Welcome to Maggie's Madness!

Hi, everyone! I'm here ready to party with some of my best friends, and I like to think that includes you. I'm so excited to be a Storybroad, and I think this site is going to become a favorite for a lot of you in record time. It's already my most visited place on the web.

I'm Maggie Shayne, and I've published 40 some-odd novels. Only my Grandma could tell you the exact number--I kind of stopped counting, but she knows every last one of them. The books include lots of paranormals, (my vampire and Witch series being the most widely known of those,) lots of category romances, several romantic suspense novels, tons of anthologies and a few other things thrown in for good measure. I love writing, can you tell? I've garnered lots of awards, including (finally!) the RITA, after only fourteen nominations. I added a fifteenth this year, but got skunked again. Rats! I need another statue so they can be bookends, you know? My books have hit a bunch of bestseller lists, thanks to you readers; NY Times, USA Today, Waldens, Ingrams, etc. (I love when that happens. One thing you'll learn about me here, is that I thrive on praise of any sort, and weep at a hint a criticism. Sensitive type? You got it!)

I live in the most beautiful area I can imagine, way out in the country in central New York state. Rolling hills and farmland and state forests as far as the eye can see. It's the perfect place for writing. I'm a modern day Witch, and I practice spells and charms, and do rituals under the moonlight just about as often as I bathe. It's an everyday thing for me. So naturally I'm also into herbs and gemstones and tarot cards and alternative healing methods and just about anything else you can think of that would be termed "odd." (Odd is my middle name. Honest. Maggie Odd Shayne. What, you think I'm kidding?) My only pet right now is a 12 year old English bulldog named Wrinkles, who is my most loyal pal. She can barely see or hear, and has breath that would stop a truck, but I love her anyway.

Other things I enjoy are running, (so that I can eat whatever I want and not worry about it!) music, movies, TV, the outdoors, and family. I'm a water junky, love the water, swimming, boating, just sticking my feet in, dancing in the rain, you name it. My musical tastes run the full range from hardcore stuff like Godsmack and old-school Metallica, to mellow new age artists like Enya and Dar Williams, to really good country (though I'm fussy about what constitutes "really good,") to Stevi Nicks and Sheryl Crow and the Eagles and a bunch more. In movies, well, I can't help it, I like stupid comedies. The dumber the better. Oh, I enjoy other films, too, but the dumb stuff (which is really brilliant stuff) is my favorite. To list a few, Airplane, Young Frankenstein, Men in Tights, A Brief History of the World, Monte Python's Holy Grail, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, and so on. I watch them over and over, know them by heart, and still laugh until I tear up. I'm a big fan of The Princess Bride, too. Not much is thrilling me on TV lately, but I have a few "must see" choices: Lost (when they deign to show a new episode), House, Psyche, Monk, and, okay, I have to admit to a couple of reality shows--America's Next Top Model and Rock Star, Supernova. I know, I know. But they're so FUN.

Anyway, my life has been in a state of total, turn-me-inside-out transformation lately, and that's what I'll likely be blogging about. New house, new life, brand new chapter to the vampire series, empty nest, (emptier than I had planned, actually) and a bunch of other changes. I'm a single adult for the first time in--well, ever.

So I hope you'll join me here to share in my
(mis?)adventures. And give me advice! Goddess knows, I need it.

Hugs,
Maggie