Foreigners

[just mercedes]

You mean to tell me there are no great Australian novels written by supermodels?

When I was eleven years old I thought I had a book I liked written by someone from Australia, but he turned out to be Austrian. I think a lot of Americans get confused over things like that.

Tara Moss - Tara Moss is a novelist, television presenter and journalist. Since 1999 she has written seven bestselling novels and been published in seventeen countries in eleven languages. Her writing has appeared in Australian Literary Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Sun Herald, Daily Telegraph, Weekend Australian and more. Writing has been a lifelong passion for Moss, who began penning gruesome 'Stephen King-inspired' stories for her classmates at the age of ten. 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 No. 1 on numerous bestseller lists, and made her Australia's No. 1 selling crime writer several years running.
(from http://www.harpercollins.com.au/authors/...D=50000630)