Jobbies, Nine Inch Nails, reality TV, hoovering and Hollywood – Christopher Brookmyre, one of Scotland’s premier crime fiction authors, speaks to Alternative Nation.
Alternative Nation: Swearing features quite heavily in your writing: can you tell us your favourite swearword and why?
Christopher Brookmyre: I don’t know if I could even call it a swearword, but I’d have to go with the word jobby. There’s something quite intrinsically funny about it in any circumstance; even just onomatopoeically speaking it is a funny sounding word.
AN: How did you get started writing?
CB: Having worked in newspapers people think that there’s some kind of progression, but there really wasn’t. I wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember… since I was about six-years old. In fact, when I worked in newspapers I worked as a sub-editor and wasn’t even doing any writing – I was only ever interested in writing fiction. I was...
