Please, good people, no more offers of copies of the 13 Clocks. If you have a copy going spare, go and find a nice person who really needs to read it, and give it to them. Or read it to a child.

Yes, I know about Abebooks, and about bookfinder.com and I even know that alibris is an utter rip-off.

Yes, I've heard the Chicago Sun Times says Ralph Fiennes and Christophe Lambert will be starring as Crowley and Aziraphale in Good Omens. No, it's not true.

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/interview.html is an interview with a bunch of answers to various Frequently Asked Questions in it. And a couple of paragraphs of Coraline.

And the lost notebook turned up and wasn't lost after all. And I wrote my 2001 Xmas card (which turned out to my surprise to be a 26 line poem about pirates and death and ghosts and suchlike Xmassy things.)

So it was a pretty good day.