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== Biography ==
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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.
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[[Category:Harlequin American Romance Authors]]
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[[category:Silhouette Shadows Authors]]
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[[Category:Contemporary Romance Authors]]
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[[Category:Romantic Suspense Authors]]
  
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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.
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I live in the teeny, tiny town of Taylor, NY, (Alliteration Alert!) though my mailing address is Cincinnatus, my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler. All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State; Cortland County. There are more cattle than people here. The nearest “big” cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away, in different directions, and not really all that big by most standards, though they both seem humongous to me. I look out my window to see rolling, green, thickly forested hills, wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue, blue skies. My road is barely paved. The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm.
  
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As an author for [[Harlequin American Romance]], [[Maggie Shayne]] contributed a novella to the [[Burning Bright]] anthology.
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My house is a big, century old farmhouse. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006-2007. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was only 60. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. Then came the divorce. And finally there was the fire--it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone.
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No better time to start over. (And no, I didn’t come to that realization that day--there were a few days of wallowing in pity first, particularly the day after the fire, when I hit a deer and smashed up my car, which I was practically living in!)
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That’s when I started to laugh. Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded, uninjured and carefree, out of sight, and laughed. It was just too ridiculous at that point, to do anything else!
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And from there, I picked myself up, and brushed myself off, and said, okay, there’s only one way to go from here. Forward. And that’s what I did. There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph, living in my one, mostly undamaged remaining room, with a dorm-sized mini-fridge, a futon, a TV, my cat (nine lives!) and a laptop. And not much else. (Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire, was a room that had its own attached bathroom!)
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Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home, which really has become my haven, my “Serenity.” I share it now with my fiancé, Lance, and we have accumulated quite the little family together. “Little” being a relative term. We have a pair of English Mastiffs, Dozer and Daisy, who weigh 203 pounds and 208 pounds respectively, and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet, who is bigger than both of them, inside her mind. We also have the aforementioned cat, Glorificus (“Glory” for short,) who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line. And we've acquired a pair of stray cats as well, a mother and son, Luna (Lulu for short) and Butters aka Buddy. Lulu showed up pregnant during a lunar eclipse, had a litter, and vanished again. We found homes for all the kittens except one. Butters. We got him fixed and kept him. A few months later, Lulu returned, again expecting. This litter was born on the "Monster Moon." Again, all the kittens were spayed and neutered and placed in homes, and this time we got Lulu to the vet in time to spay her before the cycle could repeat.
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Glory is not amused.
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She has a story of her own, my old Glory cat, having been with me before the Dark Times descended, she went through it all with me, moved with me, survived the fire, and remains with me still. She's tolerating the newcomers. Barely.
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My partner is an artist, a mechanic, a welder and an inventor, and the rumors are true, he is much younger than I.
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== One the Web ==
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* Official Website [http://www.maggieshayne.com/ Maggie Shayne]
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* Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Shayne]
  
 
== Books ==
 
== Books ==
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* [[Darker Than Midnight]] - 2005
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* ''[[Angel Meets The Badman / Texas Angel]]'' - 2000
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* [[Reckless Angel - Maggie Shayne|Reckless Angel]] - 1993 ([[Silhouette Intimate Moments|Silhouette Intimate Moments #522]])
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* ''[[Angel's Pain]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[Animal Magnetism]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[Annie's Hero / By Magic Bron]]'' - 1997
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* ''[[Anytown U.S.A.]]'' - 2002
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* ''[[Awaiting Moonrise]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[Baby By Christmas]]'' - 2017
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* ''[[The Baddest Bride In Texas|Baddest Bride In Texas, The / Lone Star Lonely]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[The Baddest Virgin In Texas|Baddest Virgin In Texas, The]]'' - 1997
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* ''[[Badlands Bad Boy]]'' - 1997
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* ''[[Beyond Twilight]]'' - 1995
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* ''[[Blood Of The Sorceress]]'' - 2013
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* ''[[Bloodline]]'' - 2009
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* ''[[Blue Twilight]]'' - 2011
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* ''[[Born In Twilight]]'' - 1997
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* ''[[Brand-New Heartache]]'' - 2001
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* ''[[The Brands Who Came For Christmas|Brands Who Came For Christmas, The]]'' - 2000
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* ''[[The Bride Wore A .44|Bride Wore A .44, The]]'' - 2005
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* ''[[Broken]]'' - 2016
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* ''[[Buckles, Boots & Mistletoe]]'' - 2015
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* ''[[Colder Than Ice]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[The Con And The Crusader|Con And The Crusader, The]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[Cry Wolf]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[Dangerous Lover / One Magic Summer]]'' - 2006
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* ''[[The Darkness Within|Darkness Within, The]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[Darker Than Midnight]]'' - 2005
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* ''[[Daughter Of The Spellcaster]]'' - 2013
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* ''[[Daydream Believer]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[Dead By Twilight]]'' - 2015
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* ''[[Dead Man's Women]]'' - 2012
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* ''[[Deadly Obsession]]'' - 2014
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* ''[[Demon's Kiss]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[Destiny]]'' - 2001
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* ''[[Dream Of Danger]]'' - 2013
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* ''[[Edge Of Twilight]]'' - 2011
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* ''[[Embrace The Twilight]]'' - 2003
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* ''[[Enemy Mind]]'' - 2003
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* ''[[Eternal Love]]'' - 2014
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* ''[[Eternally Yours]]'' - 2003
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* ''[[Eternity]]'' - 1998
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* ''[[Everythings She Does Is Magick]]'' - 1997
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* ''[[Fairies Make Wishes, Too]]'' - 1996
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* ''[[The Fairy's Wish|Fairy's Wish, The / By Magic Granted]]'' - 2012
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* ''[[Fairytale / By Magic Beguiled]]'' - 1996
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* ''[[Fatal, But Festive]]'' - 2021
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* ''[[Fatal Family Secrets]]'' - 2022
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* ''[[Fatal Fixer Upper]]'' - 2020
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* ''[[Fatal Phantasm]]'' - 2023
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* ''[[Feels Like Home / A Mommy For Christmas]]'' - 2005
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* ''[[Fiona: Origins]]'' - 2018
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* ''[[Forever, Dad]]'' - 1996
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* ''[[Forever Enchanted / By Magic Enchanted]]'' - 1997
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* ''[[Forgotten]]'' - 2015
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* ''[[Forgotten Vows...?]]'' - 1994
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* ''[[Get Home Before Moonrise]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[The Gingerbread Man|Gingerbread Man, The]]'' - 2001
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* ''[[Girl Blue]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[Her Best Enemy]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[Hollow]]'' - 2017
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* ''[[The Homecoming|Homecoming, The / Texas Homecoming]]'' - 2001
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* ''[[Hunted]]'' - 2017
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* ''[[A Husband In Time|Husband In Time, A]]'' - 1997
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* ''[[The Husband She Couldn't Remember|Husband She Couldn't Remember, The / The Long Gone Lonesome Blues|Long Gone Lonesome Blues, The]]'' - 1998
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* ''[[Immortal Desire]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[Immortality]]'' - 2001
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* ''[[Infinity]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[Innocent Prey]]'' - 2014
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* ''[[The Invisible Virgin|Invisible Virgin, The]]'' - 2003
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* ''[[Kill Me Again]]'' - 2010
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* ''[[Killing Me Softly]]'' - 2010
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* ''[[Kiss Me, Kill Me]]'' - 2010
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* ''[[Kiss Of The Shadow Man]]'' - 1994
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* ''[[Leather And Lace]]'' - 2000
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* ''[[Legacy Of The Witch]]'' - 2012
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* ''[[The Littlest Cowboy|Littlest Cowboy, The]]'' - 1996
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* ''[[Love Me To Death]]'' - 2010
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* ''[[Lover's Bite]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[Magic By Moonlight]]'' - 2012
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* ''[[Mark Of The Witch]]'' - 2012
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* ''[[Melting Frosty / Holly And The Humbug]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[Million Dollar Marriage]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[Miranda's Viking]]'' - 1994
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* ''[[Ms. Terwilliger Goes Rogue]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[Musketeer By Moonlight]]'' - 1998
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* ''[[Night Vision]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[Oklahoma Christmas Blues]]'' - 2016
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* ''[[Oklahoma Moonshine]]'' - 2016
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* ''[[Oklahoma Starshine]]'' - 2016
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* ''[[Oklahoma Sunshine]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[Once Upon a Time]]'' - 2014
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* ''[[Out-Of-This-World Marriage]]'' - 1995
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* ''[[The Outlaw Bride|Outlaw Bride, The]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[Prince Of Twilight]]'' - 2006
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* ''[[Reckless]]'' - 2016
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* ''[[Reckless Angel]]'' - 1993
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* ''[[Return Of The Light / Solstice]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[The Rhiannon Chronicles|Rhiannon Chronicles, The]]'' - 2015
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* ''[[Run From Twilight]]'' - 2003
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* ''[[Secrets And Lies]]'' - 2002
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* ''[[Sheer Pleasure]]'' - 2007
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* ''[[Shine On Oklahoma]]'' - 2017
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* ''[[Sleep With The Lights On]]'' - 2013
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* ''[[Spellbound]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[Stargazer]]'' - 2012
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* ''[[Sweet Vidalia Brand]]'' - 2014
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* ''[[Talk Doggy To Me]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[That Mysterious Texas Brand Man / Texas Guardian / The Lone Cowboy]]'' - 1998
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* ''[[Thicker Than Water]]'' - 2003
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* ''[[Three Witches And A Zombie]]'' - 2016
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* ''[['Til Death]]'' - 2008
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* ''[[The Toughest Girl In Town|Toughest Girl In Town, The]]'' - 2011
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* ''[[Twilight Fulfilled]]'' - 2013
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* ''[[Twilight Guardians]]'' - 2014
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* ''[[Twilight Hunger]]'' - 2002
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* ''[[Twilight Illusions]]'' - 1995
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* ''[[Twilight Memories]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[Twilight Phantasies]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[Twilight Prophecy]]'' - 2012
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* ''[[Twilight Vendetta]]'' - 2015
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* ''[[Twilight Vows]]'' - 1998
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* ''[[Two Hearts]]'' - 2000
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* ''[[Under Her Spell]]'' - 2003
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* ''[[Unmasked]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[Vampires In Paradise]]'' - 2023
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* ''[[Voodoo]]'' - 2002
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* ''[[Wake To Darkness]]'' - 2013
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* ''[[The Widow's Timeless Wager|Widow's Timeless Wager, The]]'' - 2019
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* ''[[Witch Moon]]'' - 2011
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* ''[[Witch Moon Rising]]'' - 2001
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* ''[[Zombies: A Love Story]]'' - 2013
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== Anthologies ==
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* ''[[Brides Of The Night]]'' - 1998
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* ''[[Burning Bright]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[Heart Of Darkness]]'' - 2010
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* ''[[Man Of My Dreams]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[Night's Edge]]'' - 2004
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* ''[[Two By Twilight]]'' -
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* ''[[Vacation With A Vampire...And Other Immortals]]'' - 2011
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* ''[[Veils Of Time]]'' - 1999
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* ''[[Who Do You Love?]]'' - 2000
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* ''[[Wild Thing]]'' - 2007
  
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== Novellas ==
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==Series/Related Titles==
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* "Return Of The Light" in [[Burning Bright]] - November 2004 ([[Harlequin American Romance By The Numbers|Harlequin American Romance #1041]])
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For a complete list of series and related titles see [[Maggie Shayne Series List]]
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* "Her Best Enemy" - ''Night's Edge'', [[Maggie Shayne]] won the [[2005 RITA® Winners|2005 RITA®]] in the [[RITA®: Best Romantic Novella|Best Romantic Novella]] category; Harlequin Books.
 
  
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== Honors ==
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==Awards==
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* [[RITA]]
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*2013  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Paranormal Romantic Suspense, ''[[Sleep With The Lights On]]''
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* [[Romantic Times Magazine]] - [[Career Achievement Award]], 1993/94 Series Romantic Fantasy
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*2005  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Winner - Romance Novella, "Her Best Enemy" in ''[[Night's Edge]]''
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* [[Romantic Times Magazine]] - [[Career Achievement Award]], 1995/96 Romantic Fantasy
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*2001  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Romantic Suspense, ''[[The Gingerbread Man]]''
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*1997  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Contemporary Fantasy, ''[[Forever Enchanted / By Magic Enchanted]]''
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*1997  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Mini Series Romance, ''[[A Husband In Time]]''
  
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== One the Web ==
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==Recognitions==
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* [http://www.maggieshayne.com/ Maggie Shayne] - Official website
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*2013  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Paranormal Romance, ''[[Mark Of The Witch]''
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*2014  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Deadly Obsession]]''
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*2014  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Innocent Prey]]''
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*2013  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Blood Of The Sorceress]]''
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*2013  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Sleep With The Lights On]]''
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*2013  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Wake To Darkness]]''
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*2012  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Daughter Of The Spellcaster]]''
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*2012  [[RT Book Reviews]] Top Pick, ''[[Mark Of The Witch]]''
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*2011  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romantic Suspense, ''[[Kill Me Again]]''
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*2011  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romance Novella, "Love Me To Death" in ''[[Heart Of Darkness]]''
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*2008  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Paranormal Romance, ''[[Demon's Kiss]]''
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*2006  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romantic Suspense, ''[[Darker Than Midnight]]''
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*2005  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romantic Suspense, ''[[Colder Than Ice]]''
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*2005  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romance Novella, "Daydream Believer" in ''[[Man Of My Dreams]]''
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*2004  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romance Novella, "Run From Twilight" in ''[[Two By Twilight]]''
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*2004  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romantic Suspense, ''[[Thicker Than Water]]''
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*2003  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Paranormal Romance, ''[[Twilight Hunger]]''
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*2002  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Paranormal Romance, ''[[Destiny]]''
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*2001  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Long Contemporary Romance, ''[[The Brands Who Came For Christmas]]''
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*2000  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Romance Novella, "Con And The Crusader" in ''[[Twilight Hunger]]''
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*1999  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Long Contemporary Romance, ''[[The Husband She Couldn't Remember]]''
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*1995  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Paranormal/Fantasy/Time Travle Romance, ''[[Twilight Memories]]''
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== Awards (body of work) ==
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*2001  [[RT Career Achievement Award]] Winner - Innovative Series Romance
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*1998  [[RT Career Achievement Award]] Winner - Contemporary Fantasy
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*1995  [[RT Career Achievement Award]] Winner - Series Romantic Fantasy

Latest revision as of 03:44, 2 October 2024


I live in the teeny, tiny town of Taylor, NY, (Alliteration Alert!) though my mailing address is Cincinnatus, my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler. All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State; Cortland County. There are more cattle than people here. The nearest “big” cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away, in different directions, and not really all that big by most standards, though they both seem humongous to me. I look out my window to see rolling, green, thickly forested hills, wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue, blue skies. My road is barely paved. The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm.

My house is a big, century old farmhouse. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006-2007. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was only 60. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. Then came the divorce. And finally there was the fire--it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone.

No better time to start over. (And no, I didn’t come to that realization that day--there were a few days of wallowing in pity first, particularly the day after the fire, when I hit a deer and smashed up my car, which I was practically living in!)

That’s when I started to laugh. Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded, uninjured and carefree, out of sight, and laughed. It was just too ridiculous at that point, to do anything else!

And from there, I picked myself up, and brushed myself off, and said, okay, there’s only one way to go from here. Forward. And that’s what I did. There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph, living in my one, mostly undamaged remaining room, with a dorm-sized mini-fridge, a futon, a TV, my cat (nine lives!) and a laptop. And not much else. (Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire, was a room that had its own attached bathroom!)

Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home, which really has become my haven, my “Serenity.” I share it now with my fiancé, Lance, and we have accumulated quite the little family together. “Little” being a relative term. We have a pair of English Mastiffs, Dozer and Daisy, who weigh 203 pounds and 208 pounds respectively, and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet, who is bigger than both of them, inside her mind. We also have the aforementioned cat, Glorificus (“Glory” for short,) who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line. And we've acquired a pair of stray cats as well, a mother and son, Luna (Lulu for short) and Butters aka Buddy. Lulu showed up pregnant during a lunar eclipse, had a litter, and vanished again. We found homes for all the kittens except one. Butters. We got him fixed and kept him. A few months later, Lulu returned, again expecting. This litter was born on the "Monster Moon." Again, all the kittens were spayed and neutered and placed in homes, and this time we got Lulu to the vet in time to spay her before the cycle could repeat.

Glory is not amused.

She has a story of her own, my old Glory cat, having been with me before the Dark Times descended, she went through it all with me, moved with me, survived the fire, and remains with me still. She's tolerating the newcomers. Barely.

My partner is an artist, a mechanic, a welder and an inventor, and the rumors are true, he is much younger than I.

One the Web

Books

Anthologies

Series/Related Titles

For a complete list of series and related titles see Maggie Shayne Series List

Awards

Recognitions

Awards (body of work)

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