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Nancy A. Collins (born 10 September 1959) is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has also written for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs. Leatherface, Predator: Hell Come A Walkin and her own one-shot Dhampire: Stillborn.

Collins was born in McGehee, Arkansas, United States. She lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s; after time in New York City and Atlanta, Georgia she settled in Wilmington, North Carolina in the late 2000s.

Collins has written twenty novels since 1989, many of which refer to and directly include races of creatures the author calls Pretenders, monsters from myth and legend passing as human to better hunt their ...more

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The Yuletide Spirit:A Golgotham Christmas StoryBy Nancy A. CollinsAs I looked around at the jammed aisles full of determined shoppers, human and otherwise, I wondered what could have possessed me to sally forth the day after Thanksgiving to try and buy gifts for my nearest and dearest. And Scratch. The Fly Market, the largest open-air bazaar in Golgotham, was a buzzing honeycomb of cross-species Read more of this blog post »
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“... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.”
― Nancy A. Collins
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“Sleep: the stepchild of Death.”
― Nancy A. Collins, In the Blood
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“She knew that the only love her demon was capable of was self-destructive, cruel, vampiric, parasitic, and all the other words her best friends had used to describe Jerry, Alec, Christian, Matt, and the others whose names, faces, and genitalia had now blurred together in her memories. They were men incapable of love yet able to inspire suicide threats.”
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message 5: by Nancy
Jun 07, 2012 12:36PM

Nancy Collins Louise wrote: "TY for accepting my friend request!! only one thing to say MORE SONJA BLUE PLEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ :0"

Don't worry. I've got her on my schedule. :)


message 4: by Mary
Jun 07, 2012 04:26AM

Mary Thanks for accepting my friend request!
Have a great day & Happy Reading! =)


message 3: by Louise
Jun 07, 2012 12:50AM

Louise BDGG TY for accepting my friend request!! only one thing to say MORE SONJA BLUE PLEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ :0


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Jacques Wong looks like we pretty much have the same taste... hehehhe!... hi Nancy!...


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