Clive Fleury is a multi award-winning director, writer and producer. His latest book ‘Kill Code’ was a great read and highly recommended.
Clive is here to talk to us about his inspirations and his road to becoming a writer.
The interview
The Fun Questions
Q1 – What did you want to be growing up? Have you always wanted to be a writer
When I was a kid I went through a diverse range of careers—fireman, pop star, train driver… the usual boy dreams. By the time I was fifteen I knew for certain more what I didn’t than what I did want to do. I didn’t want to spend my life in an office working from nine to five. My careers officer wanted me to be an engineer for no clear reason—There was less chance of me doing this than going to the moon. As for writing, at school, my English teacher encouraged me but I did not understand how I could ever have a career as a writer.
Q2 – Who would you cast to play you in a film about your life?
In the spirit that any film about my life would take huge fictional liberties, I will say Brad Pitt.
Q3 – What do you like to do when you are not writing?
Eat, drink, lie on the beach, travel… not necessarily in that order.
The Sensible Questions
Q4 – How did you become a writer?
There was no great plan for me to become a writer. After I left University, I wanted to be a VJ, but there wasn’t much call for that. So, I somehow got a job on a newspaper, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Q5 – Where did your inspiration for ‘Kill Code’ come from?
I’ve had the idea for Kill Code at the back of my mind for years but never really did anything about it until I started to live in Florida and saw how climate change was affecting the state. This, coupled with the election of a man called Trump, finally pushed me to write Kill Code, the first book in the series.
Q6 – A lot of readers, including myself, are excited for the sequel to Kill Code. When can we expect book two of this trilogy?
Book 2? Well I’m writing it at the moment, and all being well it will be out by the end of the year, but that’s not guaranteed. Publishers and writers are excruciatingly slow at the best of times.
Q7 – What do you enjoy most about writing dystopia novels?
I like the freedom that writing about the future gives you. With this freedom, I could have imagined a Utopian world, but that’s not in my nature. Dystopia is where my heart lies.
Q8 – How can we find out more about your books?
That’s easy. Look on Amazon or any other large bookseller, or just write to me: clivefleurywriter@gmail.com
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