New client website goes live: www.sarahpinborough.com

Filed by: Darren Turpin on August 28, 2007 at 12:16
Filed under: Freelance Work

Sarah Pinborough is a British writer who's been causing quite a stir since her arrival on the genre scene with her 2004 debut The Hidden. She's written and has had published another three novels since then (The Reckoning, Breeding Ground, The Taken) - the latest of which has made the shortlist for this year's British Fantasy Award for best novel - and has another novel (Tower Hill) due from Leisure next year, with a novella (The Language of Dying) also in the pipeline, from PS Publishing.

I'm reliably informed (by Jo, who's read 'em all) that Sarah's books to-date are proper, old-school horror stories, with strong supernatural influences and some genuinely perturbing moments to savour. I'm planning on reading a couple of them on holiday this year, with the aid of a dose of bright Mediterranean sunshine and several ice-cold beers to help dispel the shadows...

Sarah's definitely not shy, either; she's launched herself into the genre convention scene (ably aided and abetted by good chums like Tim Lebbon and Mark Morris) and has been a regular on panels (and in the bar) everywhere from WHC2007 to Alt.Fiction, with forthcoming trips lined up to Fantasycon, next year's World Fantasy and World Horror, plus a writer-in-residence stint at the Pen to Press writers' retreat in New Orleans next May. She's also joined the all-woman horror-writers' collective, MUSE; more on which we'll no doubt be hearing in the near future.

So when Sarah got in touch and asked me to help out with a website re-vamp I jumped at the chance to work with yet another pro-active author who isn't afraid to get out there and get themselves noticed. Aesthetically-speaking, she didn't want the new site to look too hard-core horror-esque, on the grounds that she's currently branching out into crime, thrillers and screen-writing as well. Her brief called for more graphic design skills than I have in my locker, so I called in a freelance designer of my acquaintance by the name of Penn Smith who came up with a suitably atmopsheric main header design and colour-scheme, and I then added the page layout and built the site around her work.

The end result is a new-look site that Sarah seems to be particularly pleased with, which is always great to hear, and ought to be pretty much completely cross-browser compatible, accessible and extensible as time goes on. It's online now at www.sarahpinborough.com. What do you reckon?

Filed on: August 28, 2007
Filed under: Freelance Work
Tagged With: client-websites | Sarah-Pinborough

Comments

7 Responses to 'New client website goes live: www.sarahpinborough.com'

Christopher Teague on August 29th, 2007 10:07 am

I was never that impressed with Sarah's debut - far too much clunky mid-lantic prose at odds with the English setting - so didn't bother reading her second, but picked up Breeding Ground at the BFS Showcase (okay, it was free!) and it was much better: rollick's along at a fair-crack of the whip, with no allusion to writing "art" but producing some genuinely gruesome moments to make you go "ewwww" (and it takes a lot to make me squirm...)

The Wyndham influence you could cut with a knife - the collapse of society is very Day of the Triffids. :)

Anyway, a very neat and clean layout to the site; functional and readable, which gives the Pinborough fan all they need to know.
Ariel on August 29th, 2007 10:45 am

Chris mate, I shall pass on your comments... and then point you out to Sarah at Fantasycon... :)
Christopher Teague on August 29th, 2007 11:23 am

Don't worry - I already told her I didn't much like The Reckoning, at the Showcase. I already had a couple of Guinness' by then. ;-)

And Sarah herself admitted to not writing "art" at the first Alt-Fiction - just books to entertain.
Ariel on August 29th, 2007 11:28 am

No, no! You misunderstand... I meant I'd point you out so she could thank you for saying good things about Breeding Ground... ;)
sarah P on August 29th, 2007 11:45 am

Ha! yes indeed...I'd probably go along with some of what Chris says - when I look back at The Hidden i cringe at some of my writing... first book (written, as well as sold..) and all..
But you haven't read The Reckoning - you've read The Hidden!!!
The Taken is the best...but then I would say that ;-)
Bring on Fantasycon and all who sail in her!
me x
Lizzy on August 29th, 2007 12:15 pm

The site looks great Ariel, and I've already told Sarah the same.

I enjoyed The Taken more than Breeding Ground. It's a good fun ghost story and I know the vilage it was set in. Breeding Ground didn't make me squirm, (but gore doesn't) it was a fast read. The two are perfect for holiday reading.
Christopher Teague on August 29th, 2007 2:27 pm

Ah... *slaps forehead*