Good grief, it's been busy lately.  Not only have I been doing the Writer In Residence gig at Booktrust (look for new stuff there sometime next week, by the way, including new tips on first thoughts about structure), I wrote a blog about it for the Guardian, which has prompted some nice discussion.

I've also been working long, pleasurable hours on the rewrite for book three of Chaos Walking (Book two, The Ask and the Answer is out in about six weeks or so, of course), and keeping up with my marathon training.

I've been receiving my first emails from German readers, too, which is great.  The German version is called Die Flucht and special kudos to the translator, Petra Koob-Pawis, because it's getting some great notices.

Finally, big shout out to my dad, who turned 70 this week and took with his usual good grace (not sarcastic that, real actual good grace).