We also recognise in our YouWriteOn Book of the Year Awards the Runners-Up for the adult fiction fiction awards and the great quality of their writing. These are the longlisted stories for the adult fiction awards 2008. We believe in the compelling writing of these stories and that these writers will also find publishing success and deserve to be recognised. 

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YouWriteOn Book Awards Adult Fiction Runners-Up - Ordered by date of entry to BestSellers Chart. All stories entered the BestSellers Chart after January 2007, the dates on each entry are the dates that the writers originally uploaded their stories for review.  

The Long Drop Goodbye (Older)
by Jimmy Bain	Comedy, Crime, Novel	02 Nov 2006
Moose Cowen dies in a mysterious fall. The Narrator, who is never named, and his partner, the Bumble investigate. This is Comedy/Crime in the Glaswegian vernacular - so if you don't understand it just hit remove. (It's not very PC either - but that's the characters not the author!) More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

The Armchair Bride by Mo Fanning Chicklit, Comedy, Novel 29 May 2007 Based on www.placetheirface.com. This is a story that explores the many ways our past governs our future and how, thanks to the Internet, we're all judged on who we used to be - or claim to be. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

SPINEBENDER by Oliver Conway Horror, Thriller 04 Mar 2007 Alexander Wallace has a unique gift. When he is persuaded to help his friend - the Detective Inspector - with a particularly unusual murder enquiry, he finds himself drawn into a Paranormal world in a race against time and an enemy he cannot begin to comprehend. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book Coombe's Wood by Lisa C Hinsley Horror, Thriller 30 Jul 2007 Izzy and her son Connor move to the village of Cedham, to find eccentric locals and talk of elves. Dire warnings are issued to stay away from Coombe’s Wood, and as her ex partner finds the family and starts to terrorise them, Izzy searches the woods, to a surprising end. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book A Monster in the Mirror by Nick Poole Historical, Horror, Mystery, Novel, Fantasy 30 Mar 2007 A lonely, ugly Victorian boy covets a lovely fairy girl. But should he use the Grimoire in his father's library to take her for himself? I am currently re-plotting this from scratch. Follow my progress at http://amonsterinthemirror.blogspot.com/ More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book Franklin's Orb (revised) by Derek Haycock Mystery 10 Jun 2007 A unique work of art, in the unlikeliest of settings, acts as a beacon for a journey of self-realization and recovery. In these opening chapters, recovered alcoholic, Archie, describes meeting the itinerant artist who was to change his life. (Contains strong language.) More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book Somniac by Andrew Wood Literary Fiction, Novel 01 Sep 2007 Nick Nightingale finds that eating cheese gives him lucid dreams in which he is able to continue his relationship with his dead girlfriend. In his London flat, he lives only to sleep, until he meets someone new and finds himself caught in a struggle between life and death… More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book Rendail by Jo Reed Novel, Saga, Fantasy 29 Oct 2007 Rendail was born for only one purpose; to perpetuate his father's tyranny. In his world there was only one rule - the Rule of the Blood. Then he discovered that the Rule that shaped his life would one day destroy them all. (More info in long synopsis) More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book The Sorrowless Field by Perry Iles Historical, Mystery, Novel 12 Nov 2007 In the Scottish town of Annandale, the smouldering embers of an old dispute are fanned into flames by present-day events. In this remote rural area, memories take a long time to die, and for some, forgiveness is a hard concept to understand. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book