BLURB: Friends of the Zek

A pawn broker/frustrated chef – he finally meets his rocket man.
Everyone’s favorite billionaire – deconstructed and re-imagined.
The FBI agent and the Marine Corps pilot save the day – then get down and dirty in their off hours.
Those nightmarish gray aliens – they really do exist.
The patriot/playboy who courts the socially awkward bombshell – she explodes both on and off the battlefield.
The commander of the good guys – indulging in his insufferable kinky fetish.
The super-seedy villain with one foot in the grave – he reminds you of that sketchy uncle showing up uninvited for Sunday Dinner.
Throw in a sprinkling of obstinate Artificial Intelligences, outlandish military salutes, Italian marble, and a Caribbean cruise for good measure.
All of their lives are woven together in this action-packed, sexy, twisted, yet humorous sci-fi thriller whose premise dares to ask (and answer) the question: “Who were America’s founding fathers really drinking with?”

Friends of the Zek

“How badly did I fail the Turing test?”

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Hitch
3 years ago

Somehow, I’m feelin’ that there are ENTIRELY too many POV characters in this sucker….

Julie
Julie
3 years ago

So three POV violations in the first section and also typos, awkward sentences galore, and stilted dialogue. I get that writing is a “dream” for lots and lots of people, but they really need to hone their craft before they publish.

The character salad in the description is just the icing on the cake. One protagonist. Pick one to focus on in the blurb. Like, I have a novel with four rotating first-person POV characters (I know, I know, but no lesser personage than Eric Flint said it works), but I’ve been doing this for awhile and managed not to foul it up, and also focused on just one of them in the back-cover copy–because at the end of the day, he’s the one who changes the most, even though his sections come last in the rotation.

You can have lots of POV characters. But this… is not the way to do that.