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Julianne MacLean discusses her 25-year writing career and her latest book, WHAT TOMORROW WILL BE, exploring themes of grief and love.

USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean has spent 25 years writing stories that take you all the way down — and then lift you right back up. In this episode of the Fresh Fiction podcast, Samantha Tennant sits down with Julianne to talk about her 40+ book career, her evolution from Harlequin historical romances to sweeping contemporary fiction, and the book she’s most proud of yet: WHAT TOMORROW WILL BE. WHAT TOMORROW WILL BE is the story of Sienna, a woman whose life is quietly reordered by grief, second chances, and the haunting pull of her first love. Julianne calls it ”tragedy with a happy ending” — and she means it. Because when you’ve been through real heartbreak, real fear, real love... the light on the other side matters more. In this conversation, Julianne opens up about the six years and five unpublished manuscripts it took to land her first Harlequin deal, how she moved into self-publishing with a 13-book contemporary series, and why she is still reinventing herself — including a surprise announcement about her new publisher and an upcoming time travel romance she may have revealed a little too early. Plus: Jane Eyre, Skittles, a traumatized rescue dog named…

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