Six Things You Didn't Know About Margo Maguire

1. I was a soloist in my high school and college choirs, and also a singer in a rock band during high school and just before college. I had a powerful alto voice, and when necessary, I sang tenor to bolster that section. I hardly ever sing any more – only to my ipod when I’m working in the kitchen, which cracks my husband up.  

2. I love to cook, especially when it’s a full-out, big-deal meal with special ingredients and complicated instructions. Then I like to light a bunch of candles and serve the meal using my favorite linens and my good china. Also – really great music playing quietly in the background on my ipod.  

3. My husband and I were together for 6 years before we married. After 3 years together, we decided to set a date, but then my dad had a heart attack, so we put it off. My father’s condition deteriorated over the next 2 years, so we kept setting our date back. As of this summer, we’ve been married 29 years.  

4.One of my favorite books is The Count of Monte Cristo,  although I’ve always wished it wasn’t quite as dark, and there was more romance.  A lot more romance! The plight of Edmond Dantes was the inspiration for the conflict of my hero in The Rogue Prince, although the similarities end there. I was very happy not to include 300 pages that covered his imprisonment! And the chemistry between the hero and heroine starts from the very beginning. It’s very hot, very sensual… My favorite kind of story!  

5. I was once an artist, specializing in pencil-portraits. In fact, I started my college career as an art major and somehow ended up becoming a registered nurse. I found that it took a lot of creativity to handle all the situations that came up in the intensive care unit. So my imagination was tremendously challenged, even then.  

6. I started reading romances when my kids were young and I worked the second shift as a nurse in the intensive care unit of a major urban trauma center. Since I couldn’t go to sleep  as soon as I got home, I would read to unwind. It’s how I started writing, too. I figured it was a great way to relax.