1. What can you tell our readers about your new novel Megan's Game?
It’s a love story based in London and Aberdovey, Gwynedd, West Wales. Megan Williams lost her husband in the Iraq war. Although she’s happy as a former Welsh hockey international and now a PE teacher in Dolgellau, she yearns for love. She meets David Rensburg, a divorcee and a wealthy corporate financier from London who has a holiday home in Aberdovey. They win a tennis tournament and following a dramatic sea rescue in Cardigan Bay, when David displays great courage, she falls hopelessly in love with him. Their path to happiness is torn apart by problems in the City and David’s arrest for the murder of a nasty City stock broker. Can Megan save him?
2. Why did you decide to set the novel in Wales?
We’ve had a holiday home in Aberdovey for twelve years; we’ve just sold it.
3. Your novel is based on the legend of 'The Bells of Aberdovey', can you tell us a little bit about this?
The legend of The Bells of Aberdovey is well known and suggests that couples walking the Cardigan Bay sands at night, if they hear the bells, may find happiness.
4. What is your backgound in writing?
I’ve written six finance books over the years (see www.tonydrury.com) and blog for www.enterprisebritain.com and The Freedom Association.
5. You are a corporate financier by day, what made you want to write?
A publisher friend of mine told me that everybody has a work of fiction inside them and, in most cases, that’s where it should stay.
I’d love to prove him wrong in my case!
6. How do you go about combinig passion with murder mystery?
It just happened. I didn’t like the stockbroker I had created so I had him murdered.
When my producer said that they were putting my book on Amazon they had to categorise me.
Apparently I write romantic thrillers!
7. What adivce can you give to an aspiring writer?
None. I still have my ‘L’ plates on. I’m going to the CrimeFest in Bristol this weekend. There’ll be lots of successful authors and me. I’m hoping to learn how it’s done.
I’ve always written. As a corporate financier we produce share prospectus’s for our clients. They’re books in themselves.
8. Your second novel is called The Deal, can you give us a teaser for this?
Oliver, a corporate financier, has to raise £2million for a publishing client. He falls in love with Amanda, the sister of the CEO. She refuses to go to bed with him until he’s raised the £2m. Quite where the Russian gangsters, the kidnapping of a child and Charles’s fight against alcohol fit in, is beyond me.
9. You have written books on finance and politics, how hard was it to make the transition into fiction?
VERY. It’s a completely new world. It’s taken five years to write MG and now I have to write a new novel every six months (‘Cholesterol’ is half way through). I’ve been lucky to find Laura my editor. She took a desperately poor document (MG) and turned it around. We had lunch last week. She told me that our objective was to make each next book a better book.
Jack Higgins did not have any success until his twelfth book (‘The Eagle has Landed’). I’m hanging on to that.
Interview by Lucy Walton
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