Category - Blurbs

Twelve Stories is a collection of brief vignettes that introduce a new writer. The reader can pick up the book and read any chapter and find truth, a smile, an epiphany and most importantly one young man’s reality.
Each of the chapters is a memory of a chaotic teenage life. The viewpoint is a lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.
Above all, it is a book that can be picked up in any chapter and break your heart.

This is from the “I’m so damned fascinating” genre.

Ira and Irene’s grandson Phil, who is a brilliant chemist, tells them that he has
discovered ‘The Fountain of Youth,’ in a Black Cactus.
Ira and Irene want a taste.
Phil will not give it to them.
“Something could go horribly wrong. You’ll haveto wait a little while longer.”
“How long?
“Around five years.”
“We will be dead by then.”
In self defense, Ira and Irene and three friends decide to steal a sip of youth.
They become as young and handsome and beautiful as they were in High School.
The five friends are thrilled and happy for a little while.
A few weeks later, Phil has bad news.
The chimpanzee that he gave the youth juice to has died a horrible death.

Did the chimp write the blurb?

This book is the result of having searched and investigated in the sacred books of the most popular religions and philosophies, the common and most important points that unite all of them.

The fact that this book is 134 pages long astounds me.

In the future, the world is the same, yet different; Enter the Superhuman Race.
Prepare yourself for the future; the next human evolution is here and they rule.
The Superhuman Race is the beginning of a series, one step in the future. Enter the Superhuman Race is the first book. It’s a story of humanities struggle against a one world government with advancements in technology as the backdrop; including humans chipped, cloned and enhanced on physical abilities through natural or artificial means. A story that questions what happens when humanity reaches the threshold of technology in the future. Does humanity change for the better?

It couldn’t really get much worse.

The main character of this book is a little chinchilla named Leela. Even though she is a little animal, her dreams are big. Leela’s daily routine circles around her cage, the apartment and her owner, Sarah. One of the weekends when Sarah took Leela to her friend’s birthday party, Leela’s world has changed forever. After interacting with different animals and getting the chance to experience the big world outside the cage in a small apartment, Leela was determined. From that day on she had only one dream, its to be free. To be a free animal in the wild with many other chinchillas where she belongs, the nature called her.

The questions are; how can a domestic chinchilla could possibly survive in the wild? And how would she get there in the first place?

This story is a beautiful allegory that mirrors our human nature. Leela’s adventures tell us that anything is possible and will leave any reader very inspired. One lucky and ambitious chinchilla managed to travel huge distances and overcome predators, simply because she didn’t want to give up on her dream despite how tiny she is and the fact that all the odds are against her.
The main conclusion is that the sky is the limit and we always need to follow ours dreams.

My questions were “Why?” and “WTF?”

After the power grid goes down and the death of their parents; Henry, Eva and Layla are left alone in a dark, desolate and dangerous world, with only their father’s dying words – stay together.

So, punctuation.

John Staven is forced into taking some time off work. He attends an auction and though not winning his two prized lots he bids and wins three boxes of odds and ends from a house clearance.

Sorting the boxes he finds an old book. Inside the cover is an inscription but not in English. Interest triggered, he flicks through the book only to find a section in the middle is hand-written. He spends some time on the internet trying to find out the language it is written in. He discovers it is in the Cornish Language. The writing is the diary of Kenan Ennor Lanyon. Kenan is a 17 year old man, who with 7 other Cornishmen, is leaving Cornwall to go to America in 1835.

John gets gripped with Kenan’s diary and spends the next few days translating it. The diary tells of their ocean crossing to America in an old 30 foot Cornish Lugger they have patched up for the journey. It tells of the settlement where the men decide to live and the start of their life there. At this point the diary stops.

John investigates a little more the Cornish link of the diary. He contacts the family and shows the Granddaughter, Jen, his translation. They are confronted by Carl, a distant relative of one of the others mentioned in the diary. John and Jen find this worrying and interesting. As a result John and Jen fly to America to try to see what they can uncover.

They stay at a small boarding house and with help from a couple of locals start to dig into the history surrounding Kenan’s diary. They discover on a 50 year old map a name which requires more research and a visit to the land agent opens up a whole new side to the diary. John and Jen follow through this line of research which takes them all the way to Boston before they discover more of what happened to Kenan. The possibility of their being another part of the diary increases interest too. John and Jen’s arrival in McKenzie and Boston signals a change in something for the first time since Kenan’s death.

I don’t think the diary is the only thing not written in English.

Jason and Naomi Sanders suffer a series of devastating events that will test their strength, faith, and their hope for the future. Can they stay strong and recover from their hardship?

When what is important to them is threatened, they lean on one another and close friends for support. Will they be able to heal and rebuild their life? Will Naomi finally walk the path that God has chosen for her?

With trust in God comes healing, peace and blessings beyond anything they could have ever imagine.

So, spoilers.