ASH, Sarah
‘Thursday’s Child has Far to Go.’ Sarah was born on a Thursday and she still likes to think that means there’s a lot more mileage in her yet, particularly when it comes to her first love – writing.
After she read The Lord of the Rings when she was twelve, she started writing her own fantasy novels but chose to study music at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), Cambridge. She’s always enjoyed working with young people, so she trained as a teacher at Homerton College, Cambridge. After she got married, she lived in Ealing, then West Wales, Normandy (France), and Beckenham, Kent.
Staying at home when her two sons were small, Sarah started writing again and her first short story was published in 1992. Her first novel Moths to a Flame came out in 1995 from Orion; seven other fantasy novels and various short stories for Interzone have followed. She’s taught music on and off all her life and for the last thirteen years, she’s been running a primary school library. She also reviews manga and anime – another passion! – for various magazines.
Flight into Darkness, Sarah’s eighth fantasy novel and sequel to Tracing the Shadow, is due to be published in early 2009 by Bantam Spectra. She is currently working on the first book of a new trilogy, To the Angelspire.
Her dream? To see one of her stories reinterpreted as manga or anime… !