabi Sanger, young woman from the local indian reservation. And they do their best to make sure that small town in middle America can continue it's idyllic lifestyle that was lost in the war.
Region: USA, Indiana
The Actor: Not a clue...Ryan Reynolds maybe?
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Username: sinisterkid
Title: The Toy People
Genre: Science Fiction
Synposis:
Quaders………………………………………………………
Four has the body of a gorgeous middle-eastern woman, but the mind of a small child and abilities that organisations all over the world covet. Her whole life she has lived in the white room that belongs to her, her two brothers, and her sister, but all changes when her siblings get the notion that escape is the best path to take.
The Toy Girl and a Train……………………………………
Thirteen years ago, scientist Soz Datel Devushka quit his job at the prestigious Nova Tech research center, taking all his secrets along with him. He bought a toy shop and invested his university degree in making trinkets for children alongside his only daughter, Olovo, who begins to rebel against the man she calls 'Father' as a strange impulse to see the trains takes over her.
The Mentalist’s End………………………………………….
Noia has grown up in the role of a mentalist in a travelling carnival, trained by her mother and her mother before her. After having her children ripped from her womb by a shady organisation, she lives for the moment where they will return, looking to end the one, lonely soul who knew about the operation.
Little Killer……………………………………………………….
Morie looks like your typical teenager, a little on the weird side with her white highlight, but just as obnoxious as the normal adolescent with her incessant gum chewing and headphones in her ears. Morie, though, has intentions no one on the bus she rides could possibly expect. With a needle in her coat pocket, she wait for her target to board the bus.
Region: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Actors:
Four: Freida Pinto
Olovo: Chloe Grace Moretz, but with loads of special effect makeup and long fire-engine red hair (not ginger, LITERALLY red)
Noia: Amanda Seyfried
Morie: A young Natalie Portman (think The Professional), but with poofy(er) hair?
Soz Datel: Anthony Hopkins at his creepiest.
There are many more characters, but what's the point in mentioning them if they don't appear in the synposis.
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User name: Lisa Taylor
Title: Crystallized
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Synopsis: Rachael Elizabeth has always known she is different. Fifteen years old and brilliant in a society that condemns individuality, Rachael leads a frustrating existence. Between parents who want her to get married and teachers who want her to stop asking questions, she is thankful for her only friend Annalise.
But if she thought she was strange before, it's nothing compared to after the dream.
Rachael is used to having strange dreams, but when a powerful crystal necklace jumps from her dreams and into reality, her life is turned upside down. Enter a ghost with a strange message, a book with invisible writing, and a fairy that seems to know more about Rachael than Rachael does, and she is convinced she's losing her mind. At least until Annalise has the same dream.
Now a darkness is growing in the forest and the girls are finding that their new found power is hard to hide in a structure driven society. Forced from their homes and with no where to run, can they save the town from its own people's greed, and the evil that hopes to take advantage of it?
Join in the beginning of this epic journey where the girls will not only begin to discover other worlds, but the magical origins of their own. Book 1 of the Crystal Chronicles.
Region: Lexington, KY
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A younger Zooey Deschanel maybe,
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User name: 7Epona7
Title: The Last Shadow
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: It is the year twenty-four forty-nine of the second age. Three kingdoms, led by the Elves, Humans and Half-elves, compete for power in various- and numerous- wars.
In the middle of this conflict is Tam Lowell, a boy in the Elfán army. Only seventeen years old, and he has already been assigned General of the army by Princess Ophelia III, the ruler of the Elfán kingdom. He recently won a war between the Elfán and Human kingdoms that got him the honoured title of Third Hero. He still has his life, his future, ahead of him. What could happen?
Enter Darhhkenbael Aneiugari, a mysterious boy from a distant land, who's come to the Elfán kingdom with a single purpose in mind...
Region: USA:: Alaska
The actor(s) who would play your main character(s) in the movie adaptation:
Tam Lowell: Logan Lerman
Princess Ophelia III: Helena Bonham Carter
Darhhkenbael Aneiugari: Zac Efron
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User name: ThaiBookworm
Title: A Bedtime Story for Hannah
Genre:Fantasy
Synopsis: The night Hannah came down with the flu, her mother received a phone call that made her cry, pack up her bags, drop Hannah off at Grandma's house, and leave town. No one knows where she went or when she's coming back. Hannah is sick and slightly grumpy, but she also knows something is wrong, and she's scared. Her grandma suddenly finds herself with the difficult task of explaining a lot of grown-up and complicated issues to Hannah, and she takes on the task in the least scary way she knows: through a bedtime story. Weaving three generations of hurt and happiness into an amalgamation of traditional fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel, The Travles of Sinbad, Hercules, The Swan Princess, and The Polar Bear King, Hannah's grandma guides her through the lovely mess that is her family history and helps her find healing.
Region: Missouri:Springfield
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: AnnaSophia Robb (if she was six or seven)
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User name: ahilton
Title: Things of Old
Genre: Dystopian Fiction
Synopsis:
The American city is dead, killed by our own hands. Years of over-consumption and greed stretched resources to the breaking point. In a desperate attempt to avoid total collapse, the government authorized the construction of Consolidated Districts. It was here that the government envisioned society would correct itself by increasing efficiency and productivity. They were wrong. A few haggard survivors remain in Consolidated District 111. With a swarm growing outside of their walls, they pin their hopes on finding survivors from other districts to save them from the locusts, who evolved from those left for dead during the consolidation.
Lead by the strong-willed, yet reluctant Cassarah, the band of survivors make contact with the remnants of Consolidated District 13. Rogue district member, Gage receives Cass’ pleas for help and makes plans to come their aid. Gage sets out alone, across the barren Sacrifice Zone, secretly hoping to secure whatever resources are available at 111 for himself. Along the way, Gage joins forces with the self-appointed curators, a group dedicated to the collection and preservation of human artifacts and relics.
The unlikely travel companions learn much about human nature, and their own inner demons as they make their way through the ghostly American heartland. Ultimately, Gage must decide where his loyalties lie and what he values in this world.
Region: Somewhere in the American heartland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Gage-Sam Worthington
Cass – Emma Stone
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User name: Safkhet
Title: Ovation
Genre: YA literature
Synopsis: Fame is everything- everything 17-year-old Kair Vaughn doesn't want. What he wants is to be dating, and flunking classes, and putting off applying to colleges, and hanging out with friends in parking lots. What he wants is to be ordinary.
But instead, Kair is writing top-of-the-charts rock albums. He's on tour- and antidepressants. He plays in front of thousands of screaming fans who worship him and his music. And his show-mom-to-the-extreme just keeps pushing for more.
Just as Kair is desperate to escape his own spotlight life, a freak accident plunges him into anonymity. Presumed dead, Kair is offered- and seizes- the chance to try out a normal life. But normalcy eludes him even then, as he uncovers evidence that not only suggests everything he believed is a lie, but challenges his own self identity.
Aided by a bold journalism intern, James, and her roommate, indie emo band lyricist Nova, Kair tries to untangle his past from his self and everyone he trusted.
Region: USA::Ohio
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Chord Overstreet
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User name: Safkhet
Title: Ovation
Genre: YA literature
Synopsis: Fame is everything- everything 17-year-old Kair Vaughn doesn't want. What he wants is to be dating, and flunking classes, and putting off applying to colleges, and hanging out with friends in parking lots. What he wants is to be ordinary.
But instead, Kair is writing top-of-the-charts rock albums. He's on tour- and antidepressants. He plays in front of thousands of screaming fans who worship him and his music. And his show-mom-to-the-extreme just keeps pushing for more.
Just as Kair is desperate to escape his own spotlight life, a freak accident plunges him into anonymity. Presumed dead, Kair is offered- and seizes- the chance to try out a normal life. But normalcy eludes him even then, as he uncovers evidence that not only suggests everything he believed is a lie, but challenges his own self identity.
Aided by a bold journalism intern, James, and her roommate, indie emo band lyricist Nova, Kair tries to untangle his past from his self and everyone he trusted.
Region: USA::Ohio
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Chord Overstreet
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Apologies for the double post- internet died in the middle :/
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Username: laurenmaree0903
Title: Rara Avis In Terris
Genre: Dystopian Cyberpunk
Synopsis:
The setting is three different abstract planets known collectively as "The Worlds". The three worlds are: The Circus, The Factory, and The institution. Each world is meant to symbolise a period of one's life, with a final and fourth world 'Terra Prata' symbolising heaven.
The protagonist's goal is to find 'goodness', a treasured currency within The Worlds which can be traded in order to reach the heaven world Terra Prata. If a character is unable to collect enough goodness by the time they reach their final moments in The Institute (the final world), they are forcibly reborn back into the Circus (the starting world), and must continuously re-live through these worlds until they find enough goodness.
The protagonist discovers that she is but a rarity among the clowns, cyborgs and drones which occupy these dystopian planets, as she finds the greatest goodness of all during her final moments in The Worlds.
Region: Perth, Western Australia
Actress who would play Protagonist: Dakota Fanning
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Criket 79
Love, Lies & Lattes
Chick Lit/Mystery
Lainey Bridges feels like she has finally made it. A social worker in Seattle, she loves her job, has an amazing cop boyfriend and fantastic friends. But when one of her clients is found murdered and she has to identify the body at the city morgue, she finds herself thrust into the sinister side of Seattle’s street life, a world of lies and corruption. Despite concern from her boyfriend for her personal safety, her boyfriend’s partner who is out to make her life a living hell and threats to her own life, she makes it her personal mission to hunt down the killer and bring them to justice.
Vancouver, Canada
For some reason I keep picturing Alexis Bledel as my main character.
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User name: sixtywatermelons
Title: 3rd and Long
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
Synopsis: The Culver brothers are Franklin High School Football legends. Over the course of nearly seven seasons, the elder Culvers have led their team to victory on more than one occasion, and the peak of every season is the annual Powell-Lewis game, where an old rivalry that has only grown more vicious in recent years comes to a climax. As the brothers grow older and move on with their lives, with Jay and Mark out of the house and Zach about to graduate, football remains one thing that keeps their lives tied together.
Ricky is the youngest Culver, a month shy of 16, and much to his and his family's chagrin, he didn't make the varsity team sophomore year. Despite the fact that he's led the JV team to countless victories, he hasn't been able to shake off the feeling of ineptitude that comes from what he thinks is his greatest embarrassment, and the disappointment of his parents, who always wanted to see two of their sons playing on the same field again, can still sometimes be felt hanging in the air of the Culver home.
On the day of the Powell-Lewis game, three events occur that lead him to experience anxiety, frustration, and nerves that he's never felt before in the aftermath of the game. Either he's experiencing a mid-adolescence crisis, or the baby of the family is finally growing up in a way that hormones were never able to control.
Region: USA :: New Jersey :: Northeast
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Braeden Lemasters
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User name: lyssacantsleep
Title: Losing Evlyn
Genre: Young Adult and Youth
Synopsis: Evlyn is your average cynical teenager looking for what she wants her life to be. She has a little too much fun and loses the person closest to her in the whole world, so while she is suffering from the loss, she agrees to take on the most difficult challenge of her life: leaving everything she knows to search for what she needs 5000 miles away from home as an exchange student. In the process of taking on such a task she meets someone new that will change her forever. The adopted nickname Evlyn quickly becomes nothing but a memory of the way her life was before she learned she could change herself. Evlyn goes on a mission to find out exactly what she wants to become and finds love, meaning and adventure while shedding the skin of the lost person she once was.
Region: Europe :: France
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Either Helena Bonham Carter (with a lot of makeup so she looked pretty young) or Dakota Fanning.
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User name: WriterGrl313
Title: Ending at the Start
Genre: Murder/Young Adult Fiction
Synopsis: Vuto loses her third child mere days after birth - and she's only 17 years old. The young Malawian woman forces her husband to acknowledge her daughter, despite tradition that prevents men from considering a child their own until they've lived for two weeks in the least. Her decision causes rifts in the village and Vuto's newfound feminism is lashed back against. She is forced out of her village and must come to terms with herself, her home and her loss. Taking solace in the home of a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, a surprise attack by Vuto's husband leads her and the volunteer on an adventure neither had planned for.
Region: USA:California
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Keke Palmer as Vuto and Victoria Justice as the volunteer
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User name: R.Watson
Title: The Sun Still Rises in Mississippi
Genre: Literary Fiction (Southern historical)
Synopsis: Sipsey Jean Abernathy (her name tells a story) and her brothers make up one generation of a Southern American family, carving out a precarious existence in rural Mississippi in the early part of the 20th Century. Challenged by poverty, the Great Depression, the mystery of mental illness, and the whiplash impact of Prohibition and its repeal, Sipsey and her family struggle to hold together while facing down their own demons -- and holding at bay those of the larger society surrounding them.
The pages crackle with the language and ways of the rural South, and resonate with the family's loyalty, humor, failures, successes, and (finally and above all) their love.
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Oh, and the actress I see playing Sipsey as a child/teen - not sure. Sipsey as an adult - Ashley Judd (mostly because she has a real southern accent and can play real salt-of-the-earth characters. Joe Abernathy (her father) - Tommy Lee Jones.
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User name: Ice Phoenix
Title: Angelic
Type: YA Sci-fi.
Synopsis:
Virgil Liengood awakens to find himself falling...through the sky. Right before he becomes a hole in the ground, Virgil miraculously grows wings, and barely survives. After a long recovery in the hands of an unknown caretaker, Virgil comes to discover the painful truth: he's already dead, mudered, and now a resident of Aiden, one of the 7 cities of Purgatory.
It wouldn't be so bad, if Virgil hadn't bypassed the Genisis Gates and entered Pugatory like no one ever has before, with no record of who he was or how he was killed. Now, deemed a spy by the locals of Aiden, Virgil is given a choice: join the Angelic Army and be kept under a strict,watchful eye for the slim chance of being allowed to find his murderer, or spend the rest of eternity confined to his house in the afterlife... but even if he manages to somehow survive the rigorous training of his insane teachers, evil lurks in the most unforseen of places.
It killed Virgil once, and this time, it's willing to finish the job...
Region: Denver CO, USA
Actor as the main character: I would like to give someone new a chance, but if I had to choose, I'd go with Alex Pettyfer from I Am Number 4.
Extra: I just wanted to add how amazing and increadibly awesome it is of you gentlemen, ladies, NaNo elves, monkeys, and artists to set something like this up! I spend half my day striving to make my synopsis and story the best it can be just for a slight chance at winning! (The other half I spend in quilty, procrastingating pleasure trying to imagine what kind of awesomely, insanely, fantasticly, phenominally cool cover the super talented NaNoWriMo artists would make for me if I won...^^) So on behalf of NaNoWriMo Colorado-THANK YOU!!!
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User name: juhaxos
Title: ... And You Were There
Genre: Satire, Humor, Parody
Like most coming of age stories, this one focuses on a young man and the discoveries he makes while finding his place in the world.
Unlike most coming of age novels, however, this one has pirate ships made of dried pineapple, attractive savages made of plants, vengeful spirits of toilet bowl cleaners, questionable flavors of artichoke patches, and mediocre grades.
The young man, Gabriel LeGrande: Campus Celebrity, is about to embark on the last of ‘the four best years of your life’ with a degree in neuroscience and theater; clearly, he knows in which direction his life is going. However, as comfortable as he plans his senior year to be at the New England Archatellier College, Gabriel can’t help but notice that something unsettling is happening on campus, to all friends, enemies, and strangers: their lives are constantly being threatened and/or protected by imaginary friends [Harold the stuffed Duck, Aerol the Angel, and Dennis the can of 29% Deet Mosquito Repellant], copyrighted characters [Winnie the Pooh, Mr. Tumnus, and Maleficent], and even versions of himself [Gabriel the Muscular, Gabriel the Surprise Villain, and Gabriel the Misunderstood Monster]he had created from childhood to just yesterday.
Filled with recreated memories of ex-girlfriends, could-have-been boyfriends, and sometimes-always-but-not-really-best friends, Gabriel’s last year at Archatellier manifests into an ironic struggle to keep his identity as the creator of these mishappenings a secret. After all, when your fantasies and imaginations – all from when you were but a toddler to a hormone-raging teen to a job-less graduating college student – come to life and encounter the friends and enemies you’ll keep for a lifetime, wouldn’t you want to keep it a secret too?
Region: Africa:: Elsewhere
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Username: Feron-Archer
Title: The Iron House -or- The Knights of Angfarren
Genre: Psychological thriller
Synopsis: Irving McAverin has found himself trapped in an eddy in time- Caught in a house bridging two worlds, he wanders the hallways, the figments of his imagination intermingling with the figures of demons and discarded memories. A man in grey lives there as well, a man who fills the house with piano music and tinkers on mechanical men. As Irving tries to unravel the house's secrets, his thoughts wander to his life before this monstrosity- to Britain- to 1941- where his love warned him about the forces that eventually bound him in the house.
Escaping in his dreams to a land called Angfarren, Irving finds that his dreams and memories are intermingling- and that he is slowly being driven insane. As a plague overtakes the war-torn land, Irving realizes that the figments of his imagination are beginning to move of their own will- replaced by the Grey Man's machines. Irving finds himself between two realities- remain trapped in the Iron House with the machines and demons- or escape into his own insanity to flee the horrors of the Iron House?
Region: USA- Maryland
The actor who would portray the main character in the movie: Anton Yelchin.
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User name: cephei
Title: Watching Over Me
Genre: young adult
Synopsis: Brooke is a teenage girl whose family moves to a different state. She hates her new home, she hates her school, she hates everything. The only thing with any promise in this city is a small park hidden by concrete walls and the young man she found laying there in a growing pool of blood.
Region: USA :: Ohio :: Columbus
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: a younger Alexa Vega with scuzzy blonde hair
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User name: Alien Pokey
Title: The Alchemist's Secret
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Aya and Kya Signum. Fraternal twins, seperated from Mother at birth for unknown reasons. The two grew up together in an orphanage in New York City, drifting farther and farther apart as the years dragged on.
Fifteen years after they were delivered at the doorstep of their current residence, Aya and Kya are as different as twins can be. Aya is at the top of the popularity chart while Kya is a social outcast, drawing herself away from any other human at her high school. Aya laughs upon her sister's unpopularity, but little does she know, Kya's keeping secrets from Aya.
In a tale of bravery, alchemy and secrets above all else, discover the real, entire truth about the Signum twins... Before it's too late.
(Note: If, by chance, you happen to chose my cover [though I know that'd never happen... there are too many other awesome books. :D], some other information is that it includes Alchemy, with elixirs and spells and fantasy factors, a little bit of romance, an Other World, and two very grumpy twins; one with really, really long black hair and purple eyes, one with short black hair, brown eyes, and glasses. And they're white.)
Region: USA::Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: That's pretty hard to say. There are two MCs, who are twins, and there aren't really any actors who look like them.
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User name: redraider14
Title: Concealed
Genre: tweener fiction
Synopsis: They’re on their own. Miranda and the rest of the children at Mrs. Jane’s Day Care are suddenly on the run and hidden away from the world in a series of elaborate tunnels and hidden rooms below ground. Alone they struggle to survive the fear, confusion and outright boredom of life in a small hideaway. Will they ever get the answers they seek? Will they trust their beloved babysitter, or does she have something sinister in store for them?
Region: Abilene TX
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: unknown child actor
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User name: DarkPhoenixRising
Title: Identity: Unknown
Genre: sci-fi/fantasy
Synopsis: You know the legends? The beliefs that people have an animal spirit to guide them through life? They're true.
Guardians are animals, very real and very alive, that guide and protect people, their Guardeds. Guardians never make contact with their Guardeds, watching and guiding them from another place, the Realm.
But there is a problem.
Guardians have been going missing, and the Realm is slowly being destroyed. Four Guardians, Rialkan, Boria, Kurayami and Sari are sent to find their Guardeds, for the Elder Ones believe they are connected to the disappearances and destruction of the Realm.
Koi, Tyrien, Astrilla and Shijin have never met and don't appear to have anything in common (aside from Koi and Shijin's Japanese heritage) until they are brought together by their Guardians and told important information that will change their lives, and the Realm, forever....
Region: USA::Missouri::Kansas City
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Tyrien- I really don't know....
Astrilla- Saoirse Ronan, probably.
Shijin- A teenage Japanese-American actor... I don't really know of any...
Koi- A teenage Japanese-American actress... I don't really know of any...
Rialkan- Christian Bale (voice)
Sari- Laura Brent or Uma Thurman (voice)
Kurayami- Ben Barnes, probably. (voice)
Boria- maybe Emily Mortimer... but I dunno... (voice)
Bilindohn- A darker haired Uma Thurman or Alison Lohman, probably
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User name: xlsmith
Title: Swerve
Genre: Chick Lit
Synopsis: Life was pretty much on track for Noel Lewis, Beth Wargo, Lynn Smith and Rivers Vaughn. But at the end of the summer, the doctor, the accountant/restaurateur, the columnist and the professor had no choice but to swerve off the road they’d been traveling. An accident, a suspicion, a lay-off and an opportunity would force each woman to reexamine their chosen path and ultimately decide what direction to point the headlights when they finally merged back into traffic.
Region: USA::Florida::St. Augustine
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Noel- Blake Lively, Beth- Chloe Sevigny, Lynn- Keira Knightly, Rivers- Kate Bosworth
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A clearer synopsis causes me to enter this again for consideration.
Username: Poetica
Title: The Thin Thread
Genre: Memoir
Synopsis: "The Thin Thread" details the physical and emotional struggles of the last years of Lucie Morrow's life. An account of the author's mother's illness and death, then her own subsequent grief and healing, "The Thin Thread" is based in truth.
Karen and her brother Andrew grow up in a family fractured by divorce. But their mother, Lucie, remains determined to keep them a strong family unit. At the age of 64 Lucie contracts a disease that destroys life as she once knew it. She and Karen have always been close, enjoying that mother-daughter "best friend" relationship. But now that her mother is ill and becoming worse, Karen's strengths are called upon. However, she has always seen herself as someone who needs to lean on others. But in this situation she discovers much about herself that is a surprise. Witnessing the struggles that overtake her mother as she becomes weaker and weaker, Karen's strengths rise and prevail. They serve her and her mother well in the waning years of her mother's life. And emotional coming of age story, "The Thin Thread" advances the idea that someone's weaknesses can be their strength.
The actress who would play Karen is Meryl Streep.
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User name: Hautemama
Title: No Win Love Thang
Genre: Romance
Synopsis
Kalyn is an engaged woman at a crossroads who questions her relationships (not sure she wants to marry her fiancé), her career, and the life she is living. She meets a man that makes her rethink everything. Now, all she wants is to live life passionately, and do so as her most authentic self.
Region: North Texas- Collin County
The actor who would play the main character in the movie adaptation: Kalyn
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User name: ElizabethLipke
Title: Reincrimina
Genre: YA Dystopia
Synopsis:
Reincrimination: scientific process that identifies if someone has a committed a crime in a past life but was not convicted of said crime.
Present: Individuals who commit any crime in the present must go through reincrimina therapy and those who test positive for a crime in their past life are convicted today of that crime.
Scientists at the Center of Reincrimination Evaluation (CORE) are pushing that all individuals go through this testing, including that of 14 year old Deirdre Pollox (Dee), his sister Selina and best friend James. When Selina is convicted of a past life crime, Deirdre, James and newly found ally Anastasia (Ana) must break out of CORE and rescue Selina before it's too late.
Region: USA:: Maryland
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: 14 year old Dee would be played by
Dev Patel of Slumdog Millionare.
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User name:Robin Buckallew
Title: Destiny
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:A down-to-earth biology teacher encounters a beguiling stranger who addresses her as a friend, and slowly draws her into a surreal world inhabited by shadows. Unable to resist the strange forces surrounding her, she begins to suspect that the stranger is who he says he is...the prince of darkness himself. The initial encounter sets in motion forces that will ultimately lead her to another realm, where the ultimate battle will decide once and for all the fate of the universe. Through it all, she struggles to discover who exactly represents good, and who represents evil, as she finds herself falling in love with a man who claims to be the devil.
Region:Nebraska elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Nicole Kidman
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User name: Kiaras
Title: TO CATCH A TROLL
Genre: Fantasy/Humor
Synopsis:
All I wanted was to do my sister a favor by taking her kids on vacation while she settled her impending divorce. That the trip also kept me from needing to give an answer to my boyfriend's recent marriage proposal was coincidence - honest!
Instead, my niece and nephew have been kidnapped by a nasty troll, taken to a parallel dimension and turned over to the nastiest Duke in both worlds! The Duke wants me to marry him - or else - so that he can cross over into our world and try a career as a Wall Street banker. (Apparently nasty Duke wasn't an evil enough career for him.)
My only allies are a naked satyr, a bumbling but well-meaning Knight, and a Witch I wouldn't trust not to stab me in the back if I turned around. Can I find the kids and keep my sanity in a world of mermaids and eight-foot-tall talking chipmunks? I hope so, because it's time TO CATCH A TROLL.
Region: USA::Ohio
Main character in movie adaptation: Jessica Biel would probably be the closest match, although I shudder to think of it.
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Username: Another Anonymous Person
Title: Because She Left
Genre: Young Adult; Romance
Synopsis:Beck Thompson moved from Texas to Virginia four years ago, leaving behind a beloved best friend behind that she had had ever since she could remember. But when her dad got the letter that gave him choices of where he could and wanted be deployed to next, she knew that it was the end of her and John’s friendship story. But, she had thought, maybe they could still be friends, even long distance. When she got up to telling this to him, though, all he said was, “”Kay,” and then walking inside his house, ignoring her for the remaining week she was staying in Texas and never saying goodbye to her when she left. Beck never forgave him for that, not even three years afterward. But other things troubled her mind through those years, one of them being her closest sister dying in a car crash on Christmas day. In an attempt to feel lighter about her sister, Skyler’s, death, she wrote to her in a diary everyday, starting on New Years day, and ending on the last day of December, the last day of 2011. But since the accident occurred in Tennessee, nobody at her school knew about the tragedy besides her two best friends, Kevin and Ivy. So she decided to return back to school and pretend like nothing but the good ‘ole holidays occurred over Christmas break for her, nobody ever suspecting a thing. But then something weird happened. There was a new boy at her school, and every girl was fawning over him, every boy hoping that they could be his friend. He was from out of state and he was new and mysterious; something everybody wanted a piece of. But Beck had no idea who this new guy was and why the heck everybody liked him so much. Until fifth period came, and she saw him for the first time. And she realized that he was no mystery guy, but no other than John Tyler. Her best friend, and heart breaker. There. To stay.
And everything happened in 2011 because Skyler left. Because she left.
Region: USA; Texas
Actress (for Beck): Amanda Seyfried
Actor (John): Lucas Till
Alright, since I know that I'm a little late on this and that my cover is most likely not going to get picked, I wish all others good luck!!!
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User name: AoNeko
Title: Ungifted
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: "Ungifted" is about the young man Leonard Nash-Williams. He's employed in a supermarket. Ever since the military made experiments on him, he's had senses that are greater than that of an average person. But the side effects are that he became plagued by strange hallucinations and developed a nervousness towards just about everything. This makes it hard for him to find a proper job. But one day he gets the grand idea of using his abilities for the greater good. But when the borders between reality and illusions blur, things take a turn for the worse. The reader is guided through the novel by a series of strange characters, all with a story of their own.
Region: Europe:: Denmark
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jessie Eisenberg, but with glasses on
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User name:UnknownHero
Title: The Faceless Hero
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Synopsis: A threat reaches throughout the universe, its grasp extending beyond the measures of space and time. It is a force that preaches benevolence and order, a perfect world for all mankind, but in reality, its ideal world is one where mankind exists only as slaves, beings left with no chance to think, discover, or evolve. To this end, the malevolent being Endgame has established an empire spanning multiple cities in several dimensions, using its sinister Agents to expand and maintain its kingdom. Realizing that this threat extends beyond any particular race or culture, resistance groups spring up over all territories. The true hope, however, lies with the 'Faceless Ones", beings with no one true identity. This is the story of a hero so unreal, one capable of fighting anything from men to gods to demons from any corner of a thousand worlds, whose skills pull from innumerable cultures and societies, whose knowledge shifts and warps with the passage of time. In a string of worlds where only chaos and war and destruction reign, the faceless heroes tirelessly work to overcome evil before their own power runs dry.
Region: North County, San Diego, California
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Given the nature of the protagonist, a single actor would be unable to effectively take the lead.
Rende: Shia Labeouf, with somewhat longer hair.
Keijeu: Wesley Snipes
Salem: Elijah Wood
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Username: looblue1234
Title: Her Diary
Genre: Young Adult
Synopsis: In the head turning and mind grabbing fictional account, Her Diary, records the life and times of a young girl traveling through the trials and tribulations of life without. Be prepared to find the secret, that keeps the girl confined, set in the midst of a revolution, that she so desperately wants to know more about, without knowing how. Who, Where, When, What will happen next? That is all she wants to know...
Region: USA; California
The actor that would play you main character in the movie adaptation: Dakota Fanning
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Sorry about the synopsis here is a better one:
How do you live when you have just lost your brother, your relationship with your mother sucks, and you have a secret that separates you from everyone else? That is exactly what the girl in her diary is facing. Everyday she faces the challenges of having life without. All set in the midst of a gory, revolution. What will happen next?
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User name: rudyg
Title: Access Point
Genre: Mystery, Thriller,Suspense
Synopsis: A beautiful Chinese intelligence officer uses her brains and good looks to take advantage of Y2K to infiltrate a defense contractor. It is up to FBI Special Agent Trey Parks to unravel the operation and stop the Chinese before they steal the plans for a new satellite that can refuel itself, carries unbelievable cameras that can pick up a dime in the middle of the desert, and yes carries a new laser that can be used for offensive and defensive strikes.
Excerpt:She looked up with a look that reminded Ben of a deer caught in the headlights. It took him a second to realize that the laptop she was working on was his laptop. But how was that possible?
“How were you able to access my laptop?” he asked.
“You must have left it on. I happened to bump it when I went to move it and it seemed to come on.”
Ben looked at her suspiciously. “Jadea, that can’t happen. Even if I had left it on, which I didn’t, it would have gone into sleep mode and you would have had to go through the whole log on procedure again which means you would have to have my logon information and my finger prints to turn it back on.”
The next couple of seconds seemed like an eternity as he saw Jadea suddenly stand up and seemed to do a pirouette. As she started to complete the turn, one of her legs extended out and hit him on the side of the head. The impact was tremendous because of the momentum gained during her pirouette. Ben went flying sideways, hit the sofa, and toppled over the top. He vaguely heard her say, “Oh Ben, this was not supposed to happen this way. At least not yet” and then the world went dark for Ben as her fist came crashing down on the side of his head. Jadea rolled him on his side and put her hands on his head and gave a violent twist. His neck snapped with an audible crack. She held his head for a second and then gently laid it down.
She knelt there for a couple seconds looking down at him. She had to think about what she was going to do next. She needed the laptop but somebody would eventually come looking for it. She picked it up where it had fallen and walked into the kitchen to get a trash bag from one of the cabinets. She put the laptop in the bag, collected her keys, and left the apartment. She got in her car and backed out of the parking space and headed down the street. She stopped after about five blocks and got out of the car with the bag containing the laptop, leaving the engine running and the lights on. She walked to the front of the car and after hefting the bag a couple of times, swung the bag down hitting the asphalt hard. She heard the laptop breaking and opened the bag to see the damage she had caused to the laptop. After inspecting it, she figured a couple more good swings should do it. Afterwards she looked in the bag again and gave a grunt of satisfaction. She threw the bag into the passenger seat and shifted the car into drive. There was a Best Buy about ten miles away and she knew she could find what she need there.
Region: USA - Corpus Christi Texas
The actor who would play main charactoer: Michael Weatherly
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User name: funkyjunk98
Title: The Girl Who Stared At the Sea
Genre: Adventure
Synopsis: Marella is the heir to Cheif Maron. She lives a happy and boring life on Atamar island. But one day, a mysterious sailor washes up on her island and then everthing she knows is shaken to the core.
Region: USA:California:Santa Clarita
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Marella- Mila Kunis James-Chord Overstreet
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User Name: APlethoraofPlethodonts
Title: Heat
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
When you are brought to talk to a mysterious stranger, nicknamed Blaise, the forgotten past is uncovered and secrets start coming out about the town you are in and the citizens that live there. But who is Blaise really? And should you trust him? In a whirlwind of mystery, people get forgotten and fantasies are proven real. The question isn't who will make it out alive, but who will make it out still themselves before all Hell breaks loose? (And I mean that quite literally.)
Welcome to Green Rock - I hope you enjoy your stay. And I hope once you're done here, you can still leave.
Region: USA :: New York :: White Plains
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Blaise is played by Alan Rickman
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Username: kayatrapooing
Title: Black and White
Genre: realistic fiction that sounds like a science fiction novel
Synopsis: in the future, a war over dwindling resources has erupted, and Felix, eleven-year old Cadet, is right in the middle of it, fighting for the side he's convinced, as he's been taught since birth, is right. Zoe, twelve-year old Animal Warfare trainee, is also in the middle of the war, on the opposite side, and is also convinced of her side's rightness, and the story is told from two points of view, on either side of the war, telling two stories that are the same, but different, though the eyes of chidren, who see things as good or bad, as black and white.
Region: Canada, Toronto
Actor: the guy who played edmond in the Narnia movie for Felix, maybe.
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User name: MidianBleek
Title: A Walk Across the Ocean on Dental Floss
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Synopsis: Meet Jamie Turner, a quiet seventeen year old girl, in love with her best friend, betrayed by her entire school. Jamie is just like any other high schooler except for one thing, she was born a boy.
Region: Rochester, Minnesota
The actor who would play my main character in a film adaptation: Logan Lerman
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User name: Alias Cyborg
Title: Shadow Speak
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: A gang of teens- Lycaela, Grace, Simone, Lucas, Calder, Rowan and Rain are kicked out of the only home they have ever known because Calder inadvertantely created a branch of everlasting fire. While they escape from the assasins that will certainly kill them, Rowan is left behind because her magic is incompatible with theirs, although it should be entirely compatible. She finds a companion who can take her to them if she will bond with him for the next three years and three days. Meanwhile, in the hovering city of Innovation, Lia is a doctor student who no one will let treat patients. She doesn't know why. Her younger sister, Charlotte, who is a surly eleven-year-old and an energy procurer student, is jealous of Lia and always has been. One day, Lia and Charlotte are both summoned to the hospital to treat an unusual case. Lycaela is who they must treat, and what's more, she's expecting Charlotte to come- because only Charlotte can save Innovation and help Lycaela discover who she really is.
While all this is going on, a sprite child called Lily loses her home and family to the Universities, the very place that evicted Lycaela, Calder, Grace, Simone, Lucas and Rowan. Her wings were hurt badly enough that she can't fly and she must warn the Empress of Pacem, the land of the sprites, of her village's fate before the Gifted reach the capital. She will never outpace them on her own... so she must get help, but can she get help from anyone?
Region: USA, Washington, Seattle
The actor who would play my main character in the movie adaptation: Absolutely no idea I haven't seen enough modern movies (basically the only movies I know the actors for are the harry potter movies and those characters are such do-gooders)!!!
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User name: spotoftrouble
Title: The Outcasts
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Based around the recent London riots, the story follows a 21-year old man named Harry, who with his friends, Dean, a good looking, strong man, and Sophia, Harry's best friend of eighteen years. Decide to take part in the Croydon riots. The make a gang with three other 'outcasts', called Eden, a pretty blonde girl, her boyfriend Simon, the main leader of the team, and James, a skimpy, stubborn kid. When the group split in two, one group goes out to loot and cause carnage while the other group wait in a van for them to return. We find out the causes of the huge Reeve Corner fire and how Harry reacts with other mobs. The risk of being arrested at any point is high, and he has to think before he acts. Booze, sex and drugs gets involved and Harry must ask himself: Who is the enemy? Society or the Mob?
Region: Europe :: England :: London
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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User name: Bookishtype202
Title: The Hypnotist
Genre: Supernatural/Fantasy
Synopsis: Gabriel and his sister come from a long line of rogues and con artists. While other mothers were dropping off their children as soccer games, Marina Zielinsky was making a living by concocting ersatz spectres to "materialize" at her seances and teaching her children ways to throw a tarot card reading.
Now, at 35, after spending his entire life being a secret-keeper for his mother, Gabriel has carved out a career for himself guarding others' secrets as a psychologist and hypnotherapist. Although he plays the part of the dutiful son, both he and his sister still nurse old regrets and childhood resentments that prevent them from completely moving on with their lives. The key to reconciliation may lie with his 7 year-old nephew, Liam, but Liam--it turns out, is keeping some pretty big secrets of his own.
Region: Midwest, USA/Illinois
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jake Gyllenhaal
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User name: WithxFingersxTied
Title: Where the Lines Overlap
Genre: Young adult
Synopsis:13 girls. 13 stories. 13 reasons. Each girl different. Each story its own. They have only one thing in common; they’re running away. Whether it be by plane, train or car, they’re leaving and there is no stopping them.
As their stories and travels weave in and out of one another, they learn to look at their world in a new way and learn a little bit more about themselves.
It’s a beautiful thing when a girl grasps the fallacy of the world. They know that no amount of cough syrup or sugar is going to make it go down easy. What they need to decide now is whether or not it’s worth running away from.
Region: USA:: Northern Virginia
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User name: Luna1237
Title: Shifter
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Olivia is a young shape shifter who grows up in the happy, harmonious, peaceful world of the shifter community. But her world is turned upside down when she is asked to rescue a young cat princess*. When Olivia tries to free the princess, the princess escapes, but Olivia is caught by an evil prince. *Cats are magical in the world I created for the novel.
Region: USA:: Massachusetts:: Boston
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Actors! I don't know anything about actors. My MC, Olivia, is short with red hair and green eyes and she is fifteen at then end of the novel. She would also need to be played by a tiny white fox, a white rock dove, and a white kitten. Those are the only animals she can shift into.
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User name: cbwriterman
Title: The Colonization of Pronia
Genre: Sci-Fi (young adult)
Synopsis: Din and his best friend Ellan are passengers on an earth vessel, The Saint Mary, or, The Mary for short, carrying earth’s small population of pacifists known as the Global Peace Front to their new destination: Pronia. This group of individuals, many of them wealthy, want to leave the warring earth behind before it comes to ruin. When Din arrives at his new home on Pronia he knows that this is the perfect sanctuary for the GPF's new peaceful society. That is until Din is discovered by the planet’s native race who do not give the newly found humans a warm welcome.
Region: China::Qingdao
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: I honestly can't even think of any actors who are 14-17. Pick someone from the Disney Channel who isn't annoying ;)
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Hi! My name is Caroline Worning and I'm 16 years old. :)
User name: AoNeko
Title: Ungifted
Genre: Mainstream Fiction
Synopsis: "Ungifted" is about the young man Leonard Nash-Williams. He's employed in a supermarket. Ever since the military made experiments on him, he's had senses that are greater than that of an average person. But the side effects are that he became plagued by strange hallucinations and developed a nervousness towards just about everything. This makes it hard for him to find a proper job. But one day he gets the grand idea of using his abilities for the greater good. He becomes Nightfall, a bicycle helmet wearing vigilante crime fighter. But when the borders between reality and fantasy blur, things take a turn for the worse. The reader is guided through the novel by a series of strange characters, including the psychotic emo-teen Willow, a Scottish drunkard, a mysterious woman in a purple coat and the untrustworthy hallucination Javier.
Region: Europe:: Denmark
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Jessie Eisenberg, but with glasses on
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User name: againstnormal
Title: The Untitled United
Genre: Young Adult
Synopsis:
"We called ourselves untitled. You know the phrase: no land, no property, not even our name to call our own."
Her name was Roberta. Or perhaps it was Mary Lou.
The last thing they took from us were our names.
I hadn’t met her yet. No, that would come later.
She was merely one of the first ARROW murdered not by a bullet but by neglect. The first of many. And I didn’t even know her name. No, that would come later.
I’d never speak to her, but she was a sister to me.
In 2012, the United States was a country ravaged by the war for Texan independence and fire-bombing of the East coast. Europe had fallen into economic ruin, leaving some cities barren wastelands behind the search for food and jobs. Russia, China, and Japan went to war, leaving much of Asia in ashes. Africa became the home of many refugees and turned away many more. The "third world" had become the first world's refuge.
By 2022, Annadextra was an "old number". She only had six days until her eighteenth birthday and in the next six days she would die. No one survived the government-run orphanage system. No one; until her. Messages from 2012 filter into her inbox: tales of a rebellious girl who would rather die than see her mother deported, of a world worth saving. Dex becomes more ensnared in the tangles of rebellion but comes to realize that the world isn't as black and white as she once thought it to be.
Region: USA::Iowa
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: For Annadextra: Ellen Page
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User name: flower gettin' lady
Title: My Love
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: After a long summer vacation with her two best friends, Nico and Annabell, and Nico's best friend from L.A., Dave, boy-loathing, snarky, sarcastic Kailen is far from ready to start school again. It seems too boring, too mundane, too... normal. That is, until the first day when she meets Dave at her locker and starts to realize the meaning of "true love".
Kailen balances her boyfriend, friends, job, skating, twelve-person family, Buffy addiction, arch enemies, Dave's cancer-ridden sister Lilly, and the new transfer student from Alaska in a topsy-turvy, vampire and magic free original novel. Can she keep her world together when it comes falling to pieces?
Region: US::Massachusetts
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hilly Hindi (from the Hillywood show)
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This is my quite shameless self-plug with a "synopsis" that's more summary than nothing.
User name: CaiteeFox
Title: The Problem With Dragons
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Ciprian has never been very good at being social; he has a coarse way with people, is rash, rude, has a horrible temper, and a bad habit of setting fire to things. Still, he's had his eye on the only child of the local blacksmith for a while, mostly because her cooking skills are renowned, and he's been thinking his home could do with some sprucing up. For Ciprian it isn't too far of a leap to go from thinking the young woman would make a good live in maid to kidnapping her and holding her against her will; yet imagine his surprise when he's kidnapped the wrong girl. For someone as prideful as Ciprian, simply returning her won't work, he'd have to admit he made a mistake. Instead he has to live with the problem he's cause for himself, regardless if instead of screaming and running in fear the girl he's kidnapped instead is dead set on taming him.
Nadya and her family have been traveling Europe for as long as she can remember, performing shows for food and money, and sometimes working odd jobs before moving on. It's a life she's rarely questioned, she's much more free than village girls and even if some of them ridicule her she can see the envy in their eyes when the men watch her as she dances. Despite this, it still came as a surprise when after her first show in the new she was pulled aside by a young woman who begged her to trade places. Being a sensible young woman, she would've turned the other girl down, if it wasn't for the fact that she wanted to use Nadya as a disguise to seduce the blacksmith's apprentice. Well, who was she to stand in the way of love while the young woman tried to woo her father's apprentice? Convinced, and well compensated in return, Nadya donned the girl's clothing and a heavy hood, then made herself scarce for the evening. It seemed like the plan was going just fine, she was hunkered down enjoying a nice loaf of bread, fine that is... until a fire breathing dragon swooped out of the sky and snatched her up.
Region: USA:: North Carolina :: Triad
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A re-chubby America Ferrera, or, if not available, Tania Raymonde...
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I changed up the synopsis/summary:
Nadya and her family have been traveling Europe for as long as she can remember, performing shows for food and money, and sometimes working odd jobs before moving on. It's a life she's rarely questioned, she's much more free than village girls and even if some of them ridicule her she can see the envy in their eyes when the men watch her as she dances. Despite this, it still came as a surprise when after her first show in the new she was pulled aside by a young woman who begged her to trade places. Being a sensible young woman, she would've turned the other girl down, if it wasn't for the fact that she wanted to use Nadya as a disguise to seduce the blacksmith's apprentice. Well, who was she to stand in the way of love while the young woman tried to woo her father's apprentice? Convinced, and well compensated in return, Nadya donned the girl's clothing and a heavy hood, then made herself scarce for the evening. It seemed like the plan was going just fine, she was hunkered down enjoying a nice loaf of bread, fine that is... until suddenly she was being snatched up and carried away like a sack of potatoes.
Ciprian has never been very good at being social; he has a coarse way with people, is rash, rude, has a horrible temper, and a bad habit of setting fire to things. Still, he's had his eye on the only child of the local blacksmith for a while, mostly because her cooking skills are renowned, and he's been thinking his home could do with some sprucing up. For Ciprian it isn't too far of a leap to go from thinking the young woman would make a good live in maid to kidnapping her and holding her against her will; yet imagine his surprise when he's kidnapped the wrong girl. For someone as prideful as Ciprian, simply returning her won't work, he'd have to admit he made a mistake. Instead he has to live with the problem he's cause for himself, regardless if instead of screaming and running in fear the girl he's kidnapped instead is dead set on taming him.
Elsa's been dead set on getting Andris to marry her since summer, when she finally looked at him, really looked at him, and realized that he wasn't a little boy any more; of course, years of shunning his advances have now made him hardened against her attempts to woo him, so it's looking to be harder than when she figured out how to flirt the farmer's boys into bringing her first pick of their vegetables. Still, she had a plan! A plan that was ruined when a band of gypsies came into the village and she caught her Andris flirting with once of them. Convinced he'd see her in a different light if she dressed up like one of them, Elsa found the girl and bribed her way into a clothing switch, dead set to perform a private dance for the young man to prove she'd grown up as well. It was a good thing too, that she did. The girl wearing her clothing got picked right up out of the village by a dragon!
Now Andris and Elsa have to work to save Nadya from the claws of the dragon known as Ciprian... Everyone knows what happens to pretty young maidens with dragons... everyone that is but Nadya herself, who seems to think that a dragon can be as easily tamed as a dog.
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The Problem With Dragons deffinetely has my vote... CAN I READ IT?????? PLEASE?????? I am totally hooked.
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User name:
underredskies
Title:
The Albion Bridge
Genre:
Children's Fantasy
Synopsis:
Twelve-year-old Jack lives with his grandfather, author of the fantasy series set in the realm of Eberum. In this fictional world, civil war ravages the realm as the traitorous Brotherhood threatens the rightful ruler, King Mathias, and the young hero restores order to the realm by killing Alastor Atheron, leader of the Brotherhood and pretender to the throne. The best-selling books have found their way to the heart of the nation.
When his grandfather is kidnapped, Jack learns one of the biggest secrets of all time: Eberum is not the fictional world of his grandfather's stories, but in fact a very real and very dangerous world parallel to our own. Jack's grandfather is more than just a storyteller, he is the hero of the Eberum tales.
But the realm of Eberum is not quite the way Jack's grandfather described it. There is something wrong in Eberum, and when Jack has a run-in with the Brotherhood he discovers that the antagonists of his grandfather's stories, the ones his grandfather helped defeat so many years ago, are not the traitorous rebels his grandfather described. Led by rightful heir to the throne Alodia Atheron, a bitter girl still mourning the death of her father, they seek to restore balance to the realm.
Can Jack right his grandfather's wrongs, restore the rightful heir to the throne, and save his grandfather in the process?
Region:
Europe :: Scotland :: Glasgow and West
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Hmm. Maybe Isaac Hempstead-Wright.
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I'd vote for this one =)
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Aw thank you so much! It means a lot to me that other people have faith in my idea and my ability to bring it to life! :) <3
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'The Albion Bridge' has my vote too good luck :-)
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Thank you so much for your support! :)
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You get my vote, too.
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Thank you so much for your vote, it means so much to me to have such amazing support!
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This sounds great! What a clever plot!
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Thank you! :)
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User name: bibliosylph
Title: Hands Across the Table
Genre: mainstream fiction...
Synopsis:
Jack D'Abruzzo and Charlie Spano are friends who met long ago at school, then became reacquainted through the Compuserve music forum in a thread of the Dean Martin section where Jack held court over a discussion on Stan Cornyn liner notes. They discovered they had a lot in common; similar age, anachronistic interests, etc. Both are terminally single and from strong Italian-American backgrounds. They've been online mates for 15 years, meeting occasionally when Charlie visits New York on business.
Jack lives on the Jersey Shore and has a broadcast journalism degree he never used. He runs a donut shop in the quirky semi-fictional town of Sea View. Recently, Jack has uncovered romantic feelings for life-long acquaintance Violet Palm, who has always looked upon him as a younger brother.
Charlie lives in Saugatuck, Michigan where he works as a free-lance editor and writer. His closest friend is his cousin Lena, who runs a pie shop in a tiny town in the same general Lake Michigan area. When Lena brings her business partner, former New Order Amisher Aaron Miller, to the big family Thanksgiving dinner, Charlie believes he may have found the love he never knew he was waiting for.
In this partially epistolary story, Jack and Charlie email back and forth about their respective holiday experiences and burgeoning love interests in the midst of typical and not-so typical family gatherings.
Region: USA :: Ohio :: Cincinnati
Jack and Charlie could be played by John Cusack and Hank Azaria. But I'd cast actors who are less well-known.
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Well, just in case it matters, I changed my genre from mainstream to literary. While I don't consider myself particularly literary, but I always write much more thought than action.
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Inevitable with epistolary novels, I guess. It sounds very interesting!
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Shameless self-nomination! :P
User name: SkittleAttak
Title: Cursed
Genre: I've been having trouble classifying this, but I'll go with Supernatural I guess.
Synopsis: Thomas Billingham has been offered a dark gift in the face of immortality. He must curse 50 souls before being allowed back into the Evil Spirits realm, and become powerful and immortal. Follow the stories of the cursed, from a young science teacher to the assistant of an arrogant rockstar, as their unhapiness fuels Thomas' descent back into evil.
Inadvertently mixed up into the lives of those Thomas condemns are two teenagers, one with the power of Pyschokinesis, and one seemingly normal girl who gets swept up in the midst of things. Will they, along with the power of the White Spirits, be able to save what humanity is left before it is too late?
Region: Europe :: England :: Elsewhere
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ezra Miller
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Woops, I apologise for typos!
This is what the corrected Synopsis should be:
Thomas Billingham has been offered a dark gift in the face of immortality. He must curse 50 souls before he is allowed back into the Evil Spirits realm, and become powerful and immortal. Follow the stories of the cursed, from a young science teacher to the assistant of an arrogant rockstar, as their unhappiness fuels Thomas' descent back into evil.
Inadvertently mixed up into the lives of those Thomas condemns are two teenagers, one with the power of Pyschokinesis, and one seemingly normal girl who gets swept up in the midst of things. Will they, along with the power of the White Spirits, be able to save what humanity is left before it is too late?
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Another wonderfully shameless self-nom.
User name:
Penhaligon29
Title:
In the Land of a Thousand Suns
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Synopsis:
For Molly Van Saint, 1937 isn’t just another ordinary year; it’s the year that marks the sixteenth anniversary of the night her father was abruptly taken away from her family’s home, leaving her with a memory that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Now 28 and living in New York, Molly still searches for answers to questions that linger in her mind; why was he taken? Where is he now? Why won’t her mother tell her anything about what happened to him? The questions only intensify when she learns that her father has died. Moreover, he has left her a trunk full of journals and maps that he kept in the years prior to his disappearance. With great curiosity, Molly begins to read them and realizes they are directions to a place her father refers to as “The Land of a Thousand Suns”. Determined to find the answers that have eluded her for so long, she hops a train and meets a drifter named Thomas who accompanies her on her journey and teaches her the art of riding the rails. Together, they set out on a journey across America to find this place, whatever it may be, and put to rest the questions that have haunted Molly since she was twelve.
Region:
USA::Georgia::North
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Bryce Dallas Howard
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Since this seems like the thread for blatant self-promotion, I shall have a go at it.
User name: Riddle
Title: In the Pines
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense/Horror
Synopsis:
When FBI Agent Emily Worthington woke up this morning, she didn't expect to be summoned to a crime scene with twelve bodies -- a mass grave containing six pairs of male and female corpses -- dating back to the early sixties. She didn't expect to be excluded from the case because one of the corpses might be her sister, who disappeared when she was a teenager. She certainly didn't expect the trail to lead to a young woman named Lindy Lund and her boyfriend, Thomas Lange, both recently missing from the greater Vancouver area.
When Melinda Lund woke up this morning, she didn't expect to find herself in a strange place, far away from her home and school, and surrounded by a group claiming to be faeries. The last thing she remembers is her car crashing and she has the bruises to show for it, and she has no idea what this strange cult is going to do to her or Thomas.
Unsure of what's real and what's not, Lindy finds her perception of the world changing bit by bit -- could these people really mean what they say? Are they actually the sidhe, fearsome and otherworldly creatures? Why is their leader, a charismatic and elegant woman whom they call their queen, interested in Lindy?
What happened to Emily's sister fourteen years ago? Digging into the past only brings up more questions, and a disturbing pattern of couples being murdered every seven years near Hallowe'en. What sort of person would do this?
Region: Canada - Ontario - Kingston
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Lindy - Nina Dobrev; Emily - Paget Brewster
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You have a great idea here; I hope that it takes you far. Have a great NaNoWrimo!
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Adding to the shamelessness!
User name: Chloe K. Evil
Title: Wake
Genre: Supernatural/Urban Fantasy
Synopsis: Martin Towers woke up from his coma with two clear thoughts. First, his wife and daughter were murdered by demons. Second, he's been chosen to kill demons like the ones who killed them. His world is suddenly distant and strange- his new assistant won't let him go back to work, strange people keep coming up to him on the street to ask him about his mission, and the strange musician next door occupies more of his thoughts than he'd like. When he goes to sleep, he dreams of angels and the dreams are more real than anything he feels when he's awake.
Everyone seems to know more than he does, but not for long. Martin Towers is going to find out what's going on, or he's going to destroy himself and the world while he tries.
Region: Canada: Alberta: Edmonton
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Daniel Craig
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User name: Neona_X
Title: The Seventh Year
Genre: Chick Lit
Synopsis:Aubrey was but a sprat of a girl when she first met Toby. Drawn to his carefree nature and charm, it was love at first sight. Aubrey thought it would last forever, until tragedy struck. In an instant her new found loved was lost; sucked from her like the waves suck the sand from beneath ones feet.
Haunted by the memory of Toby's drowning, Aubrey left the coastal village of Point Hope, only to return seven years later in the wake of a another heartbreak.
Nothing remains the same in Point Hope, the only thing untouched is the slate gray skies and cold sea that took Toby from her. Yet with all that's changed some things feel oddly familiar. Like the strange melody that plays on the wind, the tall man with dark brown eyes, and the woman who watches from a distance.
Region:USA :: Alaska
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Molly C. Quinn from Castle
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User name: Ryanna Coleman
Title: Les Contes de Fées Enchantées de Maître Chevalier
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis:
From Cinderella to Thumbelina, with Snow White, Peter Pan and King Arthur in between, as well as many many other famous and popular fairy tales, this collection of fairy tales is darker than most and with five new fairy tales that will delight the reader and a foreword and conclusion by chronicler; Master Chevalier, 'Les Contes de Fées Enchantées de Maître Chevalier' is a timeless classic.
Region: Europe :: England :: Liverpool
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Peter O'Toole
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User name: Incandescent
Title: Blood Debt
Genre: Tragic fantasy
Synopsis:
A compulsive healer has no business on the front lines of the bloodiest war in living memory, but that's where Solea Weaver finds herself. Solea's "gift" has forced her to live a sheltered life -- if she is in the presence of pain, her blood magic will automatically heal it (at grave danger to her own health). But when she hears that her estranged son Teague has been sighted in the area, the bloodmage knows she has to leave the safety of her homestead to try to mend her relationship with the sole remnant of her family... even if it means following him across a contested border, through slavery and into the middle of a battlefield.
Region: USA::North Carolina::Charlotte
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: A slightly-older version of Alex Kingston.
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User name: mel.belle0418
Title: James: or the boy who eventually grew up
Genre: Fantasy/mainstream fiction/ Fan fiction (though not really ;P)
Synopsis: Before Peter Pan lived on Neverland there were others. James was the first who lived alone until he and his fairy, Flare, met Lily. The two of them started a home for the lost boys and girls who ended up on Neverland, all accompanied by a lovely fairy. James was the accepted leader of the children who lived in the woods, and they all knew to stay friendly with each other because the more you think and feel like a grown up, the faster you will become one. Then a child is brought to the island, a baby who is more angry than any other child. He grows into a boy fast, and an arrogant boy at that, who claims to be the leader of the "lost boys." James enters into a downward spiral where he looses his fairy to a non-believing moment, his only girl he ever loved to the sea where she lives as a mermaid, and his best friend Lily to the plateau where her skin grows red and she calls herself Tiger. James ages quicker than ever as he tried to find a way to bring down peter pan.
Region:USA::California:: Los Angeles
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Someone who either looks like a young Justin Chatwin or Orlando Bloom
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Not that I wouldn't love to have my own cover, but when I read melbelle0418's synopsis, I am SOLD. I'm voting for you!!
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My vote is for you! This sounds like it has a lot of potential. :D (Though I'll probably throw my own story out there at some point, too, for the sake of it.)
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Vote for this one!
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Oooh, I like this one! What a great idea!
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Original look at a much adapted story. I like seeing things through James Hook? eyes.
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I wanted to thank everyone for your positive comments - I really appreciate it! <3
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And to answer your question, yes, it is James Anthony Santiago Hook =)
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User name: flygreybird
Title: The Solari Weddings
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: In a remote corner of the world, the king of the Solari mountain tribes marries off his twin daughters and his son to the three groups he most wants to appease. Dragged away from childhood and into unfamiliar worlds, the adolescents must quickly find their voices and learn to negotiate politics, popular uprisings, and the trials of marriage.
But unknown to them, forces greater than any they can comprehend are stirring. Mysterious and powerful armies are on the move, and the edges of the Solari's isolated world are closing in fast. Athera, Lina and Alesten Penraxis stand poised to inherit responsibility for all of Solari society. Not only must they struggle to maintain their own identities and relationships as they find their place in the world, but also to maintain the identity of the Solari themselves, before the ravenous force that threatens to swallow their fragile culture whole.
(Visual themes might include birds, which are an integral part of the Solari's lifestyle, used for hunting and messenging, snow, feathers, the sky, etc.)
Region: Europe :: England :: Yorkshire
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation:
Alesten Penraxis would be played by a version of Shahid Kapoor with long curly hair. Athera and Lina Penraxis are identical twins and both could be played by 18-year-old Sonam Kapoors. (As far as I'm aware, these actors aren't actually related, though the people they'd be 'playing' in this case would be. It's just an eerie coincidence that I imagine them looking vaguely like people with the same last names).
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User name: lifegoeson
Title: Running To Stand Still
Genre: Fantasy/action. I'm not entirely sure what to class it really, hah.
Synopsis: Lately, Arthur Maddison has become decidedly tired of his job. He’s a renowned supervillain, infamous around the nation for his crimes, but the business has grown stagnant. Full of paperwork and lawsuits, and lacking in big crimes and any decent sort of competition, he chooses to take an early retirement.
But when he moves into the city he’s been terrorising for years, only to face a backlash he hadn’t been expecting, he finds himself with nowhere to go. To make matters even worse, the city is also the home of his rival, Dean Maguire, who can be seen at any moment of the day strutting around the city as if he owns the place... although, for the most part, he does. When Maguire offers him a home to get him off the streets, Arthur has to deal with losing perhaps any self dignity he had managed to salvage beforehand, as well as being face to face with Maguire’s sidekick day after day, who Arthur has attempted to kill or kidnap on more than one occasion. As well as this, he is really trying to ignore the familiar pangs of jealousy whenever the newspapers report on his former assistant, who is quickly rising to being one of the biggest supervillains around.
As tragedy strikes, Arthur has to choose between his former loyalty, or the Right Thing, which has never really been an option before. Can people really change?
Region: Europe::England::Essex.
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Oooh, hm, not entirely sure why but I do envisage him looking a little like Robert Sheehan. Maybe it's the hair, who knows!
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LOL Sounds like a romp!
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User name: morganafiolett
Title: ESC
Genre:Science Fiction
Synopsis:
Doyle Solo, a private investigator in the offices of ex-Detective Marshall Carter, is hired by a beautiful woman to look into the supposed suicide of a prominent Luddite campaigner, and soon realises that there's a serial killer on the loose targetting the anti-technology community.
He faces resistance from both the Luddites and the police, and aid in the form of a mysterious signal that takes over random passers-by to send him helpful messages - mostly telling him to "ESCAPE". Despite this aid, he finds himself listed as the prime suspect in the Luddite Murders.
When he discovers a disturbing connection between the mysterious signal, the Luddite Murders, and his own past it becomes obvious that this case is not going to be covered by his usual fees.
Region:Europe :: England :: Lancaster & Cumbria
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Doyle Solo played by Jonathan Rhys Meters; the beautiful woman who hires him by Rachel Weisz
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User name: djtrousdale
Title: Correspond Ants
Genre: YA/Children
Synopsis:
Dojo is a lonely black ant in a colony in a wall in a house in a neighborhood in California. His only friend is Tomtom the grasshopper, a musician who decided to retire much too early. The house is also full of spiders, who gobble up the ants wherever they find them.
The house is owned by Tina, a perfect mother, who has a way of exposing the faults of her husband, son, and everyone she knows without even thinking about it, and can't imagine why people dislike her so much. She enjoys writing letters to all of over a hundred (!) extended family members.
When Tomtom leaves for a while, Dojo gets so lonely he decides to do a little experiment. He writes tiny notes in the corners and margins of Tina's letters whenever he gets a chance. There are no replies for a long time. Just as he's about to give up, he discovers a tiny message from "Rae", a female red ant from Alfred (Tina's cousin's) house. Soon the two start a correspondence and become pen pals.
But there's a problem: It's 1998, and an invention called the World Wide Web is gaining momentum. It sounds scary enough to the bugs (and the spiders know it), and when Tina and Alfred both switch to electronic mail, neither ant can communicate. So, around Christmas time, when Tina sends a package to her cousin, Dojo hitches a ride to meet Rae in person. What he finds out will surprise him like nothing else.
Region: USA :: Kansas :: Wichita
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Ah geez, I'm horrible at picking these... I guess Dojo could be voiced by Scott Bakula (he voiced Danny in Cats Don't Dance.)
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I support this idea. :) It seems very unique and I would like to read it, even if it's a little different than my usual Genres.
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It sounds really creative and... just all around fun.
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This sounds great - I'd love to read it and I'm neither a child nor a YA!
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I love this idea! It's so quirky ^_^
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Thanks so much everyone! :D
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Children's books are a favourite of mine. .. I love the creativity of yours.
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Creative idea. Gets my vote.
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User name: Roni
Title: So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
Genre: Mainstream
Synopsis: When a fresco of the poet Rustaveli is defaced by a pack of Russian youth, twelve year old Gregory decides to leave his home at the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem. Fortunately he isn't going alone - he'll be accompanied by the Georgian saints who have been speaking to him since his earliest childhood.
Region: USA :: Texas :: Austin
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: currently seeking an up and coming Georgian child actor :)
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User name:Gryphonsflight
Title: Solo
Genre: Other
Synopsis: The multiverse is no more. A single universe has been created in the wake of a fevered dream of a half-mad, half-genius scientist working for a radical religious group know as the Facets.
God can only exist in one form, they said.
There can't be a perfect god in a multiverse, they said.
The switch was thrown. A universe was mended. Life changed.
Russia is a barren, death-filled wasteland of alcoholic undead. Asia has been transformed into a cybernetic oasis. Europe is the stuff of Mid-evil dreams. America? Roll all of the books you've every read together, and there you have it.
The fevered dream is over now. Life begins a new. The souls, bodies, and other versions of Earth have fused into a single, chaotic mess. No one is alone in their own minds as their alternate selves provide wisdom, creativity, and the occasional body part. The only exception to that are the Solos. Unique individuals that only exist in a single reality, now documented, and in some cases hunted, for their differences.
Where are the so called saviors now?
Region:USA:: West Virginia:: Other
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Hmm, I don't watch that many movies... so anyone that fit the main character I guess would work. No experience necessary!
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i want to read this already! :)
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I've taken the bait, swallowed the hook, and can't let go. Definetly want to read this!
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What an interesting plot! I would love to read your story!
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Because there are 101 other things I hsould be doing right now I thought I might respond to this thread. Like everyone else I'm putting my own project up, because well who wouldn't want a cover.
User name: Stacey B
Title: When You Go Looking
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: On the October day that Rose drops her fourteen year old son off at a three week long building workshop she gets a call from her husband saying that he is going to spend another month in France where he's been lecturing. With no where to be and alone for the first time in fourteen years Rose decides to spend the time exploring Northern New Mexico and enjoying the solitude. But solitude is hard to come by as she meets one after another person along the way. Both an adventure tale and a contemplation on relationships and community in the twenty first century.
Region: Denver, Colorado
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Juliette Binoche
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User name: thewritechristine
Title: Daybreak
Genre: Literary Fiction
Synopsis: In the city, everyone is alone. Shy, quick-witted Gwen and brilliant Joshua drift into each other's isolation at Columbia College and heal one another's wounds until the city rips open new ones. Envious of their youth and precocity, their professor Selene initiates the two of them into a circle of influential politicians, teachers, and artists, where they discover the trappings of a culture of seduction, jealousy and favors in the salons and walk-ups of New York's aging intelligentsia.
Region: USA: New York, New York and Danbury, Connecticut
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Mia Wasikowska and a younger version of Hayden Christensen
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Region of the writer or of the book, by the way? :D
If writer - USA :: California :: South Bay
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cool story :D
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User name: Laurel Cassandra Hathaway
Title: Deceptions
Genre: YA Fantasy Romance
Synopsis: “Paperwork can be faked; new records can be forged. There’s no absolute truth out there anymore. You’re no more safe than King James is. There could be a traitor at this very table, for all I know, a traitor in the king’s army too. Just like you wouldn’t know there, you wouldn’t know here. Life isn’t as easy as A, B, C anymore.” Says Alicia Thompson, a new freshman at Moonlight Academy, a school for the special vampires that reside around the earth. If only she knew how true her words would become one day.
Not everything is as it appears at seemingly perfect Moonlight Academy. Amongst them is a traitor helping the soul-less creatures they so despise wipe out their kind. In the heart of it all, Alicia rises to the task of finding and unveiling the traitor. But will she follow in the others' who have tried footsteps and die before she herself can figure it out?
Region: USA :: Oregon :: Corvallis
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Emma Stone (or Alexis Bledel, maybe)
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User name: bahnree
Title: Batty Batty Bats
Genre: Fantasy (Urban)
Synopsis: In a seaside city run by elementals (long-lived humans with control over the elements), Saul is just another human trying to survive among the different factions. Raised an illegal slave, he is rescued by a fire elemental and becomes a "Bat": employees under the command of Damien Locke, who is himself notorious for working outside of the law, disregarding the strictures of the elemental Council, running a night-club, and unleashing his dysfunctional Bats whenever the whim takes him. Saul learns quickly that in spite of the mad surface of his fellow Bats, loyalty is the greatest currency, one that he will need to survive rogue elementals, underground crime syndicates, and an enemy from his past determined to reclaim him.
Well, that all sounded a bit serious, didn't it? Really this novel is just filled with fiery explosions, debauchery, violence, dysfunctional relationships and, most of all, banter.
Region: USA: Oregon: Eugene/Lane County
The actor who would play your main character in the movie adaptation: Chase Crawford. He has a nice mix of innocence and gravitas and looks like the Saul in my head.
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Username: prosewars
Title: Second Chances
Genre: YA SF
Synopsis: Olivia's mother died in a tragic accident six months ago. Olivia and her younger sister Samantha have done their best to cope with the loss, but their father is inconsolable, drowning himself in work and leaving everything else to 16 year old Olivia to manage. Until the day he brings his wife back and reveals that he's taken a second mortgage on their home, and put all his overtime pay into a new program that reincarnates those who died too young. For the next month, the family is to follow a strict program of memory-personality-rebuilding exercises. Problem is, Olivia doesn't want *all* her mother's memories to return.
Region: USA: Maine
The actor who would play your main character. Hmmm. A young Reese Witherspoon, because she can seem open and friendly and yet still credibly harbor a dark side.