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Sara Jayne Townsend

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in Hyde, The United Kingdom

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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. Someone tends to die a horrible death in everything I write.

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.

When I'm not writing or working the day job, I like to travel, play video games and table top role playing, and practise my rock chick act with my Fender Aerodyne Jazz bass guitar. ...more

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	NANO NIGHTMARES by Shirley Dee, Charles Remington (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Arthur Doweyko (Editor) 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Femme Fatale by Leesa Wallace (Goodreads Author), Kensington Gore (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Ann Anon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 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
	Death Scene (Shara Summers #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Suffer the Children 3.43 avg rating — 7 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), Kensington Gore (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Graeme Parker (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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
	Outpost H311 by Sara Jayne Townsend (Goodreads Author), Graeme Parker (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Mia Zielinska (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 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
	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 — 3 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
	Siblings by Stuart Hughes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Simon Kurt Unsworth (Goodreads Author), Sam Stone really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 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 — 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

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After Times

Three years ago, we moved into a year in which the whole world locked down due to Covid-19. For a while it felt like the world would never be the same again. I started referring to the days before Covid as the ‘Before Times’.

As we start 2023, it does feel like the world is different, but Covid restrictions are largely over. Those early days of 2020, when we were all in full lockdown, sometimes fee

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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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