I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

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.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

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.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.