Since 2018, Blake Du Bois has been practicing his craft as a writer. He has written dozens of plays including What Love Is Not which was debuted at the Boston Conservatory in 2020. Blake's plays center around addiction, romantic relationships, spirituality, philosophy, and nature. After a long hiatus, Blake has translated his first play What Love Is Not into a novel, which will be the first of five in a science fiction epic series. Blake's novels engage readers in romantic comedy stories set in dystopian settings which blend irreverent surrealist humor with existential philosophy!
Heaven is real... and it’s controlled by Saint Valentine.
In the final years of a decaying Earth, the Imperial Catholic Church holds total control over the planet.
Every year, celebrities compete in the What Love Is Not tournament. Chosen contestants travel to the domed Angel City where they plug into Valentine’s virtual reality system: GENESIS. They are then challenged to pair up with a romantic partner and survive the trials and tribulations of his deadly Island. The final surviving couple whose love transcends all others earns a seat in Valentine’s virtual heaven: the garden of Paradise.
For the show’s fiftieth and final season, Valentine has announced his retirement.
Who will control heaven when Valentine is gone?
This epic follows six unlikely characters as they compete in the games: a cancer patient in his last year of life, a nun spying for the Imperial Church, the princess of the Lunar District, a Martian samurai, an actress and recovered drug addict, and a boy with no memories who awakes one day in the confines of the game.
Of the hundred contestants competing, many will fall in love, but only two will ascend the white steps to Paradise and live past the final days of planet Earth.
Justin Wolfe has escaped rehab and spends his days by his lonesome in rural Alaska. Justin's life has been routine until one day when he connects with three very unlikely women.
After publishing her memoir, Genevieve Sky unveils the dark realities of a corrupt children's television network. When her old friend and costar asks Genevieve to star in a reboot, her newfound normal life is flipped upside down.
A couple's tumultuous relationship told through their experiences in the bedroom.
Sarah has returned from school after a summer in a drug rehabilitation camp. Her life seems to be back on track until she's paired up with an unlikely classmate to work on a school project.
A couple spends one last night together before the end of the world.
Bella has a great life, a great roommate, a great apartment... That is until she realizes she's what humans call, a "dog."