Tara Moss’s Tweets

Dec 7, 2021

COVER REVEAL! My 14th book, and follow up to The War Widow, is... *drum roll* THE GHOSTS OF PARIS. This second Billie Walker novel is set in 1947 and launches in June with

. Pre-order now: bit.ly/GhostsOfParis

PI Billie Walker looks glorious in a red New Look coat on the banks of the Seine in Paris. It is 1947, and we see ghostly warplanes in the distance. This is the cover of The Ghosts fo Paris by Tara Moss.

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In which we chat about #TheGhostsOfParis, and I give my top #writingtips: "Anxiety kills creativity, so taking the pressure off is key. My number one motto is: Don’t write it right, just write it and make it right later." Thank you so much for the chat,

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· Sep 1

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Disability Without Poverty

@Disability_WP

“By not making our public spaces accessible for everyone, we never get to see people living with pain or disability because – guess what? – they can’t leave their houses.” RT

Tara Moss on the regular, ongoing agony of living with chronic pain

It's tiring to constantly advocate for your inclusion.

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There is widespread misunderstanding around chronic pain, which can leave someone like author and TV presenter Tara Moss in regular, ongoing agony that is more excruciating than childbirth.

If you're at the PNE this weekend and wandering through the Forum, this was what it looked in 1942. It was called Men's Building K and held Japanese Canadians in deplorable conditions. Women and children were sent to the Livestock Building

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This is your weekly reminder that you matter. You are worth more than your size, age, or ability. You're worth more than how the body you are in is perceived by others. You are worth more than the world too often treats you. Look after yourself as if you matter. Because you do

Tara Moss is in her beautiful wheelchair, wearing black and holding a green handbag.

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I’m still processing that JK Rowling apparently made Extremely Online people with chronic illness the baddies in her newest book.

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“Cancer is a teacher and I’m paying attention to the lessons it holds for me,” she added. “One thing it’s shown me already is the importance of community. Of growing and deepening one’s community so that we are not alone.” bit.ly/3RcDMJB

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It's a long weekend -- you'll need two books!

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Sep 2

Blowing kisses to the amazing human that is Keanu Reeves, on the occasion of his 58th birthday. (Oh look, he's blowing kisses to us all right back! **Swoon**)

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It happened! A reviewer suggested that I familiarise myself with the work of Pownall et al (2019, 2020) to understand the field better 🤪

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I spent the last week in inpatient psychiatric care. As a psychologist, this was an incredibly difficult and humbling experience. I want to share some take-aways from my time in the hopes that it will help the psychology community move toward disability justice (thread)

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- This photograph of

was taken the year I wrote that little story, and my life was changed. Also, his yellow suit is ace.

I loved Christine so much it inspired ‘Black and White Doom’, my first tale, written on loose leaf paper. I was 10 and the characters in my

@StephenKing

homage were fellow 10-year-olds asking to be written in and killed off. My first readers. Now I’ve written 14 books. Thank you.

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· Aug 30

Stephen King & Christine 1983

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· Sep 1

Off the Cuff with Tara Moss dietrichkalteis.blogspot.com/2022/09/off-cu

The Ghosts of Paris is the thrilling second novel in

' wonderfully engaging Billie Walker PI historical mystery series.

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Read review: bookloverbookreviews.com/2022/06/the-gh

Canada Hardcover

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Dietrich Kalteis

@dietrichkalteis

· Sep 1

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I want to tell a story. When I was in like 3rd grade, I went with my mom while she dropped some drugs off (yes, she was). Anyways. She left me in the car. This guys comes out to “watch” me and it’s just me and him. He looks over and asks. “You don’t know what a haiku is, do you?”

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#DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because THE BLOOD COUNTESS

The Blood Countess (a Pandora English novel)

is on sale on kindle for a limited time only! amzn.to/3cCkmi3 #TheBloodCountess #Pandora #ad #kindle

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Replying to

I developed CRPS after an accident. Luckily I was diagnosed early. Thanks to intense therapy with a specialist, a brilliant physio & a psych specializing in pain management I managed to beat it. Still get the odd twinge but I'm v lucky. My💚goes out to folk not so lucky, CRPS sux

IDC Indigenous Disability Wellness Gathering

@IDCGathering

Aug 29

FINAL CALL📣for Early Bird Registration (closing Wed August 31). *SPACE IS NOW LIMTED* so don't be surprised if registration closes suddenly & early!😮 Just look at all this fabulous support❤️

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Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence and 9 others

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Stop softening abuse. Stop romanticising it. Stop offering crumbs of sympathy to perpetrators. Victim blaming is so ingrained in our culture it is the default response. It drives stories. It drives profits. It drives the cycle of domestic and sexual violence.

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Accept your body and yourself on your own terms, whatever that looks like. #Acceptance is radical in a world that rejects age (esp for women) and rejects #disability. Do it your way, and let other women express themselves as they feel. It is not a sin. I repeat, not a sin.

Author Tara Moss is wearing beautiful silk underthings, and smiling as she sits in a rental wheelchair.

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Thank you for this compliment. I will add/reiterate that there are many alternatives to the richest author in the world, in the fantasy and crime genres and beyond. (Harry Potter isn't the only great fantasy series, I swear.) Wonderful worlds and wonderful authors to discover!

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Life is short, do something to a bagel

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· Aug 29

Replying to @Telegraph

If any of you want to read an actual, AWESOME, crime thriller series by a woman who stands up for the rights of other people, try Tara Moss' novels. They're incredible, and she's a genuinely delightful person.

We could have changed the world. Normalizing remote work would have reduced carbon emissions, curbed mass infection, freed up space for downtown housing, and put full-time employment within reach for so many more. 1/10

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“This is a story sure to command any reader’s interest. It is full of derring-do, luscious descriptions in the cities of England and France, and appealing and not-so-appealing characters….”—New York Journal of Books THE GHOSTS OF PARIS by

So if you’ve ever wanted to write to an author because you liked their book, do it. You better believe the people who hated the book are sending emails. Think of it as bringing balance to the Force 😎

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Weekly reminder that it's OK to be concerned about a systemic airborne virus that can cause longterm disability or death. It's not "anxiety" and you're not being "negative" by acknowledging these facts.

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Alpine pastels from the mountains of Vancouver Island. 🎨

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A piece I wrote for

in 2019 on embracing #GreyHair: "Australia’s Age Discrimination Commissioner notes, "I have met older Australians who are told to dye their grey hair if they want to keep their job." It's a pressure across continents: smh.com.au/lifestyle/beau #LisaLaFlamme

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Dye-free, grey-proud: Tara Moss embraces an empowering trend

'After 20 months, I have saved a shocking six thousand dollars in salon visits, highlights, dyes, toners and treatments.'

The story of Dr. Khurshid Guru, who created a nebulizer on an Air Canada flight, using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler to help an asthmatic toddler breath [read more: ow.ly/UVYa30nc83t]

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Aug 28

(PS This rental wheelchair was horrible but better than nothing, and now I am lucky to have a glorious, properly-fitting wheelchair, Hera.)

Please stop telling wheelchair users they are 'good little drivers'

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How old does a woman need to be, how professionally accomplished, before she’s no longer talked down to for liking clothes or makeup sometimes? This is me. I won’t hide my 48-year-old disabled body. I hope to have the privilege of continued ageing, on my own terms. It’s not a sin

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EndViolenceAgainstWomen

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· Aug 28

Paulina needs to move on about looking beautiful. So do other women like Tara Moss and Nicole Kidman. Most women and girls do not look like these people. Your beauty and your skinny bodies are not interesting. twitter.com/paulinaporizko…

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Why does a photo of an older woman daring to feel sexy so unsettling to all these same-aged dudes? When I did photos like these as a teen, I sometimes got shamed by women, but never the men. This is a most interesting social experience. The only thing that’s changed is my age.

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Aug 28

Important to know and share this info, and the full 🧵:

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Amanda Linehan

@AMLinehan

· Aug 28

did you know? 10% of children drown while their parents are watching them. WATCHING them. What looks like jumping in the waves can quickly turn into the telltale bobbing or upright drowning position I experienced today.

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