I have never made any apology for writing my Glasgow based crime fiction novels the way I do because I am following the best advice any writer can ever get. "Write what you know" I choose to write in the language of the Glasgow streets for two very good reasons. Number one is authenticity. You must have realism in your crime fiction writing. In other words the reader must be able to identify with the manner in which any of my various and very different characters express themselves. So yes my immediate target audience would be Glasgow people. Specifically Glasgow people of a certain age to identify with Glasgow in the late 1960`s early 1970`s You`re limiting your audience many people have told me. Rubbish. Firstly many many people identify with Glasgow dialogue for many reasons. The whole of Scotland for a start. The many visitors to the city who visit the city and love the warmth and generosity of the welcome they receive from Glaswegians. Then there is the huge diaspara of Scottish- particularly Glaswegian people the world over. Who doesn`t know someone from Glasgow or Scotland in general? Who doesn`t have Scottish grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, doctors , lawyers just about every profession the world over who might very well enjoy hearing the old mother tongue again.
Then I have the other perhaps more important reason. Glasgow street dialogue is a little language all on it`s own which must be preserved for posterity
Warm, generous, mockingly , side splittingly funny and on many occasions suitably profane. Only Glaswegians know how to insult you in a manner which will cause no offense whatsoever.
Check me out. Just Google my name Liam Leddy. Up will come right at the very top "Books, Biography, Blogs" That will take you straight to my Amazon author page where you will immediately see all my novels Body Language, Bad Form and Body Art the Lassiter series. Writing Lassiter 4 at present. Also my short story collections-10 in all- eg. Scottish Tales, Ticket Tales, Cautionary Tales, Slinger Aiding & Abetting and so on.