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Maria Lima

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/MariaLima

born

September 04, 1958 in Matanzas, Cuba

gender

female

website

http://www.marialima.com

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction

influences

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

member since

January 2010

About this author

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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

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Maria Lima's Blog

It’s not about winning or losing, it’s how you play the game

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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Books by Maria Lima

Average rating: 3.67 · 1,168 ratings · 161 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Matters Of The Blood (Blood Lines #1) 3.53 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Blood Bargain (Blood Lines, #2) 3.65 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Blood Kin (Blood Lines #3) 3.66 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Blood Heat (Blood Lines #4) 3.70 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Blood Sacrifice (Blood Lines #5) 4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Butler Didn't Do It 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Whedonistas!: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Deborah Stanish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Taste of True Blood: The Fangbanger's Guide by Jacob Clifton (Editor), Ginjer Buchanan (Contributor), Maria Lima (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Series by Maria Lima

Blood Lines (5 books)
by Maria Lima (Goodreads Author)

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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Maria Lima is now friends with Mary Hart Perry
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Maria Lima gave to: Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins	My rating:
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Maria Lima gave to: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins	My rating:
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Maria Lima gave to: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins	My rating:
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Maria Lima gave to: Spirit Dances (Walker Papers, #6) by C.E. Murphy (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Maria Lima gave to: The Mermaid's Madness (Princess, #2) by Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Maria Lima gave to: Red Hood's Revenge (Princess, #3) by Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Maria Lima gave to: Sleeping Beauty by Elle Lothlorien (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Maria Lima gave to: Bonds of Earth by G.N. Chevalier (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Quotes by Maria Lima

“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

tags: blood-bargain

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“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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Quotes Maria Likes

“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

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“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

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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational , sci-fi , vorkosigan

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