Crime writer JD Kirk said his readers are buzzing about the idea for mutant biting midges.
After 10 years writing children's stories for publishers Harper Collins and Penguin, and stints writing comedy sci-fi and Beano comic storylines, Kirk has established himself as a crime writer with his DCI Jack Logan Highland police series.Along with Smith, author of his own line of DCI Robert Kett novels, Kirk has written TV and film scripts which are at various stages of development.
Kirk said: "We were bouncing some ideas back and forth the other day to what the scariest Scottish creature was."Kirk said: "That led me to thinking what if someone releases a chemical to wipe out the midge menace but it makes it a semi-indestructible creature that can strip the flesh from a man in seconds?"Kirk sought to sound out his readers' views on the idea in posts on social media and his blog.
"I imagined my stripped skeleton being presented back to my parents, with a bronze award as consolation."
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