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Unicorn Productions


Publisher info

Unicorn Productions was born in the late 1990s to publish the graphic novels and one-shot comics by Barbara G.Tarn.
Those photocopied zines with the unicorn logo are now out of print, so the dozen lucky readers who have them might one day get rich.
Now the imprint is alive again thanks to new technology. It's slowly expanding to other authors and genres... except it's still the same person writing the stories!
Barbara G.Tarn writes fantasy and some sci-fi
B.G.Hope writes contemporary fiction including M/M romance
Barbara Sangiorgio is for the stories set in Italy that would get lost in translation.
Three pen-names for a prolific writer

Where to find Unicorn Productions online

Website: http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com
Facebook: Facebook profile
Blog: http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com

Where to buy in print

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Barb65

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Johnny & Marian    by B.G. Hope
Price: $2.99 USD. 27410 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on May 22, 2012. .
Marian doesn't love herself enough. Johnny loves himself too much. When a spell switches their places, one is upset, the other overjoyed. Being someone else can't be that hard. Or is it?
Racconti di Famiglia    by Barbara Sangiorgio
Price: $4.99 USD. 66000 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on May 9, 2012. .
Tre fratelli cresciuti all'estero e con madre straniera tornano in Italia alla fine degli anni 70. Istantanee della loro vita dall'adolescenza all'età adulta. Un romanzo a episodi con la storia di Beniamino, Marilena e Ludovico nell'Italia della fine del secolo scorso.
Obsession    by B.G. Hope
Price: $2.99 USD. 13030 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on April 24, 2012. .
Two brothers in love with the same woman. Tragedy looms. *Bonus story* The Photographer A modern fairy tale involving top models and photographers.
Gianluca    by Barbara Sangiorgio
Price: $2.99 USD. 8700 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on April 10, 2012. .
Mare, sole, vacanze... e il Misterioso Qualcuno! 2x1 - racconto extra Fragolino un vino come una pozione magica
Chronicles of the Varian Empire - The Left-handed Warrior    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $3.99 USD. 43470 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on April 1, 2012. .
(5.00)
The struggle between Humans and Genn gets vicious. Orphaned by Human bandits, adopted by Genn, seeking revenge and becoming a warrior under a not-so-accomodating Emperor. Especially if you refuse to serve him to side with the Genn.
Legacy    by B.G. Hope
Price: $2.99 USD. 12120 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on March 27, 2012. .
A dying man leaves a small apartment and his son to his lover. A dying man leaves a small apartment and his son to his lover. BONUS STORY Love & Prejudice He's rich, she's not. Just another Cinderella story. A modern fairy tale.
Sanctuary    by Barbara Sangiorgio
Price: $0.99 USD. 2850 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on March 12, 2012. .
Una scrittrice di successo, uno spasimante molto più giovane... riuscirà a penetrare il santuario che lei si è costruita?
Allan de Sayek    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $2.99 USD. 18150 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on March 6, 2012. .
A forbidden love. A marriage of interest. A second chance. An endless love only death can end.
A Bloody Story of Vampires    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $0.99 USD. 1860 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on February 28, 2012. .
Halloween - can the vampire be the real deal? Two good friends are in for the strangest Halloween of their life - and its aftermath.
Love&Prejudice    by B.G. Hope
Price: $2.99 USD. 12150 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on February 14, 2012. .
He's rich, she's not. Just another Cinderella story. BONUS STORY Legacy A dying man leaves a small apartment and his son to his lover. A m/m romance.
Books of the Immortals - Prequels    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: Free! 16820 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on February 14, 2012. .
Welcome to Silvery Earth. This collection of shorts is an introduction to longer works.
Chonicles of the Varian Empire - The Spell    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $3.99 USD. 46190 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on January 31, 2012. .
Get on the wrong side of a powerful magic user and face the consequences. A spell sends him 100 years in the future. With no way back. Adapt or die. Living in the future - heaven or hell? With an embarrassingly adoring guide life can't be easy.
The Photographer    by B.G. Hope
Price: $2.99 USD. 13030 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on January 19, 2012. .
A modern fairy tale involving top models and photographers. BONUS STORY Obsession Two brothers in love with the same woman. Tragedy looms. A love story.
Compagni di Scuola    by Barbara Sangiorgio
Price: $1.99 USD. 10320 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on January 5, 2012. .
cotte liceali che si trasformano in amori più permanenti nella Roma anni 80 e 90, tra Expocartoon e gli eventi del circolo Mario Mieli.
Books of the Immortals - Earth    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $4.99 USD. 88250 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on November 30, 2011. .
500 years later – has the magic all vanished? In the last Book of the Immortals the Magical Races are gone. Can Humans deal with the loss? An actress turned journalist. The legitimized bastard son of a nobleman. A mercenary turned police woman. A runaway prince turned courtesan. Outsiders and witnesses of a hot summer of mysterious royal murders. Silvery Earth faces its future without magic.
Storie di Neve    by Barbara Sangiorgio
Price: $4.99 USD. 39330 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on November 6, 2011. .
Storia di una donna di oggi attraverso le sue settimane bianche tra il 1983 e il 2005. L'evoluzione di usi e costumi italici a cavallo di due millenni!
Fragolino    by Barbara Sangiorgio
Price: $2.99 USD. 8690 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on November 6, 2011. .
Un vino come pozione magica... 2x1 - racconto extra! Gianluca Mare, sole, vacanze... e il Misterioso Qualcuno!
Best of Friends    by B.G. Hope
Price: $0.99 USD. 3180 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on November 6, 2011. .
High school friends start a band. The way to fame looks easy.
Tales of the Southern Kingdoms - volume 2    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $4.99 USD. 52380 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on November 6, 2011. .
War. Love. Passion. The fall of the southern kingdoms.
Tales of the Southern Kingdoms - volume 1    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $2.99 USD. 30890 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on November 6, 2011. .
Sex. Lust. Blood. The power of the Sect. Darkness spreads to the southern kingdoms.
Conall's Sons    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $0.99 USD. 12470 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on October 21, 2011. .
(5.00)
Half-bloods: Human or not? Feel more the Magical Races blood or the Human? Underwater or on the mainland, each of Conall's sons follows his own path.
Books of the Immortals - Ether    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $4.99 USD. 74930 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on October 5, 2011. .
Healer. Magic user. Victim. A natural non-human magic user against a minion of a Pond of Dark Magic. The struggle for power between Humans and Genn is only at the beginning.
Soul Stealers    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $2.99 USD. 29970 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on September 1, 2011. .
(3.00)
What if your favorite virtual star became a flesh and blood man? In a seemingly idyllic future, virtual director Beth Golden prefers the company of holograms to real people. Someone on Earth with a secret agenda forces her to face the real deal.
Books of the Immortals - Water    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $4.99 USD. 87820 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on August 1, 2011. .
Kiss a goddess. Become invulnerable to everything. Love. Feelings. Even death. Can you ever feel human again?
Books of the Immortals - Fire    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $4.99 USD. 82250 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on June 13, 2011. .
(4.00)
A half-blood warrior fails to prevent an ambush. Hit by an enemy spell, he sleeps for a century. He wakes up in a future where he doesn't belong. He made a mistake. Now he must find a way to undo history to fix it.
The Orphans    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $0.99 USD. 7980 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on May 27, 2011. .
A gang of street teens finds more trouble than they can handle when they leave their hometown to hide in the jungle only to meet the Sect and their Bloodthirsty Goddess.
Jessamine (graphic novel)    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: Free! 170 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on May 26, 2011. .
(5.00)
The beginning of the namesake novella with drawings.
Arquon (2 Tales of the Southern Kingdoms)    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $0.99 USD. 13540 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on May 24, 2011. .
(5.00)
The Sect, or how a religious minority became the powerful Sect using a Pond of Dark Magic. The Slave, or the story of the last real king of Arquon. Two stories set in the Kingdom of Arquon 25 to 20 years before Books of the Immortals - Air
Lady Ice    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: Free! 190 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on May 22, 2011. .
0.5 star(3.50)
A love story between a widower and a woman who thought she was too icy to fall in love again.
The Dancer    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $0.99 USD. 5570 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on May 17, 2011. .
Five years have passed since the end of Air... do not read if you liked the ending of the novel!
Books of the Immortals - Air    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $4.99 USD. 86640 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on March 31, 2011. .
0.75 star(4.67)
Welcome to Silvery Earth. Winged beings, water people, shape-shifting dragons and an Immortal mingle with Humans as they try to find their place in the world and someone to love. Add an adventurer, a sculptor, a winged being, a foreign soldier, a princess and a sorceress in a gripping story of bitterness and love, darkness and light. Adult fantasy with mild sex and violence.
Tarun    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: $0.99 USD. 4270 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on March 14, 2011. .
Welcome to Silvery Earth, where the only magic available to Humans is that of the Ponds of Dark Magic. Prince Tarun is a victim in the struggle of power between the Black Dame and her master. For the Sect, sex is one of the ways of gaining power - lust, not love.
Starblazer    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: Free! 4520 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on March 5, 2011. .
(4.00)
Welcome to Silvery Earth, where the Magical Races reign. Meet a Fajrulo and a Sila, and the Humans who cross their path... a short story.
Jessamine    by Barbara G.Tarn
Price: Free! 12810 words. Published by Unicorn Productions  on January 8, 2011. .
In the fantasy world of Silvery Earth, a young queen has to learn the hard way how to live and reign. This is the story of Queen Jessamine, from her Rite night at fourteen to war and exile, prisoner of a foreign king, to her comeback to her home country some thirteen years later. Not much magic, but not our planet anyway. Adult readers for mild sex and violence.


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Smashwords book reviews by Unicorn Productions

  • The Black God's War: A Novella Introducing a New Epic Fantasy on Sep. 11, 2010
    star star star star star
    A good taste of a bigger tale for all epic fantasy lovers out there.
  • Twenty-Somewhere on Dec. 12, 2010
    star star star star star
    I've long forgotten my 20s and I'm Italian (therefore with a different educational background, even from England), but I really enjoyed this story. It's witty, funny and dramatic at the same time. The characters are very real to me, even if I'm a foreigner and could be their mum. I look forward to read more about Sophie, Claudia and MJ!
  • 101 Tips for Traveling with a Vampire on Feb. 22, 2011
    star star star star star
    Very funny and highly entertaining, with some real travel tips thrown in - will have to keep this until the day I meet Louis de Pointe du Lac (Hollywood version, please)! Great job - must check the novels and will ASAP!
  • The Amazing Transformation of Wicca Dog on March 14, 2011
    star star star star star
    Lovely and original take on werewolves (from someone who isn't really a werewolves lover) :-)
  • Wandering Koala meets the Beast who came for Christmas 1 of 3 on May 21, 2011
    star star star star star
    cool comic (an special thanks to the author for the article on "I love Smashwords")
  • Wandering Koala rides The Phantom Coach comic 1 on May 21, 2011
    star star star star star
    I like the mute protagonist! :-)
  • The Bones of the Sea on May 23, 2011
    star star star star star
    A very captivating sci-fi tale on how humans tend to destroy everything in their wake. If you had to face the protagonist's situation, what would YOU do?
  • Shades of Gray on June 23, 2011
    star star star star star
    OK, first of all, I'm not a fan of vampires and I'm stuck to Ann Rice's first 3 books (and I prefer the movie of Interview anyway, but I read also the Vampire Lestat and Queen of Darkness, then I had enough of the gore and quit). BUT Katelina's "voice" is so strong and funny (and in third person, yay!) that I really rushed through this. The right amount of gore, sex and humor, so to speak. And I look forward to start the second book of the series and all the short stories I skipped so far.
  • Legacy of Ghosts on July 21, 2011
    star star star star star
    it's good to be back in this world, even if Katelina is sometimes annoyingly stupid... but then, no conflict/wrong choices/stupid reactions, no story, right? Looking forward to the third book...
  • Cigs, Bolan & Strange Men with Guns on Aug. 09, 2011
    star star star star star
    a fast and entertaining read. Looking forward to more!
  • Alien Abduction on Sep. 19, 2011
    star star star star
    5 star story with 3 star execution. Lots of head hopping and omniscient narrator (which isn't necessarily bad, but needs some getting used to), and lots of indirect speech. The story is told more than shown and sometimes the repetitions slow down the action. I have very mixed feelings about this, I admit it! I liked the story, but those huge blocks of text made it for a slow read... do I want more? Maybe. Yeah, I guess I want to know what's next. But I'm not in a rush.
  • Ties of Blood on Sep. 25, 2011
    star star star star star
    It's good to be back in this world. It's bad it's not the last book and the happily ever after seems so far away. I KNOW the next thing on Jorick and Katelina's schedule won't go as smoothly as they plan! And I'll have to wait until next year? Yikes! That's torturing your readers! Anyway, another dose of fun AND gore with the right amount of sex and action was very welcome... Did I mention that Jorick has become my favorite vampire? And I have mixed feelings about the newcomer, red-headed Verchiel... much like Katelina!
  • The 4 Types of Artists – Starving, Dying, Dead, and Rich! on Sep. 26, 2011
    star star star star star
    Absolutely love the Mighty Caricaturist - and if she feels like Hulk, I'll kindly remind her she's more like a She-Hulk (i.e. she has a brain)! Way to go, Shafali! We want more!
  • The 5 P's of Creativity on Sep. 26, 2011
    star star star star star
    Can't stick to those even if I'm "part-time" artist, but it's lovely... Will be waiting for more Shafali fun!
  • Coming Home (Dicky's Story) on Oct. 06, 2011
    star star star star star
    A very funny and inspirational story. I usually don't like first person narration, but this was another exception - the witty (male) protagonist captured me from the very beginning and I couldn't let the book down. Having Jewish friends and in spite of being very bad at maths, I figured out it's set in the 23rd century - but it's a very different century from Star Trek! ;-) A post-apocalyptic Earth and those Black Coats that reminded me of A stranger among us - underground. I recommend it to anyone who wants an uplifting love-story, regardless of his/her religion. Oh, but it's a sci-fi romance, so no hardcore sci-fi fans! ;-)
  • Cowboy Comes Calling on Oct. 09, 2011
    star star star star star
    quick and hot indeed! :-)
  • Think Like a Publisher on Oct. 09, 2011
    star star star star star
    a must for every indie author. Yes, it's free on Dean's blog, but like Krista says, it's good to have it in one place for reference! :-)
  • Doodling on Oct. 24, 2011
    star star star star star
    this fast and funny satire reminded me of the Little Prince (although I read it many many years ago, but the traveling through planets or asteroids is similar) AND the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. A very enjoyable read.
  • Black Market Romance: Three Love Stories from the Draconian Underworld on Oct. 27, 2011
    star star star star
    Hot and sexy... albeit very unusual! My favorite is the first story. I had trouble reading da sista, but it's just me...
  • The Glendale Witch on Oct. 29, 2011
    star star star star star
    I'm not really in the target audience for this book, but it is well written and fast paced and with some underlying humor (unless it's the cynical adult me who saw it). Recommended for all YA readers, but mostly girls. Ever wanted to be a witch? This is the book for ya!
  • The Other Slipper on Feb. 20, 2012
    star star star star star
    A Cinderella spinoff or at least another take on the glass slippers story. A funny and entertaining mission where not everything is as expected - quite the opposite! For fairy tales and fantasy lovers of all ages.
  • In My Shoes on March 18, 2012
    star star star star
    I won this book in a giveaway, which means I might have not put it on my TBR list, but I enjoyed it nevertheless - in spite of not being the target audience. It's a fun read, the only critique I have is the use of first person but from two characters point of view, which sometimes makes it hard to understand who's talking until a few paragraphs in the chapter as both characters sound the same. It's a great body swap story, though, and I'm glad I had the chance to read it!
  • Two People Having Sex (An Erotic Parody) on March 27, 2012
    star star star star star
    It’s brilliant and funny! It’s also very short, so really, give it a shot – I love parodies when they’re well done!
  • The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success on May 05, 2012
    star star star star star
    A must for all indie authors - even those who are already aware of those "secrets". There's no one way for everyone, but it all starts with one Great Book. And another. And another. Fair companion to the Marketing Guide by the same author.
  • Masked Identities on May 24, 2012
    star star star
    probably because I'm not American, I couldn't relate to the main story, but I loved the Victorian London parts. I wish Sebastian and Ambrose's story was the main and only story... but now I'm going to check other books by this author!