Beyond the Count by Ed. Margo Bond Collins Long before Dracula, vampires stalked the literary scene. These early literary vampires are sometimes terrifying, at times melodramatic, and occasionally ridiculous, but they are always out for blood—and their vampiric descendants continue to fascinate and captivate us. Beyond the Count is a collection of vampire stories, plays, and poems from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection gives students, scholars, and vampire aficionados the opportunity to examine works often long out of print and to contextualize the development of vampire legend beyond that most famous of literary Counts. About the Editor Margo Bond Collins holds a Ph.D. in eighteenth-century British literature and is a professor of English, and is also the author of a number of novels, including Taming the Country Star, Legally Undead, Waking Up Dead, and Fairy, Texas. After a decade of moving all around the country (Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta are a few of the places she's lived), she has settled in her native Texas. Margo lives near Fort Worth with her husband, her daughter, and several very spoiled cats, and she spends most of her free time daydreaming about heroes, monsters, cowboys, and villains. You can learn more about her writing at www.MargoBondCollins.net Connect with Margo Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/margobondcollins Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.MargoBondCollins.net Blog: http://www.MargoBondCollins.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/MargoBondCollin @MargoBondCollin Google+: https://plus.google.com/116484555448104519902 Goodreads Author Page: http://www.goodreads.com/vampirarchy Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/MargoBondCollins Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/mbondcollins/ Thanks for popping in and check out Ms Collins new book. Do check out the rest of the site and Please please, share us with your friends. Do hit a button or two
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Yippee!. Here we go again.... Another cover reveal...T.M. Brown has redesigned her cover. A cover that reflects the raw emotion that you'll find in her book. Guys and gals this story is heating up and getting rave reviews. Drum roll please.... Struggles of the women folk BY t.m. brown Genres: African American fiction, historical fiction, women's issues. Themes: family dynamics, romance, perseverance (sp) "Struggles of the Women Folk" is based on fictional characters created from stories my grandma shared with me when I was a child. It is the story of Georgie, a young Black girl in the South during the 1940s. I hope that you can appreciate her pain, suffering and betrayal as you travel with her on highs and lows you won't anticipate. This is the story of the power of a woman's courage, love, strength and faith that exists within each and every one us, whether we know it or not.. Excerpt: Sissy knew she wasn’t pretty, cuz erbody told her so! She had all dem black features that erbody thought was ugly: dark skin, short nappy hair, big eyes, big lips, huge breast and a big butt. None of that mattered to me, cuz she was not just my cousin; she was my best friend. Her momma and mine couldn’t stand each other, but we didn’t care. We’d been friends for as long as I could remember. Every day, we walked the five miles to the little shack we called skool, carrying our books and lunch pails. Momma would always have something special in my pail. There would be bread, cheese, jelly and sometimes even a slice of homemade cake. Sissy never had anything good. Most times, she only had a piece of bread or some leftover salt pork. “Ain’t got no money to be spending on some ugly thang like you,” her momma would say. Her momma hated her. Folks say it was because she didn’t know who Sissy’s daddy was. Her momma was walking home one night when some men jumped her in the woods and made her ‘with child’. That’s what the folks called it in 1944. No one used words like pregnant, at least, not the good girls. *** Get your copy now: AMAZON http://www.amazon.com/Struggles-Women-Folk-T-Brown-ebook/dp/B00G0JNVBK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399916058&sr=8-1&keywords=struggles+of+the+women+folk SMASHWORDS https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/361857 BARNES AND NOBLE http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/struggles-of-the-women-folk-t-m-brown/1117050541?ean=9781492700722 Want to learn more about T.M. Brown? Connect with the author here: Website: http://www.authortmbrown.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TbrownM Facebook: Facebook profile LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/inbox/messages/received?trk=nav_utilities_inbox Blog: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4197635.T_M_Brown/blog *** This cover reveal has been provided by: Fabulosity Reads Book Promotions is a book touring website that promotes authors and their precious works to an extensive audience using blogs, twitter, Facebook and other Social Media, with the aim of introducing them to an appreciative readership.
They offer a diverse range of both complimentary and affordable products to help the reach of your book go that much further. Thank you for checking out the latest cover reveal. please feel free to chack out the other pages ont the site. And Please Be sweet and retweet or something to tell others you've been here..... Go ahead and hit a button or two, Lisa ON TOUR and FREE by Barbara Shoff... A Community of Butterflies..Chrysalis *A Community of Butterflies: Chrysalis (Published by LilyBearHouse, LLC.) ' ... just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly ... " On-again-off-again psychic Vay Armstrong has a plan to change the world. Following ten years of domestic violence and abuse, she struggles with post-traumatic stress, paranoia and an inability to trust others. Determined to escape her reclusive life, she enlists the help of other abuse survivors to create a utopian community within Jakesville, Oklahoma. Will Vay be able to overcome family opposition, a romantic entanglement and a homicidal stalker to make her vision a reality, or will her only reality be a cold hole in the ground?" A little excerpt to draw you in. Reaching across pillows she wrapped her two terriers in one arm. She rolled to the floor, her free hand grasping the .38 from her nightstand. Crouching, she scurried across the hall to her closet sanctuary. She shoved both pets into a single crate. “Shhh,” She commanded. They obeyed. Bracing herself against the wall, flipping the safety with her thumb, she waited. Calls for help were useless. William was never there when law enforcement arrived. She’d remembered the officers’ whispers, “Paranoid. Delusional. Crazy.” She made the decision. Escape. Barbara Shoff began writing before she could write. At the age of five she would make up dialogue for her friends so they could perform plays. They charged a nickle a performance to "the old people" (parents and grandparents) in the neighborhood. The stage was a front porch with a blanket curtain. Their group was quite successful which kept them in bubble gum and popsicles most summers. In the 1980's Barbara had a column in a small town Missouri newspaper. It was called, “BJ’s Corner.” She wrote it for free. She became serious about writing and began penning articles for several women's magazines. “I sold my first article for $25. I was so excited I screamed so loud you would have thought it was for 25 million. I have written brilliant ad copy as well as very dull assembly instruction manuals.” Severely social media challenged two years ago, Barbara became the accidental Pundit on PolicyMic. It was when she had her non-fiction expose’ complete and was looking for a publisher when Barbara decided it was high-time the old dog started learning new tricks. As a survivor of domestic violence and abuse she wanted to give back to her community. “Social workers educating survivors living in a shelter about domestic violence and abuse is ass backwards. These women already know better than the social workers what happened. The ‘whys’ research is still sorting out. What survivors need to learn is how protect themselves and support themselves while they heal and transform into something stronger and more beautiful than they were before. To that purpose, I wrote a stalker thriller, A Community of Butterflies: Chrysalis as the first book in a trilogy.” Barbara has picked every brain she could find to try to figure out about the ins and outs of developing a “platform” and how social media works for writers. She took a social media for dummies class at a local technology center. “I almost learned some things about Facebook. The next day they changed it. “I hired a fifteen year old to teach me asking, how something was done. He would shrug his shoulders and say, ‘Dunno. Let’s try this. Nope, not that, Let’s try this.’ Fifty dollars later a light went on and I decided to try stuff on my own. I watched YouTube videos until my eyes crossed, took a spiral notebook full of notes and finally built a website. “I am still learning. Now both books are published. I am signed up on almost every freaking social media site there is and am maybe, kinda, sorta getting an idea of how they possibly work. Mostly I’m praying Oprah or Ellen will ‘discover’ me and I can concentrate on writing my books and going to shelters giving chrysalis building lessons. “Oh, yeah. In 2013 I was honored to be a member of the inaugural cast of Oklahoma City’s production of Listen to Your Mother. You can watch me on YouTube by searching, LTYM OKC Barbara Shoff.” Contact the Author www.barbarashoff.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/BarbaraJShoff Blog: meanderingmentalmusings.blogspot.com To check out her book: Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Community-Butterflies-Chrysalis-Barbara-Shoff-ebook/dp/B00JANH6CS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398914573&sr=1-1&keywords=A+Community+of+Butterflies This great book was presented by: Contact Wendy if you want to see all the great things she does to promote your book. https://www.facebook.com/theskillsdepot?fref=ts
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