About Kristie Leigh Maguire
(Multi-Published, Award-Winning Author)
Have you read a book lately? Try one of mine!
Best Up and Coming Author of the Year
(Affaire de Coeur Magazine Reader/Writer Poll)
Desert Heat -
Best Romance of the Year
(Affaire de Coeur Magazine Reader/Writer Poll)
Cabin Fever -
Number 5 in the Preditors & Editors Poll
No Lady and Her Tramp-
Top Ten in the Preditors & Editors Poll
Kristie Leigh Maguire is the author of Second Chances, Affairs of the Heart: Desert Heat and Cabin fever (Collector's Edition) Desert Heat, Cabin Fever, No Lady and Her Tramp (along with co-author Mark Haeuser), Emails from the Edge: The Life of an Expatriate Wife, and From the Far Side of the Sun, and has participated in several anthologies. She was voted Best Up and Coming Author of the Year and her novel Desert Heat was voted Best Romance of the Year by the Affaire de Coeur Magazine. Her novels Cabin Fever and No Lady and Her Tramp were in the Top Ten at the Preditor & Editors Poll. Her novel Affairs of the Heart was an Amazon Number One book in Sensual Romance.
Kristie Leigh Maguire and her husband have lived all over the United States and many foreign countries while following his career. While living in Japan, she found it very difficult to find books to read that were written in English. This situation was intolerable as she was an avid reader and had been known to resort to reading cereal boxes if nothing else was available. Have you ever tried to read a cereal box written in Japanese? It was not a pretty picture. She began writing her own books just to have something to read. Since the romance genre was what she loved to read, that is what she decided to write.
Kristie Leigh Maguire is the founder of NUW Independent Authors Community, Co-Founder of Global Authors Publications Inc., Founder of Star Publish LLC, and the Owner and Designer for Book Covers and More.
Although Ms. Maguire is originally from the South and will always remain Southern at heart, she and her husband now live in a small town in Nevada. During her expatriate years, she and her husband lived in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Aruba, Thailand, Japan and three times in Saudi Arabia. During their overseas years they have also visited St. Marteen, St. John, England, the Netherlands, Bahrain, Cyprus, Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Mexico, and Saipan.
Like Barbara Mandrell who was country before country was cool, Kristie Leigh Maguire
was independently published before independent publishing was cool! She was a pioneer
when it came to traveling along the alternative road to publication. She didn't want the 'traditional publishing house gods' telling her what to write or how to write it so it would fit into their formula. Being a child of the 60s, she insisted on doing things her own way.
A Note from Kristie Leigh Maguire
Second Chances is my first new release in a few years. It is available in paperback, e-book, and Kindle versions. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thank you so much for purchasing it. I would appreciate you recommending it to your friends.
As my loyal fans know, my past romance books have been ultra-sensual, hot and sizzling. In Second Chances I am taking a new path with my writing. I am going in a “sweeter” direction with my romances, more character driven.
As my editor, Janet Elaine Smith, said, “This is without a doubt the very best writing I have ever seen you do. I sat here trying to figure out why this was so much better than your other books. I finally see why. You really succeeded in getting inside your characters' heads and you make the reader care about THEM more than about what they did. Keep on keeping on. It's working.”
I have been told by several readers who previewed Second Chances before publication that it was their favorite of all my books. I hope my loyal fans enjoy my new writing style and stay with me, and I extend a hearty welcome my new fans.
