Category - Blurbs

When Chief Warrant Officer Mike Duggins and his SpecOps team are assigned to a DARPA black site, their reality is changed in the blink of an eye, leaving them in an unrecognizable world, stalked by massive, draconic predators. With only his team, untested Mech Armor, and DARPA techs keeping the cunning predators at bay, they will have to employ every tactic they know in order to survive or risk becoming prey for the hostile carnivores. Can 5 experienced warriors and the DARPA tech team outsmart and outwit an enemy like no other they’ve seen before and find their way back home? About the Author I’m currently an over the road truck driver, frequently found at the end of a 400 to 500 mile day trying to peck out one to two thousand words on a new book. I’m an Army paratrooper with a background in intelligence operations. I spent six years in Iraq and Afghanistan, in uniform and out. Currently, my greatest challenges are black ice, lake effect snow, and uploading word documents to the ebook format, all equally treacherous endeavors. My greatest hope is to write stories that my readers enjoy.

Thanks, but I prefer my authors to have figured out paragraphing.

Set in 2049, this futuristic novel is the first in a five book series. It proposes a realistic scenario for man’s fledgling exploration of space and our neighbouring planets. The book begins innocently enough with an interesting, if not compelling discovery on Mars. Thereafter, it builds into a pacy thriller, encompassing the Earth’s mysterious ancient civilisations, spellbinding historic texts, criminal intent, sadistic cybersystems, failed relationships and adrenaline filled action sequences. A good deal of the action takes place on the surface of Mars – a planet which always fires the imagination, and one which will continue to be of primary scientific focus in the coming decade as the reality of a manned landing draws nearer. Other locations for the book’s exciting storyline include the Moon, a space station and a revolutionary space ship – scenarios that all help to cement a number of subplots into an astonishing, stimulating and thoughtful yarn.

That isn’t sales copy, it’s a book report.

A tardy vengeance means you share the tyrant’s guilt. The veil between worlds has been torn. The land is rife with death. The work of a man who desires only perfection drawn from religious lust. His son is pulled between loyalty to his father and the logic of his veil-dwelling guard, Kenway. Choices and reality become vital as danger grows with the threat of renegade groups seeking vengeance, and even Kenway is conflicted between his heart and his duty.
Success or betrayal, which will triumph?
A percentage of the royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the National Autistic Society, a registered charity in England and Wales (269425) and in Scotland (SC039427).

The last sentence helps explain everything that precedes it.

A little girl who doesnt believe in Santa claus and she travels through the North Pole. She actually meets Santa Claus and then she believes.

Thanks, I don’t think I need to read the other 80 pages.

Imagine if we were offered a new, uncontaminated planet and a fresh start, how would you wish to see humanity move forward…?

Now, armed with some knowledge of the complex relationships that exist between both fauna and flora – all life with whom we share this incredible planet – what lessons have we learned?

This is a story about a new beginning…

Anu has a gift: her personal vibration is in perfect harmony with the natural world.

And that’s where the description stops.

The Book of Power is an epic 40, 839-word supernatural thriller that leaves the reader questioning whether achieving one’s desires is worth the price. It’s the Monkey Paw meets Stephen King’s Needful Things.

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40, 839 words isn’t “epic.” It’s barely not a novella.

This book is fiction and could fill several niches in the marketplace. Reluctant readers, those learning English as a second language, trivia buffs, and fans of Beatles spring to mind.

This Is as Big as It Gets tells the story of two boys who meet and pair up with two girls. The four of them then banter as they try to put the world to rights while coping with stepparents, sexism, abused parents, sick parents, a plague of rats, death, suicide, and a terrorist attackbut not necessarily in that order.

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I guess if Hop on Pop isn’t weighty enough for you… (h/t PJ)

Here’s my contention: that it is in middle school or junior high when youth develop reading tastes for specific kinds of stories, often known as genre. Young children learn to read, hopefully by 3rd grade. Soon after, they develop a love of reading itself. They know how to decode words, follow sentences, and make sense of a plot, but it is also in these late elementary school years they develop an appreciation for story. Then, comes a chicken and egg thing. Does the literature itself start to divide into genre, or is it kids that start to look for genre fiction and then the literature follows? No matter, but it is safe to say, young teens know not just that they like to read by 6th grade but also the specific reading interests with certain conventions, described as genre, which begin in their teen reading years and perhaps last into their adult life.

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There’s more, but I assume you’ve already stopped reading.