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Emma Darcy

Wendy and Frank Brennan were a marriage writing team under the pseudonym Emma Darcy.

Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. Her sister was the novelist Maureen Mary (Miranda Lee). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. She obtained an Honours degree in Latin. Her ambition to be an actress was partly satisfied by playing in amateur theater productions. Initially a teacher of French and English, she changed her career to computer programming before her marriage with Frank Brennan and her motherhood settled her into a community life. Her creative urges were channeled into oil painting, pottery, designing and overseeing the construction and decorating of two homes, all in the midst of keeping up with three lively sons and the very busy social life of her businessman husband.

Voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating wonderful stories was soon highly addictive. With their strong interest in people and relationships, the marriage found the world of romance fiction a happy one. In 1983, they published their first novel as Emma Darcy, and now average six new books per year.

In 1993, in the Emma Darcy's 10th anniversary, Wendy and Frank Brennan created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. It had a prize of $2,000 and a guarantee that the manuscript would be seen by an acquiring editor.

Wendy Brennan's life journey has taken as many twists and turns as those of the characters in her stories, whose popularity worldwide has resulted in 60 million books in print. Since 1995, when Frank Brennan died, Wendy writes the novels on her own. Her conviction that we must make all we can out of the life we are given keeps her striving to know more, be more, give more, and this is reflected in all her books. Currently, she has broadened her horizons and begun to write mainstream women's fiction. Other new directions include her most recent adventures of blissfully breezing around the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Louisiana in a red Ford Mustang convertible, and risking the perils of the tortuous road along the magnificent Amalfi Coast in Italy.

Wendy Brennan is currently living on a beautiful country property in New South Wales, she has moved from country to city to towns and back to country, sporadically indulging her love of tropical islands with numerous vacations.

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Subjects

Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, general, English Romance fiction, Fiction, Large type books, Man-woman relationships, Novela, Relaciones hombre-mujer, Australia, fiction, Cuentos de amor, Romance fiction, Australian Romance fiction, Love stories, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Billionaires, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Marriage, fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Adopted children, Anthology, Billionaires, fiction, Brides, Businessmen, fiction, Caterers and catering, fiction

Places

Australia, Sydney, Outback, Bora Bora, Bora Nora, England, Great Barrier Reef, Manhattan (New York), Tanzania, Zanzibar

People

Adam Gale, Angie Cordelk, Ann, Barbie Lamb, Blaize Callagan, Earl Hugh Davenport, Elizabeth Kent, Eve, Gideon Cavilha, Gina, Helen Daley, Ivy Thornton, Jared Eastern, Jason Lombard, Jessica Trelawney, Joe Torelli, Jordan Powell, Judy Campbell, Justin St. John, Kane Marriot, Kelly, Laura Hammond, Liam Shannon, Lissa Gilmore, Madeleine Kane

Time

Contemporary, 1986

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  • Wendy and Frank Brennan

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July 15, 2024 Edited by CGN Edited without comment.
October 4, 2021 Edited by Boobook Added link to Mills & Boon Blog
October 4, 2021 Edited by Boobook Added link to Sydney Morning Herald article
October 14, 2011 Edited by CGN Edited without comment.
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import