Category: Blurbs

BLURB: Seven Librarian Detective Series

Bobby Cinema has written seven detective stories in one book about each different character going through solving a difficult case, being in the action and deal with real intensive stuff they had to go through from solving cases. For these seven ordinary detectives and their team, their work usually ends up in a library, which is their sanctuary and a place to read and relax at the same time. The first detective series is called Raymond: Librarian PI. Ray Levenstein, a former FBI agent, took over the head librarian job from his friend Jerry who helped him get in the LAPD police academy and became his mentor when he grew up. He was forced into retirement when he was shot in the line of fire when he was a FBI agent. Ray was well respected and highly decorated as an FBI agent, but he decided to retire at a young age of thirty-five. He took over Jerrys job as a head librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library and decided to run a detective agency in his library since he has a PI license. He hires Kevin Sandler, Nick Arbuckle, and Alyson Harris who joined the PI team.

How much can you tell me about the books without telling me anything about them?

BLURB: Rogue (Book 1 of The Rogue Series)

The year is 2250. Earth faces apocalypse, and the future of mankind rests in the Bertram Ramsay Space Station. Home to 9 million souls, but not all of them are friendly.

The Acolytes of Gaia are a formidable foe to the men and women charged with Earth’s evacuation. Their murderess intent; to see Earth is destroyed, and mankind with it.

Thanks to this description, we know the writer is bad at both punctuation AND spelling.

BLURB: SUPERMAN FROM EARTH

To save your time, A 7000 word summary is available at the start. You can read all of it, some of or ignore it completely as you please. A short introduction video is at https://youtu.be/YtkYCzo–JQ

Full of incredible world-building (about 60% similar to Earth’s world) and complex characters, Superman from Earth is a thrilling space opera about greed, temptation, and the deadly consequences of human nature. Perfect for fans of classics like Dune and Project Hail Mary, Superman from Earth is a complex and thought-provoking space odyssey that explores the depths of the cosmos, the limits of technology, and what it means to be human.

I don’t know which is my favorite part: that the description starts with TL;DR, or that the similarity to Earth is quantified.

BLURB: The Eldritch Chronicles : Wrath of the Sentinel & Other Ghost Tales (The Hampshire Stories Series: Novellas and Short Tales)

This brief collection of short stories is offered at a promotional price so that the reader may become better acquainted with Joe Giampaolo’s writing style. Publications by this author include several award-winning and Amazon best-selling books of historical fiction, poetry and essays on the history and literature of 19th-century Britain.

The main story, titled ‘Wrath of the Sentinel” is a brand new tale that takes place in London in the foggy and cold autumn of 1848. The hero of ‘Wrath of the Sentinel” is Frederick Wright, whom we met in previous short stories by this author. Frederick will be aided in this eerie tale by new characters such as the London Chief of Police, Mr. Charles Mortimer, Sergeant O’Reilly and Father Timothy. Very much in the tradition of beloved Victorian ghost stories, this delightful collection is sure to entertain you on a cold winter night.

I think I’ve become as acquainted as I want to be with that writing style.

BLURB: Extinction Event

After a series of failed attempts to start new business ventures, the main character known as LP has returned to college to study his first love, music and recording. As the story progresses, LP discovers a ‘glitch’ with a digital recording of one of his favourite songs. He investigates further and discovers a number of other songs that also have these very minute changes compared to analog recordings. He takes them to his recording instructor (John Atman) and they explore the issue further. Atman introduces LP to an internationally renowned ‘omnibioacoustics’ expert (Eugene Case) to help them figure out what the glitch might be. They stumble on a mystery that has a massive scope and potential implication for all of humanity.

LP has two friends: Faith Amana, a social media maven; and Dion, a wine sales rep.

Meanwhile, a programmer named Sylvie Hunter has developed an AI platform called GAIA that is used to generate fake news, obfuscate real stories and manipulate the political and economic strata for the benefit of the Plutonian Council – a group of six extremely wealthy, evil and influential elites – that employ her.

Extinction Event joins a growing collection of books devoted to the category of Climate Fiction, or writing devoted to informing readers about our planet and how we’re abusing it. Extinction Event is part clarion call to all of us and how we treat Earth and all of its creatures; an informative yet amusing romp through global-scale events; and an exploration of the impact that artificial intelligence has and will have on all of us.

Emphasis in the original.