Maggie Shayne

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Margaret Benson

Born
New York, United States
Pen name Maggie Shayne
Occupation novelist
Nationality American
Genres romance, paranormal
Official website

Maggie Shayne (b Margaret Benson) is an American author of more than 40 romance and paranormal novels. She has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA Award. In addition to her work as a novelist, Shayne is active in the Wicca religion, and is the High Priestess of a coven she founded.[1]

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early years

Maggie Shayne was born and raised in a rural area near Syracuse, New York. She left high school to be married when she found herself pregnant at sixteen.[2]

Even as a child, Shayne liked to tell stories and rewrite the endings of some she had read, as well as those of the horror movies she loved to watch.[3] Her first attempt at a novel did not come until she older, when she wove a story in her head while trying to comfort a sick baby. Because she had been in the mood to read a romance novel that day, the story she envisioned was also a romance. Within days, she had transferred her story to paper, writing longhand on a yellow pad.[4] Realizing that if she ever planned to be a published writer she would need a typewriter, Shayne took a job watching a neighbor's horses so that she could earn the money to buy her first typewriter. She soon finished three manuscripts, which she was not able to sell. Her fortunes changed when Harlequin launched their Shadows line. Shayne sent a query letter to let them know that "I'm just jumping up and down; so happy that you have created a line especially for me!" Although the editor rejected her first book, Shayne's enthusiasm impressed her enough that she asked to see more novels, and purchased the second.[2] That novel became the first of Shayne's Wings in the Night Series, which was so popular that Silhouette asked Shayne to continue writing the series even after the Shadows line was closed.[5]

[edit] Career Successs

Since then, Shayne has had over 30 novels published, including category romance, contemporary western romance, romantic suspense, paranormal romance, and time travel romance.[2] She has written for the Silhouette Intimate Moments line and Silhouette Romantic Suspense and for five single-title publishing companies (Avon Books, St. Martin's Press, Penguin Putnam, Spilled Candy Books, and MIRA Books).[4][3][6] Her paranormal romances seamlessly "combine the hearts of two such diverse genres as romance and horror" which proclaim that "the key is the redemption of the monster by the sheer power of love."[3] Many of her novels "[blend] mysticism into everyday life in a good vs. evil scenario."[7] | website = http://www.maggieshayne.com/bio.html | accessdate = 2007-04-20}}</ref>

Her novels have appeared on the USAToday, Booksense and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and Twighlight Hunger reached Number 32 on the New York Times Bestseller Extended List.[2] Many of her books have been chosen by Doubleday Bookclub, the Mystery Guild, and Rhapsody Bookclub.[6] On her thirteenth nomination for a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, Shayne finally won the prestigious award, which is the romance community's equivalent of an Academy Award. She has also won three Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine.[6]

[edit] Personal life

Shayne is very interested in the culture and religion of ancient Sumer, and includes some of her research in her novels, including Destiny.[2][7] After several years of study at the Black Forest Clan, a chartered Wiccan seminary, Shayne has become a High Priestess and an Elder in the Wicca religion, and has been licensed as a minister. Shayne has founded her own coven, the Hawks of RavenMyst, in a "tradition" (similar to a denomination), known as the RavenMyst Circle, that she helped found.[2][8][1]

Shayne and her husband have been married for more than twenty-five years and have five grown daughters.[2] They live on a farm in New York.[4]

[edit] Awards

  • 1992-1993 - Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, Best First Book, Reckless Angel
  • 1993 - New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf Award for Best Long Contmeporary, Miranda's Viking
  • 1993-1994 - Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, Series Romantic Fantasy
  • 1993-1994 - Affaire de Coeur Magazine Favorite Paranormal Author of the Year
  • 1995-1996 - Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, Romantic Fantasy
  • 1995-1995 - Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, Best Contemporary Fantasy, Fairytale
  • 1997-1998 - Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, Best Mini-Series Romance, A Husband in Time
  • 1997-1998 - Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, Best Contemporary Fantasy, Forever Enchanted
  • 2005 - Romance Writers of America RITA Award winner, Best Novella, "Her Best Enemy"
  • Romantic Times Magazine Women in Search of Heroes (wISH) Award, Twilight Illusions
  • Romantic Times Magazine WISH Award, Born in Twilight
  • Romantic Times Gold Medallion Award, Twilight Illusions
  • Romantic Times Gold Medallion Award, Forever Enchanted'
  • six-time Romance Writers of America RITA Award finalist (12-time nominee)

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Twilight Series

  • Twilight Phantasies
  • Twilight Memories
  • Twilight Illusions
  • Beyond Twilight (novella)
  • Born in Twilight
  • Twilight Vows (novella)
  • Twilight Hunger
  • Run from Twilight (novella)
  • Embrace the Twilight
  • Edge of Twilight
  • Blue Twilight
  • Prince of Twilight
  • Demon's Kiss
  • Lovers Bite
  • Angel's Pain (out October 2008)
  • Wings in the Night (omnibus) (books 1-3)
  • At Twilight (omnibus) (Born in Twilight and Beyond Twilight)
  • Two by Twilight (omnibus) (Run from Twilight and Twilight Vows)
  • Twilight Begins (omnibus) (Twilight Phantasies and Twilight Memories)

[edit] Fairies of Shara

  • Fairytale
  • Forever Enchanted

[edit] Texas Brands

  • The Littlest Cowboy
  • The Baddest Virgin in Texas
  • Badlands Bad Boy
  • The Husband She Couldn't Remember
  • That Mysterious Texas Brand Man
  • The Baddest Bride in Texas
  • The Outlaw Bride
  • Angel Meets the Badman
  • The Homecoming
  • The Texas Brand: In the Beginning (omnibus)

[edit] Eternity

  • Eternity
  • Infinity
  • Destiny

[edit] Oklahoma All-Girl Brands

  • The Brands Who Came for Christmas
  • Brand-new Heartache
  • Secrets and Lies

[edit] Novels

  • Reckless Angel
  • Kiss of the Shadow Man
  • Forever, Dad
  • A Husband in Time
  • Annie's Hero
  • Million Dollar Marriage
  • Out-of-this-world Marriage
  • The Gingerbread Man
  • Enemy Mind
  • That Mysterious Man
  • Thicker Than Water
  • Miranda's Viking
  • Stranger in Town
  • Colder Than Ice
  • Immortality
  • Darker Than Midnight
  • Feels Like Home
  • Eternal Love
  • Immortal Desire

[edit] Collections

  • Forgotten Vows (omnibus) (with Lindsay McKenna)
  • Strangers In The Night (omnibus) (with Anne Stuart and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)
  • A Sprinkle of Fairy Dust (omnibus) (with Elizabeth Bevarly, Elaine Crawford, Marylyle Rogers)
  • Bewitched (omnibus) (with Lisa Higdon, Susan Krinard, Amy Saunders)
  • Brides of the Night (omnibus) (1998) (with Marilyn Tracy)
  • Moonglow (omnibus) (with Lindsay Longford, Angie Ray and Katherine Sutcliffe)
  • Silhouette Sensational: Forgotten Vows...? / license to Love / cowboy Daddy / babies On His Mind (omnibus)(with Barbara Boswell, Marie Ferrarella, Susan Mallery)
  • Veils of Time (omnibus) (with Lynn Kurland, Angie Ray and Ingrid Weaver)
  • Sinful (omnibus) (with Suzanne Forster, Lori Foster, Kimberly Randell)
  • After Midnight (omnibus)
  • Who Do You Love? (omnibus) (with Marilyn Pappano)
  • Two Novels (omnibus) (with Lorna Tedder)
  • Out of This World (omnibus) (with Laurell K. Hamilton, Susan Krinard, J D Robb)
  • Broken Silence (omnibus) (with Eileen Wilks and Anne Marie Winston)
  • Hot Summer Nights (omnibus) (with Lindsay McKenna, Dallas Schulze)
  • Midnight Pleasures (omnibus) (with Amanda Ashley, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Ronda Thompson)
  • Pregnant with His Child (omnibus) (with Marilyn Pappano)
  • Danger in the Shadows (omnibus) (with Linda Turner)
  • Special Delivery (omnibus) (with Cathy Gillen Thacker)
  • Hot Blooded (omnibus) (with Christine Feehan, Emma Holly, Angela Knight)
  • Man of My Dreams (omnibus) (with Suzanne Forster, Virginia Kantra, Sherrilyn Kenyon)
  • Night's Edge (omnibus) (with Barbara Hambly, Charlaine Harris)
  • Burning Bright (omnibus) (with Judith Arnold and Anne Stuart)
  • An Unexpected Family (omnibus) with Caroline Cross)
  • Kick Ass (with Mary Janice Davidson, Jacey Ford, Angela Knight)
  • Moon Fever (with Lori Handeland, Caridad Piñeiro, and Susan Sizemore)
  • An Enchanted Season (with Jean Johnson, Erin McCarthy, Maggie Shayne and Nalini Singh)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b About Maggie (English). Witches In Print. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Thompson, Dorothy (2003). Interview with Maggie Shayne (English). The Writer's Life. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
  3. ^ a b c Maggie Shayne (English). eHarlequin.Com. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
  4. ^ a b c Sheftel, Bea. An Interview with Paranormal Author Maggie Shayne (English). Gotta Write Network. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
  5. ^ Shayne, Maggie. The Darker Side of Romance (English). Romantic Times. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
  6. ^ a b c Maggie Shayne (English). Paranormal Romance Reviews. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
  7. ^ a b Klausner, Harriet (December 2000). Stands alone, but incredible follow-up to fabulous novel Eternity (English). Paranormal Romance Reviews. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
  8. ^ International Best-Selling Author Maggie Shayne (English). Maggie Shayne Official Website. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.

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