Three years old today… ‘Happy birthday, Norma Jeane…’ A hundred kids sang to me in the dining hall, the younger ones banging their spoons on the long table. Mrs Dewey pushed open the swing doors, wheeling a teacart. On it was a large pink and white cake with just one candle. I got up, and [...]
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Happy Birthday to ‘The Mmm Girl’
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, tagged Brighton, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl, UKA Press on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
‘The Mmm Girl’ in Boston
Posted in Art and Photography, Books, The Mmm Girl, tagged Boston, Elizabeth Grammaticas, Marilyn Monroe, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“My copy has paint on it – which is the semi-official way of saying that it is love. I keep it in my studio…” Elizabeth Grammaticas
Moon in the Gutter
Posted in Books, Film, Interviews, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Profumo Affair, The Mmm Girl, Websites, Wicked Baby, Writing, tagged Donna Tartt, Emily Bronte, Frida Kahlo, Jeremy Richey, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Moon in the Gutter, Tara Hanks on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jeremy Richey has interviewed me about my influences – books, films, movies and more – over at his wonderful ‘Moon in the Gutter’ blog. Well worth checking out for Jeremy’s insightful reviews, ten of which are published in a new book, Directory of World Cinema: American Independent.
Everlasting Star
Posted in Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Websites, tagged Everlasting Star, Marilyn Monroe on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
June 1st marks what would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 84th birthday. With this in mind, I’m launching a second blog today. ES Updates is part of the Everlasting Star community, which I first discovered back in 2004.
Around the World with ‘The Mmm Girl’
Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates, tagged Marilyn Monroe, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few sightings of The Mmm Girl across the globe. Contact me if you’d like to be added to the gallery!
‘Writers’ Hub’ On Radio Reverb
Posted in Books, Brighton, The Mmm Girl, Updates, Writing, tagged Amy Riley, Brighton, Radio Reverb, Tara Hanks, Writing on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Radio Reverb is Brighton’s alternative, a community radio station where people can express themselves, open up dialogues and set their own agendas about what’s important, interesting, funny, cool or arty in the city. Today marked the launch of Writers’ Hub, a new hour-long literary programme devised, produced and presented by Amy Lynn Riley. The first [...]
‘The Mmm Girl’: A Haunting Experience
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates, tagged Marilyn Monroe, Stuart P. Coates, The Mmm Girl on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Mmm Girl has left an indelible series of images in my memory..this novel is more accurate, in many ways, than anything else that has been written about Marilyn and it is the only book to ever leave me with a lasting impression of the loneliness and desperation of her real life.” Stuart P. Coates, [...]
‘The Mmm Girl’ Reviewed By Faye L. Booth
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates, tagged Faye L. Booth, Marilyn Monroe, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“In ‘The Mmm Girl’, Tara Hanks resists the temptation to make Monroe into a strong woman as we today would understand the term, and thereby gives us a far more believable and affecting heroine…no mean feat when time and legend have transformed her into a goddess made of celluloid and rhinestones…“ Faye L. Booth is [...]
January Magazine
Posted in Books, Interviews, The Mmm Girl, Updates, Wicked Baby, tagged January Magazine, Linda L. Richards, Marilyn Monroe, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
January Magazine was established in 1997 by Linda L. Richards, author of mystery novels including Death Was The Other Woman, and has become one of the most respected literary journals online. A sister publication, The Rap Sheet, is devoted to crime fiction. Authors such as Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie have all been interviewed at [...]
A Note Of Thanks
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates, tagged Marilyn Monroe, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today marks a year’s passing since publication of my novel, The Mmm Girl: Marilyn Monroe, By Herself. Now I would like to remember here all the people who helped me during the writing of this book.
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