Terry Pratchett's Right Up My Alley ...

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

But One Must Go Where One's Road Leads, Even When It's A Distressing Road.

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.

I Hope To Read A Harry Potter Novel Soon, To See What It's All About. I Admit To Being Annoyed That Many Good Light Fantasy Writers Have Had Trouble Getting Published, In England And Elsewhere, When It Is Obvious The Readers Were Waiting For Us All Along.

At This Slower Pace The Journey Took A Couple Of Days, And I Fought Off A Few Minor Threats Along The Way --griffins, Carnivorous Plants, Giant Serpents, Hostile Centaurs, That Sort Of Thing, Purely Routine --and I Was Beginning To Get Bored When At Last The Dusky Towers Of Castle Roogna Hove Into View.