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How did you come up with the idea for 'The Game Hunter Series ', and are any other zombie based books or even tv programmes that gave you inspiration for them ?

Mark Kloss There were a few separate things that led me to Game Hunter. I love the atmosphere and history of the ancient City of London. It's extremely busy during the day, however, as it's a trading city, the nights are empty and so full of darker possibilities. I've always considered a zombie someone who used to be as normal as an egg on toast, trapped inside a terrible disease. Therefore, they should have similar rights to any other sick person.
Things that inspired me in this area were Warm Bodies, 28 Days Later and I am Legend.

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Did anyone inspire your two main characters Treymane and Red?

Mark Kloss Nobody specific, they are a composite of the many friends and associates I have over the years been fortunate enough to be with, as well as the books and films I have enjoyed.

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Mark Kloss The best thing about being a writer is the creation of your own world, where you can laugh, shout or cry for each character and see how others enjoy your world just as much.

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How the 'normals' treat zombies is a perfect analogy for racism. Was that intentional? Do you have anything to or comment on it considering the topical nature of the theme with the BLM movement?

Mark Kloss When someone feels totally different from another person, group, animal, plant, and so on, it's usually because they have no understanding of it. For example, if cows could talk and show emotion we could understand, would we still do what we do to them? Mixing and communication is the all-important ingredient needed to bring about an understanding that blows away the false and sometimes deadly ideas. And lastly, there are those amongst the human race that have almost nothing but bitterness and hate. It is not confined to any one group. Whites against whites, blacks against blacks, yellow against yellow, Christians against Christians, need I go on? Unfortunately, all have more powerful guns than ever before. And even more unfortunately, the standards of education are lowering.

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Mark Kloss I think discover which genre you most enjoy and find easiest to write in, read other successful books in that genre, enjoy your own story and write a lot, then get readers you can trust to critique the work and keep writing and improving. The key is persistence.

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I know this is YA fiction, but I really enjoyed it. Of course, I'm always interested in zombies. But also, I was reading it and thinking how Tremayne's descriptions of being a partial zombie reminds me of getting older (I'm on the other side of 65) The body is changing and it's not for the better. Lol Did it cross your mind that older folks might be reading it that way?

Mark Kloss You know what it actually had never crossed my mind but as I am also at that similar age, I totally know what you mean! For zombies and us (haha) it is as though what the mind wants to do the body can no longer quite catch up with.

I have heard it said that that the less you do the older you get, rather than the other way round, so I keep working on putting that into practice... let's see how that goes!

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