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How I discovered I had slipped into a parallel universe
Here's things that people would probably like to know...This is the poster for TRUTH IS A CAVE IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS Reading Event at the Carnegie Hall (and it lists the other gigs too. I think there...
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Why I am Smiling In This Picture
One of the reasons I'm smiling so widely in this picture is I'd just been talking to the people in Azraq camp who run the child friendly space it was taken in. They were mostly from UNICEF. They had...
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Seminudity of the daughter-embarrassing kind.
It's been ages, and I kept promising myself I'd do a blog update, and then other stuff would happen, and somehow in there the blog never got updated.So. Right. Lots of stuff has happened since the last...
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In which you and I go to Tasmania together.
I have a small gold owl on the lapel of my jacket, with the letters B and e underneath it, and people often ask me what it represents. I tell them it's from the Bookend Trust, and then explain that,...
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In Which I am About to go to Germany, Austria and France. Also, notPorn.
It's autumn in this part of the world, and the trees are amazingly beautiful. A few weeks ago they were red and green, now they're mostly shades of brown, orange and gold, and every now and again a...
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The Most Important Publishing Event In Our House
I went to Germany and Austria, and did book events and signings for Der Ozean am Ende der Straße.I went to Paris and did book events and signings for L'océan au Bout du Chemin.I came back to America...
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Radio shows are like Buses...
Radio shows in which I answer quiz questions, sing, and tell the story of how I wrote OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE for Amanda are like buses. You wait for such a long time, and then two come along at...
View ArticleNew Year's Wishes and gifts
An old year ends, and takes with it people and sorrows and joys and memories, and a new one is on it way.A New Year's Gift, for anyone who missed it:The BBC Radio 4 GOOD OMENS Website, with all six...
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Edging back to blogging
I really am out of the habit of blogging, aren't I? Some of it's from travelling too much, and most of it is probably from using Twitter and Facebook in places and ways that I would have blogged in the...
View ArticleTerry Pratchett
I woke up and my email was all condolences from friends, and requests for statements from journalists, and I knew it had happened. I'd been warned.Thirty years and a month ago, a beginning author met a...
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The Facts of Death
It is not a wise or a sensible thing to do, to fly from the US to the UK, getting in late on the Tuesday night, and flying back early on the Thursday morning, in order to go to a funeral on the...
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Ursula at 85
I was thrilled to be interviewed for a documentary on Ursula K. Le Guin on BBC Radio -- who are also going to be broadcasting their adaptations of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea Trilogy. I...
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Drawing the Undrawable: An Explanation from Neil and Amanda.
So that, as they say, was a thing.The Neil and Amanda guest-edited New Statesman came out a couple of days ago. It's what we wanted it to be – an issue about saying the unsayable, filled with writers...
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Existing in the pause
I was meant to be in the UK for another ten days. It was the ten days I was most looking forward to: a long-overdue trip to Scotland, to St Andrews (where I would be receiving a doctorate) and to...
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After the Pause
And now, the exhale. Then quiet: only birdsong and the wind in the leaves.
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I love my wife so much. This is an animation by animator Avi Ofer that uses a voice memo from Amanda's phone of a conversation she had with me while I was asleep. (I can have conversations while I am...
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Have I Actually Been Eaten By A Bear?
Amanda is now 8 and a bit months' pregnant, and she wanted to have our baby off the grid, in the middle of the woods with nothing and nobody around but midwives, a doula, and me.Which seemed like an...
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How to help your family and save lives.
It's very safe here: we're in Tennessee, in a perfect little house we are borrowing from a midwife who has gone out west to her son's wedding. We are cooking, eating, catching up on our sleep....
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Do YOU want to save THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS while DOING GOOD? Er, and also get...
https://www.humblebundle.com/booksThe thing about having a writing career that spans more than thirty years is that that you write things – books, comics, all sorts of things – that for one reason or...
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Holy Thundering Sludgebuckets! THANK YOU!
The Humble Bundle went live almost ten hours ago.It's broken all the previous Humble Bundle records for Books. As I type this, about 7000 people have already bought the Bundle. It's raised $133,000....
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Our Not-So-Humble Bundle.
He was born at 8:37 in the morning on September the 16th, which is, I am told, the commonest birthday in the US. It was a long but rewarding labour. The name on his birth registration is Anthony, but...
View ArticleA huge thank you, and some life and some death...
Thank you all for taking part in the Humble Bundle, or just for putting up with me blogging, tweeting and facebooking about it. It's been over for a couple of days now: We just got a letter from the...
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TWO BABY PHOTOS! (And, oddly enough, some news too.)
I'm typing this in an airport lounge in Cleveland. It's a 'pay money or use a fancy credit card to get in' lounge, and I have a fancy credit card I never actually use in the back of my wallet, so...
View ArticleA New Year's Wish
I didn't write a new New Year's wish this year. But I recorded an old one. Thank you cameraperson Amanda Palmer.
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We Thought You Were Dead, with baby photos
I've been very bad at blogging for the last three months. I've actually been pretty bad at everything for the last three months, except for changing a baby, bathing a baby, remembering the words to old...
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