The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including sea creatures. It's about an alien invasion that starts in Lagos, Nigeria but, really, that's just the starting point.

Blogging, I love you no matter how out of fashion you are.

I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

Some worked in collaboration with each other to produce comics as well as short stories.I was partnered with Anita Roy. We critiqued each other's stories. Hers is a corker: future Masterchef. I chortled. There's not a single dud in Eat the Sky.

I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.