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Sara Jayne Townsend

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Born

in Hyde, The United Kingdom

Website

http://sarajaynetownsend.weebly.com

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Genre

Horror, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Jim Butcher, Mike Carey

Member Since

April 2010

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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.

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Average rating: 4.24 · 38 ratings · 23 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Death Scene (Shara Summers #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Screams 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suffer the Children 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whispering Death by Sara Jayne Townsend (Goodreads Author), Graeme Parker (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) , Kensington Gore (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Cool (Shara Summers #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siblings by Sara Jayne Townsend (Goodreads Author), Richard Farren Barber (Goodreads Author) , Simon Kurt Unsworth (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outpost H311 by Sara Jayne Townsend (Goodreads Author), Graeme Parker (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) , Mia Zielinska (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Femme Fatale by Kensington Gore (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Ann Anon , Kim Culpepper (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Read Me: The Combined Works of KGHH Publishing 2016 by Kensington Gore (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Graeme Parker (Goodreads Author) , Adam Lawrence it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Former Heroes by Pete Sutton (Goodreads Author), Kate Charles , Andrew Goodman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Monthly Round-up: May 2018

It’s been a while since I did a round-up but this month there is news!

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The most important news is that the new horror novel, OUTPOST H311, is now out! It is available in paperback and Kindle format from Amazon UK, Amazon US and I’m even including the links to Amazon Canada for my Canadian friends.

I’m quite excited about this book. It seemed to be quite difficult to write, for various re...

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Sara Townsend rated a book liked it Come A Little Closer (DCI Tom Douglas #7) by Rachel Abbott (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sara Townsend rated a book really liked it The Haunting of Highdown Hall (Psychic Surveys, #1) by Shani Struthers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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For Lucy Mitchell, a job as an editor's assistant was meant to be the start of a glittering career in publishing. But at her first solo signing event she is assaulted by the star author, a man the publishing company has put a lot of money behind. Sha ...more
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Sara Townsend rated a book really liked it Dead Men Whistling (Katie Maguire, #9) by Graham Masterton	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sara’s Quotes

“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”
― Sue Grafton

tags: humor, independent-thought, thought

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“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

tags: indulgence, virtue

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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“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

tags: life, navigation

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“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, Vicious Circle

tags: cynic, cynicism

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