Danny Wallace

I never win awards.

And yet I won one!

The PPA’s Columnist of the Year award 2011, for my work in ShortList magazine.

I love writing the column every week, and I love ShortList, so I’m very, very flattered and honoured and proud.

Here’s a picture of me in the last ten seconds of sobriety.

Hey, so right now, to celebrate the launch of More Awkward Situations for Men, Amazon.co.uk are offering a free limited-edition t-shirt if you pre-order a copy! Click here!

I chose that colour because I think it will offset your eyes perfectly. And I hope you like the book, if you get on, whether it’s electronic, audio or lovely old ink on paper.

… if you bought a copy of my new book, Awkward Situations for Men, this week! I properly, properly appreciate it.

The reaction has been great, and I’m very grateful – and I’m pleased, too, to say the book went in at number three in the Sunday Times Bestsellers List and is still there five weeks on… which means I can now make pompous faces and wear a monocle.

I am doing both now.

Reviews include Heat (“Delightfully funny”), The Daily Record (“Comedy genius”) and Private Eye (“The success of ASFM is assured… evidence of a sharp imagination… winningly surreal… progressive, original and enlightening”), though I may have edited that last bit slightly.

Thanks so much for your support.

DWx

Well, I’m back from LA, where we shot the pilot for Awkward Situations For Men.

It. Was. Amazing. And I’m very, very proud of it, and think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever been involved in (although one lady, during audience testing, thought I was “a bit short”).

I’m happy to say that ABC like it too, though they’d like a couple of tweaks (one of which is very exciting), so they’re investing in a whole new episode of Awkward Situations For Men, which we’ll shoot in the next little while.

I have to say I’m very pleased about this. It’s ruthless out there, but excitingly so, and to be sneaking through with our little show is a thrill. ABC have been lovely, and the cast and crew outstanding.

And I’ve found out I can sort of act. But only sort of.

And that I’m a bit short. At 6’2″.

More soon…