Maggie MacKeever, Novelist

My name, in the world of tax returns and self-serving politicians and ever-increasing gasoline prices, is Gail Burch.

Ever since I learned to read, I have loved books.

For almost as long, I have made up tales.

I’ve written horrible poetry, better short stories, adequate commercials, educational and industrial film narration, and very forgettable screenplays. Once I learned how to make a story last longer than a few paragraphs I moved on to novels, and there I stayed.

It seemed oh-so-important once, like it made me a Real Writer, to have a pseudonym. I’ve been a Writer long enough now that I don’t much care whether I’m considered Real or not, but I still have the pseudonym.

As Maggie MacKeever, I write historical mystery and romance.

Maggie MacKeever, aka Gail Clark and Grace South, is the author of forty-plus novels, most of them set during England’s Regency era, including The Tyburn Trilogy and her excursion into the paranormal, also a trilogy, The Edinburgh Vampires. Her first story, about a witch who lived in a tree, was written in third grade. During her various forays into legitimate employment — negative stripper for a college yearbook company; secretary for a telephone company, the ARCO Prudhoe Alaskan pipeline project, a local psychic, and a post production sound house; and, longest, dialogue editor and supervisor for television and feature films — she also wrote commercials, educational and industrial film narration, and screenplays. (And thank-you notes for the psychic, but those were hardly a career highlight.)

She has been published by Fawcett Crest, Pocketbooks, Doubleday, Putnam, Zebra, and, most recently, Belgrave House/Regency Reads and Vintage Ink Press.

Maggie lives in Los Angeles with two spoiled housecats, where she is at work on her Gay Nineties Mystery series, set in 1890’s New York.

“Maggie MacKeever is a genius with this type of offbeat tale, filled with a multitude of lovable, zany characters guaranteed to meddle outrageously on love’s behalf.”–Romantic Times

“Maggie MacKeever takes readers on a fun-filled ride.”—The Romance Readers Connection

“If you don’t like your Regencies funny, don’t read Maggie MacKeever. However, if you like to laugh out loud, she’s the writer for you.” —Classic tv hits.com

“Fans and new readers will be thrilled with this delightfully zany tale from longtime Regency favorite Maggie MacKeever. It’s laugh-out-loud good.”–Romantic Times

“This charming Regency tale is a sure fire winner.” —A Romance Review

 “Maggie MacKeever’s keen sense of humor and her command of the Regency language puts her right up there with the greats like Georgette Heyer. This is a delightful book that you will not be able to put down.” —Romance Junkies

 “Maggie MacKeever does it again! She’ll have you in stitches as one mishap leads to a misunderstanding that leads to argument that leads to a duke sleeping in his dressing room. This book is just one more reason she is compared to the greats, and ensures her place among them”–Romance Junkies

Contact information: mackeever@yahoo.com