As I surface very occasionally from the middle of this third draft I'm writing, just a note to say I've posted a new blog up on the Booktrust site where I'm Writer in Residence (and it's about, guess what, the third draft!). 

That's really what my summer's been like, by the way.  I had one week off in France, and the rest is hard graft to get this third draft done before I head to my high school reunion in the US at the end of August (yes, they really do have them in America; yes, I really am going, more as an excuse to visit the family, though).

But the results of all this hard work will be a whopper of a conclusion to the Chaos Walking trilogy, I promise.  It's coming together.  Boy, is it ever...