Terry Pratchett's Right Up My Alley ...

People Talk-- They Sneer At Escapism. Well, There Are Those Of Us Who Need It.

As For Collaboration - I Have Done A Lot, 26 Books, And Found Publishers Increasingly Resistive To Them. It's Not That The Books Are Bad; Editors Won't Even Read Them.

Princess Rose Should Indeed Be A Tv Movie, Assuming Something Doesn't Go Wrong. I Don't Know How Good A Movie It Will Be, Because The Way Movie Folk Think Is Different From The Way Writers Think, And I Distrust What Isn't Done My Way. This Is What I Call A Healthy Paranoia.

For Our Stories Are Not Yet Finished, And Perhaps Will Never Be.

I Think It's A Shame That Something As Creative And Vital To The Nature Of The Human Species As Story-telling Is Largely Controlled By The Soulless Cretins Known As Publishers.