MOIRA MOORE
While sitting at my desk in junior high, so bored I was prepared
to chew my own arm off if it meant getting out of class, I instead nicked a
notebook from the supply shelf and wrote about a girl, bored out of her mind in
class. Only that girl was a wizard, and the school was one of magic. While I am
heartily relieved that there is no public evidence of that novel, anywhere,
writing books saw me through many boring classes in the following years of high
school, university, and law school. (Is there anything more tedious than
studying the Ontario Planning Act? I don’t think so.)
I find the books most fun to write are those morphed from real life. RESENTING
THE HERO, recently sold to Ace along with an untitled sequel, is a fantasy novel
strongly influenced by my two and a half years spent teaching English as a
Second Language in Japan. Also, by hearing of a professional athlete getting
paid hundreds of millions of dollars in endorsements, and being called a hero
for being able to put a ball through a hoop. Being ticked off seems to give my
writing an extra vim.
When I’m not writing, I’m practicing family law at O’Flynn Weese Tausendfreund
LLP, the best law firm in the world, eating food that is bad for me, and sitting
on the dock by the bay. The only the thing breathing in my apartment is me,
since I managed to neglect my mother’s impossible-to-kill plant to death. I live
in Ontario, Canada.