Most of her books are dedicated to her husband, Paul Quinn, often with references to amusing alternate titles for the work. One of her novels, When He was Wicked, was unusual for a romance novel, as the first four chapters describe the heroine in a happy marriage with someone who is not the hero, and then shows the death of the original husband and deals with the grief of both the heroine and hero before allowing the second love story to flourish. The novels are primarily character-driven, lacking the great external conflicts that many romance novels employ. Her books are noted for being their humor and sharp, witty dialogue. Quinn considers herself a feminist and gives her heroines feminist qualities that are not necessarily true to the most prevalent attitudes of the times her novels are set in. She left medical school and devoted herself full-time to her writing. After a few months of studying medicine, Quinn realized that she preferred writing to medical study. By the time Quinn finally entered Yale School of Medicine intending to become a doctor, three of her books had been published. A few weeks after she was accepted to medical school, she discovered that her first two novels, Splendid and Dancing At Midnight, had been sold at auction, an unusual occurrence for a novice romance author. To occupy herself during the long days of studying science, Quinn began to write light-hearted Regency novels. She postponed medical school for two years while she wrote two more novels. That decision required her to attend two additional years of college to complete the science prerequisites necessary to apply for medical school. During her senior year of college, she realized that she did not know what she wanted to do with her degree and decided to attend medical school. Quinn graduated from Hotchkiss School and Harvard with a degree in Art History. After finishing her novel three years later, she submitted it to Sweet Dreams, but was rejected. Challenged to prove that she meant her statement, Quinn sat down at their computer and wrote her first two chapters. She promptly told him that she was studying them in order to write one herself. At age 12, her father disagreed with her choices of reading material, Sweet Dreams and the Sweet Valley High book series, and told her she could keep reading them only if she could prove that they were good for her. Since her early childhood, Quinn thoroughly enjoyed books.
She was raised primarily in New England, although she spent much of her time in California following her parents' divorce.
She has three sisters: Emily, Abigail, and Ariana. Quinn was born as Julie Cotler in 1970 to Jane and Stephen Lewis Cotler.
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