Jan Moran

Jan Moran is a 9-time USA Today and 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of heartwarming fiction, including the feel-good, contemporary beach read series of Summer Beach, Coral Cottage, Crown Island, and Love California. Her riveting, immersive historical family sagas include Hepburn’s Necklace, The Chocolatier, The Winemakers, and The Perfumer. St. Martin’s Press, Goldmann/Penguin Random, and Newton Compton have published her novels, along with her imprint, Sunny Palms Press.

Jan’s books are also available in large print and audiobook editions. Her work is translated into German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Lithuanian, Polish, Bulgarian, and other languages.

At present, Jan is working on the next books in her series, adapting The Winemakers for a dramatic television series, expanding her catalog of books, and forming partnerships for film and television projects.

She has been featured in numerous publications and on television and radio, including CNN, Women’s Wear Daily, Allure, InStyle, and O Magazine. As an editor and writer, she has covered fragrance, beauty, and spa travel for various publications from Cosmopolitan to the Costco Connection.

Jan is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and the University of Texas at Austin. As an entrepreneur and former CEO and board member, she speaks on entrepreneurship, the business of writing, women in business, and other topics.

In her former professional life, Jan was the founder and creator of Scentsa, a touch-screen software program for retailers and brands. The fragrance and skincare programs (FragranceIQ, SkinIQ) are at Sephora stores in the US, Canada, France, Mexico, Brazil, and Denmark.

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