From
http://www.lianemoriarty.com/
Liane was born on a beautiful November day in 1966 in Sydney. A few
hours after she was born, she smiled directly at her father through the
nursery glass window, which is remarkable, seeing as most babies can’t
even focus their eyes at that age.
Her first word was ‘glug’. This was faithfully recorded in the
baby book kept by her mother. (As the eldest of six children, Liane was
the only one to get a baby book so she likes to refer to it often.)
As a child, she loved to read, so much so that school friends
would cruelly hide their books when she came to play. She still doesn’t
know how to go to sleep at night without first reading a novel for a
very long time in a very hot bath.
She can’t remember the first story she ever wrote, but she does
remember her first publishing deal. Her father ‘commissioned’ her to
write a novel for him and paid her an advance of $1.00. She wrote a
three volume epic called, ‘The Mystery of Dead Man’s Island’
After leaving school, Liane began a career in advertising and
marketing. She became quite corporate for a while and wore suits and
worried a lot about the size of her office. She eventually left her
position as marketing manager of a legal publishing company to run her
own (not especially successful) business called The Little Ad Agency.
After that she worked as (a more successful, thankfully) freelance
advertising copywriter, writing everything from websites and TV
commercials to the back of the Sultana Bran box.
She also wrote short stories and many first chapters of novels that
didn’t go any further. The problem was that she didn’t actually believe
that real people had novels published. Then one day she found out that
they did, when her younger sister
Jaclyn Moriarty called to say that her (brilliant, hilarious, award-winning) novel,
Feeling Sorry for Celia was about to be published.
In a fever of sibling rivalry, Liane rushed to the computer and wrote
a children’s book called The Animal Olympics, which went on to be
enthusiastically rejected by every publisher in Australia.
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| Liane and sister Jaci |
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| Liane (right) and sister Jaci today |
She calmed down and enrolled in a Masters degree at Macquarie
University in Sydney. As part of that degree, she wrote her first novel,
Three Wishes.
It was accepted by the lovely people at Pan Macmillan and went on to be
published around the world. (Her latest books are published by the
equally lovely people at Amy Einhorn Books in the US and Penguin in the
UK)
Since then she has written four more novels for adults, as well as a series of books for children.
In August 2013 Liane’s fifth novel The Husband’s Secret was
released in the US and within two weeks had climbed the charts to become
a #1 New York Times Bestseller. Much champagne was drunk.
Liane's youngest sister
Nicola Moriarty
has also released 2 novels, a wonderful, gripping story called
Free-falling and her brilliant follow up novel, Paper Chains published
by Random House.
Liane is now a full-time author. She lives in Sydney with her
husband and two small children who like to climb all over her while she
tries to write helpfully smashing their fists against the keyboard and
suggesting she might like to watch the Wiggles instead.
Once upon a time she went heli-skiing and skydiving* and scuba
diving. These days she goes to the park and ‘Gymbaroo’ and sings ‘I’m a
Little Cuckoo Clock’ at swimming lessons. She has discovered that the
adrenaline burst you experience from jumping out of a plane is
remarkably similar to the one you get when your toddler makes a run for
it in a busy car park
*She should disclose that she only ever went skydiving once and has no
intention of ever doing it again. She just likes to give the impression
that she once led an incredibly active, athletic life to make up for all
the hours she now spends lying around reading novels and eating Turkish
Delight.
