Tuesday, February 1, 2022

"Laura T. Peters - Paranormal Investigator" by Emily K. Stevens

Kindle Vella cover for "Laura T. Peters - Paranormal Investigator" by Emily K. Stevens

Current Tags

midwest, vampire, female sleuth, college theater, amateur sleuths, humorous paranormal, cozy mystery

Categories

Paranormal / Mystery

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Author's Description

Laura has a comfortable life as a costume professor and cat mom, so she is slightly confused when her friend, Ellie, requests her help in discovering if her sister's boyfriend is a vampire. Not wanting to be impolite, Laura agrees and tries hard not to mention that vampires are works of fiction. She soon finds herself on a wild ride that shakes up what she thinks she knows about the world around her.

Why I Chose it

All too often, we get vampire hunters who are the dark and broody chosen ones with no friends. And sure, that's fine, but it gets monotonous. In this story, we get a costume professor in the theater department who wants to help her best friend. And a sure sign things are serious is when they say goodbye and her friend actually hangs up instead of doing the twenty minute Minnesota end-of-the-conversation dance.
Anyhow, this is fresh and funny and you should check it out!

[33 episodes, 5 in the last 30 days.]

Who Might Like This

If you like urban fantasy with a fresh and funny twist, this may be your jam!

Unrelated Griping

A while back, the people in charge of the Kindle Vella user interface ignored all the gaping wounds in the site and added "(Author)" after the author name on every serial, even though you can't actually add anyone who isn't an author to the story.

Now they've completed the trick by switching it so the last name is first. So today's author shows up as "Stevens, Emily K". Since none of these stories are sorted alphabetically, and that's not how it works in the entire rest of the Amazon book website, I'm really not sure why they would do this.

But in a further display of incompetence, only stories that were added recently have the name displayed this way, because they didn't add the "surname" & "first name" fields until last month. So half the stories have the last name first, and the other half don't. And it changes depending on where you are looking.

Amazon, call me. I have thoughts on your user interface and I'm clearly more qualified than whoever is currently in charge.

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