- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Five
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always found the witches and wicked stepmothers far more interesting than the 'heroines' - at least they actually did something.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Insult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020