Publishing: eBooks rewrite bookselling. A bit of a mix of sensible estimations and wild predictions, but another sign people are waking up to the potential impact of eBooks.

Interest-Piquing: Do you write fantasy or literary fiction?

InsPiring: Shakespeare in the bush – never make assumptions about what is “universal”. You can’t have a revenge narrative in a culture with a completely different concept of revenge.

Procrastination: In Wales, it’s a legal requirement that road signs be in both English and Welsh. Because there are actually people in the UK who speak more than one language (I know!). Welsh is spoken as a first language by fewer people than English, especially in the bigger cities. Which leads to some translation problems, since a lot of council office workers don’t speak Welsh.

Which leads to signs that are perfectly sensible in English, but read “I am out of the office” in Welsh. Or say “Look Right” in English but “Look Left” in Welsh. Or inform cyclist’s they have inflamed bladders.