Scarlet's on Authonomy

Okay, so for all of those people who don't really get to read my work and would like to (especially to my facebook friends!) SCARLET, my newest novel, is up on Authonomy, a "virtual slush pile" run by Harper Collins--essentially it's a popularity contest that could lead to an editor's desk.  Now, I've entered these sorts of things before and while I'm not too cocky about my ability to land on the editor's desk, it is a chance to give other people a look at Scarlet.  So I hope you like it, I'm madly in love with this quirky little novel.

Enjoy (description below), leave comments and tell your friends; who knows, maybe I'm popular enough!

xx

Scarlet

AC Gaughen

History forgot that Will Scarlet, Robin Hood's famous thief, is a girl. And that's not the only secret she's hiding.

Scarlet is a retelling of the Robin Hood legend from the point of view of Scarlet, a young thief from London that Robin's brought into his small band of fighters. Her friends know the truth, but most of the townspeople don't want to see that Scarlet isn't the Will Scarlet that history will come to remember, but just Scarlet, a girl with scars and strange eyes that tries to stay as invisible as possible.

But Guy of Gisbourne, the thief taker from London that know's Scarlet's secrets, won't let her stay invisible as he begins targeting the people of Nottinghamshire, trying to get to Robin Hood, the thief he's been hired to hang. Scarlet has to decide how much the people of Nottinghamshire mean to her--not to mention how she feels about John Little, the brawny blacksmith that lost his family to the Sheriff's cruelty, or Robin himself, a legend even in his own time.

It's young adult novel of 55,000 words told in first person, offering a personal and completely unique perspective on one of history's favorite stories.