Barbara Hannay
Encyclopedia
Biography
Hannay has long been interested in writing. When she joined the Brownies as a child, she earned her first proficiency badge in writing. Throughout her school years, Hannay continued to write, especially short stories and poetry, but never attempted to publish any of her work. As an adult, she taught English on the high school level. One year she was assigned to teach English for Year 11 students, with a required focus on popular fiction. She intended to use romance novels as an example of popular fiction that focuses on stereotypical characters and plots. After reading several Mills and Boon romances, however, she "recognised ... that today's romances have the same ingredients I enjoyed in the classic girls book I read when I was young. ... all these stories had spirited heroines and gorgeous guys who were perfect for them". She enjoyed the short length of the novels and the fact that they focused on women and left hope of a happy ending.For over four years, Hannay wrote contemporary romance novels and attempted to find a publisher. She was rejected four times before her work was accepted by the Harlequin
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd
Harlequin Enterprises Limited is a Toronto, Ontario-based company that is a publisher of series romance and women's fiction. Owned by the Torstar Corporation, the largest newspaper publisher in Canada, the company publishes approximately 120 new titles each month in 29 different languages in 107...
Romance line of "sweet" category romances. The first book she sold was set in the Australian outback, and many of her others have also used that setting. Her novels have been translated into 20 languages, including Arabic, Russian, and Japanese, and are especially popular in the United States
United States
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, France
France
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, and Italy
Italy
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.
In 2007, Hannay won the Romance Writers of America
Romance Writers of America
Romance Writers of America is a national non-profit genre writers association. It provides networking and support to individuals seriously pursuing a career in romance fiction and supports top authors such as Nora Roberts and Judith McNaught.-History:...
RITA Award for Best Traditional Romance for her novel Claiming His Family. She has also been twice nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, winning in 2001 for Outback with the Boss.
Southern Cross Ranch series
- The Cattleman's English Rose (2004)
- The Blind Date Surprise (2005)
- The Mirrabrook Marriage (2005)
Novels
- Outback Wife and Mother (1999)
- The Wedding Countdown (1999)
- Borrowed Bachelor (1999)
- Outback Baby (2000)
- Outback With the Boss (2000)
- The Pregnancy Discovery (2001)
- The Wedding Dare (2001)
- Their Doorstep Baby (2002)
- A Bride at Birralee (2002)
- A Wedding at Windaroo (2003)
- A Parisian Proposition (2003)
- Her Playboy Challenge (2003)
- Princess in the Outback (2004)
- Her Secret, His Son (2004)
- Having the Boss's Babies (2005)
- Christmas Gift: A Family (2005)
- Claiming The Cattleman's Heart (2006)
- Claiming His Family (2006)
- In the Heart of the Outback... (2007)
- Needed: Her Mr Right (2007)
- The Bridesmaid's Best Man (2008)
Omnibus
- Outback Weddings (2003) (with Margaret WayMargaret WayMargaret Way is an Australian writer, and she is one of Mills & Boon's most prolific authors with more than 110 novels.-Biography:Margaret Way was born on 7 August in Brisbane, Australia...
) - Bride at Birralee / Stormbound Surgeon (2004) (with Marion LennoxMarion LennoxMarion Lennox is a popular writer of over 60 medical romance novels. She began publishing in 1990. She has also written "tender" romantic novels under another pseudonym, Trisha David.-Biography:...
) - Her Playboy Challenge / The Outback Bridal Rescue (2005) (with Emma DarcyEmma DarcyEmma Darcy is the pseudonym used by the Australian husband-wife writing team of Wendy Brennan and Frank Brennan , they wrote in collaboration over 45 romance novels. In 1993, in the Emma Darcy Pseudonym's 10th anniversary, They created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish...
) - Her Nine Month Miracle (2005) (with Marion Lennox and Cathy WilliamsCathy WilliamsCathy Williams is a British writer of romance novels in Mills & BoonWilliams was born on Trinidad in the West Indies. She lives in Chiswick London, England which her husband Richard and their three daughters; Charlotte, Olivia and Emma.-Single Novels:...
) - Outback Proposals (2006) (with Lindsay ArmstrongLindsay ArmstrongLindsay Armstrong is a popular South African-Australian writer of over 65 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1981.Armstrong was born and raised in South Africa, and married a New Zealand-born man who worked in West Africa...
and Jessica HartJessica HartJessica Hart is a popular British writer of over 45 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1991.-Biography:Jessica Hart was born in Cameroon, where her mother continues living. She has traveled by Australian Outback, Indonesia, Belize, Cameroon, Algeria and Afghanistan.She published her first book...
) - Wedding Vows (2007) (with Jessica Hart and Catherine SpencerCatherine SpencerCatherine Spencer is a popular Canadian writer of over 40 romance novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1986. She also signed her books as Kathy Orr.-Biography:...
) - Seduced by the Playboy (2007) (with Amanda BrowningAmanda BrowningAmanda Browning is an English writer of over 25 romance novels since 1987.-Biography:Amanda Browning is a twin, who grew up in a big family in the borders of Essex....
and Kim Lawrence)