Quintin Jardine's blog

Those were our Mia’s first observed words in English . . . apart from ‘Woof woof’ which doesn’t really count as it’s Dog. They came to mind  this morning when I went on Facebook and found a post from another writer. It asked me, and the other 800+ people on her Friends list to vote for her in the current on-line poll for the ITV3 Bestseller Dagger award.

Letting your close friends and family know you’re up for an award, that’s one thing, but using Facebook, well, that doesn’t sit quite right with me; that’s what politicians do, not authors. So I’ve voted for Kathy Reichs instead, on the basis that she’s also a Facebook Friend, but she didn’t ask for my support. I’ll probably have one less Friend as a result, but I can live with that.