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Sarah Pinborough [0-0] English

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Sarah Pinborough is an English-born writer. Her works have been compared to those of Bentley Little, Richard Laymon and Dean Koontz. She also writes fantasy novels for children under the name Sarah Silverwood. Pinborough tweets prolifically and has been described as one of Twitter's funniest female Tweeters. She is a regular guest at genre conventions in England and internationally. She was Mistress of Ceremonies at the controversial 2011 British Fantasy Society awards in Brighton in 2011.

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I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it right in the first half, people will forgive you, and then you can move on with the story.		101
I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing.		102
I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.		103
I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.		104
I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.		105
My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.		106
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.		107
Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.		108
The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.		109

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