![]() ![]() The sequel, Hell's Horizon, published in February 2000, was thought by some to be a better book, but sold fewer copies than the first. It was published in February 1999 by Orion Publishing Group, and did not sell very well. ![]() His breakthrough came with Ayuamarca, written under his full name instead of a pen name. Mute Pursuit was never published, but he loved the writing experience, so he started focusing on novels more and not on short stories. He finished his first novel at age seventeen. in Ireland, with a dark comedy story entitled A Day in the Morgue. His first success came to him at age fifteen, when he was a runner-up in a TV script-writing competition for R.T.É. He bought his first typewriter when he was fourteen and wrote many short stories, comic scripts, and books that he never finished. Shan worked for a television cable company in Limerick for two years before he decided to become a full-time writer. He lives in Pallaskenry, County Limerick, Ireland, with his girlfriend Bas. He returned to London to take a degree in Sociology and English from Roehampton University. He received his primary education in Askeaton, and attended secondary school at Copsewood College, Pallaskenry. When he was six, he moved with his parents and younger brother, to Limerick, Ireland, where he has lived ever since. At the age of three he started school at English Martyr's in London. Shan was born in 1972 at St Thomas' Hospital, London. ![]()
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