Lux Read-Along Begins Today

The Lux Read-Along will will take place June 2nd to August 1st.

Click here to sign up for the read-along, review the rules, and see all the amazing prizes up for grabs 

at Deity Island.  Thank you Deity Island for organizing this fun reading!

Here is the Read-Along schedule: 

 June 2nd (Week 1): Obsidian Read-Along, Chapters 1-15
- June 9th (Week 2): Obsidian, Chapters 1-15 Questions AND Obsidian Read-Along, Chapters 16-30
- June 16th (Week 3): Obsidian, Chapters 16-30 Questions AND Shadows & Onyx, Chapters 1-16 Read-Along
- June 23rd (Week 4): Shadows & Onyx, Chapters 1-16 Questions AND Onyx Read-Along, Chapters 17-36
- June 30th (Week 5): Onyx, Chapters 17-36 Questions AND Opal Read-Along, Chapters 1-18
- July 7th (Week 6): Opal, Chapters 1-18 Questions AND Opal Read-Along, Chapters 19-36
- July 14th (Week 7): Opal, Chapters 19-36 Questions AND Origin Read-Along, Chapters 1-15
- July 21th (Week 8): Origin, Chapters 1-15 Questions AND Origin Read-Along, Chapters 16-31
- July 28th (Week 9): Origin, Chapters 16-31 Questions AND End of Read-Along Survey

- August 4th: Wrap Up Post & Winners Announced

May Kindle Fire HDX Giveaway

Enter to win 1 of 2 great prizes. Winner’s choice of a Kindle Fire HDX or $229 Amazon Gift Card or $229 Paypal Cash! The first prize is available via the rafflecopter below. The 2nd is available only to bloggers who post about this giveaway. You can find info on how to enter the 2nd giveaway in the rafflecopter.

Win a Kindle Fire HDX, Amazon Gift Card or Paypal Cash ($229 value)

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The winner will have the option of receiving a 7" Kindle Fire HDX (US Only - $229 Value)

  Or $229 Amazon.com Gift Card (International)

  Or $229 in Paypal Cash (International)

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Waking Up Dead by Margo Bond Collins Promo

I'd like to welcome Waking Up Dead by Margo Bond Collins to my blog.  

Hope you all enjoy the excerpt!

Blurb

When Dallas resident Callie Taylor died young, she expected to go to Heaven, or maybe Hell. Instead, when she met her fate early thanks to a creep with a knife and a mommy complex, she went to Alabama. 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 dead in Alabama?

Excerpt 

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.

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.

Buy Waking Up Dead on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Dead-ebook/dp/B00FOXWLM8/

Connect with Margo

Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Margo-Collins/e/B00EOU9DEG

Email: MargoBondCollins@gmail.com

Website: http://www.MargoBondCollins.com

Twitter: http://margobondcollins.com/  @MargoBondCollin

Google+: https://plus.google.com/116484555448104519902/posts

Goodreads Author Page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7233453.Margo_Bond_Collins

Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/MargoBondCollins

Facebook Novel Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Waking-Up-Dead/502076076537575

Tumblr: http://vampirarchybooks.tumblr.com/

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/mbondcollins/ 

Be sure to add Waking Up Dead to your Goodreads bookshelves: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18428064-waking-up-dead

Spooktacular Giveaway Hop: Win $10 Gift Card

Welcome to the Spooktacular Giveaway Hop!

Thanks to I Am A Reader, Not A Writer for organizing the best hop of the year.

I must admit that I've not been very actively lately with my blog.  It's been a crazy six months for me.  I'm hoping to post more in the next few months.  

Now to the good part of the hop.

My Giveaway is a $10 Amazon or Barnes & Noble Gift Card (winner's choice). 

This giveaway is open Internationally.

Good luck everyone & Happy Halloween!

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