Born in Glasgow, educated Sir John Maxwell Primary and Shawlands Academy. Degree in English Language and Literature from Newcastle University. Poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter - director of theatre and screen - movie producer. Lives in the United Kingdom and continues to be active in film making. Also active in distribution of film and TV product worldwide.
Anyone can make a story. I could make a story about you reading this and you could make up a story about how you have read this and that you could do much better than me.
Why I spent the best part of my twenties and early thirties writing novels that no-one seemed to want is still a mystery to me.
To date I have ten unpublished novels sitting in one of my filing cabinets.
Apart from the occasional poem in response to events, I ceased to write poetry in any meaningful manner in the mid 1990s. I guess I ran out of anger and I now leave it to more able poets to remind the world of where it is going wrong.
If your career is a failure, then make sure you are a success as a person. Some celebrities get it the wrong way round.