Grand Arts resident artist’s show centers on cowboys, the frontier and spirits
Ryan Mosley got a huge bounce several years ago, when mega collector Charles Saatchi bought seven of his paintings. In May, Mosley spent a month making paintings at Grand Arts, using its main gallery as a studio. Very silly video about very silly Harlequin romance movies…
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The Australian Winds of Jarrah was inspired by a “Harlequin Romance” novel. Running away from a failed romance, stunning Englishwoman Susan Lyons heads to 19th century Australia. Here she pulls a “Jane Eyre”, becoming nanny for the children of woman-hating Terence Donovan. The tried-and-true formula soon kicks in, and a bodice-ripping affair commences. Sure, Winds of Jarrah is trash…but it’s cla…
The music of romance can dance the blues away. Following an injury, prima ballerina Andrea DeCaro forsakes her career to pursue the dream of starting her own inner-city ballet troupe. Bold and charismatic Rick Petersen – a blues guitarist and noisy neighbor at the dance studio – admires her vision but brashly questions her determination to carry it out. Closed-captioned….
Margaret Tanner belongs to the Romance Writers of Australia, Romantic Novelists Assoc. UK, the Melbourne Romance Writers Group and EPIC.
She has won or been commended in competitions on several occasions. In February 2008, she won the Australian Author of the Year Award from aussieauthors.com. Her unpublished manuscript Storm Girl has made it into the semi-finals in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.
Her World War 1 novel, Devil’s Ridge, from Whiskeycreek Press, finished in the top thirty in the 2007 Preditors and Editors poll.
She has had numerous short stories published over the years, but writing Historical romance novels is her passion. Her favorite historical period is the 1st World War. Not only has she painstakingly researched this era, but was fortunate enough to make a poignant pilgrimage to the battlefields of Gallipoli (in Turkey), France and Belgium.
She is married with three grown up sons, and one grand-daughter. Margaret lives in Australia. She has recently reduced her working hours as a medical typist, to concentrate on writing.
Introduction to Margaret Tanner’s Books:
Retrace the footsteps of your pioneering ancestors and shroud yourself in an historical mantle. Read about rugged, hot blooded frontier men and the resourceful, passionate women who tamed them. Feel for the tortured heroes as they try to forget the blood soaked battlefields of France and Belgium. Weep and rejoice with the staunch, beautiful heroines who save them.
Featuring:
Holly And The Millionaire
by Margaret Tanner
Justin Devereux’s girlfriend has dumped him. Worse still, she has swindled him out of millions of dollars. He befriends Holly Kirwan whose soldier husband has been killed in Iraq. Holly flees to Australia to keep her baby out of the clutches of her ruthless in-laws.
When Holly finally moves into Justin’s apartment she is racked with guilt. How can she fall in love with another man when her husband is barely cold in his grave? Justin in the meantime, is fighting a desperate battle of his own for emotional survival. He thought safe, commitment free sex was all he ever wanted, but after he has driven Holly away, he realizes he can’t live without her.
Book Review:
A woman desperate to protect her child, a man determined to keep his distance. But he can’t. This story sings to you. Forget the housework, lock the door and treat yourself to Holly and the Millionaire. You’ll feel Holly’s pain and fall in love with Justin. Reviewed by Gail Symmonds-04/26/2008
Other Titles by Margaret Tanner:
Cardinal Sin
Devil’s Ridge
Savage Utopia
Shattered Dreams
Stolen Birthright
The Trouble With Playboys
Coming Soon: Wild Oats (Prequel to The Trouble With Playboys)
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The “Golden Age” referred to here spans The Jazz Singer and the advent of the talkies to the death throes of the old studio system in the 1960s. So vast was the era’s musical landscape that even this 42-track, double-disc anthology can’t encompass all its peaks. Not surprisingly, the bulk of this collection originated with the Tiffany’s of the screen musical, M-G-M, a body of work whose riches her…
After scoring popular hits with When Worlds Collide and The War of the Worlds, special-effects pioneer George Pal returned to the visionary fiction of H.G. Wells to produce and direct this science-fiction classic from 1960. Wells’s imaginative tale of time travel was published in 1895 and the movie is set in approximately the same period with Rod Taylor as a scientist whose magnificent time machin…
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