The tour is over -- and it's been a brilliant one!!! I planned to write up a full report of what I've been up to for the last few days, but it's after 11 at night and I'm exhausted -- so I'm afraid it'll have to wait! And I'm off to spend a couple of days with Bas's aunt (she's a Carmelite nun, who lives in an enclosed order in the middle of nowhere) so it'll be Wednesday night or Thursday before I can get round to it. Sorry -- but that's one of the downsides of life on the road!

Apologies also for not being able to reply to any of your emails over the last ten days or so. As I make clear on my site, I don't respond to most emails, since it's just not possible. But (off the record -- so don't tell anyone!!!) I DO try to reply to at least a few of the more interesting emails that I receive each day. To be honest, most days the emails I get aren't overly exciting -- the vast majority simply want to know more details about the movie (it's as if they think I'm holding back secret info from the general public, but that I'm going to share it exclusively with THEM!!!!), or just say how much they like to read my books (I always love getting feedback like that, but there's not much I can say in the way of a reply, except "Thanks!", and if I said that to every fan who wrote to me saying they liked my books, I'd end up doing little else most days!!!). Sod's Law, of course -- while I've been on tour, there have been quite a lot of interesting emails which I would have normally responded to under different circumstances!!!!! Sadly, there wasn't time while on the road, and saving them to respond later wasn't an option, as that would have meant a backlog of emails, something I try VERY hard never to let happen -- it's bad enough having a backlog of letters, but if I let the emails back up too, I'd be in REAL trouble!!!!! So, sorry if you sent me a thought-provoking email over the last week and a half  but didn't get a response. Unfortunately, unlike Mr Tiny, I can't bend the laws of time ...