Megan Crane

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Megan Crane
Jeff Johnson
Website[1]

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

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

Background

She was born in

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 over one hundred novels, novellas, essays, and short stories.

Paranormal Women's Fiction

As Hazel Beck with co-author Nicole Helm from Graydon House:

The Witchlore Series:

  • Small Town, Big Magic (August 2022)
  • Big Little Spells (August 2023)
  • Truly Madly Magically (August 2024)

Chick lit and Women's fiction

Contemporary romance

As M.M. Crane from Berkley Books:

The Fortunes of Lost Lake series:

  • Bold Fortune (January 2022)
  • Reckless Fortune (September 2022)

As Caitlin Crews from St. Martin's Press:

The Cold River Ranch series:

  • A True Cowboy Christmas (October 2018)
  • Cold Heart, Warm Cowboy (August 2019)
  • The Last Real Cowboy (January 2020)

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

  • Secret Nights With a Cowboy and bonus novella Sweet Nights With a Cowboy (December 2020)
  • All Night Long With a Cowboy (August 2021)
  • Summer Nights With a Cowboy (March 2022)

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):

  • A Cowboy for All Seasons (March 2020)
  • A Good Old-Fashioned Cowboy (January 2020)
  • Sweet Home Cowboy (March 2022)
  • The Comeback Cowboy (March 2023)

As Megan Crane from Tule Publishing:

  • Tempt Me, Cowboy (September 2013) was the first novella in the Copper Mountain Rodeo series, the flagship e-book project from Tule Publishing's Montana Born imprint.
  • A Game of Brides (May 2014) was nominated for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award in 2015.
  • Please Me, Cowboy (September 2014)
  • Come Home for Christmas, Cowboy (November 2014) was part of the 2015 Montana Born Christmas boxed set that hit the USA Today Bestseller list at #78.
  • In Bed with the Bachelor (March 2015)
  • Her novella "Project Virgin" originally appeared in a self-published boxed set with other authors called Love Ever After, which debuted on the USA Today Bestseller List at #138. It then came out as a single title from Tule Publishing in January 2016.
  • Cody (May 2017)
  • Have Yourself A Crazy Little Christmas (October 2017)
  • Tempt Me Please, Cowboy (September 2023)

Romantic suspense

The Alaska Force series from Berkley Books:

  • SEAL's Honor (November 2018)
  • Sniper's Pride (May 2019)
  • Sergeant's Christmas Siege (October 2019)
  • Delta Force Defender (July 2020)
  • Special Ops Seduction (January 2021)

Biker romance

  • Make You Burn (August 2015) Book One in the Deacons of Bourbon Street series featuring multiple authors, from Loveswept, a division of Random House. The entire Deacons of Bourbon Street series was published by Headline Eternal in the UK.
  • Devil's Honor (November 2016), the first in the Devil's Keepers outlaw MC series, a spin-off of Crane's Deacons of Bourbon Street book.
  • Devil's Mark (January 2017)
  • Devil's Own (May 2017)

Dystopian Viking erotic romance

  • Edge of Obsession (January 2016) Book One in the Edge series from St. Martin's Press.
  • Edge of Temptation (April 2016)
  • Edge of Control (July 2016)
  • Edge of Power (March 2017)
  • Edge of Ruin (August 2017) featuring three novellas set in Crane's post-apocalyptic, futuristic world, "Danger's Edge," "Need's Edge," and "Raider's Edge."

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

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:

  • Kidnapped by the Viking (April 2021)
  • The Viking's Runaway Concubine (July 2022)

Crane, as Crews, also wrote nine novels for

erotic romance
line.

  • Unleashed (October 2018) Book One in the Hotel Temptation series
  • Undone (December 2018) Book Two in the Hotel Temptation series
  • Untamed (March 2019) Book Three in the Hotel Temptation series
  • The Risk (October 2019) Book Two in a quartet with three other authors
  • Teach Me (February 2020) Book One in the Filthy Rich Billionaires series
  • Take Me (May 2020) Book Two in the Filthy Rich Billionaires series
  • Tempt Me (August 2020) Book Three in the Filthy Rich Billionaires series
  • The Pleasure Contract (April 2021) Book One in the Summer Seductions duet
  • Just One More Night (June 2021) Book Two in the Summer Seductions duet

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.

External links

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