TartanNoir's WEbook Profile

TartanNoir

Join Date: 1/12/2009

About me:
In the past I've written a sitcom, a children's novel, about half a dozen poems and countless short stories - but my New Year's resolution for 2009 is to write a novel that I've been mulling over for in my head for quite a while.

It's a crime fiction novel, based in Glasgow, dealing with such things as love, death, torture and revenge. I'm trying to plan it as methodically as possible, so that I don't get bogged down in semantics when it comes to the actual process of writing.
My claim to fame: I had three bylines in the Daily Record in November 2008. I'd been making speculative efforts to get into journalism and those articles were the result.

What I like to read:

Fiction: Children's, Crime, Historical Fiction, Horror, Humor/Satire, Literary, Military/Espionage, Mystery, Romance, Short Story, Sports & Adventure

Non-Fiction: History, Humor, Memoir/Narrative Non-fiction, Reference, Sex & Relationships, Sports & Adventure, True Crime

Poetry: General
Favorite books:
The Flashman Papers, Sherlock Holmes, Victorian Gothic genre
What I'm reading now:
I just finished 'The Good Son', a readable debut by a Scottish writer called Russel D. McLean
Favorite place to read:
My brown suede couch
My other writing:
A novel that is currently in its infancy. Working title: Let Glasgow Perish
What I like to write:

Fiction: Crime, Historical Fiction, Literary, Military/Espionage, Mystery, Romance, Short Story, Sports & Adventure

Non-Fiction: History, Reference, Sex & Relationships, Sports & Adventure, True Crime

Poetry: General
Character I'd like to be for a day:
Sir Harry Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE
Favorite authors:
Roald Dahl, George McDonald Fraser, Ian Fleming, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Ian Rankin, Iain Banks, George Orwell, Christopher Brookmyre, Salman Rushdie, Joseph Heller, etc, etc