Well, holy crap!  To my absolutely delighted astonishment, I've just won the BookTrust Teenage Prize for The Knife of Never Letting Go.  I was dead certain that I wouldn't win (Tanya Landman's Apache is particularly fine and also on the shortlist), so I gave a nicely incoherent speech and smiled like an idiot.

But very nice indeed, I must say, especially as I get my very first coverage on the BBC ever.  A fine day, though one in which I understandably haven't got much writing done.  I've said it before, I'll say it again:  Nifty.