Category - Blurbs

Matthew Calamos, a young man raised apart from it, enters Alkalian society through his first year attending the confederacy’s national college. Like all other Alkalians, he has a battle morph, a transformation into a powerful humanoid or creature with special weapons or abilities. He soon learns, however, that his battle morph is unlike others, rare and with a power tabooed and feared by them, and it makes him stand out in a student community dominated by boss students, the most popular, charming, and dangerous students among them.

It’s a skunk, isn’t it? I bet it’s a skunk.

Chosen to be the recipient of a great gift, Glenn Hitch receives a title pointing to the destiny all mankind was originally purposed for.

I know all those words, but I have no idea what the sentence means.

History student Aria Forsyth’s studies lead her to dangerous questions about the Empire’s origins. A mysterious man named Owen, impervious to the winter cold, further unravels the safety of the world she thought she knew. At first, Aria believes Owen is human. He says he’s not. What if they’re both wrong?

Impervious to the cold??? Surely not!!

Francine Boyers, a bright and beautiful young West Virginian with a mining engineering degree and an MBA, is hired by Jim O’Hara, CEO of OHARA Mining in New York. As the CEO’s personal assistant, she proves to be unusually quick on her feet, deft at fending off wolfish men, and rises through the ranks to Vice President with astonishing speed, handling pollution issues with Congress, a protest at a mining conference in Paris, troubles with OHARA’s Caribbean gold and bauxite investments, and the rescue of miners in Sumatra. Her friend Nancy Smith sums up her preternatural talent for solving problems: “And you have that special gift of knowing what to do when nobody else does.” She helps the company battle the Environmental Protection Agency, whose invasive regulations kill the coal miners’ jobs and gets caught in the middle of an internecine tug of war within the company between the CEO and Ted Holler, his environmentalist nemesis on the board. She ultimately finds herself enmeshed in a corporate conspiracy, with the continued existence of the company–and her own reputation–on the line, facing trade issues with China. Will she save the company, and find happiness?

Am I SUPPOSED to be having Empress Theresa flashbacks?

Amelia’s past issues and personal time limits propel her into a relationship that alters her normal life at Westbrook University. Connor, her new potential boyfriend, triggers jealousy, rehashes old relationships, sparks new ones, and ignites a rage in others that will devastate her ordinary life. As she desperately tries to hold on to her pre-Connor life, she struggles to balance the new-found attention while trying to follow her heart. Something she realizes is complicated… very complicated – because her heart has no idea where it’s going.

Not unlike the plot as a whole.

The Gospel of Thomas revealed the secret teachings Jesus gave to his doubting disciple. The ancient historian Eusebius spoke of Thomas’ travels into the mysteries of occult lands. The Acts of Thomas told of his mission among the Hindus and Buddhists of India (and there are commemorative sites and Thomas Christians in India to prove it). What effects would Jesus’ most intimate teachings have on the disciple Thomas? And how would this skeptical Jew have responded to the occult religions in strange lands? Thomas’ secret teachings and mysterious travels are now brought vividly alive in the apocryphal story: The Book of Thomas the Doubter: Uncovering the Hidden Teachings.

For a novel, it goes to great lengths to footnote its bona fides.

The Temptation of Fate is a tale of naïve teenagers and ignorant young adults who tempt fate with their rebellious, value-deficient attitudes. These youngsters are never prepared to take responsibilities for their actions because they think the world owes them something. And they are inadvertently encouraged by parents who do not know the difference between parental love and negligence.

Also, get the hell off my lawn.

Thread and Other Stories is a multi-genre collection of short stories (single author) that includes science fiction, fantasy, urban fiction, literary fiction, historical fiction, and espionage. There are seven stories in the collection.

Something for everyone, then.