Friday, May 31, 2019

Unicorn Book Feature - Dreamland by Julia E. Clements


Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

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 in one convenient spot on my blog.  Today's Unicorn Book Feature is


Dreamland

 By Julia E. Clements


Awarded the One Stop Fiction 5-star Book Award for excellent reads, Readers' Favorite 5-star review, IHIBRP Recommend Read 5-star Award, and Our Author Gang's Best Children's Cover Award

Daniel Green is a typical ten-year-old boy with just one difference – when he goes to sleep at night, he travels to Dreamland, a magical place where he can create amazing adventures using only his imagination.
But he is not alone. An evil being follows him into his enchanted world and joins forces with Stregona, the powerful witch who reigns over the Dark Forest. Together they are determined to destroy Dreamland.
Who is this dark entity, and what does he want with Danny?

A magical story for children age 9-12.




 Check out Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale while you're there, too.




If you like this post and others on this blog, scroll all the way down to the bottom left of this page anc click the FOLLOW button to receive more from Sybrina's Book Blog.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Goddess Fish Promotions - Astraeus by Haley Cavanagh



This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions to celebrate the release of the audio version of ASTRAEUS. Haley Cavanagh will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.



GENRE: YA, Sci-fi, Romance

One pre-apocalyptic Earth. One desperate space mission to find a solution. One unexpected alien.



When Dr. Sakota Thorell signed onto the mission to scout out a new, habitable planet, she knew discovering extraterrestrial life was always a possibility. But she never expected to find an alien adrift in space, nor for that alien to be so intriguing. Sakota feels an instant and undeniable attraction to Astraeus, but he represents a million possibilities, and just as many threats.



There are others hunting Astraeus, and his rescue may cost Earth its last hope.


Read an excerpt:



“What are you called? What’s your name?”



He opened his mouth, and she moved closer, eager for his first words. Instead, he focused on her lips with obvious fascination. His intriguing eyes caught the light. Despite her disappointment that he couldn’t speak, a rush went through her. Alien or not, he was the most handsome man she’d ever laid eyes on, with the kind of ethereal elegance some upper-class, privileged men on Earth spent fortunes on plastic surgery trying to achieve.



“It’s okay if you don’t want to talk, or if you can’t. We’ll get there. Now, I’m going to check you.” She kept her voice gentle, as she might use with a child. She pressed the button to disengage the protective bubble over the med bed and shone the retinal scanner in her own eye to demonstrate. “I just need to look at your eyes with this.” She motioned with the scope to him. “It won’t hurt. I promise.”



Warm puffs of his breath blew on her neck as she leaned in. She paused, noting the remarkable eight-pointed star-shape of his pupils. The mutation was his one physical difference, and only if one looked closely. The pupils dilated when hit by the scope’s light. She’d never seen eyes as remarkable.



“You’re doing great,” she soothed. Her head burst with countless questions. Where are you from? How did you get here? What do you want?



He appeared to like the cadence of her voice. His posture relaxed, and his breath against her was steady. How long had she been staring into his eyes? Should she push her luck and try to examine his mouth?



Before she could try, his finger stroked her inner arm. He was still restrained at the wrists, but he could reach her.



She allowed it. He stroked a featherlight finger along her forearm. As he did so, his gaze never left hers. She offered a kind smile. “That’s right. Friend. Sakota. Sa-ko-ta.”



He opened his mouth and let out a chicken-like squawk. “-Ota,” he said in a throaty, deep voice.



She raised her eyebrows. “Good. Very good.”



He tilted his head, watching her lips. “Gooood.”



Excited, she lowered the retinal light. “Can you understand me?”



He looked confused. “Me…”



“Okay. That’s a no. Then let me take this opportunity to say, in no uncertain terms, you, my friend, are the stuff of dreams and legends. I’ve waited my whole life for this. Are you getting this, Alistair?” she called out.



He came in over the speakers. “I am. Amazing. I’ll get to work on a linguistics program. Our friend seems to want to communicate.”

Astraeus Available as an Audio Book:






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.





Website: http://www.haleycavanaghbooks.com

Newsletter: https://haleycavanaghbooks.com/vip-readers-group/

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/1769243778

Twitter: https://twitter.com/haley_cavanagh

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haleycavanaghbooks/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ambitioushales/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42207961-astraeus



BUY LINKS:



Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J42YGPN

Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/astraeus-haley-cavanagh/1129709119

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/astraeus-by-haley-cavanagh

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/astraeus/id1438386950?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/astraeus-1

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42207961-astraeus

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Haley_Cavanagh_Astraeus?id=pIRxDwAAQBAJ

Indigo: https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/astraeus/9781948185592-item.html?ref=isbn-search

Powell's: https://www.powells.com/book/-9781948185608

Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=astraeus

AbeBooks: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30109306916





The audio book for Astraeus is live!


https://www.amazon.com/Astraeus/dp/B07RC81WRT/



https://www.amazon.co.uk/Astraeus/dp/B07R95S29Y/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=astraeus&qid=1557155343&s=gateway&sr=8-1



https://www.amazon.com.au/Astraeus/dp/B07RC93J94/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1542420976&sr=8-1



https://www.amazon.co.uk/Astraeus/dp/B07R95S29Y/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=astraeus&qid=1557155391&s=gateway&sr=8-1







a Rafflecopter giveaway

Monday, May 27, 2019

Lone Star Book Blog Tours - Bonnie and Clyde Radioactive by Hays and McFall


RADIOACTIVE
Bonnie and Clyde Series
Book Three
by
CLARK HAYS AND KATHLEEN McFALL
Genre: Historical / Alternative History / Romance 
Publisher:  Pumpjack Press on Facebook
Date of Publication: March 23, 2019
Number of Pages: 332

Scroll down for the giveaway!



Bonnie and Clyde: Defending the working class from a river of greed.
It’s January 1945, the height of World War Two. As the bloody conflict drags on, America has undertaken a massive top-secret effort to unleash the power of the atom and develop the first nuclear bomb. A network of Nazi and Soviet spies is determined to steal the technology, or failing that, sabotage the project. 

But first, they have to get past Bonnie and Clyde.

In a heart-pounding adventure spanning the windswept landscapes of eastern Washington to an isolated internment camp in the California mountains, Bonnie and Clyde face deception at every turn.

Can the former outlaws put aside their desire for revenge long enough to help end the war?

As in Resurrection Road and Dam Nation, the story cuts back and forth between 1984 where Royce, a washed-up investigative reporter, teams up with the now-elderly Bonnie Parker to hunt down the truth about their past, and the 1940s undercover exploits of the young Bonnie and Clyde.

And in Radioactive, Royce and Bonnie finally discover the devastating truth: Who Sal — the brains behind forcing Bonnie and Clyde into covert service defending the working class all those years ago — really was.




CLICK TO PURCHASE



Clark and Kathleen wrote their first book together in 1999 as a test for marriage. They passed. 


Radioactive is their seventh co-authored book. 


Twitter ║ Facebook ║ Instagram

Clark: GoodreadsAmazon
Kathleen: Goodreads ║ Amazon  




-------------------------------------
GIVEAWAY!  GIVEAWAY!  GIVEAWAY!
GRAND PRIZE: Signed copies of the full Bonnie and Clyde series
TWO WINNERS: Choice of print or eBook copy of Radioactive
May 23-June 1, 2019
(U.S. Only)

a Rafflecopter giveaway


VISIT THE OTHER GREAT BLOGS ON THE TOUR:

5/23/19
Review
5/23/19
Review
5/24/19
Review
5/24/19
Review
5/25/19
Review
5/25/19
Review
5/26/19
Review
5/26/19
Review

   blog tour services provided by
  


Sunday, May 26, 2019

Unicorny Stuff From Zazzle Journey To Osm Collection - Steel Horned Style Trading Card

Unicorny Stuff 

From the "Journey To Osm" Collection

on Zazzle



Style the Steel Horned Unicorn Trading Card

Style is the stylist of the tribe. The steel-horned unicorn loves to look good and make others look good, too. She creates magical mane-dos, hoof nail art and decorative accessories with a touch of her horn. But she uses her styling abilities in battle, too. She conjures giant kettle-bell earrings to hang from the ears of her enemies, anchoring their heads to the ground. Read “The Blue Unicorn’s Journey To Osm” to find out. Each item consists of two trading cards - one to trade and one to save.

 If you love unicorn stories with lots of pictures of unicorns, this is the book for you. It is available in soft and hard back print, .mobi and .epub ebook formats and as an audio book at all online book stores.
Want to read reviews about the book?  Read them here.  Want the book?  Just click on the appropriate book icon in the left sidebar of this blog.

If you like this post and others on this blog, click the FOLLOW button to receive more from Sybrina's Book Blog.

Saturday, May 25, 2019

BookFunnel - Book GiveAway - Mythical Creatures Immortal Beings

Mythical Creatures & Immortal Beings

Fantasy Ebooks!

Searching for your next favorite story?

 Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available at discount for a limited time.

Friday, May 24, 2019

Goddess Fish Promotions - Murder By Munchausen Trilogy by M.T. Bass

https://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2019/04/book-blast-murder-by-munchausen-by-mt.html


This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. M.T. Bass will be giving away a $25 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.  Click on the tour banner above to see the other stops on the tour.

A police procedural sci fi thriller ripped from future headlines!



After Jake shoots and kills a murder suspect who turns out to be the son of a powerful city councilman, he finds himself demoted to the Artificial Crimes Unit, tracking down androids hacked and programmed to be hit men.



When his case of an “extra-judicial” divorce settlement takes a nasty turn with DNA from a hundred-year-old murder in Boston and a signature that harkens back to the very first serial killer ever in London, Jake finds himself tangled up in the brutal slayings of prostitutes being investigated by his former Robbery/Homicide partner, Maddie–who is now his lover.



But a madman, The Baron, is just getting started with his AI recreations of Jack the Ripper's brutal crimes. And Maddie and Jake are teamed up again to stop the carnage as the Baron's army of human replicants imitate history's most notorious serial killers.



"It might not make sense, but the beloved Media tags it 'Murder by Munchausen.' For a price, there are hackers out there who will reprogram a synthoid to do your dirty work. The bad news: no fingerprints or DNA left at the crime scene. The good news—at least for us—is that they’re like missiles: once they hit their target, they’re usually as harmless as empty brass. The trick is to get them before they melt down their core OS data, so you can get the unit into forensics for analysis and, hopefully, an arrest." [excerpt from Murder by Munchausen]



Artificial Intelligence? Fuhgeddaboudit!



Artificial Evil has a name…Munchausen.


Read an Excerpt



From The Invisible Mind (#3)



It sat on a bench outside the dormitory of nursing students, waiting with its kind’s infinite patience. Originally acquired and programmed for landscaping at the Cleveland Clinic, the synthoid was one of a brigade of units which had been hacked and Munchausened, then returned to their menial daily services to mankind to await the Baron’s call.



There was no adrenalin surge behind the extremely life-like facade of humanity when that call came. Data packets, sent scatter-shot through the Atlas Grid, coalesced at the location outside the Cole Eye Institute, where it methodically trimmed and shaped the immaculate shrubbery around the building. To avoid Q’s metadata sniffing algorithms from detecting a download spike in the grid, the information came in digital sprinkles over the course of its human handler’s work shift, slowly building a malevolent intent to be executed that night. In the middle of the afternoon, it left the topiary unfinished to melt into the hospital shift change and disappeared.


Personality modules were a Gen-3 feature upgrade, which is why the earlier models were initially preferred. Swapping out a few IC chips and uploading hacked firmware was a relatively easy way to turn a quick buck with an automated contract killing. But evil innovates, too, and the same features that made synthoids even more human-like in their behavior also helped create robotic assassins which could better camouflage their malicious intents and evade the reach of the Artificial Crimes Unit by melting into and moving undetected through the humanity that surrounded them. For the Baron, it allowed for a greater measure of artistic expression in programming the synthoid’s behavior to not only recreate infamous crimes of the past, but to mimic the behavior of their perpetrators, which intensified the thrill of watching the video feed through the eyes of Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy or, this particular evening, Richard Speck. Jake wasn’t the only history buff and it amused Jamal that London police had photographed the eyes of Jack the Ripper’s victims, hoping to capture the last thing they ever saw: their killer’s face. If only Scotland Yard could have imagined the future.



The Gen-3 personality modules also supported the ANSI Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Protocol #9 to enhance the artificial human experience of real men and women who interacted with synthoids. The constant writing and rewriting of code in the personality/experience loop formed unique individual synthoid consciousnesses, which manufacturers uploaded to their servers for product improvement teams to study. In Munchausened units, that feed was hijacked and routed to another portal in the Darknet to build a collective id of evil.



At eleven PM, it rose from the bench and entered the dormitory. The bodies of nine women would be found the next day, having been strangled and stabbed to death. Unlike 1966, no eyewitness was left alive, though the phrase "Born to Raise Hell" was written on the wall in blood.



About the Author:
M.T. Bass is a scribbler of fiction who holds fast to the notion that while victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality. He lives, writes, flies and makes music in Mudcat Falls, USA.



Born in Athens, Ohio, M.T. Bass grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, majoring in English and Philosophy, then worked in the private sector (where they expect “results”) mainly in the Aerospace & Defense manufacturing market. During those years, Bass continued to write fiction. He is the author of eight novels: My Brother’s Keeper, Crossroads, In the Black, Somethin’ for Nothin’, Murder by Munchausen, The Darknet (Murder by Munchausen Mystery #2), The Invisible Mind (Murder by Munchausen Mystery #3) and Article 15. His writing spans various genres, including Mystery, Adventure, Romance, Black Comedy and TechnoThrillers. A Commercial Pilot and Certified Flight Instructor, airplanes and pilots are featured in many of his stories. Bass currently lives on the shores of Lake Erie near Lorain, Ohio.




Website: https://www.mtbass.net

Blog: https://www.owl-works.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/owlworks/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Owlworks

Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/mtbass

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5270962.M_T_Bass



Murder by Munchausen Trilogy Purchase Links


https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Munchausen-Trilogy-Future-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07QDGHYZ6

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/murder-by-munchausen-trilogy-books-1-3/id1458934052?mt=11

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1131145794?ean=2940156040681

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-by-munchausen-trilogy

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/932579








a Rafflecopter giveaway


Thursday, May 23, 2019

Silver Dagger Book Tours - The Coven Series by Drako


Bewitched
Souls
The
Coven Book 1
by
Drako
Genre:
LGBT Paranormal Fantasy

The
Coven is a special group of witches given charge of the manor on
Genum Island, and Talis is considered the head and strongest of it.
Joined by his sister, Teryn, and her husband, Cian, they protect
their magic based home from the forces of darkness who seek the
mysterious power of their home. It's all routine, until Talis' old
crush shows up with a strong desire to take the head witch for
himself.

Dion
has come to terms with what he wants, and that's Talis. He has a lot
to make up for, but with him comes trouble. Hot on his tail is his
ex-girlfriend, and with her is a demon who has a craving for souls
and a rise to her former glory.

The
Coven has no choice but to stand against the greatest threat they've
ever faced. How far will they go to save a soul?











Sunder
The
Coven Book 2 

The
life of a witch is ever changing. After the greatest test the Coven
has ever faced, Talis and Dion settle in happily married life. But
Talis is the head of the Coven, and his life will never be simple. He
has responsibilities far above and beyond what he had anticipated and
ever increasing powers to master. With all this, there is the
certainty that darkness never sleeps, and now comes a true test of
more than just ability, but the strength of his will.As Teryn and
Cian prepare to welcome a new addition to the family, Talis and
Dion's work just begins as insecurity and outside forces come
together to threaten their marriage. Beneath it all is a sinister
force older and more powerful than any ever known, threatening not
only to tear them all apart but the world as they know it.










Drako
was born in 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri. He is mainly a fantasy
writer, though he also writes some poetry and general fiction. He is
very active on both twitter and facebook and has his own website at
www.drakosden.net which is frequently updated with news on his books
and fun extras. When he isn't writing, he's busy helping take care of
his nieces, playing videogames, reading, promoting, and spending time
with family.






Follow
the tour
HERE
for exclusive excerpts, guest posts and a giveaway!