Busy week!  Wednesday was the announcement of the Booktrust Teenage Prize, which went to Neil Gaiman for The Graveyard Book, thereby beating The Ask and the Answer.  But don't feel bad for me.  The Knife of Never Letting Go won it last year, after all, and then Neil said very nice things about me in his press interview after.  I'm good.

Then last night I went to gig by the brilliant Decemberists at the Coronet in south London.  The Hazards of Love is easily the best album of the year, and they played it in its quixotic entiriety.  Loved it.

And hello to the new commenters:  Ali (and I'm lucky to have Michelle), Lyssa, Elena, Lauren (I'll be touring for Monsters of Men, so stay tuned to the events pages), Johanna (Book two will be out in France in February, I believe, called Le Cercle et La Fleche, more details here as I know them), Sean (good luck with the essay), and Joel (stay tuned as well for ebook info).