Susan Hill on sequels and follow-ups

Susan Hill has written a piece about presumptuous, jumped-up writers like me who take on the characters of a great author and produce their own tribute books. Actually, and refreshingly, she's all in favour of the practice. But having written a sequel to REBECCA called MRS. DE WINTER, it's perhaps not surprising.

Read the whole thing here. There's also an article on the Penguin blog about the forthcoming Sebastian Faulks' James Bond novel, DEVIL MAY CARE.

She's no bitch.

I'm talking about the blogger who calls herself the Fiction Bitch, though personally I would call her the Fiction Angel. Not only did she write a wonderful review of Taking Comfort, she has now nominated it as her fiction book of the year (2006) on Susan Hill's blog. That's the second list I've made it onto!

So thank you, Bitch.

Feel the embossing

I picked up some copies of my other book this lunchtime. I was amazed to see that they've given me an embossed title with shiny red foil lettering.

Does this mean I've made it? Maybe I should give up now. After all, it doesn't get much better than shiny embossed lettering. I can honestly say it's what I've been working for all these years.