NEWSFLASH: a Discly wizard wants your help!

[News and reviews about the works of Sir Terry Pratchett]

Hands up who remembers Mr Sideney, the wizardly locksmith in Sky TV's 
famous adaptation of Hogfather? Or the equally wizardly Arch Astronomer 
of Krull in Sky's equally famous adaptation of The Colour of Magic? How 
about the chap who voiced all those Discworld audiobooks - twenty-one of 
them, to be precise? And provided the voice of the Auditors in the 
aforementioned Hogfather telly-film? That's right, it's UK comedy legend 
Nigel Planer, beloved for almost forty years for iconic roles including 
Neil of The Young Ones, David Castle of King and Castle, Ralph Filthy of 
Filthy Rich and Catflap, Blackadder the Third's Lord Smedley, and many 
others not to mention years of superb work in many roles for The Comic 
Strip Presents.

Mr Planer has also written a number of plays and books. Which brings us 
to today's subject:

A WIZARD WANTS YOUR HELP!!!

To quote the man himself: "I've written a time-travel comedy book which 
is currently crowd funding with the publisher Unbound. It's called 
Jeremiah Bourne in Time and is a new and sideways look at time 
travelling, with many eccentric characters. I'm hoping to put the word 
out to people who I reckon will like it. There are many homages to Sir T 
inside."

Jeremiah Bourne in Time is already a third of the way to meeting the 
necessary total, so would you like to join the legions of Discworld fans 
and pitch in a few Ankh-Morpork dollars (or your local Roundworld 
currency) to help it along? Of course you would!

Here be the link to the Unbound crowdfunding page:

https://unbound.com/books/jeremiah-bourne-in-time/

The page includes an explanatory/promotional video which I promise you 
is well worth watching! Not least because as wonderful a job Paul Kaye 
did a few years ago representing Sir Pterry himself in the BBC 
documentary Terry Pratchett: Back in Black, Nigel Planer channels The 
Author even more eerily in the above promo. Must be the influence of 
voicing all those Discworld books...

So yes, please do trot along to the page and support Jeremiah Bourne in 
Time. Your Editor already has done - and is quite certain that were Sir 
Pterry still with us, he'd have been among the first to do so!

p.s. To view this announcement on the Clacks - which includes a rather 
nice collage of some of Nigel Planer's most iconic roles - go to:
https://wossname.dreamwidth.org/82520.html

p.p.s. Wossname will resume regular publication next week. Plenty of 
news to share...