Enligt Terry Pratchett skrevs Discworld-romanen som general fantasy fiction , men sedan marknadsfördes på en vuxen publik av hans förlag. Pratchett tycktes tycka att det var mycket roligt att hans Truckers-böcker (påstås för barn) också hade gjort de vuxna bästsäljare listorna.
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Discworld-romanen marknadsfördes på vuxna
SysOp Barb Delaplace: Terry, I'm reading Truckers and finding it delightful. When did you start writing juvenile fiction?
Terry Pratchett: Barb ... I thought that's what I always write . I just write, and it sort of finds its own level. Truckers is only marketed for kids, the Discworld is marketed for adults, that -- apart from a few one-liners -- is all it is. Funnily enough, it's respectable to write fantasy for children, but not for adults.
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Tidigare definierade Pratchett hur du kan skilja skillnaden mellan hans böcker som är skrivna för vuxna och de som avsiktligt riktar sig till barn, genom att bestämma om de är uppdelade i kapitel.
Q. Why aren't the Discworld books divided into chapters?
TP: I don't think in chapters - I can't understand why they are required. As far as I can see their only purpose is so that people reading at night can say, 'I'll read to the end of the chapter and turn the light off!' You can turn the light off whenever you like - that's what bookmarks are for.
But when I'm writing books for children, I use chapters. I go back through the finished text, decide how many chapters I'm going to use, then find suitable places for them.
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Pratchett kände att Discworld-böckerna var "uni-age" , lämpliga för både unga och gamla.
Terry: Well, one of the things I like to do is get kids reading. And for some reason, I don't know why it is, and lots of people have been telling me at this convention, it tends to go like this, you know, "My boy is more or less dyslexic and wouldn't read any books, and I've got him on Discworld and now he's a Professor of Comparative Linguistics at Oxford University. I think that's all about writing fantasy, it's a strange kind of fantasy, that I write, it isn't kind of like the normal sort. It is that it's uni-age, you can enjoy it as an adult and you can enjoy it as a child, but I always make certain that the ones that are expressly children's books are written with kids in mind. 'Cause there is nothing worse than pretending that it's a children's book, but waving at mom and dad over the top of the page. That sometimes happens. If you get the Carnegie Medal for a children's book, which I got for the Amazing Morris and his Educated Rodents, there are children's librarians voting for that, and kids themselves and they know if it's a children's book or not.