Although Shan quite liked the idea of writing a children’s book one day, he considered himself an adult writer first and foremost. He enjoyed his first taste of literary success at age 15, as a runner-up in a television script-writing competition for RTE in Ireland, with a dark comedy script titled A Day in the Morgue (he was morbid even then!).Īll of these early books were adult-oriented. He bought his first typewriter when he was 14, and never looked back, knocking out loads of short stories and comic scripts, and making false starts on several books, which he never completed. He then worked for a cable television company in Limerick for a couple of years, before setting up as a full-time writer at the age of 23.Īlthough Shan always wanted to be a writer, it was only in his teenage years that he began writing in his spare time for fun (before that, he only wrote stories if they were for homework). He later returned to London to study Sociology and English at Roehampton University. He lived in SouthEast London until the age of six, when he moved to Limerick in Ireland, with his parents and younger brother, and has lived there ever since (but he never lost his London accent!). Thomas’ Hospital, London - directly across the river from the Houses of Parliament in Westminster (which may explain his fascination with evil bloodsuckers. Although he is Irish he was actually born at St.
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