Tara
Moss
Speaker Profile
Tara Moss is a novelist, TV presenter and journalist. Since 1999 she has written and published seven bestselling novels, Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess and The Spider Goddess, and been published in 17 countries in 11 languages. She also hosts the true crime documentary series Tough Nuts - Australia's Hardest Criminals on the Crime & Investigation Network, and the author interview show Tara in Conversation on 13th Street Universal. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Australian Literary Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sun Herald and The Daily Telegraph.
Writing has been a lifelong passion for Moss, who began penning gruesome 'Stephen King-inspired' stories for her classmates at 10. She went on to an international career as a fashion model before pursuing professional writing. Her novels have been short-listed for both the Davitt and the Ned Kelly crime writing awards, hit #1 on numerous bestseller lists, and made her Australia's #1 selling crime writer several years running. Her in-depth research has seen her earn her private investigator credentials (Cert III) from the Australian Security Academy, tour the FBI Academy at Quantico, spend time in squad cars, morgues, prisons, the Hare Psychopathy Lab, the Supreme Court and criminology conferences, take polygraph tests, shoot weapons, conduct surveillance, pass the Firearms Training Simulator (FATSII) with the LAPD, pull 4.2 Gs doing loops over the Sydney Opera House flying with the RAAF, and acquire her CAMS race driver licence. Stopping at nothing to research and 'experience' scenes for her novel Siren, Moss was set on fire by Hollywood stunt company West EFX, and choked unconscious by the Ultimate Fighting Championship's first head referee 'Big' John McCarthy.
Tara is a mum, self-professed geek and 'forensic tourist'. She has been an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children since 2000, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and UNICEF Patron for Breastfeeding for the Baby Friendly Heath Initiative (BFHI) since 2011, advocating for better support for breastfeeding mums in hospitals, the workforce and general community. She is currently writing her eighth novel, with the working title of Assassin.
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Client Comments
Client Comments
- No-one really believed she could have written four hugely successful detective novels, and each unaided. Is it possible that such a stunner can actually write? Absolutely...
Vanity Fair - Tara Moss is much more than a pretty face. She's an international best-selling author, ambassador, television host, and reptile-wrangler... she may well become one of the world's best-sellers.
World Literature Today - Tara was wonderful. A delight to deal with and extremely accommodating, especially signing a huge number of her books that members of the audience wanted autographed. She was genuine in her praise of the Karralyka Centre facility and the surrounds and more than happy to pose for photos. Her story and DVD presentation has earned her high praise on our feedback survey including "Tara Moss was entertaining, intriguing and though provoking".
Maroondah City Council - Tara Moss has it all - brains, beauty, and a best-selling thriller...Fetish is a debut novel with kick, from an author who happens to be a supermodel herself, as well as an accomplished, award-winning writer with an acute sense of the macabre.
HarperCollins Canada - As a successful model and author, Tara Moss breaks the mould of both professions.
Melbourne Weekly - [Tara,] Your skills as a speaker are outstanding, and the message you gave was one that should be heard by school students across the state.
The Eating Disorders Support Network - The 25-year old Canadian Jill-of-all-trades, whose modelling assignments have taken her all around the world...knocked the old 'all models are idiots' stereotype on the head.
B Magazine - [Tara Moss is] proving that a woman in heels is a force to be reckoned with.
Jewel Magazine - I think it is important to have a personality like Tara on B&B [panel show Beauty and the Beast], a show a lot of Australians watch, and are influenced by. Maybe a voice like Tara's could open some eyes.
Angelfire Online - We've done three hundred and one shows and that's the first time I've been topped, I can tell you.
Stan Zemanek - Stunning model and author Tara Moss proved the consummate compere.
Brett Lee
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