Discworld

I’m sure many of you recall young Euan Macrae, who was my guest at last year’s Discworld convention.  I had already met him as a result of an approach from the Make-a-Wish foundation because he had a very serious and complex illness.  There was a huge incongruity in watching him become the champion Assassin in…

RHI Entertainment, the Mob Film Co. and Sky One have teamed for The Colour of Magic, a miniseries based on Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novel to star Sean Astin, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee and David Jason. The live-action/CGI project, a follow-up to the trio’s successful adaptation of Pratchett’s Hogfather as a miniseries last year, was written by Vadim Jean,…

It was our first visit to Pinewood Studios this week to see work already well in progress on The Colour of Magic / Light Fantastic.  Various bits of Unseen University, looking dwarfed on the huge sound stage,  Wizard’s staffs and paraphernalia being constructed everywhere we looked, a scale model of the Potent Voyager already completed and sitting in a detailed…

Wintersmith has won the Locus award for Children/Young Adult books, which means all three of the Tiffany Aching books have picked up that award.  It’s interesting to see that the four books in the “Junior Discworld” series have picked up more awards between them than the whole of the adult series.  I don’t know why, either.

This was my first ever Russian tour: I was amazed to find such huge crowds.  There were so many books to sign that the ice bucket was resorted to by the time I reached Moscow and I couldn’t sign at all on the final event of the week.  Russia has defeated Napoleon, Hitler and my…