Her family knows her as Margie K. Tovrea. The writing world knows her as Kristie Leigh Maguire. Is she Kristie? Or is she Margie? It depends upon who you ask. She answers to both names.
As Margie, she followed her husband Stan all over the United States and the world as he pursued his career. While living in Japan in 1997, she had a difficult time finding books to read that were written in English. This was an intolerable situation for her as her passion was reading romance novels.
Did she let the lack of English written books stop her from reading? No. She decided to write her own books. Romance novels. Hot and steamy romance novels.
Margie's preacher father would have turned over in his grave to know that his little girl was writing such "trash." Did this stop her? No. Margie decided to get a pen name and write in the style and genre that she loved. She become Kristie Leigh Maguire.
As Kristie Leigh Maguire, she has published Desert Heat, Cabin Fever, No Lady and Her Tramp, and Affairs of the Heart. Margie, writing as Kristie, has published Emails from the Edge and From the Far Side of the Sun.
She is the founder of the NUW Writers Retreat, co-founder of Global Authors Publications Inc., the Founder and Publishing Consultant for Star Publish LLC, and the owner of Book Covers and More!
She and her husband make their home America's Paradise, better known as St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where life is laid back with plenty of time for "liming on the beach" and cooking up new story ideas.
