Snuff

[poohcarrot]

Stop Press!!

At the DWCon, at the Terry and Rob bedtime stories last night, Rob read from a new book which is currently work in progress called "Snuff".
It's about goblins and starts off with Sam Vimes going away on holiday for two weeks with Sybil to their country house.

Don't know what happened to Raising Taxes.

 

[Tonyblack]

Sounds good! As to Raising Taxes - well Terry seems to sometimes put an idea on hold if he gets inspiration for another book that he really wants to write. At the Clarecraft event in 2005 he was talking about Unseen Academicals, but as we know, several other books got written before that one.

Personally I'd rather have something other than another Moist book.

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Far rather anothe Vimes book than a Moist one >.>

Incidentally, my copy of Going Postal got dropped in the bath so for a while it really was a moist book...

 

[Tonyblack]

Soggy von Lipwig.

 

[raisindot]

Stop Press!!

At the DWCon, at the Terry and Rob bedtime stories last night, Rob read from a new book which is currently work in progress called "Snuff".
It's about goblins and starts off with Sam Vimes going away on holiday for two weeks with Sybil to their country house.

Don't know what happened to Raising Taxes.

Wow! That's HUGE!

With goblins in it, you gotta wonder if this is going to be a sequel to "UA" with Nutt and Glenda (and maybe Mightily Oats) dealing with the "lost goblin" problem.

I'll take this over "Raising Taxes" anytime!



J-I-B

 

[Tonyblack]

There were goblins in the Discworld short story, Theatre of Cruelty. I wonder if they'll be the same sort of goblins.

You can read it HERE on LSpace.

 

[NeoNico]

Wow thanks for the link, I tried to hunt down all the TP shorts floating around the internet a while ago, but I was unsucessful D:

When do you reckon the release for Snuff will be? 2011? Probebly after

 

[MattK]

Awesome news! Vimes and the Watch are my favorite group of characters. Moist was good in Going Postal, but Making Money was a little lackluster, I thought. I'm not sure how a third in the series would be.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Cmon!! give the guy a chance we have only heard a chapter or three in a draft format. its a work in progress. but we wants it my precious.

 

[jonny]

cool can't wait for a new book

 

[Dotsie]

He says it's finished, but it's just an early draft. I'm glad it's another watch book.

 

[NeoNico]

Somewhere in the world, on someone's desk is the first finished draft of a new Guards book. That thought makes me happy.

Then again, in several bookshops in my town centre right now they're holding 'I Shall Wear' under Embargo. Which is just annoying.

*searches for old crowbar*

My point being, I'm very looking forward to another guards one Any news on plot? Apart from Vimes taking a holliday at the beginning, did I read somewhere? I wonder where the Snuff (is that in Snuff Film?) comes into it Dammit, where is that crowbar? :/

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Probably Bernard's snuff he sells in the shop in Wincanton.

 

[The Mad Collector]

In Terrys' first klatch at convention he described Snuff as 'a sort of sequel to Thud' sound good to me

 

[joemcf]

Sorry for the long absense. Back to school and theres loads of stuff going on the now.

As for snuff, i like the idea of another watch book. Although it was only a few yeard ago since Thud!, its only 1 books a year now so its good to get a few more books of the recurring chracters in.

Hopefully it'll be to the standard of the other book. Anyone know whre i can read the extract?

 

[The Mad Collector]

It's not available anywhere. there is one copy not in Terrys direct control but as the owner has committed to not letting it get into the public domain until after publication you just had to be at convention to hear it read out.

Sorry

 

[Turtles4Ever]

Interesting - if there is a finished first draft of Snuff, I have to ask: how long, on average, does it usually take for a book to go from first draft to being 100% finished?

If the answer is 'not very long' then perhaps Terry could get this out, say, next Spring so that he goes back to having two books published per year?

Sorry, I know I'm being incredibly greedy but, well, it's Terry. It's Discworld. Need I say more?

 

[The Mad Collector]

Remember there is the Long Earth project to work on as well so he needs to get this one out of the way. There may be two books a year (or getting back towards that) but they won't both be Discworld

 

[Turtles4Ever]

Good point, I'd forgotten about that. Well, I can dream.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

The 1st draft now ,then end of the year the ARC, then Feb/March the final proof early Summer in time for NADWCon the Launch.