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Kakapo and the Fiery Sundown Case of the Berjudas Hellhole Triangle

An eccentric wild beast with a mysterious kaleidoscopic nature, camouflaged into endless skins by the braves who venture beyond its glorious thousand corners and the puniceous mist that befalls upon the verdant city.
A sci-fi novel, an operatic thriller, the Kakapo Sonata nº 2022 in 3 movements, a horror comedy (or a horror of a comedy), a silent movie where frames are wordy Time, a sensical nonsense, a parody, a mutant mimiambi, a baroque extravaganza hit by monsoons of ironies and rivalries, a friendships’ tale, a love story, a cosmic puzzle, a pulsing star, a booming wish, an epopee, an epic battle, a minutes burning survival race, a yearn for celebration, an unveiling, a whirlwind resurrection. An homage to the brilliance, beauty and imagination of life and nature, to the triumph of self-love and the love we have for whom and what surround us, to the challenges of being and (co)existing. A surreal shapeshifting creature. A fine brew. A chimera. A you. Kakapo.
So to you plucky kakapoan who enters with open heart this Time in space your beloved home, what else to say other than “what you do before the astronomical clock bangs the fateful midnight counts”. And remember. We are stronger united. For sublime 12 step into lucky 13, will Kakapo cross 24 to abundant 24 embrace? Let’s hope so. And many more. Raise your glass fellow life! We’re all stars! Chin, chin!

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Starlet

FAME. FORTUNE. JELLYFISH.
When an aspiring young actress accepts an invite to a fading A-lister’s home, she soon learns the terrifying secrets of the Hollywood Elite.

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Bubblequake: Book 3 of the Disposable Soma Trilogy

The year is 2180, and former Senator Jim Liu has switched parties and is now running for president as a Republican. Battling chronic pain, he faces an uphill election battle as his resistance to joining World War Four puts him at odds with most members of his party. Things get more complicated when Jim’s long lost sociopathic brother surfaces, he receives an ear in the mail, and many of the bubbles that America relies on for food, housing, and industry are destroyed in a cascading bubblequake. Adding to the mystery and confusion, strange blue individuals, speaking an unfamiliar language, emerge from an unregistered bubble, leaving society in bewildered disarray.

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Psittacide: Book 2 of the Disposable Soma Trilogy

The 2172 election is soon approaching. The incumbent, authoritarian President Silas Blackwolf, has had his vice president arrested in order to prevent her from invoking the 25th amendment and removing him from office. Now with the election coming up, he has to choose a running mate. His conspiring cabinet steers him toward selecting moderate senator and former presidential grandson Jim Liu. Through Byzantine constitutional logic, the only way Jim can defeat Blackwolf is by helping him win the race.
The plan gets more complicated when a deadly plague begins to spread among the nation’s genetically enhanced, super-intelligent parrots. The only cure is a plant that grows on Centos Island, which currently lies in the middle of an international war zone. Jim finds himself increasingly compromised, as he makes one ethical compromise after another in his struggle to protect the country from Blackwolf.

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The Disposable Soma: Book 1 of the Disposable Soma Trilogy

The year is 2164 and politics has become unrecognizable. Democrats have become conservative, Republicans have become liberal, and an upstart party called the Empathy Party blames all the world’s ills on sociopaths. An assassination leaves the Empathy Party’s candidacy wide open and a clown car of candidates vies for the nomination. One, hotel heir and failed comedian Jim Liu, stands out from the others when he chooses a genetically modified, super-intelligent, opium-addicted parrot as his running mate. This book follows his quest to become the Empathy Party’s nominee for the 2164 presidential election. His campaign takes him through an America where most days are public holidays, psychedelic drug use is widespread, and the last uncontacted people on Earth are the unknowing subjects of a reality show whose fans have tuned it into a new religion.

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Sinta, Sorceress-Detective: Tales from Ondiran, Book Three

A magical murder mystery, complete with medieval mayhem!
Poison in the prince’s pork tenderloin claims the life of his hapless taster. A dagger to the heart slays the sleeping court sorcerer, tasked to investigate. With courtiers seemingly falling like ninepins, the prince’s chancellor turns to Mistress Sinta, a gifted freelance sorceress, to assume the role of detective.
With the aid of Sir Othir, her dashing man-at-arms, Sinta plunges into the murk of the princely court, where—while enjoying some tasty meals—she soon finds that spells alone will not uncover the answers she seeks.
Can our inquisitive young heroine crack the case before herself falling victim to the killer?