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All About Anna Karenina: Part 2, ch 28-35 Haikus

Posted By LaurelLit 469 days ago on Writing

https://laurellit.com -   Anna watches Vronsky race, and Alexey is next to her Smile your chilly smile Call me a wicked woman I see only him Anna loses it when Vronsky falls during the race Go, you hateful man. I am Vronsky’s mistress. Stop Being so polite.   Kitty is in Germany, finding herself and making aContinue Reading
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The End of Crows Series By R. A. Lingenfelter – Silver Dagger Book Tours

Posted By Sybrina 402 days ago on Writing

https://sybrina.com - The End of Crows Series By R. A. Lingenfelter - Silver Dagger Book Tours. Genre: YA Fantasy Adventure, SciFi. 2022 READER'S CHOICE INTERNATIONAL GOLD MEDAL WINNER YOUNG ADULT ADVENTURE
FOR FANS OF HUNGER GAMES, DIVERGENT AND MAZE RUNNER COMES A NEW ADVENTURE!

A new twist on modern warfare. 17-year-old Willow Danner holds on tight the one thing the Dominion Government can’t control: her imagination and hope for freedom. She replays the stories her parents have told her when America was free and your life was your own. Her mother and father have been planning on escaping to their hidden faction and are ready to implement the strategy.
Willow shoves down her fear of being caught by the Dominion constables. Trackers are in every person’s jaw, and any display of deviance from the government’s ruling means instant death. Her dreams of living a life of her choosing are stronger than the risk of getting caught.
Once in the free zone, will she be accepted by her new faction, The Crows, or will she find she is still a slave under a different regime?
This is not a game for the weak of spirit, and blood is the currency. Enter Giveaway.

Now There’s Some Competition From Unicorns – New Teaching Tools and Activities To Encourage Your Child’s Interest In Science

Posted By Sybrina 383 days ago on Writing

https://sybrina.com - Now There's Some Competition From Unicorns - New Teaching Tools and Activities To Encourage Your Child's Interest In Science. How Fun Is This? Create Your Own Magical Unicorn Elemental Periodic Table Activity! For year, kids have been creating fun comic book characters to make it easier for them to learn more about the elements of the periodic table. They could either come up with a super hero or a villain to represent their chosen element. Now, there's some competition from UNICORNS! Unicorns are magical and so are the elements of the periodic table. This Create Your Own Magical Unicorn Elemental Activity is based on the 26 unicorns from the “Magical Elements of The Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically By The Metal Horn Unicorns” book. Each unicorn acquaints kids with their own unique elemental magic as well as its amazing everyday uses. Alumna starts things out by introducing the very necessary metal, Aluminum, on her element sheet.  Dr. Zinko rounds out the alphabet by presenting facts and  other fun information about the metal, Zinc, on his.  The Metal Horn Unicorns say, “No Metal – No Magic. . .and No Technology”. The activity is a printable pdf file.

Celebration! First Draft Done!

Posted By LaurelLit 807 days ago on Writing

https://laurellit.com - I’m celebrating! I just finished my first draft of latest novel, MYSTERIES AND MARTINIS. (Last word = fly) Because the online tools I have make it so easy, I composed a fantasy cover & ad. But now the real work begins. On to revisions, queries, and putting myself out there!
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Let Me Introduce You To Sybrina Songs – Run

Posted By Sybrina 482 days ago on Writing

https://sybrina.com - Let Me Introduce You To Sybrina Songs. I've been a singer/songwriter for too many years to count. I never reached fame and fortune but that won't stop me from sharing some of my favorites with you now and again. Enjoy. Run

Murder’s Legacy – A Tori Winters Mystery By Anita Dickason – Lone Star Book Blog Tours

Posted By Sybrina 461 days ago on Writing

https://sybrina.com - Murder's Legacy - A Tori Winters Mystery - Book 2 By Anita Dickason - Lone Star Book Blog Tours. Genres: Mystery / Women Sleuths. Secrets that defy time! An inconceivable disaster brings Tori Winters’s plans for the historic house she inherited to a traumatic standstill. A section of the escape tunnel built by her great-grandfather, a notorious Dallas gangster, has collapsed. Within the rubble, there is a gruesome discovery. A skeleton with a bullet hole in the skull.

The shocking cave-in triggers an ominous scheme to condemn her property as accusations arise that the tunnel is dangerous.

Embattled, Tori soon discovers that more than the destruction of the house is on the line. It seems she can’t escape the
past. It keeps clawing its way into her life with deadly consequences.


Who hides in the shadows with a motive for murder?
And … is Tori the target? Take a look at the book trailer and enter the giveaway.

The Chronicles of Deneb Series By Zanne Raby – Goddess Fish Promotions

Posted By Sybrina 497 days ago on Writing

https://sybrina.com - The Chronicles of Deneb Series By Zanne Raby - Goddess Fish Promotions. GENRE: Science Fiction/Space Opera. The Chronicles of Deneb is a science-fiction/ space opera series set in the near future. The year is 2080 CE. The world is dying. Get ready to travel into the future to a time when nothing is certain.   In THE FLIGHT OF THE MAYFLOWER, the first novel in The Chronicles of Deneb, Dr. Daniel Radu – project manager for NASA’s Space Ark Mayflower – uncovers a global conspiracy of immense proportions.

Teen, YA or Older Reader Unicorn Book Feature – Unicorn Magic: A Feyland Scottish Gamelit Tale (The Celtic Fey Book 1) by Roz Marshall 

Posted By Sybrina 455 days ago on Writing

https://sybrina.com - Teen, YA or Older Reader Unicorn Book Feature -A Feyland Scottish Gamelit Tale (The Celtic Fey Book 1) by Roz Marshall 

May 7th, 2023 – Sybrina’s Unicorn Book Store Newsletter

Posted By Sybrina 368 days ago on Writing

https://sybrina.com - May 7th, 2023 - Sybrina's Unicorn Book Store Newsletter - Read the newsletter now to learn about Little Kid Book Pick - Princess Evie's Ponies - Diamond and the Magic Unicorn By Sarah Kilbride with Illustrations By Sophie Tilley, Middle Kid Book Pick - Otuna's Flute By Maricar Banguis, Teen/ YA Book Pick - The Well of the Unicorn By Fletcher Pratt and A Sophie Mae Adventure - The Most Spectauclar Traveling Box By Mason Bell

The Swimmer: Analysis and Study Questions

Posted By LaurelLit 835 days ago on Writing

https://laurellit.com - In Neddy, John Cheever created a truly delusional man who suffers from selective amnesia while he imagines himself to be great. Neddy lives in what should be a suburban paradise, but in the superficial McCarthy-era world of deceit, materialism, and broken promises, nothing is as Neddy wants to believe it is. Even the weather eludesContinue Reading
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Women Writer Quotes: Joyce Carol Oates

Posted By LaurelLit 756 days ago on Writing

https://laurellit.com - Joyce Carol Oates wrote “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been” back in 1966. Apparently the story was inspired by a Life Magazine article serial killer Charles Schmid, known as the Pied Piper of Tucson. Oates depicts a young girl who is both simultaneously terrorized and seduced by a magnetic man who is possibly theContinue Reading
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Locksmith’s War – The Locksmith Trilogy Book Three by Paul Briggs – Goddess Fish Promotions

Posted By Sybrina 594 days ago on Writing

https://sybrina.com - Locksmith's War The Locksmith Trilogy Book Three by Paul Briggs - Goddess Fish Promotions. GENRE: YA Sci-fi (Young Adult, Science Fiction). For Lachlan Smith, learning the secret of the apocalypse was the easy part.

Ever since Locksmith found the portal to the future, he has been wondering who or what was responsible for the empty, uninhabited world he found.

Now he knows—and now he has to fight them.

He thought he had fifteen years in which to prevent the extinction of the human species. Now, he has only hours.

English Teacher Humor: Funny Grammar Memes

Posted By LaurelLit 575 days ago on Writing

https://laurellit.com - If you’re an English teacher (or just a grammar geek), then you will get the humor of the memes below. Disclaimer: I didn’t come up with any of these. But I recreated most of them as files you can copy and share. Enjoy!              
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The Aquamarine Surfboard By Kellye Abernathy – Lone Star Book Blog Tours

Posted By Sybrina 531 days ago on Writing

https://sybrina.com - The Aquamarine Surfboard By Kellye Abernathy - Lone Star Book Blog Tours. Genre: Middle Grade / Magical Realism / Fantasy. Ebbing and flowing between reality and magic, times past and present, The Aquamarine Surfboard by Kellye Abernathy is a riveting beach tale about opening up to mystery, building community when and where you can — and discovering the ocean is filled with magic—the really BIG kind—the kind that changes the world. Enter Giveaway.

The Blurry Line Between Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre

Posted By LaurelLit 402 days ago on Writing

https://laurellit.com - Late last month, my short story, “You and Jane” was published by Abandon Journal. It’s about a modern-day, parallel universe Charlotte Bronte who’s receiving genetic counseling, and she must reckon with grief and the deaths of all her siblings and her mother. I know that doesn’t sound like a barrel of laughs, but the pieceContinue Reading
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