Category - Blurbs

Aspiring artist Coretta Nicholas has been trying unsuccessfully for ten years to get her paintings displayed in Manhattan. Fed up with the cut-throat competition and an uninspiring retail job, she decides to open up her own art gallery…in Italy. Leaving behind her longtime boyfriend and apartment in Greenwich Village, she builds a new life for herself in fashionable Milan. Reconnecting with an old college friend, renowned sculptor Lorenzo Fiatti, Coretta basks in romance in sun-kissed northern Italy. As her career and love life are flourishing, she hosts a champagne reception at her new gallery. When a blackout strikes, several of her paintings are stolen, while the burgeoning artist is kidnapped and held for ransom. In CHAMPAGNE DECEPTION, a sip of the bubbly leads to a nightmare of terrifying proportions…

As far as I can tell, all but the last two sentences are unnecessary backstory.

“The Gold Egg” is a story for children of all ages, from kindergarten to college graduates and beyond. It is a story of courage, perseverance and discovery. The story begins as Devan and his friends are playing games near their favorite tree. An old man passing by tells the children that a gold egg lies in a nest at the top of the tree. The kids tease the man and go back to playing their games but Devan determines to find out if the story is true. Though the climb is difficult and at times painful, he eventually reaches the top. What he finds is not at all what he expected. Devan learns a very special lesson, known only to those who are willing to climb.

I have serious problems with that target audience.

Advance Chess: The Longitudinal Star Gate 14 (S. G. 14) Model. Edition 1. “Are we on the same page? Are we there yet?” Reminiscing through the quiet contemplations in the corners of my mind, like the gentle meandering streams of viscous channel flow, with its ever so fluid twists, turns and churns, along the seemingly endless river banks, where the streams erode the land, I cannot help but find my…

I have no idea what I just read.

Robin Randle grew up in a violent home. One night she watched her father shoot her mother to death. Then he beat her senseless. At the hospital she was pronounced brain dead but kept alive by machines. For seven months she slept and dreamed. Dreamed of traveling in a land called The Region. To escape The Region, she found the Palace of Starlight then took her star and woke up from her coma. Her memories of The Region dissolved into bits and pieces of dream-time and nightmares. Now a high school dropout and friendless she worked as a waitress at Mel’s All Night Diner. This listless existence chipped away at her humanity as well as her sanity. Then on her midnight walk home from Mel’s something real emerged from her nightmares and started following her. It was wrapped in darkness and sounded like a thousand dead leaves blowing down empty and forgotten streets. It was death. She ran, her mind confused. Monsters weren’t real. Then a mysterious man showed up at her door telling her she was in danger. He demanded she come with him.Robin was living the impossible. Her mind splintered into different realities, her memories shattered into broken moments she realized her coma hadn’t been a dream. She’d traveled in a land forsaken of hope and populated by monsters and the creature bent on stopping her named the Prince of the Power of the Air. Everything seemed bent on her destruction. She felt helpless yet people called her, The Storm Bringer. Robin fought to unearth the truth of her existence as she slipped between worlds, fighting for sanity. She raced across America and between realities on a journey to unlock her memories before insanity sat in. What was her true purpose? Lost between darkness and wonder she searched for a valley of dying stars, a place of the unknowing. A place that should not be. All while she lived under the stars of madness.What she didn’t know was all the souls of the dead were depending on her not to fail.

315 pages like that? Sold!

When bitterness strikes, intimacy is broken to pieces. When pride surpass love, sorrow dominates. An unwelcomed stranger became a third person, hoping to contribute to a marriage. A voluntary protagonist set herself for a mission to search out a riddle because the familiar being brought ultimate chaos in their midst.

That’s the whole thing. What the heck is a “voluntary protagonist”?

The Magic Basket – In Performance, is a dramatic staging, written in prose, in a poetic styling. It is the beginning of the very long saga of Robert Langer; and his experiences with The Prospector and his collaborator, Basil, among so many others, in his journeying within, and even outside of, the always-amazing and enlightening Magic Basket.

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Well, that explains a lot. Thanks.

Meet the Clarkson family who has been through a lot having gone through a paranormal event that nearly took their lives and also without knowing having it plastered on the internet and t.v. now they just want to leave their old life behind and start a new but the evil entities that haunted them seem to follow them where ever they go.

Dude, take a breath.

“The New World” book series, by Andy Skrzynski, is a creative, science-fiction adventure depicting the life-and-death struggles on Earth after an apocalyptic period between 2019 and 2025. If you enjoy a thrilling tale full of suspense, action, a touch of romance, and a crazy twist here and there, “The New World: A Step Backward,” “The New World: Blue Moon Generation,” and “The New World: Crimson Winter” will help you escape your current world worries. The action’s so real and descriptive you’ll feel as if you’re alongside Thoruk, his loyal friends, and the younger generation as they fight warriors and a myriad of vicious creatures stalking the villagers of Ukkiville in the nearby forests, lakes, and mountains near the turn of the next century.

Would you call that a “hard sell?”