We sat in a car parked outside his office, and we were recorded by Dirk Maggs, sitting in the back. Terry couldn’t read his lines, so I read them to him, and he’ d act them back. Then I’d read one of my lines, and he’d think it was one of his and he’d do it too. It was strange and silly and odd, but no stranger, sillier or odder than anything else we’d done in the previous thirty years.
Today I was interviewed about Good Omens, the TV show, and I told this story about the BBC Radio 4 adaptation, and Terry and my cameo in it.
Terry and I would joke about how I had to write a scene where Aziraphale eats sushi for the TV series, and then we would sit in the background as extras as our cameo, and we would eat sushi. The scene is in the script, but I don’t think I could ever be an extra in it.
Giveaway Contest: We’ve partnered with Macmillan Audio to give away three audiobook editions of M. L. Rio’s highly anticipated (and critically praised) literary thriller If We Were Villains! Three random winners will each receive a CD set valued at $39.99 (U.S.).
To enter, you must: 1) reblog this post, and 2) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check ;P). Easy, right? We’ll randomly choose one winner on each of the following days: 11 April (the day If We Were Villains is released), 25 April, and 9 May. This giveaway is open to residents of the United States and Canada only. Good luck!
A lot of people were disappointed that the last Goodreads giveaway was only open to entrants from the U. S. So guess what? I’m hosting another one, open to everybody, and this time, if you win, I’ll even sign/inscribe the ARC for you. The first place winner will also get a copy of their choice of the following plays by the one and only William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, or King Lear. (If you’re willing to wait a little longer, I’ll annotate that for you, too!)
“Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate.
And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love.
There is only silence.”
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via florizels)
