May 1st 2008 - The YouWriteOn Top Ten
Well done to the authors concerned ! The Top 5 stories below now take their place amongst the other books in the YouWriteOn Best Seller Chart. YouWriteOn is delighted that The Random House Group will read and comment to all members on the complete Top Ten as listed on the first of each month between April and September 2008. At the start of each month, the five highest rated writers of novel openings in the YouWriteOn Top Ten also receive a free literary professional critique from established authors and editors for leading literary agents and publishers including Curtis Brown, Orion and Bloomsbury.
View Top Ten Page below with live links1. Wheezy Rider (version III)
by Jan Green Short Story, Romance 22 Mar 2008
George finally realises his life's ambition.
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2. Quietly Shining
by Katherine Webb Literary Fiction, Novel 13 Mar 2008
A book about how deep the roots of things go, and how powerful childhood experience is. Erica returns to the house where she spent summers as a child, sure that something terrible happened there and determined to discover the truth at last.
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3. Cats
by JW Hicks Short Story, Literary Fiction 15 Apr 2008
A mother and daughter short - more Steptoe and Son than Frasier.
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4. Gotcha (the novel)
by Howard Thomas Historical, Literary Fiction, Novel 06 Apr 2008
It’s 1982. There’s a war brewing in the South Atlantic and there’s conflict afoot in an East London adult literacy class. A stammering loner, a trouble seeking punk, a vicious racist, an Argentinean exile and their sexy, liberated teacher wage their own turbulent battles ...
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5. The Light from Stars
by Perry Iles Short Story, Historical, Romance 04 Jan 2008
The Australian Outback, 1952. Gavin Renshaw's fiancee, Ruth, has travelled across the world to work in the UK. As Gavin considers his options, the loneliness begins to sink in.
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6. This World and the Next
by JW Hicks Science Fiction 05 Mar 2008
When you've sunk to the bottom of the heap, where next?
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7. The Crimes of Michael Murgatroyd v1.3
by Edwain Gorty Adventure, Children's Fiction, Comedy, Mystery, Fantasy 03 Mar 2008
Here's the challenge: Commit a crime a day or perish in unimaginable agony. Can Michael Murgaroyd fulfil his criminal destiny and avoid the ancient curse of the Murgatroyd family? Will it help that he has just become a vampire? Another lite rewrite
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8. Coming of Age III
by Carlie Short Story, Chicklit 28 Mar 2008
The sudden death of her golden-boy brother leaves Kate staggering hopelessly against the weight of parental expectations. It takes an extreme ride to force her to grow up and face her demons.
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9. The Lonely Tree
by Yael P Historical, Novel, Romance, Saga 15 Dec 2007
Tonia lives in a kibbutz and commutes to high school in Jerusalem. She is torn between love for her family and desire to flee the hardship of life under the British Mandate and in the State of Israel. Determined to seek a better life in America, she turns her back on her love for Amos, a stalwart Zionist and member of the Jewish underground.
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10. Ladder to the Moon
by Wendy Wynde Teenage Fiction 02 Feb 2008
Caring for his increasingly sick single parent Father and younger brother is hard enough, but when Jed is falsely accused of stealing a mobile phone, the attention it brings threatens to blow his life apart.
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May 2008 - BestSellers Chart Longevity Entries - These are stories which have achieved over 25 days cumulatively in the YouWriteOn.com Top Ten and, along with the Top 5 stories in the Top Ten above, also enter the YouWriteOn Best Sellers Chart to be considered along with other BestSellers Chart entry for the YouWriteOn Book of the Year Awards 2009
The Lonely Tree
by Yael P Historical, Novel, Romance, Saga 15 Dec 2007
Tonia lives in a kibbutz and commutes to high school in Jerusalem. She is torn between love for her family and desire to flee the hardship of life under the British Mandate and in the State of Israel. Determined to seek a better life in America, she turns her back on her love for Amos, a stalwart Zionist and member of the Jewish underground.
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REYS
by S.D.Young Short Story, Literary Fiction 10 Jan 2008
REYS. The solitary innovator, the mindless vandal, nears the pinacle of his savage, reckless self-destruction. Set in Dirty Dublin City, Ireland.
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Mental -- Revised
by Elle Madison Mystery 02 Nov 2007
Genius Sally's best friend is Dawn, who lives entirely in her mind. A series of catastrophic events expose Sally's family secrets, including murder, as questions surface on Sally's and Dawn's true identities. Though the narrative may at first seem intended for a teen-aged audience, this is an adult mystery.
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May 1st Top Ten - Congratulations
01 May 2008, 11:32
). Under the old system, The Lonely Tree would have been consigned (if such a fate can have a negative side) to the Best Sellers list but, because it did so at position 9 it would never have received a critique which would, for one of the most popular pieces on this site, have been a terrible shame.
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