Jill MacLean

{{Short description|Canadian writer}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Jill MacLean<ref name="OttawaCitizen">{{Citation | title = Maritimer makes good writing romance novels | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19860213&id=ca8yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o-8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1401,1286494}}</ref> | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = Sandra Field<br>Jill MacLean<br>Jan MacLean (in collaboration)<br>Jocelyn Haley | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1941}} | birth_place = England | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = [[Novelist]] | language = | nationality = Canadian | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = 1974-Present | genre = [[Romantic novel]], [[children's fiction]] | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse(s) = | partner(s) = | children = | relative(s) = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|http://jillmaclean.wordpress.com/}} | portaldisp = }}

'''Jill MacLean''' (born 1941 in England) is a Canadian writer of [[children's fiction]] books and, under the pseudonyms of '''Sandra Field''', '''Jan MacLean''' and '''Jocelyn Haley,''' a popular author of over 70 [[romance novel]]s for [[Harlequin Enterprises Ltd]] since 1974.

==Biography== Jill MacLean was born in 1941 in England. In 1950, her family moved to [[Nova Scotia]], Canada.<ref name="peibooks.ca">{{Citation|title=Jill MacLean at peibooks.ca |url=http://www.peibooks.ca/Authors/JillMacLean.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193516/http://www.peibooks.ca/Authors/JillMacLean.html |archivedate=2011-07-06 }}</ref>

She graduated in Science with honours from Dalhousie University. After her graduation, she married, and worked on metal-induced rancidity of cod fillets at the Fisheries Research Board{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}, until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of [[Sydney City Hospital]] and the biology department of [[Mount Allison University]].<ref name="peibooks.ca"/>

When her husband joined the armed forces as a chaplain, the family moved 3 times in the first 18 months. Her children went to the school, and she did not consider to work. She read a dozen romance novels, and began to write. When she was published in 1974, she decided to use pseudonyms to avoid that her congregation knew, that the chaplain's wife wrote romances.<ref name="SFHarlequin">{{Citation | title = Sandra Field at Harlequin | url = http://www.eharlequin.com/author.html?authorid=67 | access-date = 2007-06-17 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090125113729/http://www.eharlequin.com/author.html?authorid=67 | archive-date = 2009-01-25 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

She published her romance novels as Sandra Field and Jocelyn Haley, and in collaboration with other Maritimer writer she wrote as Jan MacLean.<ref name="OttawaCitizen"/> She also wrote under her real name a historical biography, a collection of poetry and now to please her grandson, Stuart, she writes also children's books.

Jill is a member of The [[Writers' Union of Canada]]. She completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the [[Atlantic School of Theology]].<ref name="peibooks.ca"/>

Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident. She separated from her husband in 1976<ref name="OttawaCitizen"/>

Jill now lives in [[Bedford, Nova Scotia]],<ref name="peibooks.ca"/> is grandmother of two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.<ref name="SFHarlequin"/>

==Awards== * Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature * The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy: 2010 Atlantic Book Awards.

==Bibliography==

===As Sandra Field=== <ref name="SFFF">{{Citation | title = Sandra Field at Fantastic Fiction | url = http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/sandra-field}}</ref>

====Single Novels==== * To Trust My Love (1974) * Scent of Apples (1975) * Winds of Winter (1980) * Storms of Spring (1981) * Sight of a Stranger (1981) * Walk by My Side (1982) * Attraction of Opposites (1983) * A Mistake in Identity (1983) * The Tides of Summer (1983) * Mackenzie Country (1983) * Change of Heart (1984) * Out of Wedlock (1985) * World of Difference (1985) * One in a Million (1986) * Ideal Match (1986) * Single Combat (1987) * Love in a Mist (1988) * Chase a Rainbow (1988) * The Right Man (1988) * Goodbye Forever (1989) * Ring of Gold (1989) * The Land of Maybe (1990) * Love at First Sight (1990) * Happy Ending (1991) * Safety in Numbers (1991) * Taken by Storm (1992) * One-Night Stand (1992) * Travelling Light (1993) * The Dating Game (1994) * Wildfire (1994) * The Sun at Midnight (1994) * Untouched (1995) * Honeymoon for Three (1996) * Seducing Nell (1997) * Up Close and Personal! (1997) * Girl Trouble (1998) * Remarried in Haste (1998) * The Mother of His Child (1999) * Jared's Love-Child (1999) * Contract Bridegroom (2000) * Expecting His Baby (2001) * The Mistress Deal (2001) * Pregnancy of Convenience (2002) * On the Tycoon's Terms (2002) * Surrender to Marriage (2004) * The English Aristocrat's Bride (2005) * His One-Night Mistress (2005) * The Millionaire's Pregnant Wife (2006) * The Jet-Set Seduction (2006) * The Billionaire's Virgin Mistress (2008)

====Significant Others Series==== # Beyond Reach (1995) # Second Honeymoon (1995) # After Hours (1996)

====Millionaire Marriages Series==== # The Millionaire's Marriage Demand (2003) # The Tycoon's Virgin Bride (2003)

====Wed Again Series==== * Remarried in Haste (1998)

====Man Talk Series Multi-Author==== * Girl Trouble (1998)

====Wedlocked! Series Multi-Author==== * Jared's Love-Child (1999)

====Expecting! Series Multi-Author==== * Expecting His Baby (2001) * Pregnancy of Convenience (2002)

====For Love or Money Series Multi-Author==== * His One-Night Mistress (2005)

====Omnibus In Collaboration==== * Blind to Love (1997) (with [[Catherine George]]) * Bodyguards (1997) (with [[Elizabeth Oldfield]]) * Boardroom Baby (2003) (with [[Emma Darcy]] and [[Kim Lawrence]]) * Pregnant Brides (2004) (with [[Emma Darcy]] and [[Carol Marinelli]]) * Hot Summer Loving (2004) (with [[Jacqueline Baird]] and [[Miranda Lee]]) * His Virgin Lover (2006) (with [[Sara Craven]] and [[Susan Napier]]) * The Tycoon's Virgin (2007) (with [[Daphne Clair]] and [[Cathy Williams]]) * Married to a Millionaire (2007) (with [[Margaret Mayo (novelist)|Margaret Mayo]] and [[Lee Wilkinson]]) * One Passionate Night (2008) (with [[Robyn Donald]] and [[Miranda Lee]]) * Jet-Set Summer Affairs (2009) (with [[Penny Jordan]] and [[Sarah Morgan (novelist)|Sarah Morgan]]) * To Claim His Secret Son (2009) (with [[Lucy Clark]] and [[Julia James]]) * Her Lover Tycoon (2010) (with Amanda Browning and [[Lee Wilkinson]]) * The Right Bride (2010) (with [[Sara Craven]] and [[Jessica Steele]])

===As Jill MacLean=== <ref name="JILLFF">{{Citation | title = Jill MacLean at Fantastic Fiction | url = http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/jill-maclean/}}</ref>

====Historical biography==== * Jean Pierre Roma (1977)

====Poetry==== * The Brevity of Red (2003)

====Children's Fiction==== * The Nine Lives of Travis Keating (2008) * The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy (2009) * Home Truths (2010) * [[The Hidden Agenda of Sigrid Sugden]] (2013)

===As Jan MacLean=== <ref name="JANFF">{{Citation | title = Jan MacLean at Fantastic Fiction | url = http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/jan-maclean | access-date = 2007-06-17 | archive-date = 2008-12-06 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081206000727/http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/jan-maclean/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>

====Single Novels==== * To Begin Again (1978) * Bitter Homecoming (1978) * Early Summer (1979) * White Fire (1979) * Island Loving (1980) * All Our Tomorrows (1982)

====Omnibus In Collaboration==== * The Enchanted Woods / To Begin Again / Handful of Stardust (1986) (with [[Katrina Britt]] and [[Yvonne Whittal]])

===As Jocelyn Haley=== <ref name="JHFF">{{Citation | title = Jocelyn Haley at Fantastic Fiction | url = http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/jocelyn-haley | access-date = 2007-06-17 | archive-date = 2009-02-07 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090207193838/http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/jocelyn-haley/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>

====Single Novels==== * Love Wild and Free (1981) * Winds of Desire (1982) * La Nymphe de Sioux Lake (1983) * Romance D'Automne (1983) * Serenade for a Lost Love (1983) * Cry of the Falcon (1983) * Shadows in the Sun (1984) * Dream of Darkness (1985) * Drive the Night Away (1988) * A Time to Love (1989)

==References== {{Portal|Children's literature}} {{reflist}}

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