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(crossposted in my personal LJ)
I have met Terry Pratchett. And he answered my question about Good Omens! And signed four of my Pterry books! And he is an absolutely wonderful man and he had the audience in stitches the entire time, especially when he described traveling American-style. I'd feel ashamed, if I weren't so amused. I believe he said it as: "You can imagine how they might start to wonder about a guy dressed in all black, with only a carry-on, with a one-way ticket, from an unfriendly country-" at this point we all cracked up- "is always the one who seems to get taken aside. I just wish they'd wait until we were out before they snapped on the rubber gloves..."
*snerk*
As for my question about GO (he answered my question! He spoke to me! *squeee*), I asked how he and Neil Gaiman managed to write an entire book when they didn't live near each other and, as he put it, his signal to wake up was Neil going to bed. ^^ So he told the very amusing story of trying to write an entire book over phone and through floppy disks, because computers weren't very reliable back then. "Now, on the count of three, switch to the modem and I'll send you this!" (twenty minutes later) "Get it?" "I got a load of garbage..." Hee.
And then there was the funny bit, when he was telling us about his next Discworld book (two in the workings! Sequel to Wee Free Men and one called Going Postal), when he was talking about how to transmit a virius through the semaphore towers. And the man who was doing the sign language was making these really funny gestures-- think the guy at the airport who waves in planes with the orange glow-sticks. And then the audience member who stands up during questions and asks him to say "semaphore" again and the translator gets all huffy...
I don't know what else I should write, because he gave spoilers for both Monstrous Regiment and Fistful of Sky (I believe was the title, the sequel to Wee Free Men, so I'll write that later if people want me to. ^^ Now I'm going to go read MR.
I know not all of this is about GO, but I thought the community would probably forgive the OTness.
I have met Terry Pratchett. And he answered my question about Good Omens! And signed four of my Pterry books! And he is an absolutely wonderful man and he had the audience in stitches the entire time, especially when he described traveling American-style. I'd feel ashamed, if I weren't so amused. I believe he said it as: "You can imagine how they might start to wonder about a guy dressed in all black, with only a carry-on, with a one-way ticket, from an unfriendly country-" at this point we all cracked up- "is always the one who seems to get taken aside. I just wish they'd wait until we were out before they snapped on the rubber gloves..."
*snerk*
As for my question about GO (he answered my question! He spoke to me! *squeee*), I asked how he and Neil Gaiman managed to write an entire book when they didn't live near each other and, as he put it, his signal to wake up was Neil going to bed. ^^ So he told the very amusing story of trying to write an entire book over phone and through floppy disks, because computers weren't very reliable back then. "Now, on the count of three, switch to the modem and I'll send you this!" (twenty minutes later) "Get it?" "I got a load of garbage..." Hee.
And then there was the funny bit, when he was telling us about his next Discworld book (two in the workings! Sequel to Wee Free Men and one called Going Postal), when he was talking about how to transmit a virius through the semaphore towers. And the man who was doing the sign language was making these really funny gestures-- think the guy at the airport who waves in planes with the orange glow-sticks. And then the audience member who stands up during questions and asks him to say "semaphore" again and the translator gets all huffy...
I don't know what else I should write, because he gave spoilers for both Monstrous Regiment and Fistful of Sky (I believe was the title, the sequel to Wee Free Men, so I'll write that later if people want me to. ^^ Now I'm going to go read MR.
I know not all of this is about GO, but I thought the community would probably forgive the OTness.