Quick Tips

You upload your own artwork for your chapter front cover. When adding a chapter you can select the image from your computer.

Wish to change the artwork? just edit the chapter and you will have to option to do so.

Stay informed on our latest news!

Previous issues

more tags

Bookbloc is

A playground for literature lovers. Connects you with literary friends. Discover unpublished work and be discovered.

Bookbloc has teamed up with literary agents to scout for burgeoning new talent.

Feedback

Found a problem with the site or just want to give your opinon on it please let us know using our simple feedback form.

General Fiction

Chapters

Posted Wed, 06/17/2009 - 16:06 by LaurenODonoghue

Sparrow has just lost the love of her life.

Daisy is drifting from her once-siamese twin.

David feels like a stranger in his own body.

Vincent needs a fresh start.

Chapters follows the lives of these four twentysomethings as they all search for something missing.
Set in contemporary Sheffield over the Christmas period, their lives intertwine, crossing and colliding until events finally reach a head on New Year's Eve.

Chapter

Upload your idea:

Daisy, Vincent, Sparrow and David's lives cross and collide as they search for happiness at Christmastime in Sheffield.

Cover:

1 comment

Ratboy Saves Steel City

Posted Wed, 06/17/2009 - 15:49 by LaurenODonoghue

Tristan Kulik can talk to animals.

Following an accident as a child, Tristan recieves the mixed blessing of being able to communicate in any language- and also with any species.
His gangster father uses his son's 'talent' to his advantage until a botched assassination attempt sends eighteen-year-old Tristan fleeing for the North.
Eight years later Tristan is living the quiet life in Sheffield, working at an animal park and living comfortably with his friend Dave and his rat Jasper.
Until he meets Delilah.

Chapter

Upload your idea:

Bearde-wearing animal-conversing gangster's son Tristan Kulik becomes a reluctant hero when South Yorkshire is in peril.

Cover:

Lady Karneval, a Novel

Posted Tue, 06/16/2009 - 15:02 by dusan

This tale of rock'n'roll, rebellion and smuggled literature follows a decade in the life of OndÅ™ej and his dissident family who survive prison, family break up and raids from the StB.

Meanwhile OndÅ™ej takes part in the youth movements which culminate in the Velvet Revolution of 1989. So much for the sweeping backdrop of history; OndÅ™ej has more pressing problems, like dodging conscription and getting over the girlfriend who has dumped him.

Chapter

Upload your idea:

1st Chapter.doc

Cover:

4 comments

Splitting The Difference

Posted Wed, 06/03/2009 - 20:41 by AL Bowden

Inca sat rolling peas across her plate into undercooked cut green beans she had arranged like skittles. Nobody really noticed, not even mummy. Everyone, except Inca and Perth were concentrating intently on their lunch following Perthâ€™s outburst.

Cover:

Work in progress

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 22:39 by Kamarae

Each of us is a work in progress.
Following a bad accident Lucy has to rebuild her life, with few memories of her past.
If you could start again will a clean slate, how much of your life would you change ?
Element of fantasy comes into story later

Chapter

Upload your idea:

A work in progress(2).doc

Cover:

4 comments

The Red Thread

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 22:32 by Kamarae

"An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break."

In this story 'Red' is actually a border collie, the ghost of a border collie to be exact, that resides in a village that the main characters Aunty grew up in.
She spent many childhood summers at her Aunty's cottage and was raised on stories about a special sheepdog but she never thought they were true.

Chapter

Upload your idea:

A work in progress.doc

Cover:

Home

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 21:36 by Wain

Alice is leaving her family in London to begin a new career abroad. She has lived abroad often before but this is the first time she is having qualms leaving, expecially since Eric, her childhood friend, declared himself to her the day of her departure.

Chapter

Upload your idea:

Chapter One.doc

Cover: