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Featured Author Interview: Vicki Pettersson

We’d like to thank Vicki Pettersson and the fine folks at Harper Voyager for allowing us to feature her Celestial Blues trilogy this month on LitStack.

Be sure to check out our reviews of each novel in the series and find Vicki on Twitter, Facebook and GoodReads.

We sat down with Vicki recently to discuss her writing process, the genesis behind the Celestial Blues trilogy and the power of a timeless romance.

LS: Welcome to LitStack, Vicki! We’re thrilled to feature you and your wonderful Celestial Blues series all month long. First off, can you tell us a little bit about the genesis of the series. How long had you played around with the idea of an angel shepherding souls off to the hereafter?

Celestial Blues was inspired by a short story I wrote right before I sold the Signs of the Zodiac series. Though initially just for fun, the story stayed with me through the writing of my first series. I literally could not shake the idea of Griffin Shaw, a mortal-turned-angel, whose job it was to assist murdered souls into the afterlife. However, what made it compelling was his obsession over his own untimely and violent death.

Yet it

The Scent of Shadows

January 23,
It looks good. New author, first novel, recommendations on the cover by Kim Harrison, Charlaine Harris, and Diana Gabaldon(2). Woman becomes a Super-Powered Heroine fighting forces of darkness and it's supposed to have non-stop action, some hot sex scenes, and it's set in Las Vegas, always a great setting for supernatural action.

But look more closely. The back cover has a big, glossy picture of the author: an atractive brunette with a decidedly Linda Carter look. Large pictures of the attractive author on the back are always a warning sign(3). Then read the bio: ten years as a Folies dancer at the Tropicana. Could be good, she probably knows Las Vegas well.

Good and bad. Nice setup. Let's take a look inside


This book is firmly in that unnamed subgenre where Harrison and Harris live: female POV modern supernatural fantasy/mystery/action with a promise of sexual tension. It's a fun subgenre. Unfortunately, this one falls into the most cop-out of traps in the female POV world, that a woman can only become a strong heroine if she was raped. Of course, she is the one raped because she fights the attacker to save her younger sister. And, of

Books by Vicki Pettersson

The Scent of Shadows (Signs of the Zodiac, #1)
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avg rating — 10, ratings — published — 20 editions
Holidays Are Hell
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Unbound (The Hollows, #; Night Huntress, #; Sign of the Zodiac, #; Dark Days, #)
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avg rating — 6, ratings — published — 18 editions
Dark and Stormy Knights
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avg rating — 6, ratings — published — 11 editions
The Taste of Night (Signs of the Zodiac, #2)
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avg rating — 5, ratings — published — 23 editions
The Touch of Twilight (Signs of the Zodiac, #3)
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avg rating — 4, ratings — published — 20 editions
City of Souls (Signs of the Zodiac, #4)
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avg rating — 3, ratings — published — 16 editions
Cheat the Grave (Signs of the Zodiac, #5)
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avg rating — 3, ratings — published — 10 editions
The Neon Graveyard (Signs of the Zodiac, #6)
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avg rating — 2, ratings — published — 7 editions
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance
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Full Series List in Order

Celestial Blues

1 - The Taken (Jun)
2 - The Lost (Mar)
3 - The Given (Jun)

Sign of the Zodiac

1 - The Scent of Shadows (Mar)
2 - The Taste of Night (Apr)
3 - The Harvest (Nov)
4 - The Touch of Twilight (Jun)
5 - City of Souls (Jul)
6 - Dark Matters (Sep)
7 - Cheat the Grave (May)
8 - Shifting Star (Jul)
9 - The Neon Graveyard (Jun)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • The Scent of Shadows

    Sign of the Zodiac - 1

    When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert. By rights, she should be dead. Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset--a grim, secret Sin City where Light batt

  • The Taste of Night

    Sign of the Zodiac - 2

    FIRST JOANNA ARCHER LEARNED SHE WAS MORE THAN HUMANTHEN THE NIGHTMARE TRULY BEGAN Equal parts Light and Shadow, Joanna Archer must fulfill a destiny she never wanted. Once a photographer and heiress to a casino fortune, she is now dedicated to

  • The Harvest

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