Darren Moore biography
Darren Moore is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy, the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and the Australian Command and Staff College (Joint). He has recently left the Australian Army after seventeen years’ service. Highlights of his military service include deployments to Papua New Guinea and East Timor and an exchange posting with the United States Army. He is currently employed as a strategic management consultant.
Darren has a BA, majoring in history, from the University of New South Wales and an MBA from the University of Queensland. He has recently submitted his PhD thesis to the University of New South Wales examining change and continuity in the burdens faced by soldiers over the last two hundred years.
Darren's first book, Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-2001, was launched by the chief of the Australian Army in April 2001.
How I Found the Agency
Given that at the time I was seeking representation I was based in Australia, this gave me pause in approaching a number of literary agents who it appeared were not prepared to take on overseas clients. This was not the case with Andrew, who was already representing a number of my countrymen. Also Andrew, unlike many of his colleagues, had a well-developed website, which enabled me to gauge his ability to represent me based on his track record with similar books in the genre. Finally, Andrew, again unlike many of his colleagues, was prepared to accept submissions by email which, for a foreign-based author, greatly cut down the cost and the time delay in the process.
