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Terry Pratchett
(Confirmed – health permitting)
Writer of the spectacularly successful Discworld series, as well as maybe a dozen other books. His works have been turned, variously, into plays, animated TV series’, live action TV series’, and films. The winner of far fewer literary awards than he deserves, he is the Reason for this Convention.
Stephen Briggs
(Internet Guest)
Co-creator of the DiscWorld companions, the maps of Ankh-Morpork and the DiscWorld, the diaries, adaptor of the books for the stage, and the voice of many of the audio books, as well as hawker of DiscWorld merchandise. For some reason, women tend to swoon as he passes.
Diane Duane & Peter Morwood
(Confirmed)
An ex-AFPer and an ex-civil servant, both fantasy/science-fiction writers, and both living in Ireland. They didn’t make it to the 2008 Convention in Birmingham, so perhaps this one will be easier for them to get to. They’re probably best known for, respectively, the Young Wizards series, and the Horse Lords series.
Colin Smythe
(Confirmed)
PTerry’s first publisher, then his agent. Despite his business being located in Buckinghamshire, he publishes quite a lot of Irish literature, and holds an honourary doctorate at Dublin University.
Bernard Pearson
(Confirmed)
The Cunning Artificer, the man behind the DiscWorld figurines and models, stamps, and numerous interesting and curious stories about almost anything.
Jack Cohen
(Confirmed)
Not only an actual genuine bona-fide scientific researcher at the University of Warwick, Jack is one half of the scientific brains behind the Science of DiscWorld books -Ian Stewart being the other half. They also have their own projects on the go, are quite capable of writing fiction as well as real stuff.