Hey hey – time for a visit from everyone’s favorite UNCLE!
That’s right, the enigmatic Carl John Lee agreed to do a 3Q’s. Carl has been super kind since we first connected, offering up his first interview to me as well as kindly doing the cover to my novel ‘Incarnate.’
Not a lot is known about Carl, and I was hoping to gain some more insight into Mr. Lee’s workings from this interview, but sadly he shared no ‘insider information.’
Anyways – please do welcome Carl John Lee!
Steve: What does your writing time look like? Do you try and write at the same time each day? Do you have a word count you attempt to hit?
Carl: Hello Mr. Stred, thank you for asking me to do this. You were the very first big name to take a chance on my books, and I’ll never forget that. With regards to writing time, I retired from the movie biz many years ago, so time is all I have left. All of my books (with the exception of Blood Beast Mutations) are based on unproduced scripts I wrote back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, so the actual writing doesn’t take too long, as the dialogue and story beats are already there. I got dozens of these things, man. Sometimes I look back and wonder how I managed to write so many. But then I remember the drugs I was on back then, and it all begins to make sense.
Steve: If you started a series and for some reason had to have another author finish it, who would you choose?
Carl: If I can’t finish a series, then it dies with me. I can’t tell you the amount of times I went to see a movie I supposedly wrote, and didn’t recognize a single thing happening onscreen. I get it, it’s all part of the biz, but now I’m old and I work for myself, so I have the luxury of doing whatever the hell I want.
Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!
Carl: My newest release is Horror House of Perversion 2: The Slaughtered Lambs. It’s the second in my extreme horror series, a dirty and sleazy gorefest for adventurous readers that probably works better on the page than it would have on the screen, as there’s no way we could have gotten away with the revolting filth in this book back in the 70s or 80s. It helps if you’ve read the first in the series, but it also works as a standalone too. There’s some humor, romance, and an enormous amount of blood, violence, and perversion, all set in the seedy world of 1970s hard rock bands and groupies. It’s sick shit, but there’s heart in there too.
Steve: Bonus Question! If they made a movie about your life, what actor or actress would you suggest they get to play you?
Carl: Well, I don’t really know many modern actors, so I’m gonna go back in time for this one. There’s an Italian actor called Al Cliver that I worked with once, and when we went out cruising bars, the girls used to mistake us for twins, so I guess he’d be a good shout. But I also grew up on a hippy colony and spent most of my time naked, so maybe get someone like Robert Redford, as he’d be much more pleasing for an audience to look at. Or even better, Jane Seymour.
Awesome! Thank you so much, Carl!
To find out more about Carl, check the links!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarlJohnLee1
Steve Stred - The Official Website 
Lee has a sense of humor, love it!
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