Julianne MacLean is a Canadian author of romance novels, primarily historical romance. She lives in Nova Scotia.
Maclean earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of King's College in 1987. She went back to school to study accounting, and in 1992 received a degree in Business Administration with a major in accounting. She worked in the Office of the Auditor General before quitting to focus on writing her romance novels. She sold her first novel, Prairie Bride, to Harlequin in 1999. [1]
In 2005, her novel Love According to Lily won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Best Regency-Set Historical Romance Award. [2]
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