News : February 2012

  • The Spider Goddess is out now. Visit the official website, and get to know Pandora English on her own Facebook page.

  • Check out Tara Moss in Conversation, as Tara interviews authors including Lynda La Plante, Michael Connelly, Ken Follett, Neil Cross, Val McDermid, Peter James and more. And check out her monthly crime book club 'Tara Moss Recommends' on the 13th STREET website.

  • Check out Tara's latest interviews for The Spider Goddess: Moss A Rolling Stone At Home - Herald Sun, Tara Moss loves spiders and snakes (and writing) - ABC Radio, Tara interviewed on The Project - Network Ten, Tara Moss reveals the vampire's OCD personality in new book 'Spider Goddess' - ABC Radio, Tara Moss transforms Arachne - Sydney Morning Herald, and Moss Lured By Dark Side - The West Australian.
  • Tara has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and she now takes on a larger role as UNICEF Patron for Breastfeeding for the Baby Friendly Heath Initiative (BFHI) advocating for better support for breastfeeding mums in hospitals, the workforce and general community. To find out why she agreed to take on this role, read her blog 'A new role and an old debate' and listen to her chat with the ABC's Jill Emberson.

  • Read some of Tara's latest non-fiction writing: Plenty of Porn, Not as Much Love , When Mothers Have Support, Breastfed Babies Thrive, Home Births Don't Deserve To Be Demonised, her travel/ghost story A Night With The Ghosts and Beauty Obscures The Beast, about the portrayal of female criminality on screen.

  • Tara's 5th Mak Vanderwall thriller Siren is now out in paperback, having hit #1 on the SMH Australian Fiction List and #1 on the Australian Bestseller list. Famous for her hands on research, Tara was set on fire by Hollywood stunt company West EFX, choked unconscious by Ultimate Fighter 'Big' John McCarthy, and earned her Certificate III as private investigator to research Siren. (ORDER Siren now.)

  • Latest releases: Tara's novel Fetish is now available in Japanese, Split has just hit Brazil, and Hit and Siren have been launched in the UK as lead titles for John Blake Publishing's MaxCrime imprint with Maxim Jakubowski, who calls Tara's novels 'Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton for a younger generation'. Crime Time, UK says '...there is nary a wasted word in this visceral novel... [Moss] shines here, and her protagonist Mak is highly distinctive.'

  • Thriller fans in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Japan, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand can now buy Tara's bestselling crime novels in their local language at their local book shop. Start reading today...