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FAST FACTS
- Maya spent time in France as an exchange student.
- Maya got married in the county clerk’s office in Tennessee and then went bow hunting for her honeymoon.
- Maya worked as an EMT before she realized she’d rather write about drama than experience it in real life.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Maya has hit the New York Times and USA Today bestseller list in every format and genre she's written in. Mass market, trade paperback, category romance, and digital only.
- Book 8 in the KGI series, After the Storm, debuted at #1 on the New York Times mass market bestseller list and remained on the list for three weeks.
- The third book in Maya's Breathless trilogy, BURN, debuted at #1 on both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. It remained on the New York Times list for three weeks and on the USA Today list for eight weeks.
- FEVER, the second book in the Breathless trilogy, debuted at #2 on the USA Today bestseller list and #2 on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. It remained on the New York Times bestseller list for six weeks and on the USA Today bestseller list for 10 weeks.
- The first book in the Breathless trilogy, RUSH, debuted at #4 on the USA Today bestseller list and reamined on the lists for thirteen weeks. It debuted at #3 on the New York Times digital bestseller list, #3 on the print/digital best seller list, and also hit #10 on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, remaining on the list for twelve weeks.
- Shades of Gray, book 6 in the KGI series, debuted at #4 on the New York Times Mass Market bestseller list and #11 on the digital New York Times Bestseller list and #13 on the USA Today Bestseller list.
- Maya’s ebook only release of Colters’ Daughter hit both the USA Today and New York Times bestseller list and was the first digital only title to hit either list.
- Maya's Harlequin Desires, Enticed By His Forgotten Lover (Sept 2011) and Wanted By Her Lost Love (Nov 2011) hit the New York Times bestseller list.
REQUESTS & INQUIRIES
Are you interested in contacting Maya for guest blogging, interviews, anything publicity related?
Please contact Maya’s publicists:
For her Berkely books, please send your request to Erin Galloway.
For her Avon books (the Slow Burn series), please send your request to Kaitlyn Kennedy. If your request isn't book-specific, email both, or either of these talented publicists, and Maya’s team will help to facilitate.
Fellow authors looking to request cover quotes, or for screenplay options requests, or the like?
Please contact Maya's agent:
Kimberly A. Whalen
The Whalen Agency, Ltd.
55 Greens Farms Road #200-64
Westport, CT 06880
(203) 292 9168
TheWhalenAgency.com
kwhalen@thewhalenagency.com
Attention readers: Please do not contact Maya’s agent to ask questions about Maya’s books. There is a robust FAQ page and a way to ask new questions right here on this site.
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PRESS PHOTOS
Maya appreciates all the requests for photographs for press use. The following images are available for download in .zip format. All images are jpgs. Please let us know where you post your article so we can link to it. Thanks.
Photos courtesy of Ben Riley Johnson, Jr.
Maya Banks is the #1 New York Times and #1
USA Today bestselling author of the Breathless trilogy and more than sixty novels across many genres,
including erotic, contemporary, historical and paranormal, all with a happily ever after.