Sarah Pinborough

Sarah Pinborough
Born 1972
Milton Keynes, England
Pen name Sarah Silverwood
Occupation Writer, teacher
Nationality English
Genre fantasy, young adult
Website
www.sarahpinborough.com

Sarah Pinborough is an English-born writer. Her works have been compared to those of Bentley Little, Richard Laymon and Dean Koontz.[1] 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.[2] She is a regular guest at genre conventions in England and internationally.[3] She was Mistress of Ceremonies at the controversial 2011 British Fantasy Society awards in Brighton in 2011.[4]

Biography

Pinborough was born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire in 1972.[5] Because of her father's career as a diplomat, much of Pinborough's early childhood was spent travelling in the Middle East. From the ages of eight to eighteen Pinborough attended boarding school, which she claims has influenced her writing.[6]

Pinborough trained to be a secondary school teacher after a brief marriage,[7][8] while still writing her novels. She taught for three years at the Lord Grey School before moving onto Lea Manor High School in Luton. Pinborough also taught at Walton High in Milton Keynes afterwards.[9] As of 2016, she still lives in Milton Keynes.[10]

Pinborough's initial titles were published in America by Leisure Books. She was then invited to write for Gollancz Books for whom she has written the Dog-Faced Gods trilogy, The London Chronicles (as Sarah Silverwood), three fairytale novellas (Poison, Charm and Beauty) and The Death House.[11] She is now published by Gollancz and has a deal to write thrillers for HarperCollins.

Whilst writing for Leisure Books she was also writing a crime novel called Scream Blue Murder, but this has never been published.[12]

Awards and Nominations

The Language of Dying: 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won the 2010 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella.[13]

"The Language of Dying is essentially a monologue – though really it is a one-sided dialogue, if such a thing exists – between the narrator, the middle child of five, and the family’s father, who is slowly dying from the lung cancer which wracks his entire body."[14]

"Our Man in the Sudan": 2009 World Fantasy Award finalist[15]

Bibliography

Novels

Leisure Books

Leisure Books are an American publisher. These titles are all from their Leisure Horror list.[16]

This is an end of the world novel where most of the population is wiped out by giant spiders that human women have given birth to.

A ghostly revenge novel

This is novel about a small town in America in supernatural peril of Biblical proportions.

This is a sequel to Breeding Ground. Pinborough's original proposal for this sequel would have been called The Brethren but this was rejected by the publisher as being too Sci-Fi for their list. The book as written is intended to be like a creature feature movie.[11]

Torchwood

Torchwood is a spin-off series from Doctor Who. These are TV tie-in novels and short stories in that shared world.

Pinborough has also written short stories for the Torchwood Magazine. These are:

The Dog-Faced Gods series

Now called the Forgotten Gods Trilogy in the Ace Books reprint. The series has been optioned for a Television series.[17]

  1. A Matter of Blood (2010, Gollancz Books) (2013 Ace Books) ISBN 978-0425258460
  2. The Shadow of the Soul (2011, Gollancz Books) (2013 Ace Books) ISBN 978-0425258484
  3. The Chosen Seed (2012, Gollancz Books) (2013 Ace Books) ISBN 978-0425258507[18]

The "Dog Faced Gods" series is set in an alternative world. The Britain of this world isn't a dystopia but it is merely a little crapier and harsher than ours. Jim Steel[19]

Sleeping Beauty by Gustave Dore

The Fairy Tale Series

Poison is a modern retelling of the Snow White story

Charm is a modern retelling of the Cinderella story

Beauty is a modern retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story

Other Novels

Mayhem is a supernatural murder mystery set in Victorian London and based around the actual events of the Thames Torso Murders.

Murder is the sequel to Mayhem

As Sarah Silverwood

As Sarah Silverwood, Sarah Pinborough writes fantasy fiction for the young adult fiction market

The Nowhere Chronicles

  1. The Double-edged Sword (2010, Gollancz) ISBN 978-1780620596
  2. The Traitor's Gate (2011, Gollancz) ISBN 978-1780620657
  3. The London Stone (2012, Gollancz) ISBN 978-1780620671

Short Stories

Screenwriting

Adaptations

On 1 August 2012, it was announced that director Peter Medak had been attached to direct Cracked, a screenplay based on Pinborough's first novel The Hidden.[25]

Critical reception

References

  1. "Fiction Book Review: The Reckoning by Sarah Pinborough, Author . Leisure $6.99 (338p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5550-7". PublishersWeekly.com.
  2. "You're 'avin' a laugh! – Twitter's Funniest Females". GoHen Blog.
  3. http://festival.sugarpulp.it/sarah-pinborough/?utm_content=buffer69983&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer http://festival.sugarpulp.it/sarah-pinborough/
  4. David Barnett. "British Fantasy Award winner returns prize". the Guardian.
  5. "Sarah Pinborough Interview". omegasapple.com. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  6. Biography on Sarah's Homepage
  7. Biography on Sarah Pinborough's Homepage
  8. I've just realised that if I hadn't seen sense/got divorced today would have been my 14th wedding anniversary. Tweet 13.10.14
  9. I rarely base characters on people I know, but I had worked at a school on quite a tough estate for a few years so that probably fed into it a bit. Interview in Project:Torchwood
  10. [ http://www.thebookseller.com/news/netflix-adapt-pinborough-s-13-minutes-creators-gossip-girl-379116 Netflix to adapt Pinborough story] The Bookseller
  11. 1 2 "Q & A with Sarah Pinbourough," Black Static 16 April - May 2010, page 52
  12. "Sarah Pinborough signs-up".
  13. "The Winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2010". The British Fantasy Society.
  14. 1 2 David Barnett (8 December 2013). "The Language of dying, by Sarah Pinborough - Paperbacks review". The Independent.
  15. World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
  16. When I was writing for Leisure that was more restrictive because they have a clear vision of their list.They are horror with a capital H and that is what their readers expect. Interview in 2010 in Black Static 16, page 54
  17. http://www.davidhigham.co.uk/clients/Sarah-Pinborough.htm
  18. "An Independent on Sunday Book of the Year 2012". independent.co.uk.
  19. British Fantasy Society Journal Autumn 2011 page 29
  20. Upcoming4.me (2013). "Sarah Pinborough - The Language of Dying cover art and synopsis reveal". Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  21. Upcoming4.me (2014). "Stay With Me by Sarah Pinborough cover art and synopsis". Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  22. Black Static 20 Dec2010/Jan2011 page 10
  23. See question 6 in Musings of the Monster Librarian
  24. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2128045/fullcredits#writers
  25. "Director Peter Medak Has Finally Cracked Up". Dread Central.
  26. "Fiction Book Review: The Taken by Sarah Pinborough, Author . Leisure $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5896-6". PublishersWeekly.com.
  27. Black Static 7 Oct/Nov 2008 page 29
  28. BFS Journal Autumn 2011, page 29
  29. David Barnett (13 April 2013). "Review: Poison, By Sarah Pinborough". The Independent.
  30. Black Static 37 Nov/Dec 2013 page 92
  31. "Fiction Book Review: Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough. Quercus/Jo Fletcher, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62365-086-5". PublishersWeekly.com.
  32. "Fiction Book Review: Murder by Sarah Pinborough. Quercus/Jo Fletcher, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-62365-866-3". PublishersWeekly.com.

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