Thursday, April 30, 2020

Pump Up Your Book Blog Tour - Alexandra Forever - Beginnings By DW Richards





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ALEXANDRA FOREVER: BEGINNINGS

By D.W. Richards

Urban Fantasy/Sci-fi



Would you risk erasing yourself from ever existing to save the immortal soul of a beloved friend?




Two middle-aged sisters, Nadenka and Anastasiya, travel to a remote
northern mountain where they must contend with their notorious, and
seemingly immortal grandmother, Alexandra, in their quest to save an
aged and frail member of their coven, Terra, from demonic possession.
Deep family wounds need to be addressed before they can do what is
required for the exorcism. But time is running out. The woman they are
trying to save is dying. As the clock is ticking down, an evil legion emerges to stand between them and saving Terra’s immortal soul.


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Chapter One





The sun shone into a room, the main features of which were a window, a hospital bed and a wheelchair. An elderly woman sat complacently on the edge of the bed, not oblivious to her surroundings but not engaged with them, either. She paid little notice to the male nurse bent before her as he inserted her feet into a pair of fuzzy slippers before lifting her into the waiting wheelchair. He had considerately positioned it to face the window knowing that she spent much of her time watching the world outside. The nurse retrieved a silver brush from the bedside table.

“You have a guest coming today, Terra,” the man said, “Alexandra. Won’t that be wonderful? She always brings a smile to your face.”

In long strokes he gently brought order to Terra’s shoulder-length white hair. There was no hint left of its youthful red, but the curls still maintained their defiant resolve. He stopped when, without apparent reason, Terra turned her head toward the doorway. A moment later the door was flung open and Alexandra stepped through. The hoodie was zipped back up and the black boots had been exchanged for a pair of retro high-top sneakers. She was twirling a key fob with her right hand.

The two women smiled at each other, Alexandra beaming widely while Terra welcomed her with her eyes.

 “Well hello,” the nurse welcomed, cheerfully.

“Pete,” Alexandra replied, in greeting as she slipped the fob into a front pocket of her shorts.

“Don’t get me wrong, marvelous to see you,” he remarked, “but isn’t this visit a little outside your usual routine?”

 “I had some business to tend to. Brought me down a little earlier than usual,” she explained, before directing focus on Terra.

“Getting my girl all dolled up for me?” she asked.

“That, I am.”

Pete did a squint-eyed overview of Terra’s hair. Satisfied, he placed the brush back on the bedside table.

“I’ll leave you two,” he said.

Alexandra smiled at Pete as he exited out into the corridor. After the man left, she crouched down in front of Terra, steadying herself on the armrests of the wheelchair. She looked up into Terra’s serene face. The old woman meant a great deal to her. She was the last link with Alexandra’s past. The imminent loss of Terra left Alexandra feeling empty and alone. Tears started to roll down her cheeks at the thought of it.

“Mouse,” Alexandra expressed, “Anastasiya says that she’s had visions. She says you’re in there. I mean really in there. That you’ve contacted her.”

She locked eyes with Terra for a moment, and analysed her gaze. Could there be genuine hope? Terra began to weep, but the silence of decades remained unbroken. Alexandra sighed, leaned forward until their foreheads touched, and then the two closed their eyes. In the tenderness of the moment Alexandra was certain that she felt a plea conveyed from her old friend. Save me.

 “Your mother had such awesome expectations for the two of us,” Alexandra whispered, “and her intuition was always bang-on. Maybe it can all still happen.”

Her eyes opened and she moved back as her friend watched. She caressed the side of Terra’s face and, with a magician-like turn of hand, removed a coin from Terra’s ear. The trick evoked a faint smile. Alexandra straightened, wiped her tears, and moved behind the wheelchair.

“I have a lot more redhead jokes,” she said, as she grabbed the chair’s handles and started to wheel Terra out of the room.

Terra slowly looked back toward her, glared, then turned forward again and huffed.

“...’Cause I know how you love redhead jokes.”













D.W. Richards first introduced the protagonist, Alexandra, to the
world in his novel, “Pairs,” which spent two weeks on the Amazon U.K.
Best Seller list for humor. Alexandra’s story continued in the graphic
novel, “Alexandra Forever: 2337”. In addition to creative writing, D.W.
Richards has a Bachelor Degree in Psychology from Carleton University
and is a Certified General Accountant.





 


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Sunday, April 26, 2020

Tween Unicorn Book Feature - Dad's Pants by Alan Riehl

Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Middle Kid or Tween Readers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is



Myth Catchers Book 1

Dad's Pants

 By Alan Riehl


It is a Children's/Tween Fiction Novel about a troubled young boy named Curtis Armstrong who misses his father so much that he hangs on to the only thing left to remind him of his dad. A pair of jeans. 

His adventures are just beginning as he, his mother, and sister travel to Myth, NM where he begins a new semester of school. It is also the place where he meets his arch enemy and develops a hatred for anything with a single horn. 

Is it the maiden voyage of his imagination that sets things in motion, or is there really something going on that he can't explain? 

This is the first book in a series that will delve into Curtis' experiences with the wonderful and sometimes scary things that he catches with his father's pants. Watch as the story slowly unravels with surprises at every turn.


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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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Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale

 Reader Review




Seraphia

Journey to Osm is a beautifully written tale of a herd of unicorns waiting on their prophesied savior to be born. He will be the one with the horn and the magic to save them all from the evil who wishes to destroy them all and enslave the world. The author builds such a beautiful world in this story. We meet unicorns, pendragons, two-leggeds (humans) and other strange creatures. This story tells the reader about young Blue who is made to not feel as if he belongs simply because his horn is not metal when he is born. "No metal. No magic." You will feel the sadness that he feels as he seeks to hide from the herd and learn the extent of loss that they have all suffered at the hands of an evil man who seeks more and more power.
The story flows so well and kept me engaged the entire time. I kept turning page after page to learn what was going to happen next. There are moments of where I am annoyed or disappointed with certain characters, but for me, it helps make them even more "real" or at least relatable as believable characters. I love the romance that the author throws into the story. You see it coming when you learn of Blue's stable-mate and how they came to be so close. It's heartbreaking but beautiful at the same time.

There is nothing that I don't like about this story. The author never becomes too focused on one particular part. The story flows well and keeps the reader engaged from beginning to end. I love the twists and surprises that the author throws into the story. It's a wonderful story to read.

If you are a fantasy lover this is a book to pick up. If you love stories about unicorns then this is a book to grab. I'm sure that you will enjoy.


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Saturday, April 25, 2020

YA Unicorn Book Feature - The King of the Unicorns by Sau Wah Chan

Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Teens, YA and Older Readers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is



A Testamony About Him

The King of the Unicorns

 By Sau Wah Chan


The King of the Unicorns: A Testimony about Him by Sau Wah Chan

Since their last adventure, Olive, Timothy, Carol Rose, and Sam have led a normal life. One day, Carol Rose is attacked by demons and evil spirits. After that she thinks it is the end of the world, because she has almost lost all her friends when they hear her story. She feels rejected, depressed, sad, and lonely. Then one day, she has an encounter with God. God gives her a mission to a very far place to meet with the King of the Unicorns and to do a special task on the Hill of the Unicorns; then after the mission, she will be healed. And Olive, Timothy and Sam will go with her. Later, their friends Billy, and Sunny join their mission as well.They are given special gifts on a tree house to help them on their journey. They are a bible, a notebook, a hymn book, a little purse, a little flying saucer, a little boat, a little bottle of sand, a little blanket, a crystal heart and a wand. Then they find the gate at their backyard, which opens into another world. On their journey, they visit the kingdom of the Ocean Dragons, the kingdom of the Mountains and Valleys, the kingdom of the North, and the kingdom of the South. In each place, they encounter dangers, and God has helped them overcome. As well, they are given a new mission during their journey. Finally, they come to the Hill of the Unicorns. Carol Rose talks to the King of the Universe. She also meets with her Mother and the King of the Unicorns. Then she stays on the hill to do the secret mission. After she has done it, the demons and evil spirits suddenly break into powders and leave her. She recovers! And the children, Billy and Sunny return home.


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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 hundreds more for all ages at Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store.


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Friday, April 24, 2020

Little Kid Unicorn Book Feature - A Unicorn Named Sparkle by Amy Young

Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Little Kids and Toddlers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is



A Unicorn Named Sparkle

 By Amy Young


When Lucy sees an ad in the newspaper for a unicorn, she sends in her twenty-five cents and waits four to six long weeks for her very own unicorn to arrive. She imagines the flowers that she'll braid into his beautiful pink mane, and she even picks the perfect name for him: Sparkle. But when Sparkle arrives, his ears are too long, his horn is too short, he smells funny--and oh, he has fleas. Lucy isn't pleased, but in the end she warms up to Sparkle and realizes that even though he wasn't exactly the unicorn she wanted, he might be just the one she needs.


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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 hundreds more for all ages at Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store.


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Thursday, April 23, 2020

YA Unicorn Book Feature - Journey To Osm by Sybrina Durant


Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Teens, YA and Older Readers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is




Journey To Osm

The Blue Unicorn's Tale

 By Sybrina Durant


If you enjoyed reading The Hobbit, Alice In Wonderland or even Watership Downs, you might just love this purely fanciful anthropomorphic fantasy.

Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale by Sybrina Durant is an enchanting escapade about a metal-horned tribe of space-faring unicorns stranded a universe away from their home world of Unimaise. It is full of magic and adventure with walloping dashes of pseudosciencey stuff sprinkled throughout. It also offers a thought-provoking look into love and war amongst the other denizens of MarBryn. . .including Magh, the sorcerer who wants to kill all unicorns.

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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 hundreds more for all ages at Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store.


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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Teen Unicorn Book Feature - The Forever Man By Craig Zerf


Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Teens, YA and Older Readers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is




The Forever Man

Book Four - Unicorn

 By Craig Zerf


The adventure continues … Will you survive?
A series of solar flares smash the world back into the Dark Ages. Chaos follows. Millions die in the post-apocalyptic aftermath.
One man is changed by the radiation. Marine Sergeant Hogan. Turning him into a superhuman being. Faster, stronger and able to create magic.
He has become - The Forever Man. Oorah!
But even he is not ready for what happens next.
Through a rip in time and space, they came. The Orcs, goblins and trolls. Set on our extinction.
Can Hogan save humanity, or is it all over?

Award winning author...Chosen by London Radio BBC 4 as a "BEST READ" 
Translated into Spanish, German, French and Portuguese.
Winner of the Golganooza Gold Medal for Fantasy.

The Forever Man eBook categories:
  • Dark Fantasy
  • Supernatural Thriller
  • Witches & Wizards
  • Urban Fantasy Thriller
  • Supernatural Shifter
  • Angels & Demons
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Paranormal and Urban Romance
  • Supernatural Mystery and Suspense
  • Vampires and Werewolves
  • Arthurian Fantasy

Praise for Craig Zerf …
“What a ride! Best series I've read in years.”
“This is a finely tuned action fantasy that will be appreciated by all lovers of the genre. Exciting, thought provoking and darn good fun. Recommended most highly.”
“Absolutely one of the most engrossing stories I have ever read. Started out just like every dystopian TEOTWAWKI story but then it takes a sharp left turn into fantasy and it just keeps getting better. I purchased ALL of the series before I started and I'm glad I did because I had to start the next one as soon as I finished one. Wonderful cast of characters. I can't recommend this series enough.”
“Highly recommended. I've read the entire series and loved them all. Loved them so much that I've started over and I'm reading the entire series again from the beginning.”
“This is a fabulous find! An excellent rendering of dystopian and myth woven together into a grand sweeping story. A Marine stranded in England, who is honorable, fair and humane. Read it, tis grand.”
“Craig Zerf has written an engrossing story that will keep you reading as fast as you can.”


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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 hundreds more for all ages at Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store.


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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Goddess Fish Promotions - Carson of Venus By Matt Betts



This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Enter to win a physical copy of the paperback of Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds (continental US only). Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.



Carson of Venus is back in the first novel of groundbreaking Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series!



When a mysterious enemy attacks his adopted nation of Korva, Earthman Carson Napier discovers his own arrival on Venus years ago may have unknowingly triggered the strike. The invaders' trail of death and destruction leads Carson and his beloved princess Duare headlong into battle against a seemingly invincible, primordial race. But that is not Carson's only challenge, for an uncanny phenomenon has entangled him with two strange individuals from beyond spacetime. Will Carson be able to solve the mysteries of his past and the enigmatic visitors before the entire planet descends into chaos?



Also includes the bonus novelette "Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun" by Christopher Paul Carey, introducing Victory Harben, the ERB Universe's newest heroine:



The very principle of physics behind the Gridley Wave has mysteriously failed, cutting off all communication between the hollow world of Pellucidar and the outer crust, and now inventor Jason Gridley must seek help from his brilliant young protégé, Victory Harben. Together they recover timeworn records from deep in the ruins of a dead Mahar city, hoping to use knowledge of Pellucidar's former reptilian overlords to jumpstart the Gridley Wave. But when their experiment goes terribly wrong, Jason and Victory suddenly find themselves drawn into the inscrutable machinations of an ancient evil.



THE FIRST UNIVERSE OF ITS KIND



A century before the term "crossover" became a buzzword in popular culture, Edgar Rice Burroughs created the first expansive, fully cohesive literary universe. Coexisting in this vast cosmos was a pantheon of immortal heroes and heroines--Tarzan of the Apes, Jane Clayton, John Carter, Dejah Thoris, Carson Napier, and David Innes being only the best known among them. In Burroughs' 80-plus novels, their epic adventures transported them to the strange and exotic worlds of Barsoom, Amtor, Pellucidar, Caspak, and Va-nah, as well as the lost civilizations of Earth and even realms beyond the farthest star. Now the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe expands in an all-new series of canonical novels written by today's talented authors!


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“You should not have come here,” Yron interrupted. He looked over my friends and then opened his mouth repeatedly, as if he were straining for air. “You should turn around now and go back home in that strange flying vessel of yours.” He waited, as if he truly expected us to go.



Duare broke the awkward silence. “We are here to ask for help, or at the very least, some information.”



“I have none of that,” Yron said.



“Help or information?” I asked.



“Neither. Both.” The jong appeared flustered by the request, and by our very presence. I wondered why our appearances here had so obviously upset this usually cunning and devious leader. Had I known that it was Yron we were dealing with, I certainly would have thought twice about meeting with him so far down in his own element.



“What are you doing out here?” I asked. Yron and his people lived thousands of miles to the north in the city of Mypos, so what had prompted them to establish such a far-flung outpost? And who had built it? I had been to Mypos and seen firsthand the fish-people’s poor sense of art and architecture. They certainly hadn’t constructed this outpost on their own.



Before Yron could respond, Ero Shan stepped forward and demanded to hear anything that Yron knew about Nalte and the strange soldiers who had taken her. Duare interjected and described the creatures we had encountered, their craft, and how they had absconded with our companion.



Yron looked anxious, if his rapidly flapping gill slits meant anything, and said, “It sounds like you’ve run afoul of the Linneauns.”



Copyright © Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All rights reserved. All logos, characters, names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Used by permission.



About the Author:

Matt Betts worked for years in radio as an on-air personality, anchor and reporter. His fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His work includes the steampunk novel, Odd Men Out, urban fantasy crime novel Indelible Ink, and his recent cryptid/horror novel White Anvil: Sasquatch Onslaught. His current release Carson of Venus: The Edge of all Worlds continues a series begun by Edgar Rice Burroughs.







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Monday, April 20, 2020

Tween Unicorn Book Feature - The Secret Rescuers by Paula Harrison

Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick

For Middle Kid and Tween Readers

 Today's Unicorn Book Feature is



The Secret Rescuers

The Sky Unicorn

 By Paula Harrison


Ava and her friends race to rescue a unicorn in the second book in the adorable, new Secret Rescuers series.

Ava is horrified when Clover, a baby unicorn, is stolen from his herd by the evil Sir Fitzroy. She comes up with a secret plan to rescue him, and, wearing a clever disguise, Ava bravely sets off into the night. But will she be able to teach Clover to fly in time to escape?


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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 hundreds more for all ages at Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store.


This blog post was brought to you by Unicorn Author and Entrepreneur, Sybrina Durant.  Visit her Sybrina Blue Unicorn Book website for unicorn books, Unicorn Reader Tees, Unicorn Writer Journals and Notebooks, Unicorn Reader Book Sleeves and many cool unicorn gifts.  Sybrina writes The Blue Unicorn Books.

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