Quotes by 'Sarah Pinborough'

Sarah Pinborough

Sarah Pinborough is an English-born horror 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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emulate john natural six

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.

creepy good great medium monsters mysteries scare tend thrillers

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.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

adds far gives less people perspective places travelled

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.

novels wrote

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

written

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.

I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.

almost basically deciding fell google halfway historical results thames victorian

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.

bogged people

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.