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Character
Profile
Josh
Bevington
Age: 16
Physical
description from the book: Josh had a
slow smile—it wasn’t blinding, but it still managed to eclipse everything else
around it. And his eyes were a strange, indefinable color, almost silver, but
maybe blue or green.
Quote
that fits his personality: “I’m not
trying to be funny. I’m trying to explain this in a way you’ll understand.”
Best
quality: He takes the events around him
seriously.
Worst
quality: Like his friend Mason, he just
might spend his weekends doing “black-magicky things” with evil adults.
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Fairy,
Texas Blurb:
Laney
Harris thinks there are monsters in Fairy, Texas.
She's
right.
When
her mother remarried and moved them to a town where a date meant hanging out at
the Sonic, Laney figured that "boring" would have a whole new
meaning. A new stepsister who despised her and a high school where she was the
only topic of gossip were bad enough. But when she met the school counselor
(and his terminal bad breath), she grew suspicious. Especially since he had
wings that only she could see. And then there were Josh and Mason, two gorgeous
glimmering-eyed classmates whose interest in her might not be for the reasons
she hoped. Not to mention that dead guy she nearly tripped over in gym class.
Boring took on an entirely new dimension in Fairy, Texas.
If
she's going to survive, she'll have to learn to wing it.
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Review:
Very enjoyable read!Laney's life in Fairy is far from boring and so is this story.It kept me captivated the whole way through.
Excerpt:
Fairy
High could have fit into one wing of my old school. The three-story, red brick
building looked like it had been around for at least a century—it actually had
carvings over two of the doorways that read “Men’s Entrance” and “Women’s
Entrance.” I was glad to see that none of the kids paid any attention to those
instructions.
“Counselor’s office,” I muttered to
myself. At least I wasn’t starting in the middle of a term—though given the
fact that there were fewer than 500 students in the entire high school, I
didn’t think I was going to be able to go unnoticed, even in the general bustle
of the first day back from summer vacation.
I walked through the door marked
“Men’s Entrance,” just be contrary, and faced a long hallway lined with heavy
wooden doors. The spaces in between the doors were filled with lockers and
marble staircases with ornate hand-rails flanked each end of the long hallway.
Students poured in behind me, calling out greetings to each other and jostling
me off to the side while I tried to get my bearings. None of the doors
obviously led to a main office; I was going to have to walk the entire length
of the hallway. And people were already starting to stare and whisper.
God. I hated being the new kid.
I took a deep breath and stepped
forward. I made it halfway down the hall without seeing anything
informative—all the doors had numbers over them and many of them had name
plaques, but neither of those things did me any good since I didn’t know the
name or office number for the counselor. I was almost getting desperate enough
to ask Kayla, but of course she was nowhere to be seen.
I turned back from scanning the
halls for her and caught sight of the first adult I’d seen—and almost screamed.
As it was, I gasped loudly enough for a guy walking past me to do a double
take. The man standing in the open doorway was tall, over six feet, and way
skinny—so emaciated that it looked like you ought to be able to see his ribs
through his shirt, if his shirt didn’t hang so loosely on him. He had white hair
that stuck out in tufts, thin lips, a sharp nose, and pale blue eyes that
narrowed as he watched the kids walk past—and all the kids gave him a wide
berth without even seeming to notice that they did so. He stood in an empty
circle while students streamed around him in the crowded hallway.
But none of that was what made me
almost scream.
For a moment, just as I’d turned
toward him, I could have sworn that I’d seen the shadow of two huge, black,
leathery wings stretched out behind him.
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Interview with Margo Bond Collins
When did you start writing? What has your
writing life been like?
For
as long as I can remember, I’ve been making up stories. The first story I
remember actually writing down was basically fan-fiction of The Wizard of Oz. I wrote it in
long-hand in a yellow legal pad. I’ve been writing ever since. But about ten
years ago, a friend suggested I join in National Novel Writing Month
(nanowrimo.org). Until then, I had always written short stories. That year, I
finished the first draft of what would eventually become Legally Undead—it will be my third published novel, but it’s the
first one I wrote.
I
ended up as an English major in college because I was fascinated by the ways
stories work. And then I went on to graduate school because I couldn’t figure
out what else to do. I ended up with a Ph.D. in literature almost by accident;
I just never quit wanting to learn about all the stories in the world!
So
now I teach literature and writing in my day job, and the rest of the time, I
write, both as a fiction author and as an academic.
What gave you the idea for this book?
Many
(most, really) of my ideas come to me while I’m driving. In this case, I was
driving through rural Texas near where I grew up and passed the sign for the
cut-off to the town Fairy, Texas. I must have driven by the sign hundreds of
times in my life, but this time I started wondering what it would be like if
the town were actually occupied by fairy-like creatures—not exactly European
fairies, but a race that could intermingle with the humans of our own
world. The book developed from there!
How often do you write, and how much?
I
write something every day, whether it’s academic writing, fiction, or my blog.
I’ve recently started making sure that no matter what else I may be writing, I
write something fictional every single day. “How much” varies. I aim for a
minimum of 500 words a day—my average word-count for thirty minutes of writing.
I generally write more than that, but sometimes I don’t quite reach it. Last
night, for example, I managed to write one sentence just before I fell into
bed. But I made sure to get that one sentence down so I could continue to claim
that I write every single day!
Which authors do you admire and why?
Too
many to count! Because I’m a literature professor, I have piles and piles of
favorite authors. Right now, though, I’m particularly fond of Neil Gaiman,
Robin McKinley, Holly Black, Ann Aguirre, and Melanie Karsak. What I love about
all of them is their ability to create such realistic worlds, to draw me in and
keep me interested in the stories they spin out.
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Buy Fairy,
Texas
Amazon
(Kindle):
http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Texas-Margo-Bond-Collins-ebook/dp/B00I7BTMJ4/
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About
the Author
Margo Bond Collins is the author of urban fantasy, contemporary romance,
and paranormal mysteries. She has published a number of novels, including Sanguinary, Taming the Country Star, Legally Undead, Waking Up Dead, and Fairy, Texas. She lives in Texas with
her husband, their daughter, and several spoiled pets. Although writing fiction
is her first love, she also teaches college-level English courses online. She
enjoys reading romance and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of
her free time daydreaming about heroes, monsters, cowboys, and villains, and
the strong women who love them—and sometimes fight them.
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