| Re: Christopher Brookmyre - an Alternative Nation interview
The "establishment" is often the source of Brookmyre's bad guys - generally within Scottish politics and the Catholic Church. Does he see his books as a way to deal with his seemingly increasing frustrations on both politics and religion?
Art Alexakis of Everclear has been thanked by Brookmyre in both Enemy Of Mine and Sacred Art of Stealing. How important is music in Brookmyre's life and do any (other) bands or songs influence his writing?
Are there any plans for any other novels (apart from the tv dramatisation of Quite Ugly One Morning starring James Nesbit) to be dramatised for television or film and, if so, how much will Brookmyre be involved in the dramatisation of his work and the actors/director to be involved?
How does writing fictional work compare with writing for The Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News and the film magazine, Screen International?
What does Brookmyre do to research his novels and are any of the characters based on friends/family or even himself?
Brookmyre has been criticised for having created a fictional work that is too black and white. Was this intentional and does he have a response to such criticism?
Scotland is clearly important to him. Does he have any plans or dreams to move away or is St Mirren too much of an anchor for him to leave his homeland?
I may come up with some more later
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