Category - Blurbs

The Chicago Cultural Center building was once the main branch of the Chicago Public Library. During major renovations, eight mysterious books were found behind a wall on the lower level. Nobody took much interest in the old books until they ended up on the desk of Dorothy Burnett, the Center’s main historian. She discovered that the books were written in the 1930s by an unfamiliar author named Jack Eldridge who penned detailed, retrofuturistic visions of what life would be like in the future. Most interesting were his last two volumes which predicted life in the year 2000 and beyond. Dorothy was so entranced with the books, she wished Jack Eldridge would step out of time and walk through her door. As fate would have it, Jack ended up in the 21st century to witness the world as it had really become.

Jack Eldridge always believed his destiny was tied to the library building, and that his true love would be found there. Was the love of his life Beverly, the mousy librarian in 1939, or Dorothy, the beautiful 21st Century historian?

Focus, people, focus.

This anthology and overview of my work, books, and website reflect upon several subjects that overlap and connect back to the ultimate themes that matter to me: Reinventing Ourselves & Our Careers, How to “Be the Change,” How to Reinvent Yourself Each Day, How to Reinvent the Future, Making Order out of Chaos, Choosing Your Direction in Life and Finding Inspiration.

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I guess when the title proclaimed that this was “from the Author,” we should have known what we were in for.

Jeb Trapper tried to kill himself. The gun jammed. Two months later the vet is participating in underground trials of ecstacy to treat his PTSD. Everything seemed to be going great until… The System has Been Installed. Now he’s got to choose the difficulty of his tutorial. Just one problem. He’s high as a kite, and nothing seems Impossible.

That’s the entire description for a 457-page novel, and I don’t think the protagonist is the only one high as a kite.

Backtrack is a fast-paced, action-packed, spy-fi novel that mixes the wonder of time travel with the horror of terrorism. Its short-chapter style makes for easy and enjoyable reading.

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However, demerits for too many big words in the rest of the description.

Story of a boy who went to play his usual tennis ball cricket in a nearby field. Nothing was unusual that day. Until in the evening when the boy does not return and a friend tells her mom that the boy never went to play that day.

A frantic search begins with the neighbours and the boy’s friends pulling in all their resources. Does the boy return? Where did he go? Where was he taken? What happens at the end?

Told in the breathless style of a third-grader who needs to get to the point before he pees his pants.

The Captain’s Log is a tale about an alien who escapes from the erasure of his home planet to be raised on Earth– only to go explore the rest of the Universe later on.

Odyssey to the Arcane sees the beginning of the Director’s journey into a cosmic sphere beyond his wildest imaginations–without the protection of the Captain and his taxi. Meanwhile, the Captain embarks on high stakes missions and discovers dark conspiracies, as the encroaching threat of the Reckoning gradually begins to take shape.

Superman meets Doctor Who, with more than a healthy dose of Lovecraft, to combine into an original journey through space, time, and beyond.

Many words. Still don’t know what it all means.

A child’s abduction leads to a frightening pattern within a small town where nothing is as it seems.

For a 251-page novel, that’s the ENTIRE FRICKIN’ DESCRIPTION.