Flatlined, Revived, and Reborn as a Novelist | Gary Hamilton’s Story
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this unforgettable episode of The Mike Litton Experience, we sit down with Gary Hamilton, author of Dreamers, The Fixer, and his latest novel Daydreamers. Born in England, raised in Jamaica, and now residing in the UK, Gary shares a jaw-dropping life journey that almost ended during COVID-19—and instead ignited a bold new chapter as a novelist.
Gary reveals how he went from being told at 9 years old that he’d “never amount to anything” to becoming a problem-solving tech leader and now a celebrated author of powerful, historically inspired fiction. You’ll hear how a brush with death reshaped his purpose, how dreams inspired a story to heal his island’s past, and why he writes novels to outsmart even his smartest readers.
If you’ve ever faced doubt, adversity, or the urge to reinvent yourself—this episode is for you.
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Learn more about Gary’s work: www.garyrhamiltonbooks.com
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| 0:00.0 | And I felt as though he had a purpose for me. And when I started to examine or reach for what that |
| 0:09.6 | purpose was, I felt I needed to write again. And so daydreamers, which is the later book, became |
| 0:19.2 | a thought. And even if you're not from Jamaica, you'd find it |
| 0:25.0 | an interesting novel to read, even if you had no understanding that this was based on historical |
| 0:29.8 | events. So it led me to write Daydreamers, which is a story about the events leading up to the 1976 elections in Jamaica, |
| 0:40.3 | where we saw a sudden surge in violence in the island. |
| 0:45.3 | Beginning of COVID, I caught COVID early March 2020. |
| 0:50.3 | I got very, very sick. I almost passed away, almost died. |
| 0:56.5 | Ten weeks, right? You were down ten weeks? |
| 0:59.3 | I was down for ten weeks, yep. Yeah. |
| 1:02.1 | And so I think by the grace of God, I... |
| 1:06.4 | So my father picked me up from school, and I knew something was up when he picked me up from school because he doesn't normally pick me up from school and I knew something was up when he picked me up from school |
| 1:12.7 | because he doesn't normally pick me up from school. |
| 1:15.7 | And he told me that the results for the exams had come in. |
| 1:19.8 | And I didn't know what to think. |
| 1:23.1 | So I waited for him to speak and then he said I failed. |
| 1:26.5 | Did you know there's a technology that's actually an app on your phone that uses sound waves to tell your brain what you want your brain to do? |
| 1:34.1 | We had a young man that was a guest on our podcast, the Michael Litton experience, who had a traumatic brain injury. |
| 1:40.1 | He was sleeping three hours a night. |
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