Showing posts with label Margo Bond Collins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margo Bond Collins. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Saturday's Blurbs featuring books by Margo Bond Collins #MFRWauthor

Margo Bond Collins is the author of urban fantasy, contemporary romance, and paranormal mysteries. She has published a number of novels, including Sanguinary, Taming the Country Star, Legally Undead, Waking Up Dead, and Fairy, Texas. She lives in Texas with her husband, their daughter, and several spoiled pets. Although writing fiction is her first love, she also teaches college-level English courses online. She enjoys reading romance and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about heroes, monsters, cowboys, and villains, and the strong women who love them—and sometimes fight them.




Day 2
For this day, send me the blurbs of books you have available. Not them all since there are some of us who have many books, but if you write in several genres or subgenres, send one. Include the buy links so people can find your books. Limit this to five or six blurbs.
           
Sanguinary Blurb:

Only fifty years left before vampires rule the world.

When Dallas police detective Cami Davis joined the city's vampire unit, she planned to use the job as a stepping-stone to a better position in the department.

But she didn't know then what she knows now: there's a silent war raging between humans and vampires, and the vampires are winning.

So with the help of a disaffected vampire and an ex-cop addict, Cami is going undercover, determined to solve a series of recent murders, discover a way to overthrow the local Sanguinary government, and, in the process, help win the war for the human race.

But can she maintain her own humanity in the process? Or will Cami find herself, along with the rest of the world, pulled under a darkness she cannot oppose?





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Bound by Blood Blurb:

Sometimes the monsters in the dark are real...

As a child, Lili Banta ignored her grandmother's cryptic warnings to avoid children outside their Filipino community in Houston. When many of those other children fell ill, Lili ignored the whispers in her community that a vampiric aswang walked among them.

Years later, Lili returns to Houston to work for the Quarantine Station of the Center for Disease Control—but she is plagued by dark, bloody dreams that consume her nights and haunt her days. When a strange illness attacks the city's children, Lili is called in to find its source, and maybe even a cure.

But in order to save the city, she must first acknowledge the sinister truth: A monster stalks the night—closer than she ever expected....

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Waking Up Dead Blurb:

She expected heaven or hell. She got Alabama.

When Dallas resident Callie Taylor died young, she expected to go to heaven, or maybe hell. Instead, when she met her fate early thanks to a creep with a knife and a mommy complex, she went to Alabama. Now she's witnessed another murder, and she's not about to let this one go. She's determined to help solve it before an innocent man goes to prison. And to answer the biggest question of all: why the hell did she wake up dead in Alabama?


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Legally Undead Blurb:
A reluctant vampire hunter, stalking New York City as only a scorned bride can.

Elle Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her Ph.D., then swank faculty parties where she’ll serve wine and cheese and introduce people to her husband the lawyer.

But those plans disintegrate when she walks in on a vampire draining the blood from her fiancé Greg. Horrified, she screams and runs--not away from the vampire, but toward it, brandishing a wooden letter opener.

As she slams the improvised stake into the vampire’s heart, a team of black-clad men bursts into the apartment. Turning around to face them, Elle discovers that Greg’s body is gone—and her perfect life falls apart.


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Taming the Country Star Blurb:

He'll do anything to win her heart. She'll do anything to keep him away.

Country star Cole Grayson is in town, and Kylie Andrews is less than thrilled. As if months of changing the radio station and tearing down his posters weren’t bad enough, now she has to deal with a town of fans swarming toward the man who deceived her the year before. But when Kylie’s eyes meet Cole’s again, she can’t deny the electric chemistry that drew her to him the first time around.

Cole Grayson is on a mission. Ever since Kylie left him, he hasn’t been able to forget her sweet country smile. After writing a song just for her, he sets off for her hometown to prove he’s not the player she thinks he is. But as much as Cole can’t forget her, Kylie wonders if she can forgive him…

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Friday, February 27, 2015

Friday with Margo Bond Collins talking about Heroes, Heroines and Villains #MFRWauthor

1. Do you write a single genre or do your fingers flow over the keys creating tales in many forms? Does your reading choices reflect your writing choices? Are there genres you wouldn’t attempt?

I write in several genres: urban fantasy, contemporary romance, and paranormal mystery are some of my favorites. I write the kinds of things I love to read—and since I read almost everything, I'm willing to write in whatever genre the story requires.


2. Heroes, Heroines, Villains. Which are your favorite to write? Does one of these come easy and why?

As a general rule, whichever character I'm writing at the moment is my very favorite ever! I think it's probably a little easier to get inside my heroines' heads, but I love the practice of getting inside my heroes' minds, as well. And the villains? They're so lovely and twisted!

3. Heroes. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or plain imagination create the man you want every reader to love? Do they come before the plot or after you have the idea for the story?

I tend to start with characters, and then move out from there, so my heroes start out pretty well formed. I rarely use pictures before I find a hero, though I love casting him afterwards, even if it's sometimes difficult to find a man who lives up to my imagination.

4. Heroines. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or imagination create the woman you want the reader to root for? Do they appear before the plot or after you have the idea for the story?

Like my heroes, my heroines are generally the motivator for the plot—their experiences help move the story along—and I start out with a pretty good idea of who they are before the story ever begins.

5. Villains or villainesses or an antagonist, since they don’t always have to be the bad guy or girl. They can be a person opposed to the hero’s or heroine’s obtaining their goal. How do you choose one? How do you make them human?

The easiest way to create a villain is to get inside his or her head—what does the villain want? need? What's his motivation? It's easy to create the "Scooby Doo" villain, the kind who does evil because the plot needs it. But the best villains are the ones who truly believe that they are doing what is best for everyone. The most compelling villains act out of their convictions, so I try to capture that.

6. What is your latest release? Who is the hero, heroine and or the villain?

My latest release is Bound by Blood, a companion novella to Sanguinary. In this book, the heroine is Dr. Lili Banta, a CDC doctor who has been called in by her ex-boyfriend Will Manning to help diagnose a recent outbreak of a strange disease among some children in Houston, Texas. In some ways, the villain is the disease itself—but as it turns out, there's more than one villain in this tale . . .


7. What are you working on now?

I'm currently working on several projects, but the next definitely scheduled release is Siren's Kiss, due out Summer 2015 as part of the Falling In Deep Collection. You can learn more about it here: http://blogspot.us3.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=8ae431fce81ae0c6e413479e2&id=deb5f94a25

I'm also working on a number of sequels this year, including sequels to Waking Up Dead, Legally Undead, and the Hometown Heroes series.


8. How can people find you?
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MargoBondCollin  @MargoBondCollin
Goodreads Author Page: http://www.goodreads.com/vampirarchy