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Click the link below to view the trailer for Celestial Blue Skies What should we know about Maggie Collins, author of Celestial Blue Skies? Loves: Human rights Animal rights Gardening Hates: Child Abuse  Member of Alva Writer’s Group led by Lee Grue  Poetic Works include: “What Would America Do if We Talked about Poverty” “The Pink Flamingo”  Works in progress include: A Vampire in my Farm Town Utopia According to Maggie, “My passion for writing comes from my rich heritage of Creole story tellers. I have a lot of people in my family who love to tell stories including my great Uncle Romiere Auzenne. He died about eleven years ago. He told me the etiological tale The Curse of the Mulatto which was the title of Celestial Blue Skies at one time. I changed the title because it seemed that the novel was a horror novel, and I didn’t want to offend others. My uncle told me the stories of Boukee and Lapin which many people know as the Brer Rabbit tales. The stories were told in French by slaves. My big sister Melissa Thomas used to tell me wonderful tales about Cushma the devil that would ride women. He is a sex devil. She was the best story teller. I am a great listener and teller of tales. “ Celestial Blue Skies will enter the literary world on 4/29/2014