Scruffy Author, Beautiful Book.

Just dashing back in to show you what I got in the post today. OK, so it's not the most glamorous photo of me ever taken - I just ran in from the rain and I'm wearing my gardening clothes - but look at what's in my grubby paws! Go h-iontach, nach é?

SO many thanks to my two editors in Orbit, the lovely Bella Pagan (UK) and Song Dongwon Song (USA) and to all in the design and art departments - especially Steve Stone and Peter Cotton - who've worked to make this such a sumptuous book! (I love...