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Phrase Thesaurus Samples2 - Vol 2 - Moving Parts - Part 2 - SH101

Sybrina's Phrase Thesaurus Sample Phrases

Volume 2

Moving Parts - Part 2
SH-SHOULDERS SH101 (Gesturing) 

Sybrina's Phrase Thesaurus is a 4 Volume Set of thousands of descriptive phrases to help authors break through writer's block.  This group of phrases describe movements of the shoulder.  

 

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Unicorn Book Feature - Legend of the Night Unicorn - By Sarah Northwood

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

Legend of the Night Unicorn 

By Sarah Northwood

Martha is excited about her trip on the steam train up Mystic Mountain. She finds out from a kind old man how the train got its name. Legend has it there’s a night unicorn who lives on the mountain.

After Martha arrives at the top of the mountain peak, she has one burning question. All she wants to do is find out if the legend is true.

Are unicorns real?

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KindleBookReview - Book GiveAway - January 2019 Meet & Greet Giveaway

Kindle Book Review

January 2019 Meet & Greet Giveaway

Start your New Year right and enter our January Meet & Greet Giveaway. We’re giving away a 7″ Kindle Fire, $25 Amazon eGift card, and a “Bookworm” coffee mug.  We love our Kindles, and we know you’d love to win one.  So let’s do this!

Here’s the deal. We all have a story. In your story, you’re the hero and you want to walk away with all 3 of these reader gifts and be a superhero. So enter our January Meet & Greet Giveaway and start your “award-winning” story with a bang!

We’ve got books for every reader–free books–99¢ books–award-winning books, bestselling books, and more! So enter our January Meet & Greet Giveaway, grab a few eBooks, and enter to win! You can enter for for a chance to win here.



WHEN: January 7-31, 2018

PRIZE: 7″ Kindle Fire, $25 Amazon eGift Card, and Reader mug ($100 value).

Book Reviews2 for the Blue Unicorn's Journey To Osm by James W.

 

5 starsvery fun read

By James Westcott 

Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

Blue's journey of destiny was such a fun read. Each paged just added more and more layers of colorful lore that built up an interesting magical world that was just as vibrant as the characters inhabiting it. This was an enjoyable adventure with amazing illustrations. For people who love pure fantasy or adults who want a nostalgic read, for this story will feel like the time you read NeverEnding story as a kid.

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Unicorn Book Feature - The Unicorn Quest By Kamilla Benko

Unicorn Book Feature

The Unicorn Quest

By Kamilla Benko

An enchanting, exciting fantasy about a real-world girl searching for her sister in a land full of magic and strange creatures, blending the timeless feel of A Wrinkle in Time with Frozen's powerful themes of identity, enchantment, and sisterhood.

Claire Martinson still worries about her older sister Sophie, who battled a mysterious illness last year. But things are back to normal as they move into Windermere Manor . . . until the sisters climb a strange ladder in a fireplace and enter the magical land of Arden.

There, they find a world in turmoil. The four guilds of magic no longer trust each other, the beloved unicorns have disappeared, and terrible wraiths roam freely. Scared, the girls return home. But when Sophie vanishes in the night, it will take all of Claire's courage to climb back up the ladder, find her sister, and uncover the unicorns' greatest secret.

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Authors XP - Paperback Book GiveAway

Authors XP

Paperback Book Giveaway

Win up to 20+ Paperback Books!

(1) Grand Prize "Gift Baskets" of ALL eBooks!
(20+) Winners of Individual eBooks (randomly selected titles)

Authors Participating: 

E.M. Thomas, Lance Pototschnik, Victoria Dougherty, Teresa Burrell, Michael Altieri, Roger B. Burt, Toni Crowe, James D. Terry, Judith Rocchiccioli, Kimberly Packard, Irving Belateche, Matthew Mather, Sybrina Durant, Joy Ohagwu, Gina Conkle, Justine Avery, Scott LaPierre, Rory Nelson, Amy Vansant, Michele PW (Pariza Wacek)

Book Reviews2 for the Blue Unicorn's Journey To Osm by Carlynne T

Carlynne Toomey rated it it was amazing 

The illustrations in this book are beautiful! The story is great and there is action and adventure. This is an adult or older teen level book as there is violence and death in the story. The battles are graphic and unicorns die. I say this only to warn readers that may think that unicorn stories are always happy, fun rainbow reads. This is not the case with this book, but it is so much better because of the realism. Battles aren’t pretty, evil magicians do bad things. Can the non-magical blue unicorn save the tribe, or will he too perish at the hands of Magh, the evil magician. I’ll let you read this great story, enjoying the beautiful artwork and find out for yourselves. 

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BookFunnel - Book GiveAway - Free and Clean

Free and Clean

Science Fiction and Fantasy Ebooks!

Searching for your next favorite story?

Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of clean Sci-Fi & Fantasy ebooks. Not all books will be available during the entire month of January, so get them while you can!

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Unicorn Book Feature - Space Unicorn Blues by T.J. Berry

Unicorn Book Feature

Space Unicorn Blues

By T. J. Berry

A misfit crew race across the galaxy to prevent the genocide of magical creatures, in this unique science fiction debut.

Having magical powers makes you less than human, a resource to be exploited. Half-unicorn Gary Cobalt is sick of slavery, captivity, and his horn being ground down to power faster-than-light travel. When he's finally free, all he wants is to run away in his ancestors' stone ship. Instead, Captain Jenny Perata steals the ship out from under him, so she can make an urgent delivery. But Jenny held him captive for a decade, and then Gary murdered her best friend... who was also the wife of her co-pilot, Cowboy Jim. What could possibly go right?


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Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store2 - Unicorn Iron On Patch

Unicorn Iron On Patch

Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store

Where you'll find unicorns, more unicorns and nothing but unicorns!  Visit now.

 

Lone Star Book Blog Tours - Einstein’s Compass By Grace Allison - Laren Bright

EINSTEIN'S COMPASS

A YA TIME TRAVELER ADVENTURE

by

Grace Blair & Laren Bright

Genre: Young Adult / Historical / Fantasy / Science Fiction
Certified Lexile Measure: 860L
Publisher: Modern Mystic Media
Publication Date: January 2, 2019

Number of Pages: 394 pages
Coming on Audio, February 2019!

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How did Albert Einstein come up with his wondrous theories of light and time? In Einstein's Compass: A YA Time Traveler Adventure, a young Albert is given a supernatural compass that allows him to travel through time and space and find wisdom in other dimensions, including the lost city of Atlantis. But evil forces seek the power of the compass, including a monstrous, shape-shifting dragon from a different age. Can the compass protect Albert from such villainy?

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PRAISE FOR EINSTEIN'S COMPASS:

"This is an amazing story. Everyone should thoroughly enjoy reading it. I was impressed with how the authors managed to incorporate the known information on the lost continent of Atlantis, Light Workers, souls, reincarnation, time travel and the early years of Albert Einstein before he became famous, into a mesmerizing work of fiction readers will have difficulty putting down. 
--Doug Simpson, Author of We Lived in Atlantis

"I could not stop reading this book. I read at stop lights and in line at the grocery store. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough." --- award winning children's author, Lisa Reinicke

This is highly recommended for those who enjoy a saga of good vs. evil that spans tens of thousands of years, for readers who devour novels that blend history and fantasy, and for anyone who is simply looking for a unique story that they will not want to put down. 

-- Jacqui Murray, Author as the Tech Teacher

The weaving of the story between the religion realm and Albert’s world is a captivating tale that keeps the reader’s attention. The good and evil of the timeless religious realm is like watch a chess match to see who outwits whom … I hope there is a next book somewhere in my future. 

–- Rox Burkey, author of the Enigma Series

Grace Blair is an award-winning self-help and motivational author, and podcast host, who has assisted thousands to find their spiritual wisdom to solve everyday challenges. Throughout her adult life, Grace became a serious student of the spiritual. She found that, often, psychological principles and practices were incomplete, but could be filled out by adding the missing spiritual component. Her approach was always to see practical applications for what she uncovered in the mystical. It was through immersing herself in this field of study and experience that she came up with her idea for her book, Einstein’s Compass. She lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband, Dr. John Blair.

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Laren Bright is a three-time Emmy nominated award-winning writer who has written nearly 100 children’s animated cartoon scripts. He has spent the majority of his professional life over the last two decades assisting authors to produce topnotch books with titles and other promotional writing indistinguishable from those of mainstream publishers. During that time, in addition to Einstein’s Compass, he also co-authored a young adult fantasy series and several books for young children about positive values. Laren lives in Los Angeles with his wife, computer, and two grand-dogs.

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Author Interview: Grace Allison Blair

Part Two

Where did your love of reading come from?

As a child my life was in constant turmoil. Reading gave me an escape to people, places and stories that kept me in a world of my own. My imagination came alive with possibilities.

How long have you been writing?

I am retired after forty years in marketing and business development where I assisted companies with their business objectives. I began writing books when I was laid off in 2001 after 9/11. The world stopped when the towers came crashing down. I asked God what I should do now. The answer I heard was: write your book. I followed my intuition to write my first nonfiction spiritual book, A Dream is a Wish the Heart Makes. Took me two years to write eighty-eight pages.

What does your perfect writing spot look like? Is that what your ACTUAL writing spot looks like?

My perfect spot is where I am sitting. In my home office, sitting behind my computer facing the west side of the house. Pandora radio playing soft music while I touch the keyboard and watch the day go by out my window.

Do you have any strange writing habits or writing rituals you’d like to share with your readers?

In meditation I will ask my characters to speak to me. Then I will wait for them to show up. Sometimes they will come to me in the meditation or in a dream or while I am out running errands.

What do you like to read in your free time?

Historical fiction, spiritual themes in stories, history, biographies.

Who are some of the authors you feel were influential in your work? 

Ken Follett writes historical fiction. I like his style of combing fictional characters in history. Also, James Michener wrote in a similar way. Murasaki, a female Japanese author who wrote the first novel in history, “The Tale of Genji” which cover one hundred years of Japanese history during the tenth century Japan.

What book do you wish you could have written?

I have written the one novel I dreamed to write.

Is there any person(s) you credit for being your inspiration for reading and/or writing?

My husband, John Blair, has been supportive and helpful. We often sit at the kitchen table and discuss the books as they develop. My spiritual teacher, John-Roger, inspired the mystical travelers in Einstein’s Compass and Albert’s travels to Atlantis. My co-author, Laren Bright, has brought his gift of writing that made the story better.

Who would you cast to play your characters in a movie version of your book?

The characters in Einstein’s Compass are nineteenth century German speaking people. Not sure who the actors would be. I do think James Cameron or Steve Spielberg would make good directors for the film of Einstein’s Compass. I have created postcards of each of the main characters with his/her picture and a comment each says in the book.

How important are names to you in Einstein’s Compass? How did you choose names?

The names in Einstein’s Compass were very important. Einstein had to blend with German names of the nineteenth century. The twin characters from Atlantis, Arka and Raka, were ancient names that were mirror images of each other but totally opposite in personality.

Some of the people in EC are real like Albert’s future wife, Mileva Maric. The made-up characters are Johann, Raka, Arka, the Countess, Werner von Wiesel, his teachers, the Thomas family and Pater Benjamin, Atlantis. These created characters are a combination of people I know with an exaggerated personality.

What do your plans for future projects include?

Not sure what I will write next. My time will be focused on marketing Einstein’s Compass. An audiobook is in the pipeline.

Is there one subject you would never write about as an author? What is it?

I would not write a book like 50 Shades of Gray.

If you had a superpower, what would it be?

Disappear when I want to.

If you were a superhero, what would your name be? What costume would you wear?

Grace, just me being me. Wear ordinary clothes. After all no one suspects you’re a superhero if you blend in.

Where is one place you want to visit that you haven't been before?

Japan. I am in love with the ancient, historical Japanese.

If you were an animal in a zoo, what would you be? In four words or less, tell us why.

A furry sea otter. Play, swim, eat, fun.

If you could speak with any accent from anywhere in the world, what would you choose and why?

French. My grandmother was French. I loved the way her words sounded, soft with lots of hand drama.

What’s something interesting, fun, or funny that most people don’t know about you?

On my 50^th birthday I planned and performed a belly dance in a middle eastern restaurant in Dallas. Great fun.

What’s your funniest flaw?

I have mermaid feet. My feet have large bunions that stick out and my feet are flat with the heal being small and the center of my foot being wide. I swim really well.

If you could time travel, what time period would you first visit? 

Atlantis.

Do you have a mantra for writing and/or for life?

Dare to dream, listen to your intuition, be kind, be gentle with yourself and be courageous in your endeavors.

What is something you want to accomplish before you die?

Travel more and have Einstein’s Compass become a movie.

What do you want your tombstone to say?

Grace Blair was a spiritual warrior who served to make a difference to uplift the spirit of mankind.

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FIRST PRIZE: eBook + Einstein’s Compass Cap

SECOND PRIZE: eBook + Einstein socks; THIRD PRIZE: eBook + bookmark

JANUARY 2-11, 2019

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