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Blurb:
When Callie Taylor died, she expected to go to heaven—or maybe hell.
Instead, when she was murdered in Dallas by some jerk with a knife and a
bad-mommy complex, she went to Alabama. Now she’s seen another murder,
and she can’t just let it go; she must find a way to make sure the
police figure out who really killed Molly McClatchy before an innocent
man goes to prison, all the while trying to determine how and why she
woke up dead in Alabama.
Margo
Bond Collins is the author of the paranormal mystery "Waking up Dead,"
forthcoming in 2013 from Solstice Publishing, and "Legally Undead,"
first in an urban fantasy series coming in 2014 from World Weaver Press
(http://worldweaverpress.com/). She lives in Texas with her husband,
their daughter, several spoiled cats, and a ridiculous turtle. She
teaches college English online. She loves paranormal fiction of any
genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires,
ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and other monsters.
Authors name/Pen name: Margo Bond Collins
Author’s Bio: 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.
http://www.MargoBondCollins.com
Email: MargoBondCollins@gmail.com
Website: http://www.MargoBondCollins.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MargoBondCollin @MargoBondCollin
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Waking Up Dead
Release Date: October 8, 2013
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?
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
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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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