BBCAMERICA.COM: Did you involve any story elements from the show?

CAROLE: This is very much Jack standing alone, Jack on his own. There are no other characters from Torchwood in the comic and that was pretty deliberate. Given our time frame it made it easier to write because we didn't have to worry about what everybody else is doing and where are they and so on. It allowed us to be fairly self-contained in the narrative. There is a little section in the comic, a flashback, that sets up a particular event in Jack's life but other than that it's a fairly independent, standalone piece, and you get to know maybe a little more about Jack.

BBCAMERICA.COM: What was the collaboration process like with your brother?

CAROLE: Since we've collaborated on a number of things, the autobiography being the biggest one, we have a pretty comfortable routine. I had spent some time with him on set working on something else last fall and then we did a few things in the summer. That's when we were brainstorming ideas. We spend a lot time on iChat, a lot of time on email. He sends a lot of stuff to me via iTalk. In all of these kinds of situations, like the comic and the autobiography, he works with me on the stories and then I write them. He was very involved in figuring out how we could get Jack to be in Scotland; he really wanted Jack to be somewhere in the Highlands.



BBCAMERICA.COM: Scotland, being the place where John was born - and where you were born as well...?

CAROLE: Yes. I of course was raised there for a little longer. I was 17 when I left Scotland. John was 8 or 9, I think.

BBCAMERICA.COM: It has a real special place in your heart, could you talk a bit about that?

CAROLE: We didn't want to put it in an immediately recognizable place and, because of the nature of the tale of the Selkie, it made sense that we do it up in the Highlands, and that's what worked out for this particular story. But, yeah, I think anything Scottish - or anything that reminds us of that early part of our childhood - that we can work into what we do is important to both of us. Of course John has a much stronger connection [to Scotland] now, spending much more of his time over there, in the UK. Scotland is much more a part of his world than mine, being in the middle of Wisconsin. It was very nice. It was kind of nostalgic. When I was writing the script, to be able to use words like "ach" and spell them correctly and all that good stuff, it was fun to do.

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