by Sarah Rayne | Feb 15, 2018 | Sarah Rayne
Finishing the writing of any book is a curiously mixed experience. There’s a sense of achievement and even a muted delight because you finally got there. But there’s also hideous doubt, because although you got there, you’re no longer sure if it’s as good as it seemed...
by Sarah Rayne | Aug 20, 2017 | Sarah Rayne
Music has frequently been a catalyst for me in the creating of a plot, and it seems to have found its way into a good many of my books. There’s the eerie death lament, ‘Thaisa’s Song’ in The Bell Tower, and the music hall songs in Ghost Song. More recently, there’s...
by Sarah Rayne | Feb 9, 2017 | Sarah Rayne
There’s a sense of familiarity and reassurance in much-read copies of books by favourite authors. It’s comforting to turn a page and remember that this is the part where you spilled soup on the name of the murderer because last time you read it you had flu and were...
by Sarah Rayne | Dec 17, 2016 | Sarah Rayne
There are many theories as to when story-telling actually began. In the old Arabian legends, Scheherazade was allowed to live for the following day if she told an entertaining story that night. Which is singing for your supper with a vengeance. Our prehistoric...
by Sarah Rayne | Sep 19, 2016 | Sarah Rayne
While writing Death Notes, (Book One of the Phineas Fox series), I was initially delighted to discover the existence of the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Odessa – a building that had the splendid address of No 1 Tchaikovsky Street. The theatre had been burned...
