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Fighting Fantasy and Me

Fighting Fantasy and Me: A Chat with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone

Posted on March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 by David Lee Stone

This is a story about Fighting Fantasy and Me. It’s probably going to take place mostly in the 80s and 90s but I know exactly where it’s going to begin. A few years after Terry Pratchett gave me the encouragement to forge on with my writing career, I decided to contact another one of my literary heroes in order to actually get an opinion on something I was writing.

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American Gods

American Gods and Blaming (Neil) Gaiman

Posted on March 20, 2021March 30, 2021 by David Lee Stone

Then it happened. I was at an airport, getting ready to fly out to Italy, when a friend called me and said: ‘What do you think of Neil Gaiman?’

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Witches Abroad

Posted on February 24, 2021March 9, 2021 by David Lee Stone

I used to buy every Discworld novel as Terry released them, having originally found the series in 1990 via Eric. This is my ‘nth’ re-read of Witches Abroad, part of my favourite series set on Discworld and featuring my favourite characters: Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick.

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Sometimes, I make big mistakes…..but they’re never my fault: not really. Here’s an example, so you can judge for yourself.
Do you want to see what depression looks like? I recently found this video I shot while experiencing one of the worst bouts of depression I’ve endured in recent years. It’s almost funny to see how dead in the eyes I am until the light comes on and I engage robot mode in order to speak. The content of the video isn’t really important. Oh - and my wife is AMAZING. ❤️🤦‍♂️
Nostalgia can be a curse and to prove it I’ve created a list of ten times in my life that I made a decision I’ve always slightly regretted. This is a really important thing to do and if you’re going to do it right then you have to be constructive and try to determine whether in all probability you’re either right or wrong in each case. I’m serious. If the Road to Hell is paved with good intentions, then I strongly suspect that the Path to Dissatisfaction is paved with overly nostalgic memories, especially ones involving missed opportunities. If you’re autistic, an over-thinker or even just an unusually reflective person, then retrospective analysis is probably a huge part of your mental landscape. In simple terms, retrospective analysis is where you overplay conversations in your head after the event, often applying your own biased narrative to anything that was said. What you end up coming out with can potentially do catastrophic damage to friendships and relationships or even destroy them completely. It’s a curse of a burden to bear, which is why I find movies like ’13 Going on 30′ so incredibly difficult to watch (more on the blog - link in bio)
I’m at the mind-bendingly lush Harris & Hoole coffee shop at Tesco Extra just before Christmas, quietly considering whether I’d like to select drowning in their cappuccinos as my chosen method of death, when one of the two guys sitting at the table next to me leans across to his mate and says something that actually makes me spill some of my coffee into the saucer. He says:
The original cover for my 2008 funny pirate fantasy novel, Davey Swag (published in the UK by Hodder).
“It’s Davey from Blockbuster in Ramsgate: store code 260116. I’d like to place a large stock order, please.”

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