Maggie Shayne's Blog: Maggie's Coffee House Blog

There will be both audio/podcast and video versions of this post here, on youtube, and on Substack this afternoon. I have a medical thing (no big whoop) in between. Please pardon typos. I'm literally out the door the second I hit publish. Hello, darlings. I'm so happy you come around here to read or watch or listen to my posts, and I apologize that there wasn't one last Monday. Most weekends I can manage all three blogs with video editions and audio for two of them after a full week of...

This is an overview of my collection of stories, with a little bit about each series so you can decide where you want to begin. I got it all into about 5 minutes. The video has text titles in the video, and my narration behind it, so everyone can enjoy a virtual bookstack browsing experience. Where are you going to begin? Click the ALL BOOKS HERE link in the menu up-top and let's get started!

Three modern-day women begin to remember their past lives and deaths as sisters in an Ancient Babylonian king's harem. They were cursed and executed for the crimes of practicing magic and falling in love. Now they must reunite with each other and with their lost lovers from that lifetime in today's modern world to break the curse and save them all. ***There won't be a video or podcast edition of this one folks. The weekend got away from me.*** THE PORTAL SERIES This series made my publisher...

What if Buffy got married, had kids, and kept her past a secret? Transcript is in progress. LINKS: There's now a COFFEE HOUSE BLOG PODCAST! Subscribe here FREE Julie's Website Book 1: Carpe Demon Click the cover! Book 9: The Demon's in the Details Click the cover! The subtitle above is from one of countless rave reviews for Julie Kenner's Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom series. Yes, that's the name of the series. Let me just give you the blurb from the back of Book 1, Carpe Demon . Nobody slays...

Here's the video edition where I read it aloud for you. Scroll down for the text edition. Below is the first chapter of Lone Wolf. Above is the official trailer, wide version. There's a vertical video too . I would love for you to share these videos with your reading friends. Lone Wolf will be available in paperback wherever books are sold, and in ebook on Kindle. Kindle pre-order is available now. Paperback pre-orders will be coming soon. Also of note, we have a plethora of guest authors...

*That title is both a shoutout to Godsmack and a sly reference to my two stand-alone novels almost nobody knows about. Also in this issue, progress on a long-awaited sequel, and the completion of number 116! Here is the VIDEO edition of this post. The text version is below. Part 1: The Frozen Dude The book, Miranda's Viking, came to me as a fully developed scene, like a vision playing out before my eyes. A woman in a white lab coat, standing in front of a control panel, frantically turning...

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Video Edition coming later today. This is full tale of the major event that inspired the Mordecai Young series, Danger After Dawn.

With special guests Eileen Dreyer, Brenda Stanley, and Kari Lee Townsend VIDEO EDITION (Text edition below. Book & Author links in are there.) TEXT EDITION Get some coffee or tea, and a lovely snack and settle in for a chat with the ladies. Authors Brenda Stanley, Kari Lee Townsend, and Eileen Dreyer stopped by to offer their input on the topic of the day, magic and ritual ways we approach our writing. Storytellers are magical people, I think. We make marks upon pages that cause other people...

Book Signings! Here I was in 1996, a chubby-faced baby author who looked bored, but was NOT, with the late Garda Parker on my left, and the late Carolyn Andrews on my right. We were doing a Valentine's Day book signing together, I don't remember where. I really miss these two ladies, great writers both of them, colleagues and friends. VIDEO EDITION ( Scroll down for the text edition.) TEXT EDITION Ahh, book signings! I'm doing my first book signing in quite a long time this coming Saturday...