2025 Writing Mentorship Award (for unfinished or finished manuscripts)
A DCI fighting severe OCD must confront his lifelong fear and dark past to solve five murders in the corrupt world of dog showing, proving he is worthy of promotion.
Visit the Bronze Age Aegean, where perfect blue waters hide pirates and blades, raiders and slaves, love and loss, and sin. The kings are guilty. No one is innocent. Their war is real. Their gods are not. What really happened? Four Stories. Four struggles for freedom.
As East London gentrifies and dark forces gather, can three very different women fight forces of misogyny and empower a new generation of witches? The charming wildness of PRACTICAL MAGIC meets the warmth of THE VERY SECRET SOCIETY OF IRREGULAR WITCHES, for fans of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and anyone...
He has a good job. He has respect. He has a lover. But piano-playing banker Sam Vine wants out of his stressful, run-of-the-mill life. Two wily women, his lover and his sister, step in to ‘help’.
A demon haunts the catacombs of a cathedral, and it's left to Sister Mara and Princess Vera to exorcise it before it threatens the surface world. When they explore the catacomb's depths, they find much more than just crypts and bones.
Charlie Gorham becomes a medical student, not to become a doctor but to uncover the truth behind his father’s death. Instead he unearths a conspiracy involving Big Pharma and its commercial interests.
Two versions of Matilda – a stressed-out mother and a fading opera star – swap lives in their search for true love. IN ANY LIFE combines the chemistry of Emma and Dexter in ONE DAY with the multitude of possibilities in THE VERSIONS OF US
On a witch-hunting planet, a desperate healer whose magic is fading must ally with her nemesis to avert war before the price of success becomes unbearable.
When a burnt-out pharmaceutical ad writer with bipolar disorder learns her estranged father is dying, she travels to Bangkok—where she was born and he now lives—in search of answers. What follows is a reckoning with identity, grief, and the messy work of making peace with the people who shaped her.
A dwarven barbarian burdened by destiny, searching for her redemption. A sassy, sensual, cocksure gothic fae bard, looking for a way to save his dying sister. A journey that binds them as hunter and prey. Finding love while failing to save the world, bringing about a dark prophecy and war.
