Craig Robertson

Can you name the four Scottish crime writers playing with VR imaging at the Scottish Crime Campus yesterday on a research day courtesy of Forensic Services and @bloodyscotland.bsky.social ?

My Top Ten Christmas movies.

10. A Charlie Brown Christmas
9. Rare Exports
8. Trading Places
7. The Bishop's Wife
6. The Holdovers
5. Die Hard
4. A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim version)
3. Miracle on 34th Street (original)
2. The Muppet Christmas Carol
1. It's a Wonderful Life

McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir It was August 1985 and I was a full-time student at the University of Edinburgh. When not studying, I was writing novels. By 1985 I’d written two. One had been rejected but the other had been accep…

William McIlvanney’s pitch-black noirs, featuring Inspector Laidlaw’s disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of Crime Fiction

— @ianrankin1.bsky.social remembers the man who created Tartan Noir
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It’s not. Sorry! N&W are still on the back burner for now.

It’s a minefield (or whatever they call a minefield). But I don’t mind those so much. It’s typing the right words spelled wrongly that really grates.

I can't even...

Ha. It's tough but I'll survive. I just have to ignore the sound of my old teachers turning in their graves.

I'm writing in American for this next book and it's torture. Every time I type "color" or "realize" I feel a little dirty.

If I had a starter pack then you’d be in it. I don’t have one because I’ve got a book to write, and because I don’t know how to make a starter pack. And also because I can’t be arsed. But you’d be in it for sure.

I'm at Waterstones Braehead on Friday night from 6-8 along with a stellar line-up of authors all happy to chat and sign books. There's a wide range of genres and writers and it's a chance to get some Christmas presents in the bag! Ho ho ho...

Sometimes less is more.

I do like a bit of cheeky alliteration so that could work.

It’s fraud. Simple as that. A code word, you say… How about ´rob’? Easy enough to get into reviews. They’re simultaneously robbing readers of cash while robbing the real writers of the credit. Rob.

Well that makes me very happy! Thanks, sir!

Huge thanks to the talented Mr Rusel McLean for this!

All this talk of cat pics reminded me of the time Bonnie was so desperate to stop me leaving the house that she clung on to the inner door so that I couldn’t open it.

Humanity!

If only I knew…

Cats are always winners.

We might never know. Fingers crossed.

Greetings!

That would still be better than most replies on Twitter.

I'd probably still have spoken into the void but glad that there are people out there.

And here’s a sunset from yesterday. I’m almost out of content.

Got to love a Smudge.

I’ve started with pets…

Here’s a pic of some cats. Our cats. Because that’s the done thing, right?

And your starter pack was very useful!

I was getting worried.

Thanks, Susie!