![]() “She said, ‘Don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be brilliant.’ Which obviously means it has to be brilliant,’” Pinborough says. She went for a beer with an editor at HarperCollins, who told her she wasn’t being published right, and asked her to pitch a book. “I’d written, like, 20 books and never broken through.” It’s really dangerous to be envious of other people’s success, but I started to worry that maybe my shelf life was running out,” she says. She remembers sitting in a bar during the sci-fi convention Worldcon, “watching people, and seeing writers who had just got big deals. “But I couldn’t come up with anything original.” At that point, Pinborough had written a couple of dozen novels – a mix of horror, science fiction and fantasy – and won a handful of awards, but none had become bestsellers. I thought I’d quite fancy writing something like that,” she says. ![]() “I’d been reading a lot of books like Gone Girl, domestic noir and psychological thrillers, and I was really enjoying them. ![]()
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