A Man Who Thinks He Has A

I Respond Very Well To Rules. If There Are Certain Parameters It's Much Easier To Do Something Really Good. Especially When Readers Know What Those Are. They Know What To Expect And Then You Have To Wrong-foot Them. That Is The Trick Of Crime Fiction. And Readers Come To Crime And Graphic Novels Wanting To Be Entertained, Or Disgusted.

A Man Who Thinks He Has A Higher Purpose Can Do Terrible Things, Even To Those He Professes To Love.

We Don't Really Go In For Big Family Dinners, But Scottish People Are Famously Confrontational. It's A Cultural Thing, So Maybe We Don't Need To Have Them To Clear The Air. Also, Traditional Family Food Isn't As Nice Here So There's No Payoff For Traveling Hundreds Of Miles.

None Of Us Know What Is Going To Sell Or What People Want To Read.

There's A Real Emphasis On Being Witty In Scotland, Even In Crime Novels.