16 Monday Feb 2009
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
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“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, author of Norma Jeane’s Wishes In Time
Read his full review here… Continue reading
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…“
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
05 Friday Dec 2008
Posted in Books, Interviews, The Mmm Girl, Updates, Wicked Baby
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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.
01 Monday Dec 2008
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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. Continue reading
06 Monday Oct 2008
Posted in Interviews, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
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, but the expression on her glossy red lips was hard to decipher. There was something distant and sad, yet also very innocent about her.
An interview with me appears in the latest issue of Club Passion Marilyn, an excellent French magazine. If you would like to join the club, please visit their website here
Tara Hanks 
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