KillYourFriendsFilm

Now that's a good one. I'm going to have to go with b.

There are a few moments in both the book and film based on actual events, but not nearly as many as people imagine. Fiction doesn't quite work like that. It;s the same with people: real people are rarely good enough for the novel. You need to create composites of two or three different people, taking the most extreme characteristics from each. I'm always having music industry people come up to me and say 'Oh I remember being there at that bit in your book when...' and they'll be referring to something completely invented.

I've just finished the screenplay for The Sunshine Cruise Company, which is being produced by Donna Gigliotti, who was behind Silver Linings Playbook, Shakespeare in Love and The Reader. I'm hopeful we'll be going out to casting soon on that. Cold Hands is inching along. We have a script (Again by me) that everyone likes and we're trying to find a director with a view to shooting early next year in Manitoba. I have an outline for the next thriller I want to write, it's just a question of finding the time. I'm 60,000 words into the first draft of the next novel and am hoping to get it finished by the end of April.

I think it might have to be flying all the way from London to Miami for the Winter Music Conference in 1996 or 97 and a bunch of us not actually leaving the hotel suite for the entire three days of our stay...

My experiences working at a major label in London at the height of the record industry boom of the 1990s...