Maggie Shayne

Like many authors, Maggie Shayne started her career during a long night caring for a fussy child. Out of reading material, she began working on her own story. Since then, she's published over forty novels in addition to writing scripts for Guiding Light and As The World Turns. She is also a practitioner of Wicca, and often works the religion's themes of peace and empowerment into her work.

Her honors include various Romantic Times Magazine Career Achievement Awards, the National Readers' Choice Award, and a RITA (in the fine tradition of Susan Lucci, Maggie Shayne was nominated for the RITA twelve times before winning, for novella "Her Best Enemy". Her novel Eternity was optioned by the motion picture industry.

As an author for Harlequin American Romance, Maggie Shayne contributed a novella to the Burning Bright anthology.

Books

• Darker Than Midnight - 2005
• Demon's Kiss - 2007 (MIRA)
• Reckless Angel - 1993 (Silhouette Intimate Moments #522)

Novellas

• Return Of The Light in Burning Bright - November 2004 (Harlequin American Romance #1041)
• Her Best Enemy - Night's Edge, Maggie Shayne won the 2005 RITA® in the Best Romantic Novella category; Harlequin Books.
• Animal Magnetism - Wild Thing, 2007, (Berkley) won the 2007 P.E.A.R.L. Award for Anthology.

Honors

• RITA
• 1995 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Series Romantic Fantasy
• 1998 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Contemporary Fantasy
• 2001 Career Achievement Award Winner - Romantic Times Magazine - Innovative Series Romance
• 2008 RITA® finalist in the RITA®: Best Paranormal Romance category with her novel Demon's Kiss.

One the Web

• Maggie Shayne - Official website