Hooray, I've been shortlisted for the new UKYPY Nibbie - the Young Publisher of the Year 2007. Guess which is the best part of that? Clue: anything that makes me not feel old is a good thing.

I have to meet the judges at the London Book Fair, and say wise things about how wise I am. The winner gets to go to India on a placement for 6 weeks. We could do a competition to get someone in to cover for me at Snowbooks - do the bookkeeping, answer the phone, that manner of thing. What's the worst that could happen? In fact probably I wouldn't be missed in the slightest and everything would carry on as normal. In fact, everything would get *more* efficient because I wasn't around, poking my nose into things and interrupting the whole time. Sigh.

Anyway - hooray! Shortlisted! Young! Hooray!