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‘Writers’ Hub’ On Radio Reverb

17 Sunday May 2009

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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 show included interviews with local author Sue Eckstein and a feature on the City Reads project, as well as an extract from my novel, The Mmm Girl, read by Shannon Magness, and a new poem by me on the subject of festival, Music Reminds Us.

You can download my segment of the show here – hope you enjoy it!

My Writing Style

15 Friday May 2009

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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 be revealed to me as a I write”? Quite detailed, I write character profiles but I discover more when I get down to writing scenes.

3. Do you know your characters’ goals, motivations, and conflicts before you start writing or is that something else you discover only after you start writing? My books are fact-based, but in my current novel the information I have is more about the background, time and place. The people I’m writing about now are real but I know very little about them – sometimes just when they were born, married, died. So despite being densely researched, the mainstay of my work is instinct and imagination. Continue reading →

Makeover Time

21 Saturday Mar 2009

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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 in advance!)

Coming soon is the next in my series of Madonna album reviews, Like A Prayer. And after many months of research, I started writing my third novel last November – so that is keeping me very busy.

Hope you like the new-look site and, as always, thanks for reading!

Tara Hanks

‘The Mmm Girl’ Reviewed By Faye L. Booth

14 Sunday Dec 2008

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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…“

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Faye L. Booth is the author of two lively, unusual historical novels,Cover The Mirrors and the forthcoming Trades Of The Flesh. She has also published a review of The Mmm Girl – read more

January Magazine

05 Friday Dec 2008

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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 January Magazine, but there is also a strong emphasis on new writing and in this spirit, an interview with me has now been added to the site.

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