Squeaky Clean is “loosely” based on his spell working for a local car wash 🧽
fiction Chris Brookmyre, who described Callum as “definitely a talent to watch – I knew within a page I was in good hands.”
“I’m feeling a bit nervous, to be honest – you spend so much time trying so hard to get something published that you kind of forget to think about what actually happens when it’s out there. Will people like it? Will people buy it?”Squeaky Clean, about a car wash employee who takes the wrong customer’s motor for a ride and finds himself up to his neck in Glasgow’s criminal underworld, is “loosely” based on Callum’s spell working for a local car wash while he was at university.
“My writing has definitely been informed by my life. I like the minutiae of everyday life as a basis for storytelling.” Since then, his stories have appeared in various publications, including Gutter Magazine and New Writing“The first story I wrote was published in Gutter and that was a big deal for me,” says Callum, adding with a laugh: “It lulled me into a false sense of security, I think, being published so quickly. It was probably a bit of a fluke.
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