Maria Lima





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Maria Lima

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September 04, 1958 in Matanzas, Cuba

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Tanya Huff, Charles deLint, Neil Gaiman, Jim Butcher, Joss Whedon

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January 2010


About this author

I write dead people...no really.

I'm a writing geek with one foot in the real world and the other in the make-believe.

Sometime before the Revolution, I was born in Matanzas, Cuba, to a family of voracious readers and would-be writers.

In 1961, when it was clear that the situation wasn't going to change, my family emigrated to the United States, where I then discovered the magic of books...loads of books. Starting with the public library, followed by the Scholastic book sales in elementary school, then on from there.

As a child, storytelling was part of our family dinner hour, when my father, who dreamt of becoming a writer, spoke of heroes, heroines and battles royale. In this was mixed a love of both fictional and non-fictional worlds, of his...more


John Scalzi wrote an awesome post entitled:Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is.


I highly recommend you read it – including the 800 comments.


Scalzi’s post struck a strong chord in me (who, according to his game metaphor got the hardcore setting, thanks to being female, Latina, queer).


I find it fascinating and not a little disheartening to see the same old “stop blaming me”...

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Average rating: 3.67 · 1,168 ratings · 161 reviews · 8 distinct works
Matters Of The Blood (Blood...
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
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Blood Bargain (Blood Lines,...
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Blood Kin (Blood Lines #3)
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Blood Heat (Blood Lines #4)
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Blood Sacrifice (Blood Line...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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The Butler Didn't Do It
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More books by Maria Lima…
Matters Of The Blood Blood Bargain Blood Kin Blood Heat Blood Sacrifice
Blood Lines (5 books)
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3.6449480642115204 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 1,059 ratings

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October 2009, Maria Lima
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? ML: Crazy, mixed-up, conglomeration of all sorts of things. What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describe perfect happiness? ML: The time and means to be able to write fulltim..." ...More

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“Dear Abby,
My boyfriend won't suck my blood. I've offered, I've cajoled. I've even begged, even though begging is totally humiliating and degrading because I'm so afraid that if he doesn't, he's going to die. Oh, and did I mention he's a vampire? No, really, the undead kind.

Signed,
Confused in Texas.


Dear Confused:
What the Fuck!?”
Maria Lima, Blood Bargain

“At the place where they sleep, the melody sneaks inside, touching flesh, skin, mind and thought, some feelings turning to love and beauty, others to
hatred and fear. Dreams turn on a quarter note, a semiquaver, a vibrato unheard by any still living, by any mortal being.”
Maria Lima

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“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.”
Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
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message 4: by Kris

Kris Neri Good to connect with you, Maria. Thanks for the add.


Cheryl Landmark Thanks for accepting my friend request, Maria. I'm looking forward to reading "Matters of the Blood".


Sangria3 Thanks for your friendship, Maria! :D


message 1: by Beth

Beth Hi Maria,
Thanks for befriending this fellow Goodreads author!


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