Sara Jayne Townsend





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Sara Jayne Townsend

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October 24, 1969 in Hyde, The United Kingdom

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Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Jim Butcher, Mike Carey

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April 2010


About this author

I am a writer of crime and horror - any genre in which someone dies horribly, basically.

I spent the first ten years of my life in the North of England, before emigrating to Canada with my family in 1980. I moved back to the UK in 1988, after finishing high school, and now live in Surrey with my guitarist husband and two cats.

I love to travel, and also lay claim to a variety of geeky hobbies such as playing Dungeons & Dragons, live action role playing and watching sci fi films.

I am founder and chair person of the T Party Writers' Group.


Horror writer Luke Walker has visited my blog before. This time I’m pleased to be interviewing him. Welcome once more to Imaginary Friends, Luke!


SJT: When did you first know you were destined to be a writer?


LW: I don’t know if I’d say ‘destined’. To me, that takes some of the effort and responsibility out of it. Saying that, though, I can remember being at my happiest as a kid in school w...

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Published on May 28, 2012 01:45
Average rating: 4.00 · 8 ratings · 6 reviews · 3 distinct works
Suffer the Children
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Death Scene (Shara Summers #1)
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Soul Screams
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
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Blood Rites by S.J. Rozan
Blood Rites
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Lydia Chin might come from a respectable Chinese family but she’s American through and through – born and bred in New York. You can’t take China out of the girl, though, so when Grandfather Gao – the most respected man in China Town – asks her to go...more
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Lethal by Sandra Brown
Lethal
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Young widow Honor Gillette is frosting cup cakes in her kitchen when her four-year-old daughter Emily comes in to tell her there’s a sick man in the front garden. The “sick man” turns out to be fugitive Lee Coborn, wanted for the suspected murder of...more
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Dead To Me by Cath Staincliffe
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This book is a prequel to BLUE MURDER, the title that kicked off a TV series of the same name. Having never read the first book, nor seen the TV series, I came into this book fresh, with no preconceptions or knowledge of the characters.

This story fun...more
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Blood Forge by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Blood Forge: Revised Author's Edition
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read in April, 2012
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They say guns don’t kill people – people kill people. In this story, it’s most definitely the gun that kills people. The gun in question – a colt python – is host to an ancient snake-like demon, who possesses anyone who lays hands on the gun and fill...more
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Blind Traveler's Blues by Robert P. Bennett
Blind Traveler's Blues
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Sue Grafton
“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Douglas Adams
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Mike Carey
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.”
Mike Carey

Elizabeth  Taylor
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
Elizabeth Taylor

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If you love horror literature, movies, and culture, you're in the right place. Whether it's vampires, werewolves, zombies, serial killers, plagues, or...more
19126 The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group — 4357 members — last activity 3 hours, 36 min ago
Welcome to the Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group! May/June Group Reads: The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane _ _ _ _...more
61153 Lyrical Press Books — 157 members — last activity May 27, 2012 11:41pm
Welcome to our Goodreads group! Here, readers and reviewers can gather and connect with Lyrical's authors and staff.
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I wanted to create this group for all of us who love supernatural/Paranormal tv series. Canceled or not. Plus I want to offer up any ideas on if there...more
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Savannah Sara, thank you for the friendship.


message 3: by Sara

Sara Townsend Carole wrote: "How do you manage to read so much?"

Commuting. I spent over two hours a day travelling to and from work on public transport. That's a lot of reading time.


Carole Tyrrell How do you manage to read so much?


message 1: by J.M.

J.M. Thanks for the add, Sara. I don't play D&D anymore, but I love the influences you listed. Looking forward to "following" you on Goodreads!


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