Maggie Shayne

Maggie Shayne (born Margaret Lewis, February 6, 1962) is an American author of more than 70 novels. Shayne has won multiple awards, including the Romance Writers of America RITA Award, multiple Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice and Career Achievement Awards, The Readers' Choice Award, and the P.E.A.R.L. Award, among others. In addition to her work as a novelist, Shayne is active in the Wiccan religion.

Early life
Shayne was born and raised in a rural area near Syracuse, New York.

As a child, Shayne liked to tell stories and rewrite the endings of books and horror movies. Her first attempt at a novel came when she was older, when she mentally wrote a romance story while trying to comfort a sick baby; she soon transferred the story to a yellow pad. 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 unable to sell. Harlequin launched their Shadows Line, and Shayne sent a query letter that said, "I'm just jumping up and down; so happy that you have created a line especially for me!" Although the editor rejected that book, Shayne's second book was purchased. The novel became the first of Shayne's Wings in the Night series, which she continued writing even after the Shadows Line was closed.

Career
Shayne has had over 70 novels published, including women's fiction, thrillers, romantic suspense, paranormal, and category romance. She has also published several non-fiction titles in the area of spiritual self-help. She has written for five publishers including Avon Books, St. Martin's Press, Penguin Putnam, Spilled Candy Books, and MIRA Books. Her paranormal romances combine romance and horror, where the redemption of the monster is through love. Many of her novels "[blend] mysticism into everyday life in a good vs. evil scenario."

Shayne also worked as a writer for the soap operas Guiding Light and As the World Turns and considered accepting the position of co-head-writer before deciding to devote her time to her novels.

Shayne's novels have appeared on the USA Today, Booksense and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and Twilight Hunger reached Number 18 on the New York Times Bestseller List. Many of her books have been chosen by Doubleday Bookclub, the Mystery Guild, and Rhapsody Bookclub. On her thirteenth nomination for a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, Shayne won the award. She has also won three Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine.

Personal life
Shayne has interest in the culture and religion of ancient Sumer, and included some of her research in her novels, including Destiny. After several years of study at the Black Forest Clan, a chartered Wiccan seminary, Shayne became a high priestess and an elder in the Wicca religion and has been licensed as a minister. Shayne founded her own coven, the Hawks of RavenMyst, in a tradition, similar to a denomination, known as the RavenMyst Circle, that she helped found.

Shayne has five grown daughters. She married Lance on Valentine's Day in 2014. She resides in a small town in upstate New York.

Awards

 * 1992–1993 — Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, Best First Book, Reckless Angel
 * 1993 — New Jersey Romance Writers Golden Leaf Award for Best Long Contemporary, 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 Reviewers' Choice Award, Best Contemporary Fantasy, Fairytale
 * 1997–1998 — Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, Best Mini-Series Romance, A Husband in Time
 * 1997–1998 — Romantic Times Reviewers' 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)

==Bibliography ==

Wings in the Night Series

 * 1) Twilight Phantasies
 * 2) Twilight Memories
 * 3) Twilight Illusions
 * 4) Beyond Twilight
 * 5) Born in Twilight
 * 6) Twilight Vows
 * 7) Twilight Hunger
 * 8) Run from Twilight
 * 9) Embrace the Twilight
 * 10) Edge of Twilight
 * 11) * 10.5. Before Blue Twilight
 * 12) Blue Twilight
 * 13) Prince of Twilight
 * 14) Demon's Kiss
 * 15) Lovers Bite
 * 16) Angel's Pain
 * 17) Bloodline
 * 18) Vampires in Paradise
 * 19) Twilight Prophecy
 * 20) * 18.5. Vacation with a Vampire...and Other Immortals [13 ]
 * 21) Twilight Fulfilled
 * 22) Twilight Guardians
 * 23) Twilight Vendetta
 * 24) The Rhiannon Chronicles
 * 25) Fear the Reaper
 * 26) Young Rhiannon in the Temple of Isis

Wings in the Night: Reborn Series

 * 1) Twilight Guardians
 * 2) * 1.5. Edge of Darkness
 * 3) Twilight Vendetta
 * 4) Rhiannon Chronicles
 * 5) The Fiona Files

Fairies of Rush Series

 * 1) By Magic Beguiled
 * 2) By Magic Enchanted
 * 3) Annie's Hero
 * 4) The Fairy's Wish

Texas Brands Series

 * 1) The Littlest Cowboy (in A Brand of Christmas and The Texas Brand: In the Beginning)
 * 2) The Baddest Virgin in Texas (in The Texas Brand: In the Beginning)
 * 3) Badlands Bad Boy (in The Texas Brand: In the Beginning)
 * 4) Long Gone Lonesome Blues FORMERLY The Husband She Couldn't Remember
 * 5) The Lone Cowboy FORMERLY That Mysterious Texas Brand Man
 * 6) Lone Star Lonely FORMERLY The Baddest Bride in Texas
 * 7) The Outlaw Bride
 * 8) Texas Angel FORMERLY Angel Meets the Badman
 * 9) Texas Homecoming FORMERLY The Homecoming

The Immortal Series

 * 1) Eternity
 * 2) Infinity
 * 3) Destiny
 * 4) Immortality


 * 0.5. Immortality

Oklahoma All-Girl Brands Series

 * 1) The Brands Who Came for Christmas (in A Brand of Christmas and Stranger in Town)
 * 2) Brand-New Heartache (in Stranger in Town)
 * 3) Secrets and Lies
 * 4) A Mommy For Christmas FORMERLY Feels Like Home
 * 5) One Magic Summer FORMERLY Dangerous Lover
 * 6) Sweet Vidalia Brand

Mordecai Young Series

 * 1) Thicker Than Water
 * 2) Colder Than Ice
 * 3) Darker Than Midnight

Secrets of Shadow Falls Series

 * 1) Killing Me Softly
 * 2) Kill Me Again
 * 3) Kiss Me, Kill Me


 * 3.5. Kiss Me Goodbye

The Portal Series

 * 0.5. Legacy of the Witch
 * 1. Mark of the Witch
 * 2. Daughter of the Spellcaster
 * 3. Blood of the Sorceress

Brown and de Luca Series

 * 1) Sleep with the Lights On
 * 2) Wake to Darkness
 * 3) Innocent Prey
 * 4) Deadly Obsession
 * 5) Girl Blue


 * 1.5. Dream of Danger
 * 4.5. Cry Wolf

The Shattered Sisters Series

 * 1) Reckless FORMERLY Reckless Angel
 * 2) Forgotten FORMERLY Forgotten Vows
 * 3) Broken FORMERLY Kiss of the Shadow Man
 * 4) Hollow FORMERLY The Bride Wore a Forty-Four
 * 5) Hunted

The McIntyre Men
Also called Bliss in Big Falls.


 * 1) Oklahoma Christmas Blues
 * 2) Oklahoma Moonshine
 * 3) Oklahoma Starshine FORMERLY Oklahoma Sunlight
 * 4) Shine on Oklahoma FORMERLY Oklahoma Starlight
 * 5) Christmas Blues (in Buckles, Boots and Mistletoe and Baby By Christmas)

Shayne's Supernaturals

 * 1) Forgotten
 * 2) Magic by Moonlight FORMERLY Musketeer by Moonlight
 * 3) Miranda's Viking
 * 4) Everything She Does is Magic
 * 5) Stargazer FORMERLY Out-of-This-World Marriage
 * 6) Witch Moon
 * 7) Zombies! A Love Story

Novels

 * Forever, Dad
 * A Husband in Time
 * Million Dollar Marriage
 * The Gingerbread Man
 * Enemy Mind
 * That Mysterious Man