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My Writing Style

Questions snagged from Faye L. Booth 1. Are you a “pantser” or a “plotter?” I plan ahead to a degree – I write outlines, chapter and scene breakdowns – but how I get there is up to how I feel as I write, and subject to change. 2. Detailed character sketches or “their character will [...]

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Makeover Time

Hi everyone, I’ve recently merged my main website with this blog. You can now find everything right here, and my domain name has been changed to tarahanks.com. The older, .org address remains open until July, and will redirect all visitors to here. (So if you’re currently linking to my old website, please update – thanks [...]

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“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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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I was born ten years after Marilyn Monroe died, and still can’t remember the first time I saw a photograph of her. It may have been the famous shot where she’s standing with her hands on her hips, wearing a gold lamé dress against a dark background. She was luminous and magical, like a goddess, [...]

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    ‘The Mmm Girl shows Marilyn Monroe as rational and strong, though also fighting the sadness inside her…the real person, created and affected by the actual details of her life…Tara Hanks beautifully conveys Marilyn’s feelings of loneliness and being an outsider…her writing leaves room for the imagination…the last pages of the novel are simple, [...]

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About ten years ago, I regularly read poems and short stories at the Caxton Arms in Brighton. Then when I started writing novels, the urge to perform dwindled. Just a few months after moving back to Brighton, I was asked to read at the ABCtales Evening at St Michael And All Angels’ church on July [...]

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An evening of live literature featuring writers from www.abctales.com The next ABCtales evening will be held at St Michaels Hall, Victoria Road, Brighton on Saturday July 5th – starting at 8 p.m. Admission £3 (£2 concessions). Tara Hanks, a long time ABCtales member, will be reading from her latest book, The Mmm Girl – the [...]

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MarilynFan.org was founded in 2003, by Dutch-based web designer Marloes De Vries. With stunning, innovative layouts, unique information and a high-quality photo gallery, MarilynFan is one of the best sites around, and should be the first stop for anyone wanting to learn more about Marilyn Monroe. Now MarilynFan is back in a new, blog-style format, [...]

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