Well, you know where you are in the media pecking order when you try to get an interview with an old media slut like superstar fantasy author Terry 'He'd appear at the opening of an envelope' Pratchett, and the PR agency won't even acknowledge your calls.

Perhaps they were worried that our irreverant news and interview style wouldn't do him any good.

Perhaps they are still miffed that we came up with the phrase in Interzone magazine about 'Pratchetting' a bookshop aisle ... meaning to bury an entire corner of the bookshop with one author's works to the exclusion of all other (perhaps more deserving) talent.

His latest paperback, but why so publicity shy?

Still, no matter, El Tel seems to have appeared just about everywhere else, from SFX to the back of your Cornflake packet.

Here's just one of the many recent interviews out there on the web.