My lovely daughter's online Wedding Boutique has gone live! So all you romantics out there, do visit it at www.weddinginateacup.co.uk - it's a wonderful place full of goodies for creative brides who want weddings away from the mainstream. She let me get involved writing the product descriptions and so on, which was huge fun. Please spread the word to any friends thinking of tying the knot!

I'm coming up to the last stretch of Witch Crag now. I've had an absolute blast writing it and it's ended up on a far grander scale than I imagined! It's set in a dystopian world where warrior men are afraid of female power. I do think witches have been a bit too cuddly and nice recently - my witches are dangerous, healers but occasionally cruel, and the users of real magic, not fantasy stuff!

Thanks so much to everyone who has bought a copy of Art's Story! I'm so pleased with how it's going - I'm going to have to reprint soon! I'm shipping it to all over the world and I'm particularly impressed with readers in the Netherlands and Sweden who are prepared to read it in English. Art's Story is the fourth book in the Diving In series, about Coll and Art's stormy relationship. It never got published because my then-publishers hated Art - it's written from his viewpoint and tells you if they stay together or not ....

After deciding to stop whingeing about book shops only stocking vampire books and try to actively create a buzz on the Web for my own books (with real boys in them, that you have to work things out with and can actually get hold of ...!) I'm feeling a little dazed. There is SO MUCH out there - so many blogs, so much twitter, so many reviews and comments .... Of course it's wonderful, it's allowing real people to use the newly powerful platforms available to them to discuss and comment and exchange views, but it's easy for an author to feel overwhelmed by it all, by the sense that her own books will get lost among it all. I think you just have to keep focussed on what you're doing - on what you want to say in your book.

CONSUMED has just been published in the USA and, like its prequel POSSESSED, has been awarded the designation 'a Junior Library Guild Selection'. Big thanks to all the reviewers and bloggers who have covered it.