July Giveaway!

A just-for-fun giveaway for young writers and book lovers, ages 9-15.

Giveaway Results:

Congratulations, Waihirere Fifield!

Waihirere won a paperback copy of one THE GREEN EMBER by S.D. Smith.

For a bonus entry, participants wrote a six-word-story based on our fun picture prompt below.

Read on for some of their amazing entries!

Six-Word Stories:

Here’s just a handful of all the incredible stories we received. There were MANY MORE we would’ve loved to share!

Sir, converse with me not ___ – Juliette Walton, 11

Do Legos get 9 lives too? – Bella Langworthy, 12

What a truly sole crushing moment… – Henry Buunk, 14

King Arthur shall be very displeased. – Maggie Mossdell, 13

Bonus Entry Picture Prompt

(Click on image to enlarge it.)

“One more step…..I DARE YOU” – Katie Taylor, 13

I didn’t expect dragons like THIS. – Talitha Borstad, 12

Shoe, you step to your doom! – Moriah Renae Borstad, 9

“I’m going to need a raise.” – Kamryn Rackley, 14

I will save the princess tomorrow – Aurora Heta, 9

Thanks for Entering our Giveaway!

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

– Louisa May Alcott

The Green Ember

by S. D. Smith

“My place beside you, my blood for yours. Till the Green Ember Rises, or the end of the world!”

Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world.

Kings fall and kingdoms totter. Tyrants ascend and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every bend.

Where will Heather and Picket land? How will they make their stand?

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