A good day for The Girl with Glass Feet, which has made it onto the longlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2010.  I’m staggered that the book is being recognised in this way.  Here’s the link.

Most of my internet time over the last month or so has been spent updating my website.  It takes me about ten times as long as it should do to complete such things.  I’ve been developing a kind of aversion to typing, which started while I was writing the new book.  I just couldn’t get my jive on while I was using a word processor.  Far better to use a pencil, and preferably a 3b at that.  I like all the sharpening you have to do, and the way the letters get thicker as the lead wears down.  If I could have I would have made this website out of graphite sticks, pastel paper and scraps of charcoal.  As it stands I have had to make it out of pixels.  It is my firm hope that the next generation of websites will be made of handwriting on paper, perhaps with stitching and hardback covers.

Take a look around if you haven’t done already.  There are some new pictures and soon, I hope, there will be links to various interviews I’ve done and articles I’ve written over the past few months.

Cheers all,

Ali