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The Kiss Off
MATURE THEMES
When sixteen year old Poppy Douglas writes a song about her ex-boyfriend Cam and ex-friend Nikki, she has no idea that her heartbreak is about to go global. A local band picks up her song from Youtube and soon she’s along for the ride with her own fanbase as they blow up on the local club scene and hit the international charts. Though it turns out leaving Cam behind isn’t as easy as she had hoped. Tangled in a web of unfinished homework, ill-considered sexting and a new lead-singer boyfriend, Poppy has a choice to make between the ex that inspired it all and the rock God whose poster lines the inside of half the lockers at school. But as she struggles to keep her emotional dirty laundry private, she learns that the truth can be hard to find when your life is in the headlines. Over It (The Kiss Off 2)
Warning: Sexual References, occasional coarse language.
Teen Youtube song writing sensation Poppy Douglas's lead singer boyfriend Ty's been criss-crossing the country and living it up on tour for months while Poppy has been stuck in the boring suburbs, finishing out the school year. But it's Summer now, and the best thing just happened: Poppy's royalties for writing the hit song The Kiss Off just came in. She's minted, and she knows just what she's going to blow it on. Ty's band Academy of Lies are headlining a summer music festival, and Poppy is taking her girlfriends along for the best weekend of their lives. It's all organized: the weekend is going to be full of camping under the stars, backstage passes, VIP rooms and partying like rock stars, not to mention some long awaited one-on-one time with America's favorite front man. Except, when someone drops out of the trip and Poppy takes the opportunity to mend a broken friendship, it doesn't quite go according to plan. And when she meets her boyfriend's BFF from another band, the paparazzi form their own totally wrong conclusions. There's also the matter of Ty's 'super fan' stalker, but the less said about her the better. The biggest test of all comes in the form of an opportunity too good to pass up. But will insecurities and jealousy stand in Poppy's way? Can Poppy and Ty's relationship even survive it? Life is about to get much more complicated for Poppy Douglas, but what can you expect when your boyfriend is a rock star? FAN MADE BOOK TRAILER BELOW Life Was Cool Until You Got Popular
UPPER MIDDLE GRADE Warning! This book contains mean girls! Thirteen year old Kaley’s best friend Jules is an alien clone. That has to be it. Because Jules wouldn’t dress like that or act like that…and she definitely wouldn’t be friends with Meg-a-bitch. Kaley can't wait to start at her new school with her best friend Jules. Jules was away in Europe all summer (worst summer of Kaley's life!) But it's cool, now school is starting and everything is going to be awesome. However as the school bus pulls up on that first day, Kaley barely recognizes the silky hair and glossy lips as Jules gets off with the cool kids and with their arch-nemesis Meg, the popular girl (God only knows why) who made Kaley and Jules's lives miserable in elementary school. In Europe, Meg had somehow won over Kaley's best friend and Kaley finds herself frozen out. LIFE WAS COOL UNTIL YOU GOT POPULAR is a first person upper middle grade novel told through Kaley’s eyes, chronicling the initial pain and incomprehension of what happened to destroy their friendship. But that doesn't last long. Kaley decides that underneath the bleached blond clone with the personality transplant, Jules is still in there. Somewhere. And she is going to get her best friend back! |
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Short Story Collections
Short & Sassy
Like Sarah Billington's sassy stories? Well now's your chance to grab three at once!
Included in this collection is the Fellowship of Australian Writers Award winning Young Adult story "Life Was Easier When Boys Were Stupid", the New Adult romance "That One Night" and brand new Young Adult romantic comedy of errors, Ba(n)d Romance.
Included in this collection is the Fellowship of Australian Writers Award winning Young Adult story "Life Was Easier When Boys Were Stupid", the New Adult romance "That One Night" and brand new Young Adult romantic comedy of errors, Ba(n)d Romance.
Short & Scary
The Sarah Billington Short & Scary Collection Volume One contains a variety of thrills and chills, including her best selling short story, The Runaway!
Small town arson and missing person whodunnit in crime/mystery Guilty Until Proven Innocent; thriller The Runaway; horror/black comedy "I, Zombie", and supernatural urban legend The Witch's Curse.
Enjoy four short and scary stories in the one volume.
Small town arson and missing person whodunnit in crime/mystery Guilty Until Proven Innocent; thriller The Runaway; horror/black comedy "I, Zombie", and supernatural urban legend The Witch's Curse.
Enjoy four short and scary stories in the one volume.
Short Stories
Ba(n)d Romance
Jordan thought she and Paul were forever. Then she found out about Missy: Paul’s other forever.
Now it’s the night of the sophomore dance. Jordan’s on stage with her band, Paul’s text bombing her and Missy’s in the audience with murder on her mind. Unfortunately, it’s not Paul in Missy’s sights.
Now it’s the night of the sophomore dance. Jordan’s on stage with her band, Paul’s text bombing her and Missy’s in the audience with murder on her mind. Unfortunately, it’s not Paul in Missy’s sights.
That One Night
Can a friendship that lasts just an hour be completely perfect?
A year ago, Annie and Bree were best friends, then they graduated high school and it turns out a year is a long time.
When Annie shows up at her best friend's birthday hoping to slip back into the friendship that was, she discovers she's no longer a part of Bree's world and decides to slip out quietly without making a scene.
But a chance encounter on the way out means that sometimes you can find friendship when you least expect it
A year ago, Annie and Bree were best friends, then they graduated high school and it turns out a year is a long time.
When Annie shows up at her best friend's birthday hoping to slip back into the friendship that was, she discovers she's no longer a part of Bree's world and decides to slip out quietly without making a scene.
But a chance encounter on the way out means that sometimes you can find friendship when you least expect it
Life Was Easier When Boys Were Stupid
Jess is at a party and girls and boys around her are locked together at the lips and hips. When did everyone grow up so fast? She's not sure she wants to, but her girl friend Carla points out a boy across the room with eyes only for Jess.
Life Was Easier When Boys Were Stupid won the Gippsland Award in 2009's Fellowship of Australian Writers Awards.
"Bought it. Read it. Loved it." - Judy Clemens (author of The Grim Reaper series)
"Superbly captures the essence of confusion in the adolescent years. Well done! Can't wait to read more from Sarah!" - Elisabeth B.
Life Was Easier When Boys Were Stupid won the Gippsland Award in 2009's Fellowship of Australian Writers Awards.
"Bought it. Read it. Loved it." - Judy Clemens (author of The Grim Reaper series)
"Superbly captures the essence of confusion in the adolescent years. Well done! Can't wait to read more from Sarah!" - Elisabeth B.
The Ballerina & My Best Friend
Everyone expected that Amanda and Tom would get married one day. But tomorrow is his wedding day, and Amanda is not the bride. Short and sweet, The Ballerina & My Best Friend is the perfect story for those that enjoy romance but have limited time to invest in it.
"A heartfelt contemporary adult short story with an unexpected ending that I'm still savouring. It's amazing to see Sarah Billington switch up genres and be such a versatile writer. I very much look forward to seeing more of her work and diversity!" - Shirley Marr
(author of Fury and Preloved, Black Dog Books)
"A heartfelt contemporary adult short story with an unexpected ending that I'm still savouring. It's amazing to see Sarah Billington switch up genres and be such a versatile writer. I very much look forward to seeing more of her work and diversity!" - Shirley Marr
(author of Fury and Preloved, Black Dog Books)
The Death and Life of Rocky the Crab
Lisa was supposed to be pet sitting. Looking after a crab is easy, right? Unless
you forget to feed it. And then you find it dead minutes before its owner is
back in town. There's something a bit different about this dead crab though.
"Short but sweet, The Death and Life of Rocky the Crab is an amusing look at a good deed gone wrong. Lisa volunteers to pet sit her friend's crab while he's away, but after failing to feed it the entire time, wakes up the day of her friend's return to find the crab has escaped and nearly died. In a chuckle-worthy confrontation with one pissed-off crab, Lisa--stuck under a bed with the crab--defends herself with kitchen tongs. Billington is talented at bringing a kind of slapstick humor to life on the page and yet keeping it real enough that readers can stay immersed in the story. The ending is unexpected and brings the story full circle in a way that makes it wholly satisfying."
- Erin Fry (Author of Losing It, Marshall Cavendish)
you forget to feed it. And then you find it dead minutes before its owner is
back in town. There's something a bit different about this dead crab though.
"Short but sweet, The Death and Life of Rocky the Crab is an amusing look at a good deed gone wrong. Lisa volunteers to pet sit her friend's crab while he's away, but after failing to feed it the entire time, wakes up the day of her friend's return to find the crab has escaped and nearly died. In a chuckle-worthy confrontation with one pissed-off crab, Lisa--stuck under a bed with the crab--defends herself with kitchen tongs. Billington is talented at bringing a kind of slapstick humor to life on the page and yet keeping it real enough that readers can stay immersed in the story. The ending is unexpected and brings the story full circle in a way that makes it wholly satisfying."
- Erin Fry (Author of Losing It, Marshall Cavendish)
The Runaway
Angela waits, hiding in the dark of a house, her satchel packed and ready, her bloody clothes discarded on the floor. If Luc doesn't arrive soon, she knows they'll find her.
The Runaway is a short story that will keep you guessing.
The Runaway is a short story that will keep you guessing.
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
In the small town of Carringwood, Doug and every other resident turn out to watch the drama as the Gabarski home burns down. Luckily Shana and the kids got out. And her husband Peter is mysteriously absent.
Speculation runs rife through the town, why are arson investigators here? Did Peter do it? But why would he?
That's not the only question on Doug's mind. What if it WASN'T Peter? But if it wasn't Peter, who was it?
Speculation runs rife through the town, why are arson investigators here? Did Peter do it? But why would he?
That's not the only question on Doug's mind. What if it WASN'T Peter? But if it wasn't Peter, who was it?
Dead Already
Everyone is dying, and no one outside the village has any idea. Martine and Eli's father, the strongest, fittest man they knew lies dead inside as they paint a red cross on the door, marking yet another infected home.
In order to save the rest of the country from this lethal sickness, the village elders lock the gates. No one gets out.
So everybody will die.
Eli, however, won't accept this fate, but can he get out of the quarantine when guards will cut down anyone who tries? Can he get help in time or will this end up just another village wiped out of existence?
In order to save the rest of the country from this lethal sickness, the village elders lock the gates. No one gets out.
So everybody will die.
Eli, however, won't accept this fate, but can he get out of the quarantine when guards will cut down anyone who tries? Can he get help in time or will this end up just another village wiped out of existence?
I, Zombie
I, Zombie can't wait to eat the little girl.
The old man looks like he'd be a bit tough and gristly, and the teenage boy keeps waving that bat around, but the little girl, so rosy cheeked, so tender. Her heart beating so fast. He can't wait to hold it, hot and wet in his hands, then rip it apart with his teeth. But he isn't the only zombie to find them.
He's got a fight on his hands, but with who, was unexpected.
The old man looks like he'd be a bit tough and gristly, and the teenage boy keeps waving that bat around, but the little girl, so rosy cheeked, so tender. Her heart beating so fast. He can't wait to hold it, hot and wet in his hands, then rip it apart with his teeth. But he isn't the only zombie to find them.
He's got a fight on his hands, but with who, was unexpected.
The Witch's Curse
In this short supernatural thriller, when fifteen-year-old Alex is caught out in the secluded forest admiring the giant ancient tree set in a moss-covered clearing, she is sure Josh is pulling a prank on her.
Be careful of the witch's curse, he says. The tree has the power to kill you in the most horrible of ways.
Be careful of the witch's curse, he says. The tree has the power to kill you in the most horrible of ways.