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Maggie Shayne (born 1965) is an American author who wrote 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.




Early life


Shayne lived in Syracuse, New York, before moving to Chenango County, New York. She worked as a waitress prior to becoming an author.
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


Sources:




= Wings in the Night Series

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Twilight Phantasies
Twilight Memories
Twilight Illusions
Beyond Twilight
Born in Twilight
Twilight Vows
Twilight Hunger
Run from Twilight
Embrace the Twilight
Edge of Twilight
10.5. Before Blue Twilight
Blue Twilight
Prince of Twilight
Demon's Kiss
Lovers Bite
Angel's Pain
Bloodline
Vampires in Paradise
Twilight Prophecy
18.5. Vacation with a Vampire...and Other Immortals
Twilight Fulfilled
Twilight Guardians
Twilight Vendetta
The Rhiannon Chronicles
Fear the Reaper
Young Rhiannon in the Temple of Isis




= Wings in the Night: Reborn Series

=
Twilight Guardians
1.5. Edge of Darkness
Twilight Vendetta
Rhiannon Chronicles
The Fiona Files




= Fairies of Rush Series

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By Magic Beguiled
By Magic Enchanted
Annie's Hero
The Fairy's Wish




= Texas Brands Series

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




= The Immortal Series

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Eternity
Infinity
Destiny
Immortality
0.5. Immortality




= Oklahoma All-Girl Brands Series

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




= Mordecai Young Series

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Thicker Than Water
Colder Than Ice
Darker Than Midnight




= Secrets of Shadow Falls Series

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Killing Me Softly
Kill Me Again
Kiss Me, Kill Me
3.5. Kiss Me Goodbye




= The Portal Series

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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

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Sleep with the Lights On
Wake to Darkness
Innocent Prey
Deadly Obsession
Girl Blue
1.5. Dream of Danger
4.5. Cry Wolf




= The Shattered Sisters Series

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Reckless FORMERLY Reckless Angel
Forgotten FORMERLY Forgotten Vows
Broken FORMERLY Kiss of the Shadow Man
Hollow FORMERLY The Bride Wore a Forty-Four
Hunted




= The McIntyre Men

=
Also called Bliss in Big Falls.

Oklahoma Christmas Blues
Oklahoma Moonshine
Oklahoma Starshine FORMERLY Oklahoma Sunlight
Shine on Oklahoma FORMERLY Oklahoma Starlight
Christmas Blues (in Buckles, Boots and Mistletoe and Baby By Christmas)




= Shayne's Supernaturals

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Forgotten
Magic by Moonlight FORMERLY Musketeer by Moonlight
Miranda's Viking
Everything She Does is Magic
Stargazer FORMERLY Out-of-This-World Marriage
Witch Moon
Zombies! A Love Story




= Novels

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




= Anthologies and collections

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See also


Judy Harrow
List of occult writers
List of romantic novelists
Margot Adler
Murry Hope
Neopaganism




References






External links


Maggie Shayne Official Website

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