Hello from the future...

There you are thinking about the pasta and pesto you’re going to have for dinner. Here I am, back from dinner and ready to crawl into my wee bed (I don’t know if I mentioned it has a bright pink Paris Hilton-style furry bedspread but it does. I’ve grown to…if not love, at least accept it). The good news is that the future is bright and sunny and, if we’re talking mine, involved a delicious little berry and nut roll with cream cheese baked inside of it, soju rice cocktail served from a teapot and an ice-cream on the way home. 

It’s also only 11 little days until the vote for the Scottish Book Awards, Scottish Book of the Year closes. I feel a bit bashful to still be banging on about it but since so many friends have been so kind to do the banging on my behalf (as it were) I feel I should do a little more. Besides, there’s lots of lovely interesting stuff to talk about. 

First there’s this *amazing* video by animation talent Anna Pearson of my reading of the first page.

Then there are these blogs by the judges: David and Peggy and Clare about judging (interesting for me as a Green Carnation Prize judge this year…). Plus beautiful blogs from my fellow lovely nominees Richard Price and Ewan Morrison too. 

I wrote this one. It’s about how the women in my family influenced my writing and why the First Book Award feels like a homecoming. I put a lot of heart into it.

Finally, if you needed more of a reason to vote Tony Hogan the lovely Sharon, my pal off that Twitter, made this excellent promo video for the #teamtonyhogan campaign. There’s a cat. And the book. Now you can vote.

Night night.