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PUBLISHED 5:00 AM ET Mar. 31, 2025PUBLISHED 5:00 AM EDT Mar. 31, 2025EDGEWOOD, Ky. —The story of Bella Phelps feels like fiction. A star student and homecoming queen writes novels while in high school and gets picked up by an agent? Hard to believe… but it’s true.#### **What You Need To Know*** Bella Phelps has a 4.2 GPA at Dixie Heights High School in Edgewood* Homecoming Queen, Student Council President & on the tennis team* Volunteers at a local hospital and was selected by her peers to be on the "Hope Squad" to fight teen suicide* Has written four novels in the Young Adult Fantasy genre -- the latest was picked up by an agentThe senior at Dixie Heights High School in Edgewood in northern Kentucky has been writing since discovering her talent in fifth grade. She won multiple creative writing awards and has written four manuscripts in the Young Adult Fantasy genre. Her latest was picked up by an agent.“it’s a really long process. The first step is querying literary agents. They make wish lists. You submit to them based on that. You have to do lots of research. Sometimes there will be a lot of silence [but] when they like your book, they’ll accept you. That’s what happened with my agent and I. We signed about a month after I submitted. We’ve been on submission to editors and publishing houses, which is the next step in getting a book deal. We’ve been on submission for about a year with that,” she said.Phelps describes her latest effort as “kind of like ‘The Hunger Games’, but with royalty”.“It was just one of those ideas that came to me. A lot of my good ideas, I can tell if it’s going to be good if the story just comes to me. Usually the characters come to me first, the dialogue and then the plot follows and I write the story from there,” she said.Bella Phelps is an award-winning writer and was selected for the Governor's School for the Arts (Bella Phelps)