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This week, I'm featuring my novel Fairy, Texas. So check out the character interview with Laney Harris below, then be sure to HOP back to check out the rest of this week's entries!
Character Interview
1.
Laney, quick. Describe yourself in seven words or less!
High school student, new girl,
freaked out!
2.
Tell us something about your current hometown.
I got dragged off to Fairy, Texas
when my mother got remarried—to her high school sweetheart, of all people. It’s
a tiny little town in the middle of nowhere. I can’t believe Mom grew up here. I live on a ranch. My stepfather hangs dead
coyotes on the fence, I now know how to recognize buzzard vomit, and the only
place to hang out is the local Sonic. It’s making me crazy!
3.
What's the strangest thing that has ever happened to you?
I saw mostly invisible bat wings on
the creepy school counselor. Then I tripped over a dead guy in gym class. Did I
mention how much I hate it here?
4.
What's your favourite food?
Spaghetti and meatballs. But my new
stepsister Kayla said she hates it, so Mom hasn’t cooked any lately. I don’t
believe Kayla, by the way. I think she lied just because she heard me say I
liked it.
5.
Can you tell us a little about what to expect in Fairy, Texas?
The book starts off with pretty much
my worst day ever—tripping over that dead guy is just the beginning! And those
bat wings on the creepy counselor? They’re real!
6.
Can you tell us something about yourself we don't learn from the book?
My first kiss was with Joey Blaine
in the fourth grade behind the jungle gym on the playground. His lips tasted
like the cherry lollipop he’d just finished.
7.
What is your author Margo Bond Collins like?
She’s kind of quiet until you get to
know her—she likes to sit back and watch for a while before jumping into any
kind of social situation. But then it’s hard to shut her up! She grew up not
far from Fairy, Texas, and after living all over the country, has come back to
North Central Texas, where she lives with her husband, daughter, and a bunch of
pets.
8.
Name five items in your purse or pockets right now.
I’ve got a 35mm camera, my cell
phone, some sparkly lip gloss, a $5 bill, and my Fairy High student ID.
9.
What were your first impressions of Josh and Mason?
They are both insanely hot. Mason’s
a flirt, too. He’s got this amazing smile that lights up the room, and he makes
me laugh. Josh is quieter, more serious. His eyes are a beautiful, indefinable
color, sort of a blue-green-silver. Neither of them would have given me a
second look in my old school in Atlanta. I guess being the new girl does have
some benefits.
10.
If you had one chance to change anything about your life, what would it be?
I
just wish I could have figured everything out before someone got hurt . . .
Fairy,
Texas
A YA Paranormal Mystery/Romance
Laney
Harris thinks there might be 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 takes on an entirely new dimension in Fairy, Texas.
If she's going to survive in this small town, she'll have to learn to wing it.
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 takes on an entirely new dimension in Fairy, Texas.
If she's going to survive in this small town, she'll have to learn to wing it.
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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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About the Author
Margo Bond Collins writes urban fantasy, contemporary
romance, and paranormal mysteries. She lives in Texas with her 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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