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I have just discovered that you can buy a second hand copy of my book on Amazon for only £10.11 + £2.80 for UK delivery. This seems like a hell of a bargain until you consider brand that new it's £7.49 and delivered free. I wish the second hand book seller lots of luck.

If you're in a book group in Central Scotland and you fancy interrogating a live author after your discussions (or me at any rate), stick my book on your reading list and I'll be happy to come along and discuss it with your group, any and all questions welcome.

Oh and it's an absolutely free offer anywhere inside an approximate Edinburgh-Glasgow-Perth triangle.

You can't trust anyone. Some illegal advertiser erected an illegal billboard at a busy junction but their advert was removed. So I illegally appropriated the billboard with my own illegal advert and then after just three days someone stole it. My question is, who do I report it to?

Thanks to all 459 people who entered my giveaway. It's a testament to just how much people really like getting free stuff, so congratulations to the winners Julie, Jan, Stacey, Kass and Sarah. Your books and posters will be in the post tomorrow.

You will be getting the super rare first edition with a few carefully placed spelling mistakes still intact. The less exclusive and entirely professionally proofed second edition paperback will replace the current one out on Amazon by the end of this week.

I watched the last three episodes of the current season of Game of Thrones last night and was blown away by George R. R. Martin's total disregard for the lives of his major characters. Maybe he just gets bored easily but building up the lives and stories of characters over three seasons (books), making them central to the plot, making you care about what happens and then simply taking a bunch of them and having them slaughtered, is a piece of genius.

Up till now I've been watching the series then following up with the books to add in the background detail. Looks like my book reading is now going to have to overtake the tv production process because I can't wait a year to see who gets it next.

A couple of my friends are insisting that all the sales of the book so far are down to them, and as far as I know they might be right. At the weekend they were flyering the vaguely famous like frenzied demons at a gig in Glasgow, and sticking stickers where stickers really don't belong. (If you want some stickers to vandalise where you live, let me know and I'll bung a few sheets in the post).

Either way, something is starting to have an effect on sales as the first two weeks in June were better than the whole of May.

I'm also currently having someone properly qualified give the copy yet another scan as it seems there are still a few annoying little lingering typos, so once that's done I'll be updating the text on the paperback copies on Amazon effectively creating a second (entirely correctly spelled) edition. So if you want one of the very slightly incorrect, but what will be the far rarer first editions: get your paperback copy on Amazon now.

In case you missed my glittering celebrity gala book launch party photos in Tattler this month, here they finally are:

As part of my other job I was at an event today which involved photographing the former first minister of Scotland Henry McLeish. He was dumped from his job when it turned out he'd been fiddling his expenses. In other words, stealing directly from the people he was supposed to be representing. As part of his speech he made the point that he believes Scotland needs better leaders. Thank you Henry, but we already know.

An emerging theme from the reviews both here and on seems to be that while individual reviewers have almost universally loved the book, and have taken from it the pure entertainment value I intended the book to supply, they are concerned that other people may be offended by it. So I'm wondering, who are these 'other people'? The only conclusion I've reached so far is that other people are always more delicate than we are, and that people who are easily offended by the nature of the human condition (or at least by the way I go about describing it) are going to be pre-put off by the blurb and will probably never pick up a copy anyway.

This is nothing to do with books but I must have a quick rant about the God-awful McDonalds advert my eyes were subjected to last night. The pain of having seen this thing is still very fresh.

The premise is, an inner city block of flats where an old man in high trousers and some young men with their arses hanging out, walk though a threatening unpleasant urban environment and all end up at McDonalds, where the old man and one of the young men exchange a smile, before they drop on us the slogan 'We all have McDonalds in common'

So essentially what McDonalds are saying with this piece of unmitigated shit, is that being outside one of their restaurants is a dangerous and nasty place where you will almost definitely be murdered, but McDonalds itself is some kind of peace-loving neutral zone where you will definitely not be murdered, because your potential murderers get hungry too and they eat in McDonalds, and they never murder anyone while they're eating.