Yearly Archives: 2007

Hogswatch Wishes From Terry

21st December 2007

21st December 2007 Hogswatch Wishes From Terry Folks, We have had many tens of thousands of e-mails from people and the letter flood is just beginning to bite (hilariously, spam traps here tend to pick up things like ‘medication’ and treat quite a lot of the mail as spam.  If we switch them off, we get all the spam too…

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Classic FM – Saturday 15th / Sunday 16th December

14th December 2007

14th December 2007 Classic FM – Saturday 15th / Sunday 16th December Join all of the Classic FM presenters  for their  annual charity on-air auction in aid of the Classic FM Music Makers. There will be celebrity guests and money can’t buy prizes, exclusive experiences and perfect Christmas presents up for grabs such as dinner with Terry (and Rob) at…

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AN UPDATE

12th December 2007

12th December 2007 AN UPDATE Folks, My good friend Sandra Kidby of PJSM Prints is allowing me to use her website because I am proverbially too busy to run one of my own.  We have hardly the time even to read the thousands of messages that have come in here, let alone reply to them, but thank you all. Could…

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An Embuggerance

11th December 2007

Folks, I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news.  I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s, which lay behind this year’s phantom “stroke”. We are…

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THE MONTH IN PICTURES…

5th October 2007

15th October 2007 THE MONTH IN PICTURES… JOSH & SEAN ASTIN TERRY & SEAN   BRIGGSO & ME MR BOGGIS & JOSH BEFORE MAKEUP   RICHARD, STEPHEN & THE PRODUCER ANKH-MORPORK UNDER CONSTRUCTION   TAKING DIRECTION NICOLA BURNING BOOKS   MARY-ELLEN & SEAN HOME SWEET HOME WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN?? AT THE END OF A HARD DAY  …

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AUTUMN TOUR REMINDER

12th September 2007

AUTUMN TOUR REMINDER Terry’s Autumn Making Money tour has been confirmed as follows; Monday 24th September 7:00pm : Borders #86 3700 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503 Tuesday 25th September 7:30pm : Kepler’s Books STE 200 1010 El Camino Menlo Park, CA 94025 Wednesday 26th September 7:00pm : Powell’s Bookstore 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97004 Thursday 27th September…

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Terry says goodbye to a great fan

4th September 2007

4th September 2007 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 the Battle…

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AUTUMN TOUR REMINDER

29th August 2007

AUTUMN TOUR REMINDER Terry’s Autumn Making Money tour has been confirmed as follows; Monday 24th September 7:00pm : Borders #86 3700 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503 Tuesday 25th September 7:30pm : Kepler’s Books STE 200 1010 El Camino Menlo Park, CA 94025 Wednesday 26th September 7:00pm : Powell’s Bookstore 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97004 Thursday 27th September…

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THE PERSEID METOER SHOWER

21st August 2007

21st August 2007 THE PERSEID METOER SHOWER – SUNDAY IN THE GARDEN WITH BRIAN AND SIR PATRICK – Could there have been a better place to see the recent Perseid meteor shower than Patrick Moore’s back garden?  Conversation was a little on the difficult side, since invariably the person you were talking to would suddenly shriek and look over your…

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COLOUR OF MAGIC CAST

31st July 2007

31st July 2007 COLOUR OF MAGIC CAST 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,…

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EXTRAS! EXTRAS! UPDATE!

18th July 2007

18th July 2007 EXTRAS! EXTRAS! UPDATE! Folks, Here is an update. As we indicated, we are not the judges here, but stuff is passing through our hands and so it might be time to sharpen things up a little.  We understand that decisions are being made over the next few days. Fans are being invited to come along to be…

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Extras extras

12th July 2007

12th July 2007 EXTRAS! EXTRAS! When we were planning the movie of Hogfather we met a lot of Discworld fans and admired their enthusiasm for costuming.  That led to us inviting fans to join the extras in some of the scenes of that movie. Boy, was that a high speed learning process.  We had not realised that the history of…

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THE COLOUR OF MAGIC / LIGHT FANTASTIC

20th June 2007

20th June 2007 THE COLOUR OF MAGIC / LIGHT FANTASTIC 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…

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WINTERSMITH WINS A LOCUS AWARD

16th June 2007

16th June 2007 WINTERSMITH WINS A LOCUS AWARD 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…

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TERRY VISITS MOSCOW & ST PETERSBURG

10th June 2007

10th June 2007 TERRY VISITS MOSCOW & ST PETERSBURG . 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…

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Another BAFTA for Hogfather!

21st May 2007

21st May 2007 Another BAFTA for Hogfather!   Hogfather won another BAFTA last night. This time it was up the Interativity award, described as; “A programme or series that has been extended and enriched by the interactivity offered by new media. Any form of new media is eligible including web, mobile and red button interactive TV, or any cross-platform combination. The…

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Terry on Tour

20th May 2007

20th May 2007 Terry on Tour Terry’s UK Autumn tour has been confirmed as follows; Saturday 6th October The Cheltenham Festival Monday 8th October Plymouth : 12.30-1.30 WHSmith 73-75 New George Street Plymouth Devon PL1 1RP Tuesday 9th October Bath : Evening Topping & Co The Paragon Bath BA1 5LS Friday 12th October Cambridge : 1pm Borders 12-13 Market Street…

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The Sky at Night 50th Anniversary Party

1st May 2007

1st May 2007 The Sky at Night 50th Anniversary Party As far as I am concerned, it was the party of the year, held at Sir Patrick Moore’s house to celebrate fifty years of The Sky at Night.  I think I recall watching the first one, on our tiny little telly, too.  It was heaven if you are interested in…

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Hogfather DVDs Arrive

27th April 2007

20th April 2007 Hogfather DVDs Arrive The first batch of Limited Edition Hogfather DVDs arrived today and they look absolutely fabulous. Terry didn’t waste any time in signing them all and hey are now being packed up ready for despatch, which only leaves us needing to visit the Tooth Fairy’s castle for those bags of teeth…! Our Limited Edition Hogfather…

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