I have to read a science fiction book over the summer for my new class. Im not really in rush for it rite now, but i kind of want the book early so i can get it done. Do you have any suggestions? Oh and it has to be young adult. Please help, i do not like science fiction books and i want to get it over with.

I’m a relatively new science fiction author and I’d like to know what kind of science fiction readers like to read currently. I have a time travel novella and an alternate history novel, so I’d like to find out from science fiction fans.

I’m doing an investigation for uni and want to know why the majority of people can relate to free verse poetry? What makes it more accessible? Is it the way that it replicates speech, or the normal, everyday language that it uses?

       “The Golden Globe, Gate, and the Encounter,” by N.D. Shine calls the attention of young people all over the world to open their minds to have a deeper walk with God. The book is about ten teenagers representing seven different countries, one including the United States of America, going through different walks in their lives. One day, they stumble across a magnificent globe, causing them to come together for one common purpose. But what they experience would change their hearts, minds, and destiny forever. N.D. Shine quotes on the book that “one heavenly encounter in the actual presence of God is an eternal experience never forgotten, life changing, and world shaking.” The Golden Globe, Gate, and the Encounter reaches children all over the globe in grades 4th through 12th.

     N.D. Shine has a passion to see God manifest himself in the lives of young people all over the world to impact change in the lives of people spiritually. She heavily focuses on the scipture in Matthew 28:19-20, which says to go into all the world and preach the gospel, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you, and I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. The novel is found on the following bookstore websites:

amazon, target, Barnes and Noble, and books-a-million. The books are priced at $12.95. You could also purchase the book by contacting Holy Fire Publishing at www.christianpublish.com.

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Leg muscles burning and arms punching through water and air, hands clawing for something, anything that can pull me up, pull me out, give me a chance-Help me help me help me . . . Gasping, SERA wakes from the nightmare-again. Her therapist believes that her troubled young patient is reliving the drowning death from a past life in her dreams. When she convinces Sera to travel back in time to witness the death of that past entity in an effort to break the nightmare’s cycle, Sera is faced with a difficult choice: does she stand by and let events unfold as they will, or does she break the rules of time travel and help to save the ones she loves, only to risk everything, including her own life? The choice she makes results in an anomaly so horrible and yet so beautiful, it transforms each of them.

The Starfish People

I’m seventeen a junior in high school and I’ve written a book. The origional copy is on notebook paper. It is over three hundred pages long and a mystery. Since I was eleven I have wanted to be a writer, but not a mystery writer historical fiction is more my thing. I know that isn’t typically a girl genre, but I can’t get the idea out of my head. I write everyday, but I am starting to wonder if I am wasting my time. Do people read anymore. My English teacher told me once that people only want to read books by well known successful authors. I wanted to know if I should finish typing it and send it to a few publishers or if I should just throw it away. Am I just dreaming here? I know it is unrealistic but it is all I have ever wanted. I don’t care if I’m rich or if I have to work and do my writing on the side to support myself. All I want to do is be a writer. Should I just listen to what everyone’s been telling me and give up on my dream or should I pursue it?
- Candace B

Writing a novel is dream that many of us hold in our hearts, your novel does not have to be your dream. All you need is to dedicate some time to learn how to bring out that novel inside you. A new e-guide, Bring out the Novel Inside You, has been written to help you make your dream come true. Here is some great advice from this e-guide.

No matter what you intend to write, it’s the M-O-O-D you want to portray that actually catches the attention. Remember that and you’ve got half the battle done.

The reader is holding your book for any number of reasons:

1) they want to escape

2) they need to research something

3) they just love the way you tell a good story

4) they want to spend an interesting night at home, quiet and restful

5) or, maybe find something thought-provoking

6) or, sometimes even scary.

The reasons that people read are endless. They find the right spot (atmosphere) and, with good concentration, reading can become a wonderful motion picture of the mind – to the point of forgetting you are actually reading just words.

Consider this: It’s words that run the world. Picture a world of mutes if you can.

Well, there may be many who would consider that a great idea. But then you’d have to totally rely on the eyes and the eyes can’t see everything – but the mind can.

A row of nutcracker soldiers standing stiffly, one behind the other, to one’s frontal view there seems to be only one lonely soldier standing there, but our mind knows that the line of soldiers goes on and on behind him.

I don’t know how many of you have ever considered this, but

reading and writing can extend lives.

At one time or another everyone of us needs to get out of this world, even if only in our minds. Reading and writing can ease pain and move a person around the world to any land he desires.

By reading, you can:

• Attend any important world-changing event

• Unite all people across the globe

• Provide world peace or

• Turn misery to happiness.

That’s the power and the work of the mind. Thus, we spread all good things by writing about them.

If we dwelled more on what we said or wrote (the intonation used in what we said, and to whom we said it), everything, as we now know it, would change for the better.

Human beings DO react favorably to a soft, kind voice, even if they have only read it.  The softness of voice is conveyed by the words the writer uses, and they stay in the reader’s mind.

What a gift we have to be able to read and write. You could be such a diplomat as writing allows.

You may be that one who writes the book that changes the world as we now know it.

Such a book can be produced and remain in demand for years to come, and each one sold earns you profits.

Bring out the novel inside you today, you can start immediately to get inside the mind of a successful novelist and make your dreams come true.


- Elizabeth St Denny Mfa

Writing a novel is dream that many of us hold in our hearts, your novel does not have to be your dream. All you need is to dedicate some time to learn how to bring out that novel inside you. A new e-guide, Bring out the Novel Inside You, has been written to help you make your dream come true. Here is some great advice from this e-guide.

No matter what you intend to write, it’s the M-O-O-D you want to portray that actually catches the attention. Remember that and you’ve got half the battle done.

The reader is holding your book for any number of reasons:

1) they want to escape

2) they need to research something

3) they just love the way you tell a good story

4) they want to spend an interesting night at home, quiet and restful

5) or, maybe find something thought-provoking

6) or, sometimes even scary.

The reasons that people read are endless. They find the right spot (atmosphere) and, with good concentration, reading can become a wonderful motion picture of the mind – to the point of forgetting you are actually reading just words.

Consider this: It’s words that run the world. Picture a world of mutes if you can.

Well, there may be many who would consider that a great idea. But then you’d have to totally rely on the eyes and the eyes can’t see everything – but the mind can.

A row of nutcracker soldiers standing stiffly, one behind the other, to one’s frontal view there seems to be only one lonely soldier standing there, but our mind knows that the line of soldiers goes on and on behind him.

I don’t know how many of you have ever considered this, but

reading and writing can extend lives.

At one time or another everyone of us needs to get out of this world, even if only in our minds. Reading and writing can ease pain and move a person around the world to any land he desires.

By reading, you can:

• Attend any important world-changing event

• Unite all people across the globe

• Provide world peace or

• Turn misery to happiness.

That’s the power and the work of the mind. Thus, we spread all good things by writing about them.

If we dwelled more on what we said or wrote (the intonation used in what we said, and to whom we said it), everything, as we now know it, would change for the better.

Human beings DO react favorably to a soft, kind voice, even if they have only read it.  The softness of voice is conveyed by the words the writer uses, and they stay in the reader’s mind.

What a gift we have to be able to read and write. You could be such a diplomat as writing allows.

You may be that one who writes the book that changes the world as we now know it.

Such a book can be produced and remain in demand for years to come, and each one sold earns you profits.

Bring out the novel inside you today, you can start immediately to get inside the mind of a successful novelist and make your dreams come true.


- Elizabeth St Denny Mfa

One of the biggest problem facing writers at some point is writer’s block. The inability to write and come up with ideas for writing can be very frustrating for writers and it can affect their performance in a big way. There are a number of reasons for writer’s block which includes, stress, poor physical and mental health, anxiety, significant changes in lifestyle. Actually, almost anything can cause writer’s block and for most people overcoming this problem is the hard part.

However, writer’s block is not something that writers have to be scared of because there are ways of overcoming this problem. Since there is no one definite cause for writer’s block, what we can do is condition ourselves to work in certain situations where writer’s block occurs most often.

Here are some tips and suggestions on how one can overcome writer’s block.

The first thing you can do for is to work with a fixed writing schedule. Draw out a timetable for writing, it could be a daily, weekly and even a monthly table. Stick to that schedule even though you can’t come up with anything to write because writing will become easier once your mind and body gets used to the schedule that you prepared.

Don’t force yourself to come up with ideas. The more you force yourself to come up with ideas and topics the more confused you get. If you have a number of ideas all jumbled together, just start writing and let the ideas flow, you can fix and edit your work after the writing process.

Rest and relaxation is very important. One reason why people experience writer’s block is because they’ve exhausted their ideas and that their brains are all burned out. So take the time to relax, do recreational activities and let your brain rest, you’ll find that it’s easier to write with a well rested head.


- timothy

Does it? I’m trying to write a creative writing piece based on a battle of the bands theme, and the story of a kids dream. But im not sure where i could include a lot of description in it. What do people means by creative? Imaginative, descriptive, or just a lot of use of complex sentence and paragraph structure with extended vocab?
- SkePt