Step 1

Step 1 of the INovel Contest

Step 1: Authors must submit a synopsis of the book they are having their talent judged off of, the synopsis must be 100 words or less and BE SUBMITTED IN BY APRIL 1, 2013. 

The Top 50 winners of this step will continue to Step 2! The winners will be Highlighted in this color once the judgments have been made. 

To view more info on our Authors and ways to contact them, please view our Novelists page. Follow our Judges on their blogs to see their opinions on these contestants.

"Contest" = Book is going to be used as a Give-Away prize to a lucky reader.

Entries:

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Avid mushroom hunters and volunteers with the local Search and Rescue Department, Laura and Julie, who are in their sixties, remember that first encounter in the woods years ago.

Four young men, who are fun by nature, travel to the woods with high hopes of a hunt they won't forget.

A call to the Search and Rescue Department will bring them shockingly together in the... Black Woods.

- Black Woods (Book 1) by Laura Wright LaRoche  (Contest)

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Two people scarred by love, are thrown together by fate and their mutual attraction for each other. An independent Sophie must rely on Sheriff Damon to help clear her of charges brought against her the woman he once loved. While their attraction grows so does the danger. When Paige, Sophie’s sister is placed in her care, things become complicated as Damon is faced with what he’s missed and ached for. But is the playboy willing to risk his heart once again and will the woman who trusts no-one be willing to let him into her heart and her life.

- Falling into Paradise by Kamy Chetty  (Contest)

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What if President Nixon's resignation was not due to Watergate but a cover-up for Acts of High Treason?  COURIER, is about Rick Putnam, a young motorcycle messenger who picks up the newsfilm that proves Nixon took bribes from the South Vietnamese government to prolong the war.   Rick, still tortured by his own memories of Vietnam, becomes the target of trained assassins and a renegade CIA agent prepared to kill to keep this act of betrayal a secret. The courier fights for justice and survival on the streets of Washington DC on a neon-green Kawasaki that tops out at 200 miles-per-hour.

- Courier by Terry Irving

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The tropical paradise known as the Caribbean was anything but peaceful when the ships plying the waters manned by pirates were around.

Rafe Alexander fled England at an early age to join the Black Widow, queen of the largest pirate fleet to ever sail and, he vowed to get revenge against Ramirez, his own father he had never known. Together, they would become the most feared and powerful force the Caribbean would ever see.

But is revenge truly enough to sustain an empty heart?  Can love replace it? Rafe would find out…and his world would be turned upside down

- Pirates Revenge by Douglas Boren  (Contest)

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There is a legend about a wicked fairy (who can control all the elements and compulsion.) but is she alive or is she dead. You find out!!!!

- The All Gifted Fairies by Louise Findlay

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In a world where nightmares stalk the earth and survivors must battle vampire legions, a team of soldiers races to save mankind when a traitor threatens to destroy humanity.

 The world has been forever damaged by an arcane storm.  Warlock Eric Cross is part of Viper Squad, whose mission is to pursue the witch called Red across the wastelands.  Their hunt takes them through haunted forests and blighted tundra, into war-torn cities and to the edge of a twisted necropolis.  And before the journey is done Cross will uncover the dark origins of magic, and the true meaning of sacrifice...

- Blood Skies (Book 1) by Steven Montano

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In a world where nightmares stalk the earth and survivors must battle vampire legions, a team of soldiers races to save mankind when a traitor threatens to destroy humanity.

 The world has been forever damaged by an arcane storm.  Warlock Eric Cross is part of Viper Squad, whose mission is to pursue the witch called Red across the wastelands.  Their hunt takes them through haunted forests and blighted tundra, into war-torn cities and to the edge of a twisted necropolis.  And before the journey is done Cross will uncover the dark origins of magic, and the true meaning of sacrifice...

- Dhellia has a Conscience by April M. Reign

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Ailis is in homicide. She's pretty sure the serial murders her unit is investigating aren't being committed by a human. Her investigation unearths secrets about her ancestors that take her back to Camelot and the time of King Arthur and Merlin so she can right a wrong committed hundreds of years ago. Kenneth has been around long enough to know coincidences aren't real. When he meets the undeniably strong willed homicide detective Ailis, he knows there's a good explanation as to why she looks identical to his long dead fiancé. He just has to figure out what that might be.

Legacy Forgotten by Nicole Faith Hill (Contest)

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