Away for a week

Which pretty much covers it.  I'm teaching an Arvon Foundation course this week with Celia Rees and Meg Rosoff, so there won't be updates for a bit.

Just time to say hello to the new commenters before I go:  ZombieGrenadier again (I have a mental picture, but I'd be more interested in what you think), Alex (here's a whole bunch of writing tips on all different kinds of subjects that I wrote for Booktrust), Eloise, Ben (who made a fan trailer for Le cercle et la fleche, out now in France)...