SAMPLE CHAPTERS


Looking back on it later, Claire thought she should have known trouble was coming, but really, in Morganville, anything could be trouble. Your college professor doesn’t show for class? Probably got fanged by vampires. Takeout forgets to put onions on your hamburger? The regular onion delivery guy disappeared – again, probably due to vampires. And so on. For a college town, Morganville had a remarkable lot of vampires.


Claire was an authority on all those subjects: Texas Prairie University, and of course, the vampires. And mysterious disappearances. She’d almost been one...

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It was late, and they were all tired, and her head hurt. She fell asleep on the couch, and Shane finally woke her and told her to go to bed. She wanted to stay with him, but she knew she shouldn’t, not when she was trying to think, and her head hurt so badly.

She didn’t remember getting upstairs to her room, but she must...

Shane and Claire were bound to find each other at some point because two people who fit together so well have to be together. There is Shane, the badass who would never get the parent aproval. Then Claire, the smart one who has more courage than you would ever expect! At first glance you wouldnt think they were the ultimate match, but look again and you will see much more. They are too good together to be far apart. I personally read the book different from everyone else. If you look between the lines you see the true meanings of the words. They define what love is. Morganville is a place full...

CHAPTER 1

“Oh, this doesn’t sound like a good idea,” Claire said, looking down at the paper that had been shoved into her hand by a passing student. She paused in the shade of the Science Building porch to read it. Only idiots stood around in full sun at Texas Prairie University in the middle of the afternoon – well, idiots and football players – and angled herself into a corner so she wouldn’t get buffeted by the streams of people pouring out after the end of class. There were a few hardy salmons trying to swim upstream, but she didn’t think they’d make it.

People all around...

Living in West Texas is sort of like living in Hell, but without
the favorable climate and charming people. Living in Morganville,
Texas, is all that and a takeout bag of worse. I
should know. My name is Shane Collins, and I was born here, left
here, came back here—none of which I had much choice about.
So, for you fortunate ones who’ve never set foot in this place,
here’s the walking tour of Morganville: It’s home to a couple of thousand
folks who breathe, and some crazy-ass number of people who
don’t. Vampires. Can’t live with ’em, and in Morganville, you definitely
can’t live without...

MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES


How many books will there be in the Morganville Vampires series?

Currently, I’m planning on a total of 12 books. Book 9 (GHOST TOWN) will be out October 26, 2010; Book 10 (BITE CLUB) will be released in April 2011.


Which characters are on the covers of the Morganville Vampires books?

On the US editions: Glass Houses - Eve, The Dead Girls’ Dance - Claire, Midnight Alley - Claire, Feast of Fools - Michael, Lord of Misrule - Shane and Claire, Carpe Corpus - Claire, Kiss of Death - Claire, Ghost Town - Claire, Ghost Town - Claire, Bite Club - Claire and Shane


Are the characters...

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Lunch was always an iffy proposition at the Glass House. Some days all of Claire’s house mates were all in, most days nobody was; some days there was food in the fridge. Most days, not. Claire had made a fine art out of scrounging up crackers and cans of soup. Her favorite was cream of tomato. Yum.

She was slurping up her soup, alone as usual, when she heard a thump from upstairs. Odd. She knew for a fact that Eve was at her job on campus, and Michael was off teaching guitar lessons. Shane – well, she never knew for sure...

Scary
Feb/08/09 12:25 Filed in: claire
Thinking about Claire. Again. Can’t believe I’m writing this.
Glad nobody’s ever going to read this. Don’t think I could stand that, but I can’t talk about it, either -- not even with Michael. I mean, he’s cool, but ... yeah. Not guy talk.

Look, I’ve had my share of hookups, you know? Not a ton, but a few. And it was great and all, but there was just something ... missing, I guess. All body, no head. No heart. Truth was, I liked those girls, but I didn’t need them. When it was over, ah well, so what, you know? For the girls, too. At least,...

ADDITIONAL SAMPLE CHAPTERS for KISS OF DEATH, book 8 of the Morganville Vampires series
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Jason didn't say much at dinner. In fact, he was almost completely silent, though he ate four tacos like he'd been starving for a month, and when Eve brought out ice cream for dessert he ate a double helping of that too.

Shane was right. The brisket was delicious in the tacos.

Eve, compensating for her brother, chattered like a magpie on crack the whole time -- about dumbasses at the coffee shop where she worked, Common Grounds; about her boss Oliver -- vampire...

RELEASE DATE: APRIL 2010

The way the Glass House worked, on a practical level, was that there was a schedule for the stuff that had to be done. Cooking, cleaning, fixing things, laundry. Technically, they were all on every housemate's list. In practice, though, what happened was this: the boys (Michael and Shane) bribed the girls (Eve and Claire) to do laundry, and the girls bribed the boys to fix things.

Claire glared at her new iPod -- which was actually really nice -- and put it on random shuffle as she looked at the mess she'd made of her latest laundry effort. And there was the problem:...

I honestly think that Shane and Claire get married. but, that is my opinion. If you disagree everyone hates you!Also, WHO CARES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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