The latest book of multi-award winning writer Danny King, is ‘Cancelled’. It is a satirical novel set in a future world in which saying or thinking the wrong thing gets you cancelled from mainstream society.
Ironically, here in the present, the publishers tried to cancel ‘Cancelled’. So, Liberty Itch writer, Tom Valcanis, decided to ask Danny about ‘Cancelled’, being cancelled, and writing in our brave new world where being cancelled is all too real.
Fortunately, Danny was able to self-publish ‘Cancelled’, and it is now shortlisted for the Prometheus Awards Best Novel of 2025.
‘Cancelled’ is available on Amazon in physical or digital form here…
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:55 Inspiration for ‘Cancelled’
5:23 How to stop becoming New Brittania
7:39 Challenging dangerous ideology
9:55 Writing different genres
16:45 Competing with legends
18:18 What led you to writing?
20:35 Psychology of characters
24:04 Lockdowns and obedience
30:00 Sci-fi inspirations
35:21 Writer education
36:09 ChatGPT “writers”
41:53 Technological tyranny
44:51 Starmer, Trump, Albo & Dutton
51:20 Novels vs screenplays
53:40 Sienna - protagonist of Cancelled
55:21 Diversity
57:52 Weaponisation of words & ideas
1:10:12 Libertarianism in politics
1:16:55 British sci-fi
1:20:38 Advice to writers
1:24:10 Self publishing
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