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Nancy A. Collins

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in McGehee, Arkansas, The United States

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http://truesonjablue.blogspot.com/

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Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

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Nancy A. Collins (born 10 September 1959) is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has also written for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs. Leatherface, Predator: Hell Come A Walkin and her own one-shot Dhampire: Stillborn.

Collins was born in McGehee, Arkansas, United States. She lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s; after time in New York City and Atlanta, Georgia she settled in Wilmington, North Carolina in the late 2000s.

Collins has written twenty novels since 1989, many of which refer to and directly include races of creatures the author calls Pretenders, monsters from myth and legend passing as human to better hunt their ...more

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The Yuletide Spirit: A Golgotham Christmas Story

The Yuletide Spirit:A Golgotham Christmas StoryBy Nancy A. CollinsAs I looked around at the jammed aisles full of determined shoppers, human and otherwise, I wondered what could have possessed me to sally forth the day after Thanksgiving to try and buy gifts for my nearest and dearest. And Scratch. The Fly Market, the largest open-air bazaar in Golgotham, was a buzzing honeycomb of cross-species Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.84 · 38,715 ratings · 2,649 reviews · 335 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sunglasses After Dark (Sonja Blue, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 3,012 ratings — published 1989 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vamps (Vamps, #1) 3.56 avg rating — 3,073 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Life (Vamps, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 1,699 ratings — published 2009 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight Blue: Sonja Blue Collection 4.22 avg rating — 1,418 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right Hand Magic (Golgotham, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 1,472 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dozen Black Roses (Sonja Blue, #4) 3.94 avg rating — 1,085 ratings — published 1996 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Dark (Vamps, #3) 3.70 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Blood (Sonja Blue, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 934 ratings — published 1992 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paint it Black (Sonja Blue, #3) 4.06 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Love by Nancy A. Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Edward E. Kramer, Martin H. Greenberg 3.70 avg rating — 756 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Nancy A. Collins

Sonja Blue (6 books)
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Vamps (3 books)
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3.64 avg rating — 5,925 ratings

Golgotham (3 books)
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3.70 avg rating — 2,543 ratings

Vampirella 2014 (10 books)
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Nancy A. Collins (Goodreads Author),

Patrick Berkenkotter (Illustrator)

3.53 avg rating — 307 ratings

Blade Runner: Black Lotus (4 books)
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Nancy A. Collins (Goodreads Author),

Enid Balám (Artist),

Marco Lesko (Colorist)

3.39 avg rating — 241 ratings

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

by L. Frank Baum

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Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers

by Alfred Hitchcock

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Quotes by Nancy A. Collins (?)

“... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.”
― Nancy A. Collins

tags: devil, sonja-blue

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“Sleep: the stepchild of Death.”
― Nancy A. Collins, In the Blood

tags: death, sleep, sonja-blue

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“She knew that the only love her demon was capable of was self-destructive, cruel, vampiric, parasitic, and all the other words her best friends had used to describe Jerry, Alec, Christian, Matt, and the others whose names, faces, and genitalia had now blurred together in her memories. They were men incapable of love yet able to inspire suicide threats.”
― Nancy A. Collins, Demonlover

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Polls

Time to pick our April Book of the Month.

Which 2011 second-in-series release would you like to read in April?

* Book #1 was a previous BOM winner.

Hexed (Iron Druid Chronicles, #2) by Kevin Hearne

Hexed by Kevin Hearne
(#1 ~ 9/2011 BOM)

7 votes, 30.4%

Trial by Fire (Raised by Wolves, #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Trial by Fire by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
(#1 ~ 9/2010 BOM)

5 votes, 21.7%

Heart of Steel (Iron Seas, #2) by Meljean Brook

Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook
(#1 ~ 8/2011 BOM)

4 votes, 17.4%

Black Night (Madeline Black, #2) by Christina Henry

Black Night by Christina Henry
(#1 ~ 1/2011 BOM)

3 votes, 13.0%

Black Heart Loa (Hoodoo, #2) by Adrian Phoenix

Black Heart Loa by Adrian Phoenix
(#1 ~ 8/2010 BOM)

1 vote, 4.3%

Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2) by Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
(#1 ~ 10/2010 BOM)

1 vote, 4.3%

Left Hand Magic (Golgotham, #2) by Nancy A. Collins

Left Hand Magic by Nancy A. Collins
(#1 ~ 2/2011 BOM)

1 vote, 4.3%

Flesh and Blood (House of Comarré, #2) by Kristen Painter

Flesh and Blood by Kristen Painter
(#1 ~ 2/2012 BOM)

1 vote, 4.3%

23 total votes

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“Sleep: the stepchild of Death.”
― Nancy A. Collins, In the Blood

tags: death, sleep, sonja-blue

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“... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.”
― Nancy A. Collins

tags: devil, sonja-blue

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message 5: by Nancy

Jun 07, 2012 12:36PM

Louise wrote: "TY for accepting my friend request!! only one thing to say MORE SONJA BLUE PLEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ :0"

Don't worry. I've got her on my schedule. :)

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message 4: by Mary

Jun 07, 2012 04:26AM