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Works of Nancy Collins

I was going to do a book review on Nancy A Collins' Sonja Blue series, but it just turned out to be a huge bibliography on all her works. She's an amazing writer, I love her writing style and the way she plays with words...so here goes:

Nancy A Collins, also under the pseudonym of Nanzi Regalia was born in the United States. Her best-known works are under her birth name the Sonja Blue or Midnight Blue series. These works are about a woman who is a vampire but also a vampire hunter, she hunts her own kind after a run in with a vicious and cruel vampire who both raped and sired her. She has been hunting the "pretenders" for 35 years. The current serial book is about the "Blue Woman" who has gained quite a reputation among her fellow pretenders as a fierce hunter of their kind. She hunts them to take her revenge on the monster who turned her into one of them. She haunts the shadows of the great cities of the world to rid it of the vampires that stalk the unsuspecting human race.

But, she also contends with her true enemy, The Other within her. The demon who has shared her mind since she was transformed 20 years ago. It's a bit of a love story in this series, she meets a man (a fellow hunter, human)named Harker, his real name is Jack Estes, he hunts them because of a 1000 year old vampire named Blackheart who took away his family when he was 3 years old, and right in front of him. She takes him on as her apprentice and the pair of them hunt down Blackheart.

This is the latest book in the series of two, the first was Sunglasses after Dark (1989), then In The Blood (1992), Midnight Blue: The Sonja Blue Collection (1995), Paint it Black (1995) A Dozen Black Roses 1996), Darkest Heart (2000), and Dead Roses for a Blue Lady (2002).

She does a few novels other than the Sonja Blue Series:

Tempter (1990)
Wild Blood (1993)
Walking Wolf: A Weird Western (1994)
Dhampire: Stillborn (1997)
Angels on Fire (1998)

She's also done a Chapbook called Voodoo Chile (2001) and two non fiction called Hard to Get: Fast Talk and Rude Questions along the Interview Trail(1990) and The Big Book of Hoaxes (2000)

She has even done work for the comic book the Fantastic Four: To Free Atlantis series (1995). She's also been featured in the Heavy Metal Magazine Fall 1997 20 Year Special Edition.

Personally, I enjoy her views of Empathics, it fits so well that I believe that she is an Empath herself. She is descriptive, dark and humorous at times in her works. She has a very dark and dry sense of humor, one that borders on pure irony. Very talented and seemingly well put writer who cranks out book after book that gets better with each book. If you would like a full list of her works you can visit this link: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Nancy_A_Collins.htm

For my next review for next month, I will be reviewing the Heavy Metal Magazine, current issue of the month of course.

By Sheal Mullin

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