Hi Friends,
It is a sad day
having to say goodbye to Romancing the Genres. Sarah and Judith have done a
magnificent job over all these years to keep us entertained and informed.
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| Author, Margaret Tanner |
Well, what can I say
about me? I am an Award Winning, Best Selling Australian author.
I like to think my stories will
always tug at your heartstrings and evoke strong emotions.
I do not use AI in the telling of my
stories.
On a personal level,
I am a widow who lost her husband of fifty years at the end of Covid. I have three
grown up sons and two lovely granddaughters.
I was one of the
early, regular contributors on Romancing the Genres. It was a long time ago and
yet it sometimes feels like yesterday.
At the time, I was
writing historical romance and was with a publisher. I think I had just started
my self-publishing career. Over the last several years, I have concentrated on
self-publishing and now only write Sweet Historical Western Romance.
Writing westerns
might seem strange for an Aussie author, but I have always loved watching the
western movies on TV. Little Joe Cartwright from Bonanza was my hero.
Surprisingly, or
maybe not, frontier America and frontier Australia had many similarities – a
large single male population, few respectable women of marriageable age, and
vast distances to travel. Hence, mail-order brides were a popular way of
finding a wife. I have written quite a few Mail-Order Bride books for this very
reason.
One of the few differences
between our countries were your cowboys wore their guns in holsters, whereas
here in Australia, our frontier men mainly stuck their handguns in their belt
or just carried rifles on their horses for protection in the wild, untamed
wilderness, where danger could lurk around every corner.
Our early settlers,
built log cabins or sometimes only bark huts, using what material there was at
hand. Like you, there was often warfare between the white man and the
Aborigines/Indians, leading to death and destruction.
We also had long
cattle drives like you did, sometimes lasting for months.
We had large
landholders, squatters for us/ranchers for you. And off course, there were
selectors/nesters who were given small parcels of land by the government. Often
this land was in the middle of a rich landholder’s property. This brought on
trouble, leading to intimidation and even range wars as the squatters/ranchers
fought to keep what they believed was theirs, even though they hadn’t paid for
most of the land. I have written a Range War series because the topic so
interested me.
We had
bushrangers/outlaws who held up stagecoaches, banks etc. Most of these wanted
men ended up with bounties on their heads. The authorities weren’t too fussed
about whether they were brought in dead or alive. Sound familiar? And yes, I
have written stories with my heroes being bounty hunters.
I have about 190
books up on Amazon now. Most of them are around the 30k mark, perfect for a
quick read. They are all in KU.
Many thanks to Sarah
and Judith, and of course all of you loyal supporters, who made this blog such
a special place to visit.
As I mentioned Mail
Order Brides in my article, I thought you might like this five book Collection.
BETRAYED MAIL-ORDER
BRIDES COLLECTION
Discarded Mail-Order
Bride
Betrayed by a friend,
Dalton McManus spent years in jail for a crime he did not commit.
Dalton McManus lives
on his isolated ranch, brooding and
resentful.
Mail-order bride,
Jessica Eames is accused of being a sorceress by the grandmother of her
intended groom. Discarded and alone in the wilderness, she stumbles on to
Dalton’s ranch seeking sanctuary.
Can these two people,
whose lives have been blighted by injustice, forget the past and find happiness
together?
Duped Mail-Order
Bride
Is Fletcher a friend
or a foe?
Sara Brady has been
corresponding with a man who doesn’t exist.
When she arrives in
Carson City as a mail-order bride, she discovers she has been duped by a man
thirsting for revenge.
Abandoned in a
rundown fort, she finally escapes with the help of a man called Fletcher.
But what will she do
when she discovers it was Fletcher’s uncle who duped her? Can love flourish
under such clouds of mistrust?
Barefoot Mail-Order Bride
Mail-Order Bride, Sarah Linley, waits for her groom in
church. Instead of marrying her as promised, Jason Thomas robs her, even taking
the shoes off her feet. After tying her and the preacher up, he steals from the
church and leaves.
Bounty Hunter, Dillon McMahon, knows his stepbrother is
no good, but even he is shocked at Jason’s latest crime.
Rather than let Sarah be ruined by a further series of
disasters, Dillon reluctantly agrees to marry her.
Marriage between these two people is certainly not a
match made in heaven. Or is it?
Deceived Mail-Order Bride
New Orleans and Texas 1876
Anna Simpson loses her home and job. The streets of New
Orleans beckon unless she can quickly find another job.
Unemployed and desperate, she decides to become a
Mail-Order Bride for a wealthy businessman.
She arrives at Dry River with six-year-old orphaned Max
to a drunk and abusive prospective groom.
Connor Grey believes he is not worthy of a woman’s love
because of his scarred face. He sees Anna being abused, and after stepping in
to help is left with her and the child.
Anna’s situation is now dire. She came to marry one man,
dare she wed another?
Forgotten Mail-Order Bride
Miranda Kingston’s feckless brother takes out a mortgage
on their ranch, then leaves town and she is left to pay off the debt.
With the bank clamoring for their money and threatening
to foreclose, she takes the desperate step of attempting to become Rowan
Carstairs’ Mail-Order Bride. After exchanging several letters, they agree to
marry. Then the letters suddenly stop.
Why would Rowan propose marriage then forget about his
bride-to-be?
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