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Warning: Do not buy Discworld novels from Hill House, Publishers until further notice
1 May 2008 (19:53) 5 Comments
Hill House’s proposed facsimile editions of the first twelve Discworld novels, advertised since at least 2005, will probably not be published, according to Terry Pratchett’s agent Colin Smythe.
The new editions were supposed to reproduce the early Discworld novels “in exact facsimile editions,” with the use of identical binding, paper, type, and jacket art as the originals. The books were due to be published about every four months and since 2005 only The Colour Of Magic and The Light Fantastic have been published.
Terry Pratchett’s literary agent Colin Smythe responded to questions with “as far as I’m aware, the owner of Hill House, Publishers Peter Schneider has been ill and as it’s a one man operation I don’t believe that he’s going to publish any more of the facsimiles. It’s a considerable disappointment.”
Discworld fans should be warned that the series of facsimiles is still being advertised on the site, with no mention of these concerns.
“I … paid the company $210 for the first six titles–[which] sounded like a good deal,” said one fan, whose complaint brought the situation to light. “As of [April 2008] only two books have been published. At $105 per book this doesn’t sound like as good a deal.”
He had emailed Hill House repeatedly, with no response and no refund.
Happy Birthday, Terry Pratchett
28 April 2008 (16:34) 2 CommentsMany birthday wishes to Terry Pratchett, who turns sixty today, April 28.
BBC birthday celebrations for Terry Pratchett
27 April 2008 (14:06) Comment!BBC 7 celebrates Terry Pratchett’s sixtieth birthday (this Monday) with a mini series of Terry Pratchett interviews, radio adaptations of the Discworld novels, and more. A summary of what’s still available:
- Book Club: Terry Pratchett talks to James Naughtie about Mort and the Discworld series. Airs May 2 at 6:30 pm. and 12:30 a.m.
- Truckers: The first novel in Terry Pratchett’s trilogy about nomes, read by Philip Pickard. Airs May 5 to May 8 from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Big Toe Books.
All programs, including the dramatization of Small Gods that aired yesterday, should be available on BBC’s Listen Again feature for about a week after airing.
From Terry Pratchett: Alzheimer’s, documentary, book, and film news.
19 April 2008 (14:13) Comment!Over at the Discworld illustrator’s website,
Terry Pratchett has kindly updated his fans with information about
everything: the BBC documentary (”broadcast next year”), dealing with
Alzheimer’s (”I am now firmly ensconced with a specialist”), Nation (”line-edited”), and the coming TV adaptation of Going Postal. The full text of the letter follows:
My office is now effectively at a standstill. In fact, my office is probably moving slightly backwards. It has not helped that a five story rack of filed mail collapsed under the weight recently, thus shuffling several thousand documents into new and interesting combinations. Right now it is a good day if we can answer just those emails that turn up on that day. Most days are nothing like good days. Can we please say this:
I very much appreciate all the letters, emails and cards that have come in, many of them recounting personal experiences and quite a few passing on “survival kits”. There does seem to be some people out there who have managed at least to slow AD, although I have to say that it does appear by taking various supplements, not by milligram, but by grams :o)
Nation has now been line-edited, and in theory I was going to have a month or so off, although a large part of that will now be spent reassembling what passes as our post room. In reality there are now more calls on my time than there have ever been, to the point where we are simply having to ignore approaches. I think we must have had more than a dozen approaches from documentary companies alone, and I think we shall now just stop sending out the “You are too late, guys” emails (You may see us around and about being followed by Craig and Charlie, who are making a documentary about me for the BBC which will be broadcast next year.) I never intended that I would be some kind of AD spokesman, but the world seems to be deciding otherwise.On a brighter note, I am now firmly ensconced with a specialist, testing last week showed that nothing much had moved since the end of November, except that in situations where I must parallel process I find that serial processing is about as much as I can achieve :o)
There are a number of things planned for the rest of the year, and they include cracking on with Unseen Academicals and also, with any luck, playing a rather larger role in the making of Going Postal.
Terry Pratchett/Alzheimer’s documentary by IWC Media and the BBC
18 April 2008 (15:18) Comment!Scotland’s
largest independent television production company, IWC Media, has
teamed up with Terry Pratchett and the BBC to make a new documentary
series about Terry Pratchett and his diagnosis of early onset
Alzheimer’s. Craig Hunter will be the producer for the documentary, and
Charlie Russell will direct. Terry Pratchett has said on his illustrator’s website
that he “must have had more than a dozen approaches from documentary
companies alone, and I think we shall now just stop sending out the
“You are too late, guys” emails (You may see us around and about being
followed by Craig and Charlie, who are making a documentary about me
for the BBC which will be broadcast next year.) I never intended that I
would be some kind of AD spokesman, but the world seems to be deciding
otherwise.”
The Illustrated Wee Free Men, coming this October
17 April 2008 (18:47) Comment!
An illustrated version of the first novel in the Tiffany Aching children’s series, Wee Free Men, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk. (There is also a page for this illustrated version of the novel on the American version of the site, although pre-ordering is not yet available there.) This new edition is to be titled The Illustrated Wee Free Men, and according to Amazon.co.uk, will number 256 pages. To quote the synopsis:
The U.K. publishing date is set for October 6, 2008, while the American publishing date is set for October 28.‘They can tak’ oour lives but they cannae tak’ oour trousers!’ When the Queen of Fairyland steals away Tiffany Aching’s young brother, Tiffany has to do something. Helped by the Nac Mac Feegle–the thievin’, fightin’, stealin’ pictsies known as the Wee Free Men–she steps through into another world…. This is a terrific adventure set on the Discworld, filled with Terry Pratchett’s inimitable wit, style and invention–and this new gift edition includes extra new material to give real added value for fans.
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