A Slater up your Nose, by Catriona

What are yourthoughts on book contests? Do you believe winning one can further your career?Which ones, if any, do you enter?

I was really chuffed

Re. the title of the blog: please don't be imagining a guy coming round to fix the roof and disappearing up a nostril instead. A "slater" in Scotland is a woodlouse (aka roly-poly, I believe). And why is it relevant? Because I've never been able to decide whether I'd rather be best-selling than award-winning or if I'd rather be either than critically-a...