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November 8, 2019
Unicorn Book Feature – Unicorn Vengeance by Claire Delacroix
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
Unicorn Vengeance
By Claire Delacroix
With silver hair and fierce pale eyes, Wolfram stirred something raw yet beautiful deep inside Genevieve’s very being. Yet the handsome warrior was responsible for her brother’s death, and she swore he would never escape her righteous vengeance.
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November 7, 2019
Journey To Osm – The Blue Unicorn’s Tale Reader Review by V. Maposa
Reader Review
Victoria Maposa
5.0 out of 5 stars Magical fantasy!
Journey to Osm: The Blue Unicorn’s Tale by Sybrina Durant is a magical fantasy story that is well written. The plot of the story begins when Miral gives birth to a unicorn with neither metal nor magic. Not only that, the baby unicorn is small and weak. This is after Alumna, the oracle, had received a vision that the baby unicorn would grow to be strong. What then, given his current stature, was he going to do if confronted with the worst Magh army?I loved how the author built her characters and scenes gradually, pulling me in with each page. Also, the story is quite thrilling. It kept me at the edge of my seat the whole time. I can definitely see this being turned into a movie. That you Sybrina Durant for such a great read!
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November 5, 2019
Sybrina’s Blue Unicorn Book Store – Unicorn Magic Ring Toss Game
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November 4, 2019
Unicorn Reader – Unicorns Read Tee Shirt
It comes in
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November 3, 2019
Unicorn Book Feature – Ascendant by Diana Peterfreund
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
Ascendant
By Diana Peterfreund
Forget everything you ever knew about unicorns. The fluffy, sparkly, friendly “horses” so popular the world over don’t exist. Real unicorns are killers. Don’t miss book 2 in the thrilling Killer Unicorn series!
Beasts the size of elephants, with cloven hooves that shake the earth, hides impervious to bullets, and horns that contain a deadly poison, unicorns can outrun a sports car and smell a human from a mile away.
And they can only be killed by virgin warriors descended from Alexander the Great.
Astrid Llewelyn is now a fully trained unicorn hunter, but she can’t solve all her problems with just a bow and arrow. Her boyfriend, Giovanni, has decided to leave Rome, the Cloisters is in dire financial straits, her best friend’s powers are mysteriously disintegrating, and Astrid can’t help but feel that school, home, and her hopes of becoming a scientist are impossible dreams.
So when she’s given the opportunity to leave the Cloisters and put her skills to use as part of a scientific quest to discover the Remedy, Astrid leaps at the chance. Finally, she can have exactly what she wants—or can she?
At Gordian headquarters in the French countryside, Astrid begins to question everything she thought she believed: her love for Giovanni, her loyalty to the Cloisters, and—most of all—her duty as a hunter.
Should Astrid be saving the world from killer unicorns, or saving the unicorns from the world?
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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
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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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