Margaret Tanner

Margaret Tanner belongs to the Romance Writers of Australia, the Melbourne Romance Writers Group and EPIC. She has won or been commended in competitions on several occasions. In February 2010, she won the Australian Author of the Year Award from aussieauthors.com. The 2nd time she has won this prestigious award. Her World War 2 novel, The Trouble With Playboys, came 3rd in the Preditors and Editors poll for 2010. Her unpublished manuscript Storm Girl has made it into the semi-finals in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.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 favourite 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.