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Jonny Virgo
I am a rapper and author of interactive conspiracy-thrillers among other things. It all started about twelve years ago when I ran a UK music studio with a conspiracy-obsessed business partner. I be...view moreI am a rapper and author of interactive conspiracy-thrillers among other things. It all started about twelve years ago when I ran a UK music studio with a conspiracy-obsessed business partner. I began researching to prove him wrong but ended up surprising myself and diving into the world of the occult and conspiracy theories.
My books are all hard-boiled experiments. We live in a wonderful century with a mass of connecting technology and, in my debut novel, you can use this to communicate with the characters in the novel. I guess this is why I call it an interactive thriller: text a character for a clue, send an email to tip off a villain and there are even songs from the viewpoints of the characters too. It's pretty banging.
I guess this approach comes from my history. I am a published poet and benefitted from a great English public -school education as a result of a scholarship I earned as a kid. In fact I was schooled at the same place as the Duchess of Cambridge, not that I knew at the time. There I was introduced to language in a deep way and published my first Poetry as a fifteen year old. At that point I got into hip-hop. I was lucky enough to be an artist for many years, touring, producing and releasing work but I missed the deep immersive process of writing and here I am.
Favourite authors are Jo Nesbo, Elmore Leonard, Stephen King, Ben Okri, Tom Rob Smith, Dick Francis, Harold Robbins, Robert Goddard, Iceberg Slim, James Baldwin and Courttia Newland.view less