![]() Pratchett lists his recreations as "writing, walking, computers, life." He is also well known for his penchant for cowboy hats, as seen on the inside back covers of most of his books. His daughter Rhianna Pratchett (born 1976) is a fantasy author and journalist. ![]() Typically, his own tongue-in-cheek comment was "I suspect the 'services to literature' consisted of refraining from trying to write any." He has been awarded honorary Doctorates of Letters, by the University of Warwick in 1999, and by the University of Bristol in 2004. In 1998 Terry Pratchett was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature. It was once estimated that 1% of all fiction books sold in Britain were written by Pratchett, although this figure was calculated before the success of J. Pratchett gave up his work for the CEGB in 1987 when he realised he could make a living through writing this accounts for a significant increase in his output, and since then has managed to publish two novels a year. In 1980, he became Press Officer for the Central Electricity Generating Board in an area which covered several nuclear power stations he later joked that he had demonstrated impeccable timing by making this career change so soon after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, USA. It was eventually published in 1971, with a launch party held in the carpet department of Heal's department store on Tottenham Court Road, London. ![]() It was during his time as a journalist that he was sent to interview Peter Bander van Duren, a co-director of Colin Smythe Limited, a small publishing company in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, about a new book the company was publishing and Pratchett happened to mention that he had written a novel of his own, The Carpet People. He subsequently moved on to a number of other regional newspapers in south-west England including the Western Daily Press and Bath Chronicle. On leaving school in 1965, he gained employment as a local newspaper journalist on the Bucks Free Press ("I started work one morning and saw my first body three hours later, 'on-the-job training' meaning something in those days"). His second published work was "Night Dweller", which appeared in New Worlds magazine, issue 156 in November 1965. His first published work was the short story "The Hades Business", which appeared in his school magazine when he was 13, and was subsequently reprinted in Science Fantasy magazine in 1963, for which he was paid £14. ![]() He credits his education to High Wycombe Technical High School and Beaconsfield Public Library. just beyond the coming of the night.Terry Pratchett was born in Beaconsfield to David and Eileen Pratchett, of Hay-on-Wye. Whether you are of the noble Ventrue, the insane Malkavians, the brutal Brujah or the clanless Caitiff, you are of a select breed. You will never grow old, but your unending existence is a constant struggle to control your Beast, to feed your hunger for the blood of mortals, and in the end to keep some measure of humanity. You are Kindred, childe of the Blood - one of the Damned. ![]() Little do they know that they are but pawns in the Jyhad - the invisible war that has raged for centuries. while within the bleak cities, Kindred princes flaunt their power, and the elders sway the prince. A world where ancient vampire lordes use their subtle machinations to control their unsuspecting minions. Within this book, a world of darkness awaits. Your need washes over you and pushes you to the edge of frenzy.Īre you strong enoug to keep the Beast at bay within your dark soul? Your mouth waters in anticipation of the kiss. You feel the blood-hunger that drives the hunt. Imagine what it would be like to live forever - to be immortal. ![]()
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