Well done to the authors concerned ! The Top 5 stories below now take their place amongst the other books in the YouWriteOn Best Seller Chart. 

Scoring levels this month were very high, with stories in the Top 20 which would have made the Top Ten in the site's earlier days. Some of the site's earlier Top 10 stories which would now have been at Top 20 levels have since been published so it is not just the Top Ten now which is an indication of a story's potential as the YouWriteOn.com membership grows further. 

At the start of each month, the five highest rated writers of opening chapters in the YouWriteOn Top Ten also receive a free literary professional critique from established authors and editors for leading literary agents and publishers including Curtis Brown, Orion and Bloomsbury. 

1.	Bunny Rabbits, Elves & Flowers (Revised) by JohnnyVee Short Story, Horror 15 Aug 2008 Orphaned in a land of low-flying dragons and smelly fairies, eight-year-old Melissa Grimforall decides to make a stand. - !ADULT FANTASY HORROR! - More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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Overlord - The Rise of Zenobia (3) by JD Smith Historical 02 Aug 2008 6,800 words. Third century AD and the might of the Roman Empire begins to crumble through invasion. In the east of the empire, the forces of Persia press the frontier, and the king of the Syrian city, Palmyra, calls upon Emperor Valerian for aid. And thus, amidst the turmoil of the age, our story tells of Zenobia - the Warrior Queen. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

3.	La Putain Anglaise by Lorraine Mace Short Story, Literary Fiction 16 Jun 2008 When Claudette is told her father wants to make peace after fifty years of silence, she has some hard choices to make. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

4.	Infidel Heart [version two] by Kit Habianic Short Story, Literary Fiction 11 Jul 2008 Infidel Heart - a short story. July 7 2005: when a terrorist attack brings London's transport system to a halt, a young Muslim questions her choices as she waits for news of her sister. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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Mrs Outhwaite by Wendy Newdy Crime, Novel, Womens Fiction, General Fiction 17 Jul 2008 A year after her son's apparent suicide, Mae Martindale becomes obsessed with Mrs Outhwaite while both are on a community punishment programme. But just as her obsession grows, so does their unlikely friendship and Mrs Outhwaite becomes not just her ally but her salvation. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

6.	Flashback by E. Christopherson Comedy, Literary Fiction, Novel 12 Aug 2008 Gordo goes on a long, strange trip ... More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

7.	The Kingfisher (rev) by Andrew Wrigley Short Story, Literary Fiction, Thriller 01 Aug 2008 Revised. A short story of dog eat dog, fishing in the rain and the ultimate catch with the very last cast. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

8.	Two for the Crow by Jennifer J. Sowle Historical, Mystery, Womens Fiction 22 May 2008 It's l961 and Catholic school is out for the summer. Neighborhood life is simple for fourteen-year-old Theda Bara Falco and her friend, Nadine. That is, until the lazy summer morning Nadine Lupinski goes missing. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

9.	SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW by Angela Jaques Novel, Womens Fiction 23 Jul 2008 In 1988, Deirdra takes her own life. Twenty years on, Eve falls victim to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Will history repeat itself? More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

10.	Away from the Sun by Carl Plummer Crime, Novel, Thriller 11 Aug 2008 The third Mulberry/Calvert story. What begins as a simple murder becomes an intricate web in which Calvert is already entangled: Environmental Terrorism. Mulberry finds that some people will go to any lengths to have a child to love. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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September 1st 2008 - BestSellers Chart Longevity Entries - These are stories which have achieved over 25 days cumulatively in the YouWriteOn.com Top Ten and, along with the Top 5 stories in the Top Ten above, also enter the YouWriteOn Best Sellers Chart to be considered along with other BestSellers Chart entry for the YouWriteOn Book of the Year Awards 2009

Persona (Revision 1)
by Martine Lillycrop	Crime, Horror, Science Fiction	30 Apr 2008
In the final quarter of the 21st Century, sea-levels have risen. Disease, hunger and overcrowding affect the western world. Ex-cop, Flynn, is a police consultant specialising in analysing ‘squirts’--illegal artificial personas which people inject into their brain. There's a new squirt out there, and it knows Flynn's name. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

August 1st 2008 - The YouWriteOn Top Ten

1.	Connie's Convertible (Revision 3) by Jim Coffey Novel, General Fiction 09 Jul 2008 Tom visits Connie, ex girlfriend and love of his life. The visit, and an unwelcome phone call from his estranged dying father, causes Tom to reflect on how he got into this desperate state, and then, just what he's going to do about it. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

2.	A Cross by the Road (Revised) by Dan Schuler Short Story, General Fiction 22 Jun 2008 A woman reflects on her past and her prospects for the future on the anniversary of the tragic accident that changed her life. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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HANDSTANDS IN THE SHALLOW END (REVISED) by Jennifer J. Sowle Historical, Womens Fiction 13 Jun 2008 It’s l968 when Luanne Kilpi is pulled from the Saginaw River and ends up in the loony bin. Her story illuminates the hopes and hazards of psychiatry, the thin line between heartache and insanity, an unflinching look at life inside the asylum that looms large in a small northern town. Women’s fiction. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

4.	Awake (slight revision) by Danny Gillan Short Story, Comedy, General Fiction 02 Jul 2008 Short Story. I've made a few changes to this but nothing major, so if you've had it before feel free to pass. It's a gently comic look at a typical working class funeral. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

5.	Frame-Up by E. Christopherson Crime, Mystery, Thriller 29 Apr 2008 New York magazine journalist Will Pruett attempts to frame himself for a murder he had nothing to do with as a way to put the death penalty itself on trial—to demonstrate how a simple coincidence or two can cost an innocent man his neck. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

6.	La Putain Anglaise (formerly Chickenfeed) by Lorraine Mace Short Story, Literary Fiction 16 Jun 2008 When Claudette is told her father wants to make peace after fifty years of silence, she has some hard choices to make. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

7.	Infidel Heart [version two] by Kit Habianic Short Story, Literary Fiction 11 Jul 2008 Infidel Heart - a short story. July 7 2005: as a terrorist attack brings London's transport system to a halt, a young Muslim questions her choices as she waits for news of her sister. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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Old Horses by B. F. Thor Literary Fiction, Novel 05 Jun 2008 Meet Louis and his best friend Campbell Feathers; two teenage wildmen trapped, temporarily, in small town hell. Louis's idea of rebellion is adding apostrophes to road signs, whereas Campbell Feathers unselfconciously inhabits an adult world of drink, drugs and illicit sex with his Mother's friend Barbara (or so he claims). More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

9.	Red Shadows (Revised) by William McCormick Historical, Literary Fiction, Novel, Saga 05 Jun 2008 A failed revolution sets two brothers on a collision course. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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The Stasi File by Peter Bernhardt Novel, Thriller 19 May 2008 An American lawyer and his lover from Berlin student days, now a budding Italian opera diva, are drawn into an assassination plot by a Stasi General, desperate to prevent the collapse of the East German police state after the fall of the Berlin Wall. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book August 1st 2008 - BestSellers Chart Longevity Entries - These are stories which have achieved over 25 days cumulatively in the YouWriteOn.com Top Ten and, along with the Top 5 stories in the Top Ten above, also enter the YouWriteOn Best Sellers Chart to be considered along with other BestSellers Chart entry for the YouWriteOn Book of the Year Awards 2009 The Hypnotist (revised V2) by Rob Ganley Novel 30 Mar 2008 Amelia Chase has vanished. Her husband Marlon Chase, a TV magician and hypnotist, is worried. She has left him many times over the last 25 years, since a childhood accident bound their lives together, but this time he fears she has gone for good because he has done something unforgivable. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

Well done to the authors concerned ! The Top 5 stories below now take their place amongst the other books in the YouWriteOn Best Seller Chart. YouWriteOn is delighted that The Random House Group will read and comment to all members on the complete Top Ten as listed on the first of each month between April and September 2008 - View Full Details. At the start of each month, the five highest rated writers of opening chapters in the YouWriteOn Top Ten also receive a free literary professional critique from established authors and editors for leading literary agents and publishers including Curtis Brown, Orion and Bloomsbury. 

1.	The Bowels of the Earth by Veronica Di Grigoli Short Story, Literary Fiction, General Fiction 28 May 2008 What does it feel like to be buried alive? My grandfather spent eight hours tunneling his way out of a collapsed coal mine with his bare hands. This is his story. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

2.	The Second Siege by William Burton McCormick Crime, Historical, Novel 12 Jun 2008 A young immigrant in Edwardian London sacrifices family, faith and future to join a group of robbery-backed anarchists only to be viciously betrayed by one among them. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

3.	Songs from the Other Side of the Wall by Tommi Gay/Lesbian Fiction, Literary Fiction 13 Jun 2008 The death of Claire, the woman she loved from afar, forces 17 year-old Hungarian Sandrine, who has only ever thought about the future, to face the past: Claire's hers, and her country's. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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Deliverance (Version 3.0) by Janice Tay Novel, Fantasy 30 May 2008 Rored keeps disappearing Elsewhere, the place you go when you sleep, daydream or die. When the dead ask her to take their letters to the living, she reluctantly agrees. But it's the people lost Elsewhere who pose her biggest problem because they want a saviour to take them home: a task that may cost Rored her life. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

5.	The Hikikomori Case by Shuji Nakamura Novel 25 May 2008 What do you do when the world takes everything you care about? More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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Symbolic Behaviour Emporium by Cope - Walker Short Story, Comedy, Science Fiction 03 Jun 2008 Augustus Podd is a salesman of the near future who is less than successful. Until, that is, he discovers a wonderful new technology which threatens to turn his career around. Unfortunately, Podd is a man cursed with bad luck and soon discovers every silver lining has a black cloud. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

7.	This World and the Next by JW Hicks Science Fiction 05 Mar 2008 When you've sunk to the bottom of the heap, where next? More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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Old Horses by B. F. Thor Literary Fiction 05 Jun 2008 Meet Louis and his best friend Campbell Feathers; two teenage wildmen trapped, temporarily, in small town hell. Louis's idea of rebellion is adding apostrophes to road signs, whereas Campbell Feathers unselfconciously inhabits an adult world of drink, drugs and illicit sex with his Mother's friend Barbara (or so he claims). More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

9.	The Shattered Mirror by Nick Poole Historical, Novel, Fantasy 27 May 2008 "All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own." Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890). Thomas Grimes returns to England. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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Two for the Crow by Jennifer J. Sowle Historical, Mystery, Novel, Womens Fiction 22 May 2008 It's l961 and Theda Bara Falco is fourteen. Catholic school is out for the summer, and neighborhood life is simple for Theda and her friend, Nadine. Until the lazy summer day Nadine Lupinski goes missing. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

July 1st 2008 - BestSellers Chart Longevity Entries - These are stories which have achieved over 25 days cumulatively in the YouWriteOn.com Top Ten and, along with the Top 5 stories in the Top Ten above, also enter the YouWriteOn Best Sellers Chart to be considered along with other BestSellers Chart entry for the YouWriteOn Book of the Year Awards 2009

	This World and the Next by JW Hicks Science Fiction 05 Mar 2008 When you've sunk to the bottom of the heap, where next? More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

The Crimes of Michael Murgatroyd v1.3 by Edwain Gorty Adventure, Children's Fiction, Comedy, Mystery, Fantasy 03 Mar 2008 Here's the challenge: Commit a crime a day or perish in unimaginable agony. Can Michael Murgaroyd fulfil his criminal destiny and avoid the ancient curse of the Murgatroyd family? Will it help that he has just become a vampire? Another lite rewrite More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

A Gift of the Gods by Gordon Knight Short Story, Literary Fiction 22 Feb 2008 Eddie Frowd's fascination with a lady's corset results in an encounter he will never forget More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

Well done to the authors concerned ! The Top 5 stories below now take their place amongst the other books in the YouWriteOn Best Seller Chart. YouWriteOn is delighted that The Random House Group will read and comment to all members on the complete Top Ten as listed on the first of each month between April and September 2008 - View Full Details. At the start of each month, the five highest rated writers of opening chapters in the YouWriteOn Top Ten also receive a free literary professional critique from established authors and editors for leading literary agents and publishers including Curtis Brown, Orion and Bloomsbury. 

1.	The Venus Game (revised) by Patricia J. DeLois Short Story, Literary Fiction 20 Apr 2008 A short story about sex and pinball. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

2.	JOE VOMOSH OMINOUS EDITION by Joey Short Story, Comedy 24 Apr 2008 The collected adventures of the mythical hero Joe Vomosh, beautifully bound along with his wife Stella for your reading enjoyment. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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22, Britannia Road (revised) by Colette Historical, Literary Fiction, Novel, Romance 02 May 2008 During the Second World War, Micha and his mother hide in the birch forests of the Polish countryside, living wild and in fear of capture. Micha’s father escapes Poland and serves in the RAF. After the war, the family is re-united and try to make a life in Britain. A story of love, secrets and hope. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

4.	Coming of Age III by Carlie Short Story, Chicklit 28 Mar 2008 The sudden death of her golden-boy brother leaves Kate staggering hopelessly against the weight of parental expectations. It takes an extreme ride to force her to grow up and face her demons. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

5.	The Open Arms of The Sea (Novel) by Jasper Dorgan Action, Adventure, Gay/Lesbian Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novel, Romance 30 Apr 2008 A story of bewilderment, love and duty set in British occupied Aden in 1965. This is the opening of the novel that has emerged from the short story that previously appeared on YWO More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

6.	This World and the Next by JW Hicks Science Fiction 05 Mar 2008 When you've sunk to the bottom of the heap, where next? More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

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Persona (Revision 1) by Martine Lillycrop Crime, Horror, Science Fiction 30 Apr 2008 In the final quarter of the 21st Century, sea-levels have risen, power supplies are failing. Disease, hunger and overcrowding affect the western world. DI Flynn's job is to investigate “squirting” - injecting a chemical alter-ego into the brain. There's a new and evil persona on the street. And it knows Fynn’s name. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

8.	Frame-Up by E. Christopherson Crime, Mystery, Thriller 29 Apr 2008 New York magazine journalist Will Pruett attempts to frame himself for a murder he had nothing to do with as a way to put the death penalty itself on trial—to demonstrate how a simple coincidence or two can cost an innocent man his neck. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

9.	Ladder to the Moon by Wendy Wynde Teenage Fiction 02 Feb 2008 Caring for his increasingly sick single parent Father and younger brother is hard enough, but when Jed is falsely accused of stealing a mobile phone, the attention it brings threatens to blow his life apart. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book

10.	The Hatred of Friends (1st. revision). by Carl Plummer Crime, Novel 22 Apr 2008 The death of an ex-OAS man in an English nursing home sends Mulberry to Paris, and Calvert to Libya in search for gold which had disappeared en route from Israel to Paris nearly fifty years ago. The fourth Mulberry/Calvert story. More Details | Read Sample Chapters | Review Book