2026 Best Unpublished Manuscript

When Eva and Evan find themselves dateless to a wedding, Evan has the trope-tastic idea to feign a romance, fool their families, and watch the couple get hitched without a hitch. Oh, Evan. As if any trope ever resolved itself that easily.

In Walking Over Wet Paint, a guarded, emotionally reserved editor in vintage togs collides with a charming oncologist in the wake of her mother’s terminal illness, forcing both to re-evaluate their emotional defenses, past patterns, and ideas of permanence.

In Seattle, 1935, a young girl right out of high school, falls in love with a glamorous older man, entering into a world of elegant gowns, cocktails, and dancing. But when he grows more controlling and violent in his pro-Nazi group, the Silver Shirts, she runs away with the help of an actor (Max)...

The Unblinking I is the story of three people who meet on a remote island in Thailand. Rune and Greg are tech wizards, and Issy is a woman with a secret. The story moves to Burma where the reader experiences exotic undercover activists, mysterious temple ceremonies, and the true identity of The...

Searching for a deeper spiritual connection can be a life-changing quest. But where do we find a God alive and active in the complex tapestry of our lives? In ordinary living, by everyday people. Through a rich narrative of story-telling God Quest – God Discovered in Everyday Places leads to hidden...

After inheriting a dead artist’s bizarre paintings, a struggling museum owner uncovers a hidden message for help, pulling him into a deadly mystery that forces him to confront what makes art—and people—valuable.

When three generations of the Walker family chase a silver rush onto native land during the final years of the Apache Wars, Tad Walker seeks refuge from his loveless marriage and father’s constant abuse, which leads him to Ekta, a Chiricahua woman who challenges him to break free from a family curse...

After her train to a music festival breaks down, Noelle is thrown into a road trip with her best friend, her longtime crush, and a fate-hating stranger—forcing her to choose between her carefully planned path and the bumpy, pothole-filled road she actually wants.

The world’s third-oldest person can’t afford his high-end care home, so his fiery granddaughter sets out to make him too famous to evict by murdering the two people who are older.

In 1936 Seattle, an actor is having the time of his free-wheeling life, until he meets the woman of his dreams, who won’t let anything get in the way of her acting career. When her twin brother turns up dead, together they unearth a horrific set of murders, and a perpetrator who is untouchable.

John Hopkins, a young Irish-American, believes he is worth more than his humble upbringing, so he tries for a job working for George Pullman, industrialist, who is building a futuristic city for his workers. At first, the two men hit it off, but when Pullman’s workers try to unionize, the two men...

Two dying mortals discover a ‘special’ shop with a portal to Fairyland where, their task is to find the Moon Goddess which will then secure them a moonbeam with the power to heal.

Demerara, British Guyana, 1823. Rumours of emancipation reach the plantations. When Jack, Quamina and Kofi believe their freedom is unjustly withheld, they move towards uprising. For Amba, love for Kofi and the struggle to protect her fragile freedom draw her into revolution. Based on true events.

Thrown into a ruthless world ravaged by warring gods, an ordinary young woman must forge an alliance with a fallen dragon lord to find her way back to her own world and expose the lie on which the gods and their Elites built their power.

Is this a ghost, an hallucination, or a symbol of unresolved damage? Set over four days in a 1997 context of social and political change - with flashbacks to a 1960s childhood- 75,000 word 'Balancing Act' explores 32 yr old Ana's fight to address the childhood trauma that tore her family apart.

When two postpartum witches curse their town’s “skinny juice” out of spite, they accidentally awaken a forgotten magic that has been waiting for exactly this—because a town that starves its mothers eventually starves itself.

What if her hair was not Gold and she met Monkeys instead ? How would Goldilocks' story play out?

In war-ruled Vael, sixteen-year-old Jorium has trained his whole life to kill, but when he alone can wield the forbidden Death Arts, the power sickens him. As his people face ruin, he must balance life and death while falling for a Life Artist boy he is certain hates him.

When a neural wellness system begins rewriting human thoughts, its creator fakes his death to stop it—while his wife, still under its influence, must reclaim her mind before she’s replaced by a weaponized copy of herself.

A world Percy Field does not like is convinced he is a prophet of God, and he may just be beginning to believe it

Based on the wartime experiences of my father-in-law, Pieter Wienk, later known as a Noddy illustrator, Eastbound follows a young Dutch mechanic deported east for forced labour during the Nazi occupation. When he escapes with his closest friend, Jan, the two begin a desperate journey home across war...

If you saw a mouse in the house, what should you do?

Gifted with the seventh sense, Elya is thrust into a millennia‑old war between secret orders that have shaped humanity from the shadows.