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" The strange thing about living somewhere for a couple of years and then moving on and not returning is that those locations become ghosts of themselves in your mind. "

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" I would quite like to become a mainstream thriller writer, obviously, because I enjoy writing those stories, and it is the best way to secure your career. "

Sarah Pinborough

Career

Writing

Way

" 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. "

" I hate it when it is all about the twist and when the ending comes out of nowhere. I think you should be surprised and shocked, but you should also think, 'Damn, I should have seen it,' because there are clues all the way through. "

" 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. "

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

Sarah Pinborough

Story

Rather

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

" We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin. "

" I always found the witches and wicked stepmothers far more interesting than the 'heroines' - at least they actually did something. "

" Anyone who has to have the word 'charming' in their name probably isn't - just take a look at any dating site where men use 'prince charming' in their description. "

" Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad. "

Sarah Pinborough

Trust

Whose

" Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up. "

Sarah Pinborough

Sweet

Surface

" The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective. "

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

" 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. "

" I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I'd been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war... and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars. "

" With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many other factors influence it. It's just a whole different kind of storytelling. "

" There are stories and history everywhere in London. "

" I know it's dangerous to say you want to do something different with a genre because people always take that as an insult to the genre. "

" Oh, there's a teenage girl inside all women. It comes out mainly when we walk into a room filled with other women and immediately feel self-conscious. I do, anyway. I'm always convinced I'm going to fall flat on my face or something. "

" We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one rule of the fairy tale formula that I didn't want to break. "

" 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. "

" It would appear that I just love writing many different stories. "

" On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts. "

" Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down. "

" 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. "

" I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I always did. And then I started to really enjoy it. "

" I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well. "

" I'm very much, like, 'We've all got to help each other.' If there's a new female writer, I'm much more likely to read her book than if it's by a new male writer. "

Sarah Pinborough

Help

Book

" The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the truth. No one likes being outright lied to, even in fiction. "