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Featured Author from the 2nd - 8th of October
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I'll be doing my blog feature for you and your book with photos, blurb and links to buy. Will be putting a message up on Twitter and Google Plus when the feature is finished. Congratulations! Books sound good!
Please send blurb, bio, cover, author photo, and links to lil87blue@hotmail.com for a feature on my blog.
I've posted Margo's link on my Facebook Fan page and my blog. Good Luck Margo hope your hits go through the roof!
Here is my finished feature which will be shared on Google Plus:http://chucklesbookcave.blogspot.co.u...
Congrats Margo.I have posted an author spotlight on my website, and will tweet.
http://whcann.co.uk/author-spotlight-...
http://whcann.wordpress.com/2013/10/0...
W.H.
Hi Margo, I blasted your book out on Twitter and f/b, good luck!Kate
I am so very excited! Thanks, everyone! Waking Up Dead will be released on October 8; I'm having a Facebook release party from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. that evening: https://www.facebook.com/events/34780...
At the release party, I will be giving away tons of free books; my fellow authors have been incredibly generous! I also have Waking Up Dead swag packs and some additional swag from my publishers. Everyone is invited!
I will be answering individual messages in just a moment, but I wanted to let you all know how much I appreciate this!
Cheers~
Margo Bond Collins
Note that the FB party is 6-9 p.m. CST (clearly I was too excited to include all the details!).~MBC
Margo wrote: "I am so very excited! Thanks, everyone!
Waking Up Dead will be released on October 8; I'm having a Facebook release party from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. that evening: https://www.facebook.com/events/347803..."
WOW! Thanks so much!Aoife wrote: "The featured author for the 2-8 of October is Margo Bond Collins. Congrats. :)
Here is her link: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/..."
Thanks so much! I will post on FB and twitter with links!Margo
chucklesthescot wrote: "I'll be doing my blog feature for you and your book with photos, blurb and links to buy. Will be putting a message up on Twitter and Google Plus when the feature is finished. Congratulations! Books..."
Kyra: Absolutely! I just emailed you!Margo
Kyra wrote: "Congratulations! Will shout-out on Facebook and my site, and also would be happy to do an interview on my blog, if you like.
kyra@kyrahalland.com"
Kayla: Done! Thank you!~Margo
Kayla wrote: "Please send blurb, bio, cover, author photo, and links to lil87blue@hotmail.com for a feature on my blog."
Thanks so much! I am tweeting and FB posting these links, too. :)~Margo
W.H. wrote: "Congrats Margo.
I have posted an author spotlight on my website, and will tweet.
http://whcann.co.uk/author-spotlight-...
http://whcann.wordpress.com/2013/10/0......"
Thanks, Kate! :)~Margo
Kate wrote: "Hi Margo, I blasted your book out on Twitter and f/b, good luck!
Kate"
Hi again Margo, I so appreciated all of the promoting done by everyone in this group when I was the featured author that I have created a 'Indie Author Features' page on my website. If you can send me a short book synopsis and link for where people can get it I'll get it posted for you. Kate
Kate:Absolutely! The book is set to be released October 8, so I don't actually have a link to it yet--but I will soon!
I'm posting a blurb, all my social media links, book trailer links, and a few excerpts below. Feel free to use whatever you like. I'll also send along the buy link when I have it.
Cheers!
Margo
Blurb
When Dallas resident Callie Taylor died young, she expected to go to Heaven, or maybe Hell. Instead, she met her fate early thanks to a creep with a knife and a mommy complex. 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 in Alabama?
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Excerpt 1
When I died, I expected to go to heaven.
Okay. Maybe hell. It’s not like I was perfect or anything. But I was sort of hoping for heaven.
Instead, I went to Alabama.
Yeah. I know. It’s weird.
I died in Dallas, my hometown. I was killed, actually. Murdered. I’ll spare you the gruesome details. I don’t like to remember them myself. Some jerk with a knife--and probably a Bad-Mommy complex. Believe me, if I knew where he was, I’d go haunt his ass.
At any rate, by the time death came, I was ready for it--ready to stop hurting, ready to let go. I didn’t even fight it.
And then I woke up dead in Alabama. Talk about pissed off.
You know, even reincarnation would have been fine with me--I could have started over, clean slate and all that. Human, cow, bug. Whatever. But no. I ended up haunting someplace I’d never even been.
That’s not the way it’s supposed to work, right? Ghosts are supposed to be the tortured spirits of those who cannot let go of their earthly existence. If they could be convinced to follow the light, they’d leave behind said earthly existence and quit scaring the bejesus out of the poor folks who run across them. That’s what all those “ghost hunter” shows on television tell us.
Let me tell you something. The living don’t know jack about the dead.
Not this dead chick, anyway.
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Excerpt 2
As Molly straightened up, the man slipped the wire over her head and twisted it around her neck. She struggled, but he pulled the garrote tighter and tighter.
I was screaming at the top of my ghostly voice, for all the good it did me. I moved up behind the man and beat at his back with closed fists--fists that slipped in and out of his back without ever making real contact. He shuddered a little--clearly he was one of the very slightly sensitive ones--but he didn’t loosen his hands.
I reached up and tried to grab the wire, tried to pull against the pressure he was exerting on the wire and it did loosen for an instant. But only for an instant. The living have more control over solid objects than the dead do. I never resented that fact more than at that moment.
But I kept trying. I kept trying as Molly’s face turned purple, then blue, then black, kept trying even as she drooped in the man’s grip.
Then he loosened the wire and it was too late. I watched that wispy, light-on-fog life force slip out of Molly and move on to wherever it is that other people go when they die. I was glad she didn’t show up next to me as a full-blown ghost. At that moment, I wouldn’t have wished my impotent half-existence on anyone.
I couldn’t help thinking that if I’d been alive, I might have been able to save her.
If I could have cried real tears, I would have. As it was, I was sobbing hoarsely and calling the man every dirty name I could think of.
I was still cursing as I followed him around the kitchen. First he opened the pantry and pulled out a box of Hefty garbage bags. Then he grabbed a knife out of the block on the counter. And finally, he picked up Molly’s body and carried it to the bathroom.
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Excerpt 3
“Hey,” I said, hurrying after the woman. “Wait up.”
“I know you’re not talking to me,” she said. She stared straight ahead and pushed her cart down the middle of the aisle toward housewares.
“I am talking to you. Look. I know this is really weird, but I need your help.”
“Well, I’m not talking to you. I don’t know what your problem is, but you can take it somewhere else.”
I wanted to reach out and grab her cart, to make her stop and talk to me, but of course I couldn’t. Which gave me an idea.
I scurried out in front of her, planting myself in her path.
“Move,” she said.
“Not until you hear me out. Please?”
She moved her cart to the left. I stepped out to intercept her. She moved to the right. So did I.
“You got some kind of death wish or something?” she asked.
I laughed and shook my head. “If only you knew.”
“I’ve got no time for this,” she said. And she slammed into me with her shopping cart.
At least, that’s what she planned to do.
The shopping cart, however, slid right through me. When it stopped, the basket had sliced cleanly through my midsection. The bottom rack merged with my ankles. From my perspective, it looked like two perfectly solid objects--me and the shopping cart--had melted together. I don’t know what she saw.
Whatever it was, it wasn’t good.
The woman’s eyes widened, then rolled up into her head as she slumped to the ground in a dead faint.
I bent down to try to wake her up, but no matter how hard I concentrated on making contact, I couldn’t even touch her.
I hate being a ghost.
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About the Author
Margo Bond Collins lives in Texas with her husband, their daughter, several spoiled cats, and a ridiculous turtle. She teaches college-level English courses online, though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and other monsters. Waking Up Dead is her first published novel. Her second novel, Legally Undead, is an urban fantasy, forthcoming in 2014 from World Weaver Press.
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Connect with Margo
Email: MargoBondCollins@gmail.com
Website: http://www.MargoBondCollins.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MargoBondCollin @MargoBondCollin
Google+: https://plus.google.com/1164845554481...
Goodreads Author Page: http://www.goodreads.com/vampirarchy
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/MargoBondCol...
Facebook Novel Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Waking...
Tumblr: http://vampirarchybooks.tumblr.com/
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/mbondcollins/
Be sure to add Waking Up Dead to your Goodreads bookshelves: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
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Book Trailers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j_Tmv...
http://youtu.be/KUBg83s4BOU
Kate wrote: "Hi again Margo, I so appreciated all of the promoting done by everyone in this group when I was the featured author that I have created a 'Indie Author Features' page on my website. If you can sen..."
And finally: I also do book promo posts on my blog. Feel free to contact me if you would like me to feature your book--everyone in this group has an open invitation.~Margo
Margo wrote: "And finally: I also do book promo posts on my blog. Feel free to contact me if you would like me to feature your book--everyone in this group has an open invitation.~Margo"
Ok, here is the Link to the feature:
https://sites.google.com/site/darkfat...
I would love a promo on your blog, I'll contact you through the email on your website and see what info you'd like me to send you, no hurry.
Thanks,
Kate
Kate,I look forward to it!
~Margo
Kate wrote: "Margo wrote: "And finally: I also do book promo posts on my blog. Feel free to contact me if you would like me to feature your book--everyone in this group has an open invitation.
~Margo"
Ok, her..."
Thanks, Kayla! Sending out the info on my social media networks!~Margo
Hi Margo, I can offer you an interview feature on my blog, together with a facebook/twitter shout. Check your inbox, I've sent you the questionnaire.
Cheers,
Angelika
Hi, all! Waking Up Dead is live on Amazon! :)Buy Waking Up Dead on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Dead-...
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/margobo...
Here's my blog interview:http://www.kyrahalland.com/1/post/201...
also posted to my Wordpress and Blogspot blogs :)
Thanks, Kyra!!Kyra wrote: "Here's my blog interview:
http://www.kyrahalland.com/1/post/201...
also posted to my Wordpress and Blogspot blogs :)"
A.L. wrote: "Reblogged" Thanks so much! :)
kyra@kyrahalland.com