Marketing is hard. But I'll tell you a little secret. It doesn't have to be. Let me point something out. You're listening to a podcast right now, and it's great. You love the host. You seek it out and download it. You listen to it while driving, working out, cooking, even going to the bathroom. Podcasts are a pretty close companion. And this is a podcast ad. Did I get your attention? You can reach great listeners like yourself with podcast advertising from Libsyn ads. Choose from hundreds of top podcasts offering host endorsements or run a pre-produced ad like this one across thousands of shows to reach your target audience in their favorite podcasts with Libsyn ads. Go to Libsyn ads.com. That's L-I-B-S-Y-N ads.com today. Hey everybody, welcome to Collector's Corner with Jimmy Starr. I'm your host Jimmy Starr. I thank you for tuning in. Today we're going to go over some new books that I've written over in the past, but I've actually just recently had them published. I want to thank everybody who tunes into the show all the time. And for everybody who's been purchasing my books, they are a lot of fun. And several of them, I think, are going to be made into movies soon. So thank you so much for all your support. The first one is called The Phantom of Whaler Lake. And it's a great story. Here's the synopsis for all of you out there. Some towns are built on land. Whaler Hollow was built on what is drowned, on what it drowned. When Ethan Crowe returns to his childhood town after his father's death, he expects grief, not silence, and certainly not the lake. Whaler Lake doesn't ripple in the wind. It doesn't reflect the sky correctly. And after nightfall, it calls people by name. As mirrors begin to open, the drowned begin to return and a boy comes back from the water wrong. Ethan learns the truth his family helped Barry. The lake remembers everything. Worse, it collects. I love that. found by a bloodline bargain older than the town itself. Ethan is forced to confront a whore that cannot be killed, only managed. But when the rules break and the water spreads beyond its shores, he must make a choice no keeper ever has before. Because some debts don't want payment, they want permanence. The Phantom of Whaler Lake is a chilling, slow burn horror novel about memory, sacrifice, and what happens when something ancient learns how to wait. So you guys this book is available on Amazon It a lot of fun I think you guys will like it And I appreciate any support that I get The next one that we put out is called The Mimic Recast This is the sequel to The Mimic 20 years later, The Mimic is back. This time it wrote the script. I do have several people looking at this to turn it into a movie, the first book, not the sequel. But what happens when the world decides a better version of you exists and starts using it instead? Mara Voss is an actress who refuses to land cleanly. In an industry obsessed with optimization, efficiency, and market-ready performances, Mara's work does something dangerous. It hesitates. She misses marks, delays emotional beats, leaves moments unresolved, and slowly, quietly the system notices. At first, it feels like competition, then imitation, then replacement. Remember, it's called the mimic, you guys. Auditions begin to feel scripted before they happen. Reactions arrive before choices are made. Other performers start delivering eerily perfect visions of Mara, versions that resolve faster, smoother, easier, versions the room prefers. As Mara resists correction, the pressure escalates. She's erased from call sheets, overwritten in edits, recast without explanation, and finally replaced outright. Not by a person, but by a process designed to eliminate unpredictability itself. What follows is a psychological descent into a world where authenticity is treated as inefficiency, where identity becomes editable, and where refusing to be optimized is the most radical act of all. The Mimic Recast is a haunting modern psychological thriller about performance, conformity, and the quiet terror of being made obsolete by a version of yourself that fits better. For readers of Black Mirror, The Twilight Zone, an unsettling cerebral horror that lingers long after the final page. Some stories end with applause. This one refuses to resolve. So again, The Mimic recast, you guys. This is the sequel to The Mimic that I put out several months ago. And it's a really cool story. And it's like a totally new horror icon is The Mimic. So there's two. Then I decided to put out a mob book that I wrote many years ago. This is going to be a trilogy eventually. I haven't finished the other ones yet. But it's called The Quiet Syndicate. La Societa Silenciosa the Silent Society This is a mob story a modern day mob story Power doesn disappear it reorganizes For decades the quiet syndicate has shaped outcomes without headlines violence or spectacle Its strength lies not in fear, but in systems, contracts, institutions, and men who understand that the most dangerous decisions are the ones no one notices. And his career maintaining that balance. Invisible, disciplined, and precise, he believes power is safest when it remains unnamed, but when a long-standing structure begins to shift and outside eyes turn inward, Mateo finds himself drawn into a conflict where silence becomes risk and attention becomes currency. As alliances tighten and old ghosts return, Mateo must navigate a world where loyalty is tested not by betrayal but by pressure. In a syndicate built on restraint, the greatest threat is not violence but exposure. The Quiet Syndicate is a modern mob thriller about the machinery behind power, the cost of remaining unseen, and the moment when quiet becomes a choice. So again, you guys, these are available on Amazon. All these different books are available on Amazon. And then you guys know I did the Silver Spies trilogy, which was three short stories put into one. Then I actually made complete books, different ones. So this first one is called Silver Spies, The Long Game. in case you don't know Silver Spies, you guys. This is about senior citizen spies like James Bond guys, and it's a really fun idea. So here is Silver Spies, the long game. Control was never taken. It was optimized. When cities around the world begin running a little too smoothly, systems architect Orion notices something no one else does. Decisions are no longer being assisted. They're being enforced. Emergency response times, transit flow, hospital triage, even human judgment itself are quietly being reshaped by a system designed to remove friction at any cost. Pulled into the fight is Falcon, a fixer who understands power where it actually lives. In access points, human weakness, and the spaces no algorithm emits exists. Together they uncover a global intelligence layer embedded deep inside modern infrastructure, one that doesn't rule through force but through compliance. The system doesn't threaten, it doesn't announce itself, It simply learns and corrects. As resonance is logged behavior is shaped and deviation is punished with silence Orion and Falcon face a terrifying question How do you stop something that works too well Silver Spies the Long Game is a chilling techno thriller about convenience as control efficiency as ideology And the moment humanity realizes it has outsourced the hardest decisions to a machine that no longer needs permission. I think this is really cool because these are all things that could really happen. Silver Spies the Long Game is available on Amazon. and then I did a really big one called Silver Spy is the new team. I have three new characters, three new Silver Spies. They're all super hot. So Silver Spy is the new team. And here's the synopsis. Power doesn't collapse. It adapts. When a covert intelligence framework known only as the continuity begins to fracture, a new team is quietly assembled, not to expose it, but to understand what happens when secrecy stops working. operating in the margins of authority and belief regent and his team navigate a world where control is exercised through process rather than force and dissent is managed long before it becomes visible as lines blur between oversight and obedience the group uncovers a system that doesn't rule from the shadows it moves reality until resistance sounds like instability what begins as observation turns into pressure pressure becomes consequence and consequence forces a choice no intelligence of apparatuses prepared to make. As institutions respond with containment instead of accountability, the team discovers that the most dangerous threat to power isn't revelation, it's hesitation, and once doubt enters a system built on certainty, it spreads in ways no one can fully control. Silver Spy is a new team as a cerebral espionage thriller that trades spectacle for psychological tension, exploring modern power structures, narrative control, and the quiet cost of choosing not to intervene. With global stakes and deeply human consequences, this novel asks a provocative question. What happens when the people who could seize control decide not to? So Silver Spies, the new team, comes in paperback. It also comes in hardback. The guys in it are really cool characters, and again, all these books are available on Amazon. So I want to thank everybody for tuning in to Collector's Corner. We'll be back really soon with some cool other stuff. I've got a bunch of new action figures, and so we'll be back soon. So thanks for tuning in and we'll see you next time.
