Reviews are starting to appear for my new book, including the first Amazon reader.  There was already that nice one in The Independent, and this past weekend there was a new one in the Financial Times.

Is this insecurity?  Am I trying to convince you I'm a real writer?  Is that what I'm doing?  Here, then, let me do it some more.  For my Irish reader, ahem, readers, there was a good one in The Irish World, and I've also got nice support from some good websites, too, including Betty Bookmark and best of all, a review on Simply Book Recommends by an actual teen reviewer (I think).

Ah, hell, let the self-promotion continue:  A reminder that I'm appearing at the Brighton Festival on 9 May at 7.30pm at an event called So You Want To Write For Children?  There we go, self-promoted into oblivion.  Let me just go wash my hands...