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About Maggie Shayne The Author
It was a sleepless night spent caring for a sick baby that jump-started New York Times Bestselling Author Maggie Shayne's writing career.
A voracious reader and prolific writer from childhood, Maggie found herself without a book to read while coddling the colicky child. So instead she began spinning a tale of her own, creating a plotline that evolved in her thoughts until, a few days later, she sat down and wrote the story in longhand.
Now the author of more than forty novels, ranging from stories about Witches, vampires, psychics and ghosts, to bone chilling, edge-of-your-seat romantic suspense and beyond. The genres she has mastered include women's fiction, category romance, romantic suspense, and paranormal fiction. Maggie has honed her lyrical prose and made a name for herself on the New York Times, USA Today, Amazon.com, B.Dalton, Booksense, Ingram's, Barnes and Noble, and Waldenbooks (where she reached #1) bestseller lists.
Maggie is the winner of numerous awards, including two Romantic Times Bookclub Career Achievement Awards, the National Readers Choice Award, and the coveted RITA Award, for which she was nominated twelve times before finally winning.
She has also written for CBS daytime dramas, Guiding Light and As the World Turns. One of Maggie's novels, Eternity, has been optioned for film.
Today, Maggie finds empowerment and solace in her spirituality and often believes her strong background in Wicca into her novels, creating intriguing characters and involving stories that sometimes (more often than not, in fact) take a walk on the mystical side.
Her exploration of Witchcraft began some 13 years ago, when she developed an interest in the Tarot. Soon thereafter, she discovered that the four suits of the Tarot were also the four basic elements of Witchcraft; Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
"I've always been interested in the 'esoteric,' and the more I studied Wicca, the more I realized that the principles that I had always believed in, had their roots in Witchcraft," says the author. "I'd been a spiritual seeker, reading and studying many belief systems and gradually building my own understanding; 'building a mystery,' as Sara Mclaughlin puts it in the song. When I found Wicca, it was astounding to me to learn that those things I thought were uniquely my own, were actually beliefs shared by an entire subculture. There were all these people whose spirituality was an echo of my own; people who called themselves Witches."
Now an Elder in the Wiccan faith, Maggie has studied the Craft for many years. She took more than three years of formal training in the widely known Black Forest Clan Circle and Seminary, led by author Silver RavenWolf, where she learned about divination, astrology, herbalism, theology, natural magick and much more. She earned her way to the level of Third Degree High Priestess, making her legal clergy. But the learning never stops, and she is currently studying Shamanism, pastoral Counseling, and Reiki.
After leaving Black Forest in 2001 in order to forge a new path, Maggie became one of the founders of a new tradition (or denomination) if Wicca, known as RavenMyst Circle, which trains its own students and is incorporated as a nonprofit organization.
A voracious reader and prolific writer from childhood, Maggie found herself without a book to read while coddling the colicky child. So instead she began spinning a tale of her own, creating a plotline that evolved in her thoughts until, a few days later, she sat down and wrote the story in longhand.
Now the author of more than forty novels, ranging from stories about Witches, vampires, psychics and ghosts, to bone chilling, edge-of-your-seat romantic suspense and beyond. The genres she has mastered include women's fiction, category romance, romantic suspense, and paranormal fiction. Maggie has honed her lyrical prose and made a name for herself on the New York Times, USA Today, Amazon.com, B.Dalton, Booksense, Ingram's, Barnes and Noble, and Waldenbooks (where she reached #1) bestseller lists.
Maggie is the winner of numerous awards, including two Romantic Times Bookclub Career Achievement Awards, the National Readers Choice Award, and the coveted RITA Award, for which she was nominated twelve times before finally winning.
She has also written for CBS daytime dramas, Guiding Light and As the World Turns. One of Maggie's novels, Eternity, has been optioned for film.
Today, Maggie finds empowerment and solace in her spirituality and often believes her strong background in Wicca into her novels, creating intriguing characters and involving stories that sometimes (more often than not, in fact) take a walk on the mystical side.
Her exploration of Witchcraft began some 13 years ago, when she developed an interest in the Tarot. Soon thereafter, she discovered that the four suits of the Tarot were also the four basic elements of Witchcraft; Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
"I've always been interested in the 'esoteric,' and the more I studied Wicca, the more I realized that the principles that I had always believed in, had their roots in Witchcraft," says the author. "I'd been a spiritual seeker, reading and studying many belief systems and gradually building my own understanding; 'building a mystery,' as Sara Mclaughlin puts it in the song. When I found Wicca, it was astounding to me to learn that those things I thought were uniquely my own, were actually beliefs shared by an entire subculture. There were all these people whose spirituality was an echo of my own; people who called themselves Witches."
Now an Elder in the Wiccan faith, Maggie has studied the Craft for many years. She took more than three years of formal training in the widely known Black Forest Clan Circle and Seminary, led by author Silver RavenWolf, where she learned about divination, astrology, herbalism, theology, natural magick and much more. She earned her way to the level of Third Degree High Priestess, making her legal clergy. But the learning never stops, and she is currently studying Shamanism, pastoral Counseling, and Reiki.
After leaving Black Forest in 2001 in order to forge a new path, Maggie became one of the founders of a new tradition (or denomination) if Wicca, known as RavenMyst Circle, which trains its own students and is incorporated as a nonprofit organization.
The first time that I did dock trials on a ship in 1997 as a Naval Officer, I had Maggie Shayne's "Wings In The Night" book. I had never read a vampire/paranormal romance at all before that date. I was nervous about being on a ship for the first time in my life. My "Wings In The Night" book started my love of vampires, vampire romance, and paranormal. It spoke to my soul and it made me feel I had my own private world on a ship of many. So the first three books that was in "Wings In The Night" is why I love Maggie Shayne. Maggie Shayne laid the foundation and Christine Feehan that can be found on my squidoo lens solidified the relationship http://www.squidoo.com/christinefeehan
For centuries, loneliness has haunted them from dusk till dawn. Yet now, from out of the darkness, shines the light of eternal life . . . eternal love.
Reason # 1
Cruel fate condemned Eric Marquand to walk forever in shadow -- alone. To possess his soulmate was to destroy her. But Tamara believed in taking fate into her own hands . . .
Reason # 2
Rhiannon was a dangerous creature of the night. If Roland cast her away, it would be like driving a stake through her heart -- exactly what the mortal on her trail wanted!
Reason # 3
He was the greatest of his accursed kind. But Damien's ancient mystic power was threatened by a terrible weakness -- a passion for a woman of mortal flesh and blood . . .
Books By Maggie Shayne
The Twilight Series Vampire Romance:
Wings in the Night Reissue contains:
Book 1
Wings in the Night: Twilight Phantasies / Twilight Memories / Twilight Illusions (Twilight Series Books 1, 2, & 3)
Book 1 Twilight Phantasies - Eric & Tamara,
Book 2 Twilight Memories - Roland & Rhiannon,
Book 3 Twilight Illusions - Damian & Shannon
At Twilight Reissue contains:
Run From Twilight\Twilight Vows (Twilight Series Book 9 and 6)
Book 9 Run From Twilight Micheal & Mary
book 6 Twilight Vows - Donovan & Rachel
Book 10 Edge Of Twilight Edge & Amber Lily
Book 11 Blue Twilight - Lou & Maxie
Book 12 Prince Of Twilight - Vlad & Stormy
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5.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 stars - This rich relationship driven ensemble piece is the first book in Shayne's new vampire series.,
By melindeeloo
While Demon's Kiss has paranormal romance overtones it is very much a relationship driven ensemble piece that develops a very interesting group of characters and relationships.
Seth has been waiting all his life for something and has had visions of a woman, a woman who is somehow wrapped up in his destiny. When Sean is mugged, beaten and left for dead Sean readily accepts vampire Reaper's offer of immortality and even on the brink of death Sean realizes that at last he is on the road to fulfilling his purpose. Reaper former CIA assassin during life and now vampire rogue hunter has compelling reasons for shunning any relationship, but since Seth is the one Chosen with whom Reaper has an undeniable bond, Reaper cannot ignore his compulsion to protect Seth. In Shayne's vampire world this bond is not necessarily a romantic bond and Reaper's bond with Sean allows Sean to begin to crack the isolation that loner Reaper has maintained in life and death.
Sean is also the catalyst for cementing the ragtag group that begins to form around Reaper, much to Reaper's frustration. Initially the group is Sean, Reaper, Roxy and Topaz. Roxy, the only non-vampire, is a seer and powerful in her own right. Roxy is the voice of reason for the group and was previously Reaper's only friend and privy to his dark secret. Topaz is a socialite pampered princess on the surface but tough and smart underneath. Topaz hooks up with the group to seek vengeance on the vampire that stole her heart and her money. The remaining important characters are associated with the rogue group that Reaper hunts: Vixen - held captive by the group - is Sean's mystery woman. Vixen is both vampire and fox-shifter but alien in her thinking, almost more fox than woman even when in human form. Briar - beautiful, dark and cruel, is no longer able to feel her own pain and revels in inflicting it on others. And Jack - perpetual con-man, is the vampire who broke Topaz's heart. Jack is always running a scam, loyal only to himself, he never lets any one close to his heart.
It is very difficult to write a decent synopsis for Demon's Kiss because all seven main characters have distinct personalities and roles to play in the action. Shayne intertwines her characters and sets up their relationships, so that while you can see six of them starting to pair off, there are other friendships and other bonds developing between the group that are just as important. Shayne does a good job weaving her story with threads following various members of the ensemble, coming together, splitting off and reforming.
Demon's Kiss is not one of those series romances that focuses solely on a single couple as they take their romantic turn in the spotlight. While Sean & Vixen's is the only romance that runs full course here, there is a strong foundation laid for the past and future relationship between Topaz and Jack. Reaper is also such a strong character that there is no way to keep Reaper staying meekly in the background. The beginning of the complex relationship between Reaper and the evil Briar, whose soul is just as dark and damaged as Reaper's own, steals the spotlight at times. I look forward to seeing where both of those relationships go in the follow on books: Lover's Bite (May 2008 Jack & Topaz) and Angel's Pain (Oct 2008 Reaper & Briar).
Demon's Kiss is set in the same world as Shayne's popular Wings in the Night/Twilight Series (Rhiannon makes a brief appearance here) so check these out if you are looking for something to tide you over until May. Some of the older stories are being released as ebooks, Shayne's website has summaries and a `family tree' that shows the connections between books, she also has a movie trailer for Demon's Kiss by the same production company that does Christine Feehan's, the short one is fun and the longer one a bit hokey.
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