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Post by williemeikle on Jun 22, 2009 20:58:35 GMT
How much of your homeland goes into your work? We have a great history of haunting,witch's etc Most of my work has been set in Scotland, and a lot of it uses the history and folklore. There's just something about the misty landscapes and old buildings that speaks straight to my soul. (Bloody Celts eh... get all sentimental at the least wee thing) But I think it's the people that influenced me most. Everybody in Scotland's got stories to tell, and once you et them going, you can't stop them. I love chatting to people, (usually in pubs) and finding out the -weird- shit they've experienced. My Glasgow PI, Derek Adams is mainly based on a bloke I met years ago in a bar in Partick, and quite a few of the characters that turn up and talk too much in my books can be found in real life in bars in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews
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Post by Jim on Jun 23, 2009 4:53:30 GMT
You'll not finf them n bars in St Andrews any more all the good ones are now poncy tourist pubs.
Even the Tudor and the Central, and the one dwn by the castle is going that way
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 23, 2009 11:19:46 GMT
You'll not finf them n bars in St Andrews any more all the good ones are now poncy tourist pubs. Even the Tudor and the Central, and the one dwn by the castle is going that way It'd be a pity if the Central went that way... I liked going in there. I suppose with all the tourist traffic it was inevitable in the end though... you know when they gut a fine old pub, revamp it so that all the soul is leeched out and call it "Drouthy Neighbours" or some such crap that the writing is on the wall....
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Post by Jim on Jun 23, 2009 13:21:17 GMT
i think ma bells has become a drouthy neghbours
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 23, 2009 14:17:55 GMT
i think ma bells has become a drouthy neghbours Bummer. That was the first pub I visited in St Andrews, back in about 1978. It used to sell Belhaven, Maclays, Youngers No 3 and Greenmantle all on hand pump.
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Post by Jim on Jun 23, 2009 17:40:19 GMT
If you could clear the copyright, is there any villan / creature you love Derek Adams to take on?
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Post by Jim on Jun 23, 2009 17:41:27 GMT
Hve you any feelings about writing another childrens book?
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 23, 2009 19:02:38 GMT
If you could clear the copyright, is there any villan / creature you love Derek Adams to take on? There's a few I'd like to have a go at: Derek Adams meets The Necroscope and takes on a horde of Lumley's Vamphyrii Derek Adams meets Repairman Jack and takes on the Illuminatti (or Rangers fans as they're otherwise known Derek Adams vs a Predator (come on, wouldn't a Predator in Glasgow be -great-?) Also would love to take him back and meet some of the old pulp characters... Tarzan, Doc Savage, the Shadow in particular
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 23, 2009 19:07:28 GMT
Hve you any feelings about writing another childrens book? I didn't intentionally set out to write one the 1st time Generations was originally going to be a full-on giant insect horror novel, but Young Tom just sort of crept in and took over the telling. GWP are publishing 2 other "Tom and Granddad" stories in a chapbook later this year, but that's the extent of my ambitions in the children's book area at the moment. Its a crowded market that I don't really understand, but if the right idea came along I'd give it another go.
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Post by Jim on Jun 23, 2009 19:20:39 GMT
If you could clear the copyright, is there any villan / creature you love Derek Adams to take on? There's a few I'd like to have a go at: Derek Adams meets The Necroscope and takes on a horde of Lumley's Vamphyrii Derek Adams meets Repairman Jack and takes on the Illuminatti (or Rangers fans as they're otherwise known Derek Adams vs a Predator (come on, wouldn't a Predator in Glasgow be -great-?) Also would love to take him back and meet some of the old pulp characters... Tarzan, Doc Savage, the Shadow in particular Adams V's Wamphyri, it would be the ultimate Glasgow V's Edinburgh battle. For purely selfish reasons I'm glad you're not really interested n the childrens market. Its bad enough hat we have lost the great Scottish horror Joe Donelly to the childrens market
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Post by Jim on Jun 23, 2009 19:24:19 GMT
As a writer of horror fiction, do you believe in he things that go bump in the night
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Post by Jim on Jun 23, 2009 19:37:57 GMT
WHAT TO YOU LIKE TO DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME?
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Post by ian on Jun 23, 2009 19:47:47 GMT
What do you think needs to change before horror fiction is as popular as it was was before the late 90's?
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 23, 2009 19:48:01 GMT
As a writer of horror fiction, do you believe in he things that go bump in the night The short answer is yes. The long answer is a bit more complicated. I've had more than a few "experiences", and been told of more by people I trust, that have convinced me that there's more to life than the purely physical, but it's nothing I can easily explain in a few words here. When we get to meet for a beer I'll tell you a few stories.
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Post by williemeikle on Jun 23, 2009 19:49:49 GMT
Its bad enough hat we have lost the great Scottish horror Joe Donelly to the childrens market The man who wrote the best horror novel ever to be set in Greenock I miss him too...
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