None Of Us Know What Is Going

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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.

I Grew Up In London Under Thatcher And That Really Was Disgusting. A Feeding Frenzy.

Crime Is A Very Hard Genre To Feminise. If You Have A Female Protagonist She Is Going To Be Looking After Her Mum When She Gets Older; She Is Going To Be Worried About Her Brother And Sister; She Will Be Making A Living While Bringing Up Kids.

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.