New Interview with Author Margaret Tanner

We welcome Margaret Tanner to the BWL blog this week. Today we feature a new interview with her, and for the next several days you can catch some excerpts of her BWL work. Enjoy!

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Margaret Tanner is a multi-published Australian author. She loves delving into the pages of history as she carries out research for her historical romance novels, and prides herself on being historically accurate. No book is too old or tattered for her to trawl through, no museum too dusty, or cemetery too overgrown. 

 

As part of her research she has visited the World War 1 battlefields in France and Belgium, a truly poignant experience.  

 

Margaret is a member of the Romance Writers of Australia, the Melbourne Romance Writers Group (MRWG) and EPIC.  She won the 2007 and 2009 Author of the Year at AussieAuthors.com. Her novel Frontier Wife won the Best Historical Romance Novel at the 2010 Readers Favorite Award, and another novel, Wild Oats was a 2011 Finalist in the EPIC awards.

   

Margaret is married with three grown up sons, and a gorgeous little granddaughter.

Outside of her family and friends, writing is her passion.

Website: http://www.margarettanner.com/
Blog:   http://wattleglen-margarettannersblog.blogspot.com/

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BWL:  Why did you choose the genre you write in? Is it your favorite to read, or another reason?

MT:  I have always been interested in Australian history. I like to read it and also write it. I love doing the historical research for my books nearly as much as I enjoy writing the story. I pride myself on being historically accurate. There is nothing worse than reading a book with historical inaccuracies in it.

BWL:  Describe yourself using 5 words.

MT:  Tenacious, focused, temperamental, resourceful, excitable.

BWL:  What might readers be surprised to learn about you?

MT:  That I am a chocoholic.

BWL:  What was your favorite book as a child or young adult?

MT:  Seven Little Australians, which was set during the 1890’s, and written by Ethel Turner.

BWL:  What super power would you like to have and how would you use it?

 

MT:  I would like to be able to travel back in time, and I would use it to research my books.

BWL:  If you could fix one problem in the world what would it be?

MT:  Poverty.

BWL:  If you could go back in time for one day, which time period would you like to visit?

MT:  I would like to travel back to the period of the 1^stWorld War. (1914 – 1918)

BWL:  Choose one person, living or dead, you'd like to share a meal with.

MT:  Florence Nightingale.

BWL:  Name one thing you'd change about yourself if you could.

MT:  I would like to be taller.

BWL:  What's one genre that interests you but you've never tried to write?

MT: Time Travel really interests me.

BWL:  Thanks Margaret! 

Find her BWL books here:  http://bookswelove.net/tanner.php