One step forward....

Who the hell is Michael Thomas??? That's exactly what I said when I read that the debut novel Man Gone Down written by AFRICAN-AMERICAN author Michael Thomas had won the Impac Dublin Prize.

This news of course got me to doing the happy dance, complete with flinging arms and gyrating hips - and a whole bunch of Yippeeeeeeeee's!

Never heard of that prize? Well its the largest and most international prize of its kind. It involves libraries from all of the world and books written in any language. And