![]() ![]() Then one day she found out that they did, when her younger sister Jaclyn Moriarty called to say that her first brilliant YA novel was about to be published. The problem was that she didn’t actually believe that real people had novels published. In her spare time, she wrote short stories and many first chapters of novels that didn’t go any further. After that she worked as a (more successful, thankfully) freelance advertising copywriter, writing everything from websites and TV commercial to the back of the Sultana Bran box. She eventually left her position as marketing manager to run her own (not especially successful) business called The Little Ad Agency. She became quite corporate for a while and wore big-shouldered suits and fretted about the size of her office. ![]() ![]() (No-one mentioned you were meant to retain that stuff.) She got excellent marks at university until her last semester, when she did a subject which ‘brought together’ everything she had learned in her degree thus far. She had no agent, so accepted his first offer and wrote a three volume epic called ‘The Mystery of Dead Man’s Island.’ Only volume 2 remains in print.Īfter leaving school, Liane worked in advertising and marketing and did a business degree. Her father ‘commissioned’ her to write a novel for him and offered an advance of $1. She can’t remember the first story she ever wrote, but she does remember her first publishing deal. ![]()
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