Current writing project YA speculative fiction novel "Feedback"

I haven't even got a release date for my first YA novel The Bird WithThe Broken Wing and I'm already 10,000 words into my next novel titled Feedback. 

At first draft stage Feedback has a basic plot line and I already know the surprise ending, unlike my first novel The Bird With The Broken Wing, which I didn't know the exact ending until I had rewritten the story a few times and even I came away thinking, "Ah, of course."

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King, Stories by O'Henry and Jeffrey Archer's A Twist in the Tale are all fabulous collections of novellas/short stories with surprise endings. Some of my favourite movies are The Sixth Sense, The Others, Fraility, The Usual Suspects. The list goes on. I love a good twist. And I mean a good twist, something clever. Not the Scooby-Doo type of ending although I remember I loved them when I was five.

A good twist ending needs to come from something the reader isn't expecting, but which makes perfect sense on retrospect. The reader should come away thinking, "Of course, I should have known."

 

News of novel release "The Bird With The Broken Wing"

Exiting news!!!!!! (Yes, worthy of 6 lightning bolts)

My debut novel, The Bird with the Broken is a YA paranormal novel soon to be being published by US ebook publisher Etopia Press.

Release date: some time mid-late 2011

Synopsis: When a guardian angel becomes trapped with the mortal she’s been assigned to watch over, she comes to realise that the only way to free him of his inner demons is to break the rules about becoming involved, revealing her true identity, and applying divine intervention to even the most hopeless of situations, which this one is. But what other choice does she have? Without her help his soul will be trapped forever. Then a stranger appears, giving the angel reason to wonder if his is the only soul in need of saving.

Publisher: http://www.etopia-press.net/