Colleen Alles

Michigander, Writer. ❤️ Represented by @JennaSchmenna, @StormLiterary. She/her

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

❤️ 🔥 🥂

[Jenna Satterthwaite @JennaSchmenna]

✨Announcement time✨

I am thrilled to share that I’ve signed poet and novelist @ColleenAlles, whose contemporary Jane Eyre inspired romcom had me ROLLING. And swooning. And feeling all the feels. ❤️

Cannot wait to get this into the hands of #romance editors!!

@StormLiterary

[Finishing Line Press @FLPress]

FLP NOVELLA OF THE DAY: The Very Terrible Drowning of Bryan Price by Colleen Alles
On SALE now:    https://t.co/V7zQqenDvX

The Very Terrible Drowning of Bryan Price tells the story of Kate Barkway, a middle-aged wife and mother living in an idyllic West Michigan town. While her supervisor is on leave, Kate is in charge of the city’s annual triathlon, and everything is running smoothly… until a body is pulled from the waters of Reeds Lake. That body belongs to Bryan Price—Kate’s ex-husband. In the wake of the tragedy, questions arise about Kate’s role in Bryan’s drowning. No one has more questions than Madalynn—Bryan’s pregnant wife. Madalynn won’t rest until the truth about Kate Barkway comes out. #novella #mystery #murder #Michigan #triathlon

Colleen Alles is a native Michigander and award-winning writer living in Grand Rapids. The author of three novels and two poetry collections, she’s also a fiction editor with Barren Magazine. You can find her online at https://t.co/dxkQz9IzBV. @ColleenAlles

PRAISE FOR The Very Terrible Drowning of Bryan Price, A Novella by Colleen Alles

Alles’s novella is a lean, fast-paced tale of protestations of innocence, and the secrets those claims conceal. The protagonist Kate is a sympathetic narrator throughout, but who the reader can’t help but think is holding something back. Alles’s characters are convincingly, pulsingly, alive, as are the circumstances around the book’s central tragedy. One holds one’s breath on every page.
–Bob Johnson, author of The Continental Divide

Colleen Alles is the master of sowing doubt, of creating seemingly relatable characters and then tearing them apart on the page.
–Megan Turner, fiction writer

Please share/please repost  #flpauthor #preorder #AwesomeCoverArt  #prose #fiction #novella #read

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

@BBuchananWomble @JennaSchmenna @erinjoeldry You will love it, this book by @JennaSchmenna is amazing!

[Rebecca Linam @rebecca_linam]

YEAR IN BOOKS on X:
10. "Jane Eyre" set in modern-day American high school? Yes, please! I snagged this ARC by @ColleenAlles via @PublishConquest as soon as I saw it. I never realized how much of a ladies man Mr. Rochester was until I saw him in a high school setting.

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

@RiekkiRon @kevinclouther @jesterholm @allisonwhitten6 @ArtfulHerring @SoupnWooper Congratulations! Sorry for the delay - I don't come on "X" much these days.

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

Author Colleen Alles on writing her first Young Adult novel (out now!) https://t.co/VGpGU1ZmN4

[Bruce Buchanan @BBuchananWomble]

My debut NA fantasy novel has a cover - and I love it! @WildInkPub totally outdid themselves, and I can’t wait to share this book with the world on Aug. 12!

[Adele Liles Writes YA Thrillers 📚☕️ @Adele_Liles]

I’m a sucker for retellings, and this is a fun YA version of Jane Eyre with plenty of nods to the original without trying too hard to stick to the script. The characters are likable and believable as modern high school students. All in all, a delightful gem of a YA novel.

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

@Adele_Liles Thank you so much!!! ♥️

[Rebecca Linam @rebecca_linam]

@TheScribblerCMB @ColleenAlles already wrote one!
https://t.co/qmQfcvdtvh

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

Thank you @rebecca_linam!! Happy birthday, “Hound”!

[Rebecca Linam @rebecca_linam]

Check out my author Q & A interview with @ColleenAlles on her modern-day retelling of "Jane Eyre" on my blog: https://t.co/60ALVOVMWv

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

@JennaSchmenna Wow!!! 🤩

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

@rebecca_linam Oh wow!! 🤩 of course! Thank you for thinking of me! Feel free to DM ❤️

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

Oh wow! This is a feeling!!! ♥️ thank you!

[Conquest Publishing_An Indie Publisher of Fiction @PublishConquest]

What are early readers saying about @ColleenAlles debut novel, The Hound of Thornfield High?

#JaneEyre #youngadult #comtemporary #younglove

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

Thank you!! ❤️

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

@PublishConquest @cpbearden Hooray!!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This will forever be one of the most beautiful moments in Olympic history

[Adele Liles Writes YA Thrillers 📚☕️ @Adele_Liles]

“EDDIE ROCHESTER IS THE HOUND OF THORNFIELD HIGH.”

Boy is he ever! What a delightful gem of a YA Jane Eyre remix this is. Thanks, @ColleenAlles and @PublishConquest !

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

Thank you!! ❤️

[Adele Liles Writes YA Thrillers 📚☕️ @Adele_Liles]

My classics-retelling loving heart is really enjoying this Jane Eyre remix by @ColleenAlles & @PublishConquest 😍

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

10/10 recommend submitting to Conquest Publishing! ❤️ Great people, wonderful to work and dream with!

[Conquest Publishing_An Indie Publisher of Fiction @PublishConquest]

All right everyone... the time has come...

Conquest will be soft opening our summer/fall submission period starting this Thursday (7/25) with the @Small_Pitch event!

Get your hashtags ready! Our MSWL has been updated and our QueryTracker is greased and ready to go!

[Colleen Alles @ColleenAlles]

@BBuchananWomble @PublishConquest Thank you, @BBuchananWomble!! ❤️