Joanie MacNeil

Australian romance author, Joanie MacNeil, has published six contemporary novels and written as many short stories. She is also contracted to write short stories for Dream Lover Fantasies. Joanie is a member of Romance Writers of Australia, Romance Writers of America® (Australian Chapter), Romantic Novelists Association, England, the ACT Writers Centre, and EPPRO - The Electronically Published Professionals.

Her dreams are to travel more and to live by the sea. Scotland is one of her favourite places.

"Writing category romance was the last thing on my mind when I enrolled in a six week freelance writing course in 1994. Towards the end of the course, I'd decided freelance writing wasn't for me, and when we touched on writing romance novels, I was as hooked by the idea as I was by the historical romance books I'd begun to read only a couple of years before. Five years later saw the release of A TIME FOR LOVE from New Concepts Publishing, followed by two releases that same year from DiskUs Publishing, A TRADITIONAL AFFAIR and DESPERATE AND DATELESS. I have written nine romance novels. Two of my books are set in Scotland and have Australian heroines. After visiting there, I couldn't resist the temptation to give my books a Scottish flavour.

When I'm not involved in writing-related activities, I work full time as a Personal Assistant, temping for one of Canberra's leading employment agencies."