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November 2, 2019
The Blue Unicorn’s Journey To Osm Reader Review by M Jazman
Reader Review
4.0 out of 5 stars fascinating storyline
By Mimi Jazman
The Blue Unicorns Journey to Osm by Sybrina Durant is a fantasy story intended for reader age 12 to 18. The story revolves around a blue unicorn that is destined to save his tribe but he himself has neither metal horn nor magic. The story is mostly about his journey fulfilling his prophecy, saving his tribe from Magh.The story moves forward very quickly and I like that, the author obviously doesnt waste any time in getting to the point and for Blue to start his journey. The fantasy world that the author created is believable and I like that the author describes MarBryn very thoroughly. The illustration in the book also helps the reader to imagine how the scene portrays and most of the illustrations actually shows what is going to happen in the chapter which I really like. It is kind of a teaser and you cant stop reading once you see the illustrations of the next chapter because you will be wondering what it means.At some point, the book gets too cramped with too many characters but once you get the hang of it, the characters involvement flows much better.I would say that this book is very good for the young teenagers as it has a lot of good moral values in it. On the other hand, the book itself is just simply amazing with the fascinating storyline and quick-witted characters.
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October 29, 2019
Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store – Unicorn Shirt Dress
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October 28, 2019
Unicorn Book Feature – Bad Unicorn by Platte F. Clark
Unicorns! How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups. I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.
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Today’s Unicorn Book Feature is
Bad Unicorn
By Platte F. Clark
In this start to a hilarious middle-grade fantasy trilogy, Max Spencer discovers that a killer unicorn is hunting him.
It wasn’t Max Spencer’s idea to fight robots, lead an army, or save the world—it just so happens that he’s the only living person who can read the most fantastical book ever written: The Codex of Infinite Knowability. The Codex is no ordinary book, and among other things, it describes a unicorn named Princess the Destroyer.
Princess the Destroyer is no ordinary unicorn. She loves nothing more than hunting down, killing, and eating other creatures. After all, what’s the point of having a sharp horn on your forehead if you don’t use it for destructive purposes? And right now Princess has a very definite purpose: Find Max and retrieve the lost Codex for an evil sorcerer and his mysterious master. If she can do that, she’s been promised an all-the-humans-you-can-eat buffet in Texas.
Stuck in another world and with a carnivorous unicorn on his trail, Max must find the courage to save himself, his friends, and, oh yeah…the entire human race.
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October 27, 2019
Inanna Phantom By Hawk MacKinney
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions.
Author, Hawk MacKinney will be awarding a $20 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.
Inanna Phantom
by Hawk MacKinney
GENRE: Science Fiction
The
threat of rift invasions seem long passed. Plentiful harvests abound.
The Murian first-contact Terato Outpost has grown into the sprawling
Terato-Murian Terminus Terato with a hub of relay portals reaching
across the vast uncharted galactic expanses and connecting with its
eon-extinct Lantaraan prehistory.
An exploratory Terato-Murian Jupiterr outpost is established on the gas
giant seventh planet, and its quantum and gravitational energies are
used to power outpost portals for an archeological survey of the fourth
planet, Eorthe.
The Lantaraan database aboard Terato’s ancient Downday moon shows that
one or more planets of the Solaris planets have apparently been lost.
Expanded archeological records on other Lantaraan orbital bodies in the
Solaris system show the fourth planet from the star—Eorthe—to be a
sterile wasteland. Except it is not. Eorthe’s civilization is not to the
level of the Murian Empire, but it is far advanced to those of a
pastoral Terato. Terato and Eorthe form the confederated United Terran
League under the nominal figurehead leader of League High Judikarr Eklam
a’Qoc.
Jupiterr outpost expands into a major League stronghold, Jupiterr Base,
when civil unrest erupts in the League, the unexpected return of rift
intrusions threatens, and the Murian Emperor Klarvko Celo is
assassinated.
As they prepare for confrontations with an unknown ancient enemy, the
internal tensions on Myr and Eorthe push Murians and Teratoans to
dangerous discords.
Read an Excerpt
The
following morning Eklam had a Terminus skimmer shuttle standing by, as
he told David. “I want you to see the mining complexes with the new
designs in operation.”
As
the skimmer sped away, it was the last time David saw Charlotte alive.
It was a last time and a first time for more than either of them could
imagine. The marauders struck swift and brutal.
Eklam
and David returned late as evening daylit paled into eventide twilit.
As the skimmer shuttle slowed; eased to stop and powered down to a
faint-hum idle, David said, “Very impressive.”
Eklam
barely heard him, as he stepped out of the skimmer and in that moment
sensed something amiss. His premonition was quickly shattered by a
child’s brittle scream in the deadly stillness.
Stavris burst from the tumble of boulders up the hill where he’d hidden, “Fæder!”
The
fear in Stavris’ voice told Eklam something was bad wrong. Eklam’s
short summer tunic whipped his thighs, the small replica of the
Judikarr’s crux ansata thumping his chest, as he ran toward his
terrified son. Stavris slammed into his father’s arms clutching tight as
tears streamed down his face. A frantic Eklam held his son close and
whispered, “What’s the matter?”
With short choked breaths and arms tight around Eklam’s neck, Stavris pointed toward the house, “Blood all over—”
Eklam
flung a look beyond the outer wall, and flinched at the crumpled
wreckage of the scarred servmo and the fused jagged blast scars and
gouges of debris along the entryway. More blast scars on the lopsided
double doors of the main entrance with one door crumpled askew. Nozzles
of the bug-scrim emitters on two side windows were twisted, the curls of
smoke backlit in the afternoon sunlit. Marleen hated bugs in the house.
She never left the bug-scrim deactivated. He took in the blood-splashed
scene so different from what he and David had left earlier that
morning.
“My god,” a fearful David gasped, as he rushed toward a horror getting worse everywhere they looked.
Stavris
buried his face in the crook of Eklam’s shoulder and neck, “I don’t
want to go in there.” He pulled tighter into Eklam. “Aunt Charlotte’s
got blood all over her. She’s not moving and she won’t answer when I
call her name.”
Eklam
held Stavris tight, trying to reassure him even when he wasn’t sure of
anything himself. His eyes fastened toward the sprawling rooms facing
the canyons, not wanting to think of what the blood spatters on the
front doorways and along the foyer could mean.
Eklam
met a stunned gaunt unseeing David staggering out of the house and
stopping at the crumpled entrance. A gray shroud on David’s face, “They
blew Charlotte apart. Pieces are everywhere.” Blood-smeared hands
propped against the doorframe, steading himself against what he couldn’t
make real. Vessels in his neck throbbed, his heartbeat hammered thumps
in his ears. “She doesn’t have a face.” As he tried to distance himself
from the unspeakable, he wheezed more words from a strangling throat, “I
can’t find Jeffry.”
Stavris pointed up the hill toward Jeffry stumbling around boulders toward them. “Me’n Jeffry hid in the rocks.”
How?”
Eklam grasping for any kind of meaning into the unacceptable, “Why in
the name of Terato’s two suns would anyone do something like this?” His
fear choked at him, “Marleen?” Afraid to ask, “The boys?” Not wanting
Stavris to see more of the slaughter, Eklam said, “Stay here with Uncle
David.”
Eklam
ran across the slab-stone patio and around the fountain with its
pink-tinged splashes. He called out, “Marleen? Ek? Korve?” A harsh crack
deepened his voice as he called each name again and again and got no
response. When he got to an inside doorway, he stopped. The grisly scene
of bloody smeared clots splotched across the walls, ceilings and floors
hit him full force. Sprawled in front of him was what was left of
Charlotte Martin. Beyond Charlotte were three barely recognizable bodies
of the house staff. He searched the rooms and the verandas. There was
no sign of Marleen or his other two boys.
A Word From The Author:
AND YOU WROTE A BOOK
Paper,
pen, keyboard – whatever tool & notes, letters, memoirs were used,
you strung the words into a manuscript. Fiction/nonfiction, plot,
setting, reference & research and characters – you birthed your
tale. Your masterpiece is finished. You can sit back, rocking chair,
porch swing, go on vacation – all the work and rewrites are finished.
NOT!
First
step was the disciplined time & the doing it. Next comes the
discipline of editing. Put your work on the shelf & let it collect
dust. Let your brain rest. The hard work of editing begins with brutal
honesty with the person in the mirror. If you don’t like to edit you’ve
got a work-in-the-rough that no one will enjoy reading – friends,
family, acquaintances don’t count. They’ll be sweet so not to hurt your
creative feelings. This writer likes editing his own work. Sometimes as
many as 12-20 edits of 700-page works, and I never fail to find some
sentence, paragraph, chapter, or word that is so bad I wonder who wrote
the ‘stuff’.
Fancy
big technical words have their place, but they are b-o-r-i-n-g. Never
forget your readers. Delete & rewrite a problem section, chapter,
sentence – it’s easier & cleaner. Editing teaches one a lot about
self & tools & syntax & word structure & the simplicity
of good clean storytelling.
Build
you a marketing team of trusted advisors. This author can’t stress that
enough. There’re 24 hours in a day – you can’t do it all. Build a
reputation of quality work – part of which is dealing with the
unvarnished truth with those you respect. Bending the truth & making
royalty & money ruins those who are not well grounded. Thank the
powers that be for my upbringing among rock-hard principled people – I
wouldn’t be where I am without every one of them helping. You can’t
achieve that in the publishing world, or any profession, without
honesty.
About the Author:
Hawk has authored several works of fiction including a historical romance Moccasin Trace
which was nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for
Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. His Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series and his Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series have received national and international attention.
With
postgraduate degrees and faculty positions in several medical
universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the
United States and Jerusalem. His professional writing includes articles
on chordate neuroembryology, and aerospace research on muscle metabolic
behavior in multi-orbital environments.
Book Video: https://youtu.be/MUnhN8U0Zp0
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ HawkMacKinney
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/698008.Hawk_MacKinney
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Inanna-Phantom-Cairns-Sainctuarie-Book-ebook/dp/B07Y2DQRT3/ref=sr_1_1
Barnes&Noble.com: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/inanna-phantom-hawk-mackinney/1133914447?ean=9781732918252
Hawk
MacKinney, author of Inanna Phantom, will be awarding a $20 Amazon or
Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during
the tour. Enter For A Chance To Win.
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October 25, 2019
Unicorn Reader – Unicorns Know Reading Is Magical Tee Shirt
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October 24, 2019
The Blue Unicorn’s Journey To Osm Reader Review by Dragonet711
Reader Review
Good Read for the Young and Young at Heart By
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Pump Up Your Book Blog Tour – Save Him by William M. Hayes
Title: SAVE HIM
Author: William M. Hayes
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 245
Genre: Military Faith-based Thriller
Rydel Scott, a brilliant scientist working at a secret military lab,
accidentally discovers a form of time travel while working on a project
designed to save wounded soldiers in the field. Rydel’s sister, a woman
of faith, tells Rydel on her deathbed that she has received a message
from God. The message—save Jesus Christ from the cross.
And Rydel Scott travels back in time to do just that.
It is believed even the smallest change to the past can cause
catastrophic repercussions for future generations. An elite military
unit is sent back in time to hunt Rydel down before he can alter history
and possibly kill millions in the process.
The unit and its commanding officers, Colonel John Adams and Unit
Commander Ray Catlin, become divided. Catlin, a devout Catholic, claims
he witnessed a miracle by Jesus upon arrival in Jerusalem and fervently
believes in Rydel’s mission. Adams hasn’t believed in God since he was a
boy and his only concern is the safety of the people in the present.
They must now choose between the fate of Christ and the fate of
present-day mankind.
They must decide if they will Save Him.
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William M. Hayes lives with his beautiful family in a small suburb in
New York. His passion for writing became apparent in his twenties, and
he dreams of retiring to a secluded beach house where he can write all
day.
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Website → www.williammhayes.com
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October 23, 2019
Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store – Unicorn Head Phones
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Lone Star Book Blog Tours – Comfort Songs by Kimberly Fish
COMFORT SONGS
a companion novel to Comfort Plans
by
KIMBERLY FISH
Genre: Contemporary Romance / Women’s Fiction
Publisher: Fish Tales, LLC
Date of Publication: September 19, 2019
Number of Pages: 348
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Award-winning author of Comfort Plans, Kimberly Fish, delivers a novel about family, forgiveness, and the seeds of second chances.
Eight years ago, Autumn Joy Worthington, still reeling from the bitter divorce of her Grammy-Award-winning parents, endured the betrayal of a man who’d promised her a wedding. Running from pain seemed the logical response. Reinventing herself in Comfort, Texas, as a lavender grower, she creates a wildly successful gardening haven that draws in tourists and establishes an identity far removed from her parents’ fame. Her mother’s retirement from stardom inspires AJ to offer her refuge and nurse the dream that they could move past old hurts and the tarnish of the music industry … to find friendship. A grandmother in the early stages of dementia and the return of AJ’s father complicate the recovery, but nothing sets the fragile reality spinning like the arrival of Nashville music executive, Luke English.
As Alzheimer’s slowly knocks away the filters of their family, AJ comes to appreciate the true meanings of love and forgiveness — and that the power of redemption can generate from the most unlikely sources. When AJ uncovers the grit to make hard choices, she also discovers that the flowers that bloom the brightest can have the most tangled roots.
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Kimberly Fish is a professional writer with almost thirty years of media experience. She’s been telling stories far longer. She published her first novel, a WWII historical fiction novel, because of a true story in her adopted hometown that was too good to ignore. She quickly followed that success with a sequel. Since then, she’s continued writing fiction and added a contemporary second-chance romance series set in Comfort, Texas, to her list of fun, fast-paced novels. Kimberly lives with her family in East Texas.
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Everyone has a backstory. And as you read Comfort Songs by Kimberly Fish, it is easy to envision how the lives of those who have gone before us can have so much influence on what makes each of us who we are today. Strong work ethics, stubbornness, soft-heartedness, the need to control, the desire to create and so many other personality traits are tightly woven into the strands of our DNA. It seems, our ancestors can have stronger influences on the way we live and breathe and perceive than we are ever aware of.
Ms. Fish has a unique way of finding that intricate balance between the past and the now. Her writing style brings clarity to the machinations haunting three generations of women from the same family. The way the stories of AJ, July, Inez and even the dour, loveless woman in the black dress were woven together made the events at the lavender farm in the little town of Comfort, Texas vibrate in my own psyche. There was so much love. . .and animosity swirling in the backgrounds of mother, daughter and grandmother. The humiliation, pride, pain and suffering almost overshadowed the love and compassion that each one wanted so desperately to be capable of expressing.
Like it is for AJ’s mother July, songwriting is also a passion of mine. So, it is easy for me to understand her over-whelming need to write and sing to express her feelings and views of the world. But since, I also now have a little bit of the wisdom that comes with age, I can also commiserate with July’s daughter, who is achingly tired of seeing her mother suffer through the trials and tribulations that come with maneuvering through the roller-coaster life of a country music star. AJ just wants to save her mother from all of that. . .and possibly from herself, too. The thing is…AJ’s notions about how to accomplish such a feat simply do not mesh with July’s, especially after Luke’s arrival on the scene threatens to swoop the aging star back into the music world.
This is such a good book filled with so much emotional depth that many times, it was hard to keep reading through the flow of tears. Not all of those tears were sorrowful, though. Sometimes, it was because I was so struck with emotion by the writer’s flawless ability to give lucidity to a tender moment. Contrary to how it may appear in the previous paragraphs, Comfort Songs is a wonderfully sweet love story between AJ and Luke that fills one with hope for the future. It takes place in a colorful backdrop of lavender fields, golden sunrises and moonlit nights that are full of the heartbeat of music.
I love that there are no cringe worthy moments in this beautifully written clean romance. I highly recommend it for readers of all ages.
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October 22, 2019
Unicorn Book Feature – The Particolored Unicorn by Jon DeCles
Unicorns! How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups. I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you on my blog.
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Today’s Unicorn Book Feature is
The Particolored Unicorn
By Jon DeCles
Piswyck, a young man, buys a particolored unicorn, in hopes it will help him rescue Miranda from the evil uncle who holds her captive.
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