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Megan Crane (born c. 1973) is an American novelist who also writes as Caitlin Crews.

Megan Crane
Born
Houston, Texas
NationalityAmerican
Alma materVassar College
University of York
OccupationNovelist
Notable workA True Cowboy Christmas
SpouseJeff Johnson

She is also one half of upmarket paranormal women's fiction author Hazel Beck.


Background


She was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She is the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Goheen, the 16th president of Princeton University and former United States Ambassador to India and is also the great great granddaughter of Sir James Caruthers Rhea Ewing (1854-1925), distinguished Presbyterian missionary educator in what is now Pakistan. Crane graduated from Vassar College, and has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from the University of York in York, England. She is married to Jeff Johnson, the American comic book artist, animator, and one of the founders of the original Drink and Draw Social Club.[1]


Novels


Crane is the author of more than a hundred novels, novellas, essays, and short stories.


Chick lit and Women's fiction



Contemporary romance


As M.M. Crane from Berkley Books:

The Fortunes of Lost Lake series:

As Caitlin Crews from St. Martin's Press:

The Cold River Ranch series:

The Kittredge Ranch series, also set in Cold River, Colorado:

As Caitlin Crews from Harlequin's HQN imprint:

The Jasper Creek series (four stories in one, written with Jackie Ashenden, Nicole Helm, and Maisey Yates):

As Megan Crane from Tule Publishing:


Romantic suspense


The Alaska Force series from Berkley Books:


Biker romance



Dystopian Viking erotic romance



Young adult


She has also written a number of work-for-hire young adult novels under different names, but does not reveal their titles. The first of these hit the New York Times Bestseller list in 2005.


Harlequin category romance


Crane also writes romance novels for Harlequin Presents and Harlequin Historical, two category romance lines from Harlequin, as Caitlin Crews.

Her debut, Pure Princess, Bartered Bride, was published in February 2010, debuting on the USA Today Bestseller List at #112.

Subsequent novels for Presents include:

Her Harlequin Historical novels include:

Crane, as Crews, also wrote nine novels for Harlequin Dare, Harlequin's short-lived erotic romance line.

Her novella "The Reluctant Queen" appears in an anthology called A Royal Engagement (April 2011 in the UK as part of an anthology called A Royal Wedding; November 2011 in North America). She has also written a number of short stories for Presents, Dare, and Woman's World, including "His Christmas Captive" (2011), "His Wife by Christmas" (2013), "Strangers in the Sauna" (2014), "A New Leaf" (2018), "Captured by a Desert King" (2018), and "Unruly" (2018).


Other


In addition to writing books, Crane has taught creative writing courses online at mediabistro and at the prestigious UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She has also contributed essays to It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties, edited by Emily Franklin, Everything I Needed To Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume, edited by Jennifer O'Connell, Writing the Bestseller: Romantic and Commercial Fiction, edited by Jane Porter and Rebecca Lyles, Writing the Bestseller II: Romantic and Commercial Fiction, edited by Lindsey Stover, and A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light, edited by Eleanor Brown.


References


  1. "Megan Crane, Jeffrey Johnson", The New York Times, March 16, 2008. Accessed October 4, 2008.
  2. Marshall, John. "Chick lit is alive and well in Megan Crane's latest novel, 'Frenemies'", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 28, 2007. Accessed October 4, 2008.




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