About Stephanie Julian
Official Bio
Stephanie Julian is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who writes romance with heat, heart, and a touch of magic. From steamy contemporary hockey romance to cozy witch tales and darkly enchanting worlds, her stories pair swoon-worthy heroes with heroines who know exactly what they want.
Her steamy and cozy fantasy romances draw on a signature blend of Etruscan mythology and small-town charm, weaving ancient magic into settings that feel like home. Stephanie writes the kind of escape that keeps you turning pages long past bedtime.
She lives in southeast PA, where she can often be found at regional author events, dreaming up her next world, or reading past her bedtime.
In her own words ...
I love a good happy ending. I have for as long as I can remember. And I've always been a reader. But when I found my mom's stash of romance novels hidden under her bed, I knew they were much more interesting than the books in the school library.
I devoured Rosemary Rogers, Bertrice Small and, most especially, Kathleen Woodiwiss. When I'd exhausted those, I moved on to Harlequins. I read Judith Krantz and Stephen King and Anne Rice. I went to college and studied Shakespeare and the Brontës. And lots of old dead white guys. I don't read much of those anymore. When I graduated and thought, what do you do with a BA in English (if you sang that, you're my people), I got a job writing for the daily local newspaper.
I discovered how to write clean and tight and condense a three-hour meeting with a mob of residents pissed off about a sewer system overhaul into 15 inches in 20 minutes. And at night I read Maggie Shayne, Kelley Armstrong, J.R. Ward, Nalini Singh, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Laurell K. Hamilton, Lora Leigh and Suzanne Brockmann.
After my sons were born, I freelanced, working at home in my drafty attic office, and developed a two-Harlequin-book-a-day habit that turned into a writing habit. My first attempts at romance were firmly rooted in the Harlequin tradition, and I sold my first two romances to Avalon Books under the name Stephanie Scott. But writing sweet romances was not what I'd had in mind. I contracted my first erotic romance to Ellora's Cave and never looked back. Now I write sexy series that combine sultry heat with sweet heart.
These days, I'm also letting my witchy side out to play. My newest series, Magic on Main Street, whisks readers off to a spell-touched little town where the DeLuca witch sisters run a tea shop, stir up a little magic, and fall hard for the men who wander into their world. It's cozy and enchanting, with all the heart you'd expect from me and just a few more spells. The first book, There's Something About Trixi, is out now — and the sisters have plenty more stories to tell.
I'm happily married to a Springsteen fanatic and the mother of two sons who introduced me to the joys of sad, angry boys who scream about bad relationships.