Neil Gaiman won the Carnegie Medal yesterday for The Graveyard Book, beating The Ask and the Answer.  How do I feel about that?  Well, I did review it for the Guardian and said all manner of wonderful things, so maybe I can take partial credit, eh?  Great fun at the ceremony, too.  Neil himself is a lovely guy, very gracious (and said very nice things about Chaos Walking, so really, we're cool).  Plus, great to meet all the Shadowers, too, including a few commenters on this site (Hi, William).

In other news, tickets for Edinburgh Book Festival go on sale tomorrow.  I'm appearing on Sunday, 22 August, at 4.30pm to talk about Monsters of Men.  And you can also get free tickets for my Losing It event at Foyles, Charing Cross, on Thursday, 22 July at 6.30 by emailing events@foyles.co.uk.  Again, that one will be about the Losing It anthology with Keith Gray and others, but I'll also happily sign Chaos Walking books, too.

Greetings to the new commenters, thanks for all the Carnegie best wishes, and more soon.