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Guy Winter

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Guy Winter grew up in Edinburgh before studying law at the University of Oxford. He is the author of four novels: Billionaire Suicide Club II: Red Queen Rising; Billionaire Suicide Club; Tam: The Three Changelings; and Watchdog: A Credit Crunch Fairytale (under the name Robert Anderson).

Guy has also written op-ed pieces for media titles including the Los Angeles Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Utility Week.



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Guy Winter When I'm writing, I will always make sure I'm also reading some of my favourite stories, and especially movie scripts- even if only for a snatched fiv…moreWhen I'm writing, I will always make sure I'm also reading some of my favourite stories, and especially movie scripts- even if only for a snatched five or ten minutes at a time. Generally these will be stories that I already know extremely well (like Chinatown, Withnail & I, Shallow Grave, Reservoir Dogs, PG Wodehouse novels). Movie scripts are great because they're much shorter than novels, and the way they're written (in scenes) makes them easier to pick up and put down again. The point is not to incorporate the style, or even the atmosphere, of these masterpieces into my own work- it is all about stepping into a different world, to give me more perspective on the one I'm writing about. I won't be reading new novels whilst I'm writing, because I want to save that exploratory mind-set for the world I'm trying to evoke. The familiarity as well as the rapture of the language of old favourites is what I'm looking for. It refreshes my mind. Often five minutes in a cherished alternative existence will be enough to unlock the next idea. (less)
Guy Winter The best thing is creating a world and a set of characters with a life of their own. There's much more to a novel than that, but once you've done that…moreThe best thing is creating a world and a set of characters with a life of their own. There's much more to a novel than that, but once you've done that, it's easy to layer on the detail and explore the themes that are important to you. After a while you know how the characters will respond, what they'll say, in any given situation that you choose to put them in. They have their own opinions on what you're doing with them. Opening a new chapter is like meeting up with old friends. Before you reach that stage, it can feel like trying to carry along a group of (potentially quarrelsome) strangers. So it's a great feeling when the ice has melted and the party is starting to come together! (less)
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“I’m just a boy- standing in front of a screen- with a whole bunch of other people watching…”
Xavier’s box suddenly flickered back on, next to Monika on the big screen.
“Oh, piss off, Xavier!” I said.
Xavier disappeared again.
“…and asking you to love me!”
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“For a moment the closing meeting was almost beautiful- like a ballet in space, like 2001. That was before it started, of course, while the meeting room was being set up.”
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“Finally Mary understood everything. For the music, as it wound its way through that quiet countryside, scampering and chuckling gleefully along the pebbled shores of the River Doon, sweeping up hill and over moor, dancing in the wind over the purple-fringed sea-shore, told the story of Scotland. It told of the first great magic that had taken root so many millennia ago, and of the younger powers that had come along afterwards to vie with it. It told the deep secrets that Rannoch had spent so many lifetimes searching for, and would never guess at now, as though they were the passing gossip of a market-day. It told tales of great wrongs, of unbearable suffering- and of endless forgiveness and rebirth.”
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“They say we Highlanders take in dancin' wi’ our mother’s milk!” said Tam.
“You must have skipped your breakfast that day then!” said Souter Johnnie.”
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“I’m just a boy- standing in front of a screen- with a whole bunch of other people watching…”
Xavier’s box suddenly flickered back on, next to Monika on the big screen.
“Oh, piss off, Xavier!” I said.
Xavier disappeared again.
“…and asking you to love me!”
Guy Winter, Watchdog- A Credit Crunch Fairytale

“For a moment the closing meeting was almost beautiful- like a ballet in space, like 2001. That was before it started, of course, while the meeting room was being set up.”
Guy Winter, Watchdog- A Credit Crunch Fairytale

“There’s something special about gemstones, isn’t there?” said Malthus. “Something primal. We covet them, even once we have lost our greed for so many other things in the world. I hardly eat at all now, nothing but the odd teaspoonful of raw foie gras marinated in Montrachet- and yet I still hunger for diamonds.”
Guy Winter, Billionaire Suicide Club

“They say we Highlanders take in dancin' wi’ our mother’s milk!” said Tam.
“You must have skipped your breakfast that day then!” said Souter Johnnie.”
Guy Winter, Tam: The Three Changelings

“There’s a code amongst the restless spirits of the world. You have to show each other that there is something more to life than the action- the moments when you lose yourself in the flood.”
Guy Winter, Billionaire Suicide Club

“Somehow I always thought I’d die in London,” said Wright. “In the rain.”
“Death has no nation,” said Malthus, puffing out a dense cloud of cigar smoke. “You can find him anywhere if you look hard enough.”
Guy Winter, Billionaire Suicide Club

“Newgate was Hell enough for me!” said the Murderer. “That slow trudge through Birdcage Walk from the prison house to the scaffold, with the walls closing in on me with each step, the bars on the roof penning me in. The baying crowd outside, waiting for nothing but to see me die. And the damp- everywhere the damp, freezing my bones to their marrow. No earthly blanket can keep out that Old Bailey chill! So what was that, sir, if not a Hell on earth? And now the pain! It never leaves me…”
Guy Winter, Billionaire Suicide Club

“Why would they burn you?” said Moreland. “Why, can’t you see it, man? People like you have been burned for centuries! Burned as witches and heretics, all over Europe! Murdered by the law. By humanity’s primitive ignorance of science. Hate- fear- stupidity... Nothing is more likely to actuate men in this world- even in this year of 1805. You are the monster in their own minds, that they pursue with fire and pitchfork. It is a superstition as old as humanity itself.”
Guy Winter, Billionaire Suicide Club




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