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January 3, 2020
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection – Phenoms
What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
Unicorn Readers Are Super Duper Rainbow Pooper Glitter Spewing Phenoms
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January 2, 2020
Unicorn Book Feature – Ellie and the Prince By JM Stengl
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.You can also find many more for all ages at Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store.
Today’s Unicorn Book Feature is
Ellie and the Prince
Faraway Castle
By J. M. Stengl
Ellie knows better.
He’s a dashing prince, sought after by every beautiful lady in sight.
She’s an overalls-wearing herder of cinder sprites.
No WAY is Omar going to look twice at her!
Working as an employee at the illustrious Faraway Castle resort, eighteen-year-old Ellie is well aware that staff do not mingle with the guests. Period. Which means she has no business thinking about handsome Prince Omar, much less talking to him! For years she has admired him from afar, but a secret crush is the best she can hope for.
This summer, however, everything is about to change.
Suddenly, everywhere Ellie turns, she finds the prince. Is he inventing reasons to be near her? Is it possible her crush isn’t as one-sided as she’s always thought?
Before Ellie can sort through these confusing developments, disaster strikes. A unicorn on resort grounds attacks a party of riders, frightening the guests. When a band of adventurous young nobles decide to hunt it down, Ellie knows she can’t simply stand by and watch. A unicorn turned violent? Something must be wrong.
And Ellie needs Omar’s help.
Will Ellie and Omar find the unicorn before it’s too late? Can she somehow protect her heart against the deepening attraction she feels for the kind and gentle prince?
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January 1, 2020
Goddess Fish Promotions – Dragon Mist by David Burnett
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As the third daughter of a third daughter, dragon-shifter Christine Drachen must mate with a human.
Not all human males are genetically compatible with dragon shifters, and suitable matches are rare in old Charleston. Christine, though, has identified James to be an appropriate match. Even humans who acknowledge the possibility of dragons cannot believe that one can be both a dragon and a human, shifting between the two. As a result, Christine must attract James without fully revealing her true, shifting nature until he has committed to mate.
James gradually discovers what Christine is. She shows him the gold dragon she always wears around her neck. He notices the prints, statues, and tapestries of dragons that decorate her family’s home. Strange noises emanate from behind the Drachens’ house during a party, and James believes he actually sees a dragon, one wearing a necklace like Christine’s. Christine’s last name, Drachen, means “dragon,” and, while she jokes her entire family is composed of the creatures, James begins to suspect there is more to what she says than a simple attempt at humor.
Finally, though, he sees her shift.
To protect their species from persecution, dragon-shifters silence any human who sees one of them shift, and the most practical method is generally death. The rule is absolute. But Christine has fallen in love with James. How can she protect her family without killing the boy she loves?
Dragon Mist is a story of boy-meets-girl, with a few non-human characters, high stakes, a bit of magic, a little humor, and an abundance of romance.
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It had started two days after high school graduation, following a sleepover at Cindy Beaufont’s house. Cindy and I had slipped away before dawn, leaving a note claiming we were going out to the beach for an entire day of sun worship. Instead, we bought bus tickets to San Francisco and hopped the first Greyhound headed west. I’d calculated we would pass through Atlanta and be somewhere in Alabama before we were missed.
Inspired by the underground newspapers we read, Cindy and I were joining the throngs of young adults who were descending on San Francisco for the Sumer of Love. We parted ways as we stepped off the bus. I purchased two pair of overalls and wore little else for almost three months. The jeans and t-shirts I had taken with me would come home just as they had been taken from Mom’s washer on the first day of June.
I was searching for freedom. For a month, a summer, a year, a period of time, I wanted to be free, free from the rules and discipline of the drache, free from the expectations for an upper class, below-Broad young woman in old Charleston, free to consider and understand my shifting nature. I passed the summer painting dragons, making jewelry, and selling my work to buy food. I had done well, I thought. I had left home with fifty dollars, lived well, and my wallet currently held sixty-two greenbacks.
It is mid-August now, the Summer of Love is winding down, my freshman year in college beckons, and my masquerade as a flower child must come to an end.
The real world calls, and I had planned to leave for home next week.
But Bing is dead.
Someone will link me to Bing, someone who saw us in the park in the moonlight, someone who watched us leave the house together, perhaps a friend of his to whom he confided his “plans” for the evening.
The witnesses from the park all will tell a story of a golden dragon. The more lucid may recount how a blond girl turned into the golden dragon. All will say the dragon cut the man to bits with her hand.
Believable, right?
All of them, ninety-eight of hundred at the least, will have been smoking pot or dropping acid. Police officers will smirk, and search for a human perp. I was the girl with him, the one screaming “rape,” and the police will want to blame me for his death, although they will be hard pressed to explain how I overcame a man so much larger than I and dismembered him without a weapon, all in the space of thirty seconds.
Should officers frighten me, well, young draches have been known to shift involuntarily. An all-round bad scene.
Life will be simpler if I disappear, if I become an untraceable phantom.
I need to be on the road tonight.
About the Author:
I live near Charleston, South Carolina, where I walk the beaches, eat fresh seafood, and photograph the ocean, the birds, and the beautiful sunsets. Seven of my nine novels have been set in Charleston, but Dragon Mist is the first to explore the lives of the non-human residents of the “holy city.”
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December 30, 2019
Unicorn Book Feature – The Road To Balinor by Mary Stanton
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.
You can also find many more for all ages at Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store.
Today’s Unicorn Book Feature is
The Road To Balinor
Book 1 – Unicorns of Balinor
By Mary Stanton
As Arianna recovers from a bad accident and loss of memory, she slowly recalls things about her past and learns that her “horse” Chase can speak thoughts to her, as can her dog. When Chase is threatened, Arianna tries to run away with Chase and Lincoln – only to find herself transported into the world of Balinor, where she must reclaim her birthright.
“Stanton writes with a sure hand.” – Orson Scott Card
on THE HEAVENLY HORSE FROM THE OUTERMOST WEST
“A wonderful book”…“It is also required reading…for all animal lovers.”
– Gene Wolfe
“If you loved WATERSHIP DOWN … this is the fantasy book for you: lovingly detailed, heart-quickening.”
– Jane Yolen
author bio:
Mary Stanton began her writing career with one of the most-beloved beast fables of our time; THE HEAVENLY HORSE FROM THE OUTERMOST WEST. She loves writing for younger audiences and loves writing about magic but, after the YA fantasy series The Unicorns of Balinor appeared in 1999, she spent most of her career in the adult mystery field. She is the author of the popular Inn at Hemlock Falls series (as Claudia Bishop), and the paranormal mystery series BEAUFORT & COMPANY.
Mary spends half of the year on her farm in upstate New York, and the other half in a small house in Florida. Many of the Unicorns in Balinor are based on horses that Mary has owned and loved for years. http://www.marystanton.com
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Goddess Fish Promotions – Retaliation By Haley Cavanagh
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Sakota saved Astraeus and her friends from certain death, but in doing so, she gained the attention of the Oreck, who will stop at nothing to destroy everything in their path. With their ship severely damaged, Sakota and her crew land on a nearby planet and seek sanctuary while they make repairs to return home. But nothing on this perfect planet is as it appears, and Sakota soon learns they’ve traded one danger for another. Hunted and targeted, will Sakota be able to carry out her mission, or will everyone she cares about be destroyed?
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“No .”
Sakota bolted up in bed in the middle of the night.
Her dreams of blood and fear were monopolized with pointed teeth, cartilaginous faces, long, double-jointed arms and legs, and cruel, black alien eyes. The Oreck. They haunted her, perpetual alien God-ghosts with their eerie, electromagnetic glow beneath papery, gray skin.
Beside her, Astraeus slept, his arm flopped over the groove in the bed where she’d lain as he held her. He stirred, frowning. Was he having a nightmare too? She reached her hand out and searched with her emotions, as she’d learned to do.
He tossed, fitful, in the clutches of a nightmare to do with Upsilon’s destruction. She couldn’t remember what her nightmare had been about, but it had ended violently. Peace, she sent silently. Tranquility . Calm . Rest .
Astraeus sighed in his sleep, relaxed, and rolled over. She feathered hair out of his face. His existence had blown her away, and it still did. Astraeus’s genetic code far outstripped her own. He had defense mechanisms in place to protect him from climate extremities that she could never even dream of having. But more so, for the first time in her life, she’d fallen in love. It went against her pragmatic nature, but his comforting presence anchored her amid the wreckage.
She scrubbed her face with her hand in the darkness and swung her legs over the side of the levitating bed, careful of the bed’s height when she stood.
Humans were either a lot shorter than most of the visiting interplanetary delegates, or for some strange reason, they liked their beds high.
Her limbs ached, fatigue from the action of the last several days. She suspected healing from microgravity had something to do with it too, but she’d been through the wringer. The way she walked, the weight of her lips when she spoke, her arm and leg muscles seemed heavier and more visceral, like someone had injected them with a heavy drug. Ridiculous, of course. She was in the best shape of her life.
In the center of the room, she stretched and did some yoga until the tightness lessened. She rotated her neck. In a day or two, the slight dizziness and disoriented inertia would subside. As a physician, she knew the symptoms. She’d be fine. But telling a patient about them versus experiencing them were two different things.
She padded barefoot out onto the balcony, drew a silver cup from the shelves, and dipped it into the fountain. Distant light illuminated the Chuleron buildings along the skyline in the distance. She brought the brim of the cup to her lips and drank. Cool and refreshing, much cleaner than the sterilized water she’d had back on Earth. Tastier too. Earth water had to be purified at least five times before it could be considered healthy enough for consumption. Bacterial pathogens ran rampant in food and the polluted streams and springs back home, so sterilizing was essential. The delightful coolness soothed her throat.
She twisted her hair and pulled it over her right shoulder, taking in the strange, tantalizing city. Did her suspicions about this place come from her subconscious, because of the death and violence she’d experienced? Or was Hisoka right and something seemed off?
About the Author:
Haley Cavanagh is a military veteran, wife, and mother. She is an alumna of Columbia College, a musical theater nut, and she loves to dive into any book that crosses her path. Haley resides with her family in the United States and enjoys spending time with her husband and children when she’s not writing. She loves to hear from her readers, and encourages you to contact her via her website and social media.
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December 29, 2019
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection – My Next Read
What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
My Next Read Is Gonna Be A Unicorn Fantasy
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December 26, 2019
Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store – Unicorn Wine Bottle Labels
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December 25, 2019
Unicorn Book Feature – The Detective and the Unicorn by Michael Angel
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.You can also find many more for all ages at Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store.
Today’s Unicorn Book Feature is
The Detective & The Unicorn
By Michael Angel
LAPD Detective Derek Ridder has a new partner…one with cloven hooves, a palomino coat, and a spiral horn! Three years ago, the President welcomed a pegasus, a dryad, and a pair of griffins to the White House. Their arrival became a cultural touchstone like the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, or 9-11. Between the somber blue-black suits of the President’s cabinet and the Renaissance Faire medievalism of the creatures from the ‘Morning Land’, it was Norman Rockwell meets the cast of Narnia.
All creatures from the Morning Land seem peaceful enough… Until an evil wizard from that magical realm murders Ridder’s friend in cold blood right before the police detective’s eyes. Devastated, Ridder thinks he’ll be taken off the LAPD’s Homicide detail until he’s given unexpected news. He’s put on the wizard’s trail and given a new partner: a brash, driven unicorn filly named Tavia, the Daughter of the Warder of Cavilad.
The unicorn’s on a desperate mission of her own. Tavia identifies Ridder’s murderer as the wizard who nearly destroyed the realms of the unicorns, dryads, and pegasi in a horrific act of war: Sir William Teach. And she’s pledged her very life to capture or kill this magic-using war criminal at all cost!
Together, Derek and Tavia race to stop the wizard’s demonic plans. Their path takes them through the gritty underside of Los Angeles and deep into the fantasy realm of Tavia’s magical homeworld. Along the way, they encounter the wizard’s world-destroying allies, learn how a police detective can learn magic, and discover whether one really needs to be virgin-pure in order to touch a unicorn mare.
Warlord and wizard, ally to demon and hellhound… William Teach isn’t about to be taken down without a fight. But even with the help of a diplomat pegasus, an Amazonian tribe of dryads, and a SWAT-team’s worth of cops and agents from the Secret Service, the odds are long at best.
And both detective and unicorn know that if they fail, both of their worlds will be destroyed!
Included with this story are preview chapters of Book One in Michael Angel’s ‘Fantasy & Forensics’ series: Centaur of the Crime.
“This clever, humorous fantasy springs to life from page one…”
— Publisher’s Weekly
“Fast-paced action and sly wit make Angel’s writing irresistible fun.” — Rebecca Moesta, NYT Bestselling co-author of Young Jedi Knights
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December 24, 2019
Unicorn Reader Tee Shirt Collection – Unicorn Reader
What is a Unicorn Reader?
It is someone who relishes reading anything that sends the mind soaring to new realms. It is someone who dives so deeply into their books that they imagine themselves the main character of every fantasy they read – whether they’re flying with dragons, riding unicorn steeds or sailing through the cosmos in gleaming quantum ships. Are you a unicorn reader?
Unicorn Reader
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December 21, 2019
Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store – Unicorn Mug
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