Tara Moss
Encyclopedia
Tara Moss is a bestselling Canadian
-Australia
n author
, television presenter, journalist and former model
.. She has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and the UNICEF Australia Patron for Breastfeeding for the Baby Friendly Health Initiative since 2011, advocating for better support for breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, the workforce and the general community.
, Moss took up residence in Australia in 1996 and currently resides in Sydney and Los Angeles where her novels are being adapted for the screen. She holds both Canadian and Australian citizenship and has held licenses as a private investigator and race car driver (CAMS), and holds a motorcycle license and wildlife/snake handling license. Moss has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children since 2000. She has won the Scarlet Stiletto Young Writers Award, been shortlisted multiple times for both the Ned Kelly and the Davitt awards, and she has been honoured with a bronze star on the Australian Walk of Fame as the first person inducted for services to literature.
shown across Europe and in Australia/New Zealand. She is known for her in-depth novel research which has included touring the FBI and LAPD, shooting firearms, being set on fire, being choked unconscious by Ultimate Fighter 'Big' John McCarthy, flying with the RAAF and spending time in morgues and courtrooms and earning her Certificate III as a private investigator at the Australian Security Academy.
Canada
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Australia
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n author
Author
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, television presenter, journalist and former model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
.. She has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and the UNICEF Australia Patron for Breastfeeding for the Baby Friendly Health Initiative since 2011, advocating for better support for breastfeeding mothers in hospitals, the workforce and the general community.
Biography
Born in Victoria, British ColumbiaVictoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
, Moss took up residence in Australia in 1996 and currently resides in Sydney and Los Angeles where her novels are being adapted for the screen. She holds both Canadian and Australian citizenship and has held licenses as a private investigator and race car driver (CAMS), and holds a motorcycle license and wildlife/snake handling license. Moss has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children since 2000. She has won the Scarlet Stiletto Young Writers Award, been shortlisted multiple times for both the Ned Kelly and the Davitt awards, and she has been honoured with a bronze star on the Australian Walk of Fame as the first person inducted for services to literature.
Personal life
She is married to Australian poet and philosopher Dr. Berndt Sellheim., grandson of German-Australian artist Gert Sellheim. Moss gave birth to a daughter, Sapphira, on 22 February 2011.Writing and Television career
Tara Moss is a novelist, TV presenter and journalist. Her books are published in 17 countries in 11 languages and include the internationally best-selling and critically acclaimed crime novels Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, and Siren. In November 2010 her sixth bestselling novel The Blood Countess was published as the first in a new paranormal fiction series featuring Pandora English. The sequel, The Spider Goddess will be published in December 2011. Her writing has appeared in Australian Literary Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sun Herald, The Daily Telegraph and more. She hosts the true crime series 'Tough Nuts - Australia's Hardest Criminals' on the Crime & Investigation Network, and 'Tara Moss In Conversation' on 13th STREET Universal channel. She previously hosted the crime documentary series Tara Moss Investigates on the National Geographic ChannelNational Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual...
shown across Europe and in Australia/New Zealand. She is known for her in-depth novel research which has included touring the FBI and LAPD, shooting firearms, being set on fire, being choked unconscious by Ultimate Fighter 'Big' John McCarthy, flying with the RAAF and spending time in morgues and courtrooms and earning her Certificate III as a private investigator at the Australian Security Academy.
Novels
- Fetish (1999)
- Split (2002)
- Covet (2004)
- Hit (2006)
- Siren (2009)
- The Blood Countess (2010)
- The Spider Goddess (2011)
- Assassin (2012)
- The Skeleton Key (2012)
Short stories
- Psycho Magnet (Winner of the Scarlet Stiletto Young Writers' Award in 1998)
- Know your ABCs (Second place winner of the Scarlet Stiletto Award in 1999)
- Intuition
TV
- Tough Nuts - "Host" (2009 - 2012) ,
- Tara in Conversation - "Host" (2010 - 2012)
- The 7pm project
- Tara Moss investigates (2006)