Living with Ghosts was shortlisted for the 2009 William F Crawford first novel award. This is a huge honour: it's a juried award and the other nominees are all excellent writers. My fellow nominees were Deborah Biancotti, for A Book of Endings, Ali Shaw for The Girl With Glass Feet, and Jeddediah Berry, for The Manual of Detection,with was selected as the winner. Many congratulations to him, and to all my fellow nominees.